News Fedor Emelianenko is set to return later this year. Opponent TBD

At this point I hope they dont fuck it all up like they botched the France event. If they are going to Russia they need to put a big show not just Fedor headlining and a bunch of Russian fighters fighting cans.
 
if tim jhonson wins tonight, is he an option??
 
Why would you do this and not have an opponent set and named?
 
Senzo Tanaka said:
Rumor is that it's Oleynik. That's a winnable fight for Fedor but he still has to be careful. If he's wild, he could easily be goaded into a submission like Werdum.

If he's patient, he should steamroll through him. Even at 43, Fedor is ridiculously fast and Ole moves in slow motion with zero defense.
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Where did you hear that? I thought Fedor wasn’t interested in fighting Russian fighters? He’d obliterate Oleinik imo.
 
BFoe said:
Where did you hear that? I thought Fedor wasn’t interested in fighting Russian fighters? He’d obliterate Oleinik imo.
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Just a random someone on Twitter said he heard from Fedor's camp it was Oleynik. It would make sense for Russia. Also, Ole holds a Sambo win over Fedor so there's that.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
I'm not sure going to Russia is a great idea as I think the Russian MMA market is pretty well saturated as it is, but it'd be nice for Fedor to have his retirement fight there.

I wouldn't mind seeing him and Sergei go at it actually, I know they trained together years ago though.
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As a watcher of Russian mma I think the thing is that now pretty much every Russian promotion have worse roster than UFC/Bellator/PFL/ONE (if we are talking about fighters from Russia/ex-USSR). Or maybe not roster but fight cards.

Like, let's look at promotions -- MMA Series (lack of big names on their roster); AMC Fight Nights (not a big secret that they are more about entertainment than sport, for example at their event in July guy with 1-0 record in their promotion is getting titleshot (and I think it's because him and his brother are kinda famous right now, Chorshanbiev brothers) I think also at this event they wanted to do Raisov-Makhno but last tme I checked they said that fight is not signed because they can't agree at which weight they are gonna fight (and I think the reason they are making this fight because both fighters are more or less famous)) and for years Fight Nights organizes fights for famous people (who are not pro fighters) or look at their grand prix with tall and big guys and I think sometimes their matchmaking is like "let's book Russian Pagan soccer fan versus unbeaten Muslim Khabib look-alike from Tajikistan"; PRO FC -- not the best roster and events are rarely happening (and they hold events mostly in Rostov?); ACA -- seems to me that non-Chechens mostly view them as promotion that exist to make beatiful mma record for ethnic Chechen fighters and guys from Akhmat gym; EFC -- roster is relatives of Khabib, friends of Khabib, pupils of Abdulmanap and some local guys (like, Kazakhstani guys at event in Kazakhstan, Tatars at event in Tatarstan, you got the idea) (and more known Khabib-related guys are ex-fighters from M-1 or Fight Nights who is not with FN for some reason, M-1 just doesn't holds events); OFC -- from what I seen their biggest guys are ex-ACA fighters; RCC -- sometimes they have big names, but I think their last event is headlined by Ragozin and personally I'm not sure that I even bother to check results of this event.

And pretty much every promotion has their own gym so you have questionable judging and stuff and events of promotions often looks like "our guys crushing some cans". Years ago cans were Brazilian guys and now they are often replaced by Tajikistani/Kyrgyzstani/Uzbekistani guys who, seems to me, sometimes are actually migrant workers to Russia who works at construction sites/taxi/etc so because of that there is no proper training for them with weight cuts (Shlemenko mentioned that this is what Brazilians has in common with Kyrgyzstani -- at every event there is at least one Kyrgyzstani guys who misses weight, years ago it was Brazilians in Russian promotions).
So, in my opinion Bellator have all the chances to make interesting event unlike Russian promotions who seems to make events only interesting to people from Dagestan/Ural/Chechnya/Far East/Tajikistan/Armenia.
 
“Believe me, there is no shortage of opponents (for) Russia right now,” Coker said at a post-fight news conference. “Listen, the managers of all the free agents are calling. Josh Barnett was texting me today. I talked to (Junior Dos Santos’) manager a couple days ago. Alistair Overeem. The list goes on and on and on.”
 
they said it was be anounced yesterday, it was a lie

when they say tomorrow it usually be in 2 o 3 weeks.....
 

Jon Jones calling Fedor to congratulate him on his comeback is cool AF. Although fucking Fedor couldnt wait to hang up LMAO.
 
careto said:

Jon Jones calling Fedor to congratulate him on his comeback is cool AF. Although fucking Fedor couldnt wait to hang up LMAO.
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Of course Jones called Fedor and not the other way around. GSP, Anderson and all these guys would suck Fedor's toes if they get the opportunity

We all know that Fedor is the real GOAT
 
It’s crazy to me that dude who clearly is just fighting to get paid has so many jock riders. Fedors initial run was great yes but has been stinking up the joint for what a dozen years now? He doesn’t belong anywhere near goat status at this point, it’s about your whole career not just one segment.
 
Feniamin said:
As a watcher of Russian mma I think the thing is that now pretty much every Russian promotion have worse roster than UFC/Bellator/PFL/ONE (if we are talking about fighters from Russia/ex-USSR). Or maybe not roster but fight cards.

Like, let's look at promotions -- MMA Series (lack of big names on their roster); AMC Fight Nights (not a big secret that they are more about entertainment than sport, for example at their event in July guy with 1-0 record in their promotion is getting titleshot (and I think it's because him and his brother are kinda famous right now, Chorshanbiev brothers) I think also at this event they wanted to do Raisov-Makhno but last tme I checked they said that fight is not signed because they can't agree at which weight they are gonna fight (and I think the reason they are making this fight because both fighters are more or less famous)) and for years Fight Nights organizes fights for famous people (who are not pro fighters) or look at their grand prix with tall and big guys and I think sometimes their matchmaking is like "let's book Russian Pagan soccer fan versus unbeaten Muslim Khabib look-alike from Tajikistan"; PRO FC -- not the best roster and events are rarely happening (and they hold events mostly in Rostov?); ACA -- seems to me that non-Chechens mostly view them as promotion that exist to make beatiful mma record for ethnic Chechen fighters and guys from Akhmat gym; EFC -- roster is relatives of Khabib, friends of Khabib, pupils of Abdulmanap and some local guys (like, Kazakhstani guys at event in Kazakhstan, Tatars at event in Tatarstan, you got the idea) (and more known Khabib-related guys are ex-fighters from M-1 or Fight Nights who is not with FN for some reason, M-1 just doesn't holds events); OFC -- from what I seen their biggest guys are ex-ACA fighters; RCC -- sometimes they have big names, but I think their last event is headlined by Ragozin and personally I'm not sure that I even bother to check results of this event.

And pretty much every promotion has their own gym so you have questionable judging and stuff and events of promotions often looks like "our guys crushing some cans". Years ago cans were Brazilian guys and now they are often replaced by Tajikistani/Kyrgyzstani/Uzbekistani guys who, seems to me, sometimes are actually migrant workers to Russia who works at construction sites/taxi/etc so because of that there is no proper training for them with weight cuts (Shlemenko mentioned that this is what Brazilians has in common with Kyrgyzstani -- at every event there is at least one Kyrgyzstani guys who misses weight, years ago it was Brazilians in Russian promotions).
So, in my opinion Bellator have all the chances to make interesting event unlike Russian promotions who seems to make events only interesting to people from Dagestan/Ural/Chechnya/Far East/Tajikistan/Armenia.
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Quick question? aside from Khabib who are the biggest Russian MMA names? I know Ismailov is pretty popular but tied to ACA. Who else would bring the buzz to Russia?
 
It won't be any Russian.

Josh Barnett? Probably not.

I'd like it to be Big Foot.
 
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