Dream ‘Genki Desu Ka!’ New Year's Eve card goes down at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Headlining the card is the return of Fedor Emelianenko to Japan since December 31, 2007. His opponent is 2008 Judo Olympic gold medalist Satoshi Ishii, who currently resides in California to train at Mark Munoz's Reign Training Center.
Also on the card is the featherweight title fight of Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Takeshi "Lion" Inoue, the lightweight title fight of Shinya Aoki vs. Satoru Kitaoka, and the bantamweight Grand Prix.
It's that time of year again. People will wait for the ball at Times Square to drop, some will over-do it on the champagne, make resolutions that will last all of five minutes and a man known to the MMA world as “The Last Emperor” will have his annual pilgrimage to Japan to claim someone's soul.
M-1Global and DREAM officials announced today that legendary heavyweight Fedor “ The Last Emperor” Emelianenko will be facing Olympic Gold Medalist in Judo Satoshi Ishii on December 31, 2011 as part of FIELDS presents FIGHT FOR JAPAN “Genkidesuka!! Oomisoka!! 2011!
Now that Fedor Emelianenko finally has another win under his belt, M-1 Global is once again offering the UFC the opportunity to match Fedor against one of their top heavyweights.
Fans rejoiced as it was announced that Fedor Emelianenko had won his first fight in four attempts, a dominant effort at M-1 Global's show in Russia over veteran Jeff Monson. The Russian crowd were on their feet cheering as the decision was announced in favour of "The Last Emperor". They were less kind to the man that some call Russia's real-life Emperor.
Its now official that MY BIGGEST FEAR has not come to fruition. Fedor "the Last Emperor" Emelianenko is NOT going to retire, yet. I wasn't just satisfied with the initial fight announcement that was made in early September, but now that there is a solid date in November, a venue is booked and the first promo video is out, I can safely say that this is going to happen.
June 30th, 2010 was a day that Brett Rogers would like to forget for the rest of his life. He gets the chance to make the MMA world forget what happened on that day starting tomorrow night.
Rogers (11-3 MMA) returns to the cage as he faces former UFC veteran Eddie Sanchez (12-5 MMA) on Friday night for Titan Fighting Championships 20 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, KA live on HDNET at 10ET.
The last time we saw Rogers in the cage was when he lost to Josh Barnett on June 18th in the first round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix and that is when things got out of control.
Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz when she says, "There's no place like home", that is what Dan Henderson is doing on November 19th.
MMAWeekly.com reported that Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Dan Henderson (28-8 MMA, 4-2 UFC) has re-signed with the UFC and will be returning to face former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (20-5 MMA, 4-3 UFC) at UFC 139.
When the name Josh Barnett comes up, people think of the fact that he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, he tested positive for PED's three times and in some people's opinion caused Affliction to fold after he tested positive for the third time. Which in turn caused his bout with Fedor Emelianenko to be cancelled.
Fedor Emelianenko lost for the third time in a row, this time at the hands of Dan Henderson. He recently had his first interview since the July 30 loss. “The Last Emperor” was interviewed by Russia’s 2 Channel and here are some of the quotes as transcribed and translated by LowKick.com
