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M-1 Global's "Breakthrough" event has suffered its fair share of setbacks. First, the organization was forced to move the card from Los Angeles to Kansas City, and then one-half of their main event, Don Frye, pulled out his scheduled fight against Muhammad Lawal. He was replaced by veteran Mark Kerr.

The organization recently added a five-minute "special sparring match" between Fedor Emelianenko and Gegard Mousasi to the card to help generate some buzz.

FanHouse has learned of the entire televised card, which is scheduled to air live on HDNet on Friday, August 28.

Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal will face Mark Kerr and Fedor Emelianenko will spar with Gegard Mousasi at M-1 Global's "Breakthrough" event on Aug. 28 in Kansas City, the promotion announced Monday.

The venue has been changed from the Los Angeles Convention Center in Calif. to the Memorial Hall due to "a partner in Los Angeles that backed out of certain commitments," according to M-1 Global COO Joost Raimond. The Memorial Hall previously played host to an M-1 Challenge card in June.

Leave it to Don Frye to make sense of this whole Josh Barnett/Affliction situation. Or not.

The MMA veteran spoke to Fight Network Radio Thursday about Barnett's positive steroid test, but chose to lay the blame on the California State Athletic Commission instead:

Nick Thompson (38-11-1) will face Karl Amoussou (10-3-1) in a middleweight bout at "M-1 Global presents Breakthrough" on August 28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. Thompson confirmed the news with FanHouse on Tuesday.

"The Goat" expressed some frustration over the fact that he will have to fight at 185 pounds instead of his natural fighting weight of 170 pounds.