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
It was tough watching Fedor Emelianenko lose again. Even seeing him go down face first limp after a vicious uppercut landed on his chin delivered by Dan Henderson, I was still saying, “don’t worry. He’s fine. It’s just going to be like the fight against Fujita in 2003. He’ll recover…”
