Fedor Emelianenko To Fight On; Matches In Russia & Japan Planned

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M-1 Global has announced that Fedor Emelianenko will continue to fight on despite his promotional team failing to come to terms with Zuffa for an extension to his Strikeforce deal.  M-1 Global President and co-founder Vadim Finkelstein was quoted in the official press release as saying “We want to organize a fight for Fedor in Russia and have already begun working in this direction. If everything goes as planned, we will produce a card in Moscow or St. Petersburg sometime in the fall with Fedor as the main event”

The press release goes on to quote Finkelstein talking about further plans including a return to Japan and America; “In addition to the fight in Russia, we’re also working with our Japanese contacts to organize a New Year’s Eve event in Japan that Fedor would participate in as well…If all is successful, in 2012 we’ll be back in the U.S. All these ideas are being developed right now and we want to work exactly according to this plan”.

 

A Comics Nexus original, Will Cooling has written about comics since 2004 despite the best efforts of the industry to kill his love of the medium. He now spends much of his time over at Inside Fights where he gets to see muscle-bound men beat each up without retcons and summer crossovers.