Fedor to fight in June

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Evgeni Kogan, M-1 Gloval director of operations, announced Friday afternoon that Emelianenko will fight on June 21 at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Emelianenko's opponent will be announced at a later date.

http://www.mmafighting.com/news/2012/4/6/2930677/fedor-emelianenko-returns-to-action-in-june

Now list possible opponents.

Seth Petruzelli (is he still in Bellator?)
Michal Kita
Tim Hague
Tyler East
Mike Whitehead
Mirko Filipovic (unretire)
Shamil Abdurahimov
Damian Grabowski
Mike Hayes
Peter Graham
Tony Lopez
Eddie Sanchez
Todd Duffee

That's a pretty sad list. Fedor at worst needs to sign with Bellator and end his career with a minor title run.

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However, sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that former WWE star and ex-Strikeforce fighter Bobby Lashley (7-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is in under consideration for the Emelianenko (33-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) fight.

Sergei, Konrad(Bellator fighters can compete in other organizations), Minowman, Travis Wiuff, Poppy Pants has a "major announcement" coming.

Farmer1906 wrote:

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However, sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that former WWE star and ex-Strikeforce fighter Bobby Lashley (7-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is in under consideration for the Emelianenko (33-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) fight.

I'd rather see him fight Jared Rosholt.

god Fedor has fallen far, its sad.

Bobby Lashley is the rumored opponent.

YUCK

Im calling it now a rematch with fat timmy or lashley

also what a joke this is

Sergi please, oh please.

Ninja wrote:

Sergi please, oh please.

If so, 33-5!

M-1 is smarter then that though. They won't feed their cash cow to Sergei. Let's be real here General.

Birdofthad wrote:

god Fedor has fallen far, its sad.

Bobby Lashley is the rumored opponent.

YUCK

+1

Personally, I want him to take his career seriously, instead of another quick buck scheme. But with Overeem, possibly being thrown out of the UFC, there may be an opponent out there soon.

Andrew the Raider King wrote:

Personally, I want him to take his career seriously, instead of another quick buck scheme. But with Overeem, possibly being thrown out of the UFC, there may be an opponent out there soon.

LOL he won't fight him he's already ducked him a couple of times. This is sad, M-1 is ruining him.

josh200612 wrote:

Andrew the Raider King wrote:

Personally, I want him to take his career seriously, instead of another quick buck scheme. But with Overeem, possibly being thrown out of the UFC, there may be an opponent out there soon.

LOL he won't fight him he's already ducked him a couple of times. This is sad, M-1 is ruining him.

LOL that is weak. He wanted to fight Reem if he agreed to testing...looks like a pretty decent request looking back at it. If Reem wasn't on roids then he would have already got his ass handed to him by Fedor.

LOL there was nothing about testing he ducked him straight up.

josh200612 wrote:

LOL there was nothing about testing he ducked him straight up.

WTF are you talking about? They would have faced off in the GP if Werdum didn't submit Fedor. They would have fought sooner if Reem would have agreed to testing. But he didn't, for reasons that are now obvious(they were obvious then too).

Here you go, a thread that specfically talk about M-1 wanting Reem to go through Olympic style testing(there are more). For OBVIOUS reason, looking back now this was a a more then fair request.
https://ninjasplace.forumotion.net/t7949-overeem-ducks-fedor-dream-17-scrapped?highlight=overeem

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Fedor-goes-the-Mayweather-route-wants-strict-dr?urn=mma-309769

Now we have 3 of the GP competitors that tested positive at some point. Hard to argue with the logic of wanting strict testing.

I have some UFC gloves (signed and on the wall) so I don't think that means anything. Probably M-1 just trying to stay in the news.

Farmer1906 wrote:

I have some UFC gloves (signed and on the wall) so I don't think that means anything. Probably M-1 just trying to stay in the news.

From what I have read since posting this is, this is old. Also it was brought up he was wearing Affliction shorts in training when he had a lawsuit against them. Also heard that was the only gloves at the gym he was able to use at the time.

LOL fedor lost to Silva on purpose in the gp so he wouldn't have to fight REEM don't give me that shit. REEM was willing to go through testing but M-1 backed out of it.

josh200612 wrote:

LOL fedor lost to Silva on purpose in the gp so he wouldn't have to fight REEM don't give me that shit. REEM was willing to go through testing but M-1 backed out of it.

Reem is and was on roids, no getting around that now. So Fedor's reasons for concern have now been justified. He is clear of all shit now regarding Reem.