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Bradley on Shlemenko fight: Hopefully I can get out of Russia ‘without a mob coming after me’

Paul Bradley made his WSOF debut just over a month ago, and now he’s already booked to fight overseas in a different organization for the very first time.

Bradley, who usually fights at welterweight, recently accepted a fight with former Bellator MMA middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko in the main event of M-1 Challenge 75 in Moscow, Russia on March 3. Fighting a Russian in Russia in a heavier weight class isn’t exactly what Bradley saw coming next.

“It legit came out of nowhere,” Bradley told BloodyElbow.com’s The MMA Circus. “I had no clue that this was coming about.