Anyone going to the M-1 show in Atlantic City on Aug 7. Fedor has an autograph signing scheduled

According to Eric Nicholl at M-1 Global, The Last Emperor Fedor Emelianenko will be in attendance at the August 7th 2nd round of the Americas’ Selection tournament. M-1 has scheduled a Q&A and autograph session for Fedor to start around 5pm at Bally’s in Atlantic City. This on top of rumors that M-1 is opening a New Jersey office (despite the closing of their Dutch office).

Here is who’s left in the American bracket of the tournament.

155 lbs
Josh Bacallao vs George Sheppard
Dennis Bermudez vs Josh Thorpe
(According to The Fight Nerd, Thrope replaces Pat Audinwood who was signed by the UFC hours after M-1 captain Evgeny Kogan called Audinwood a top prospect.)

170 lbs
Tom Gallicchio vs Aaron Meisner
Reggie Pena vs Colin Schrader
Jose Rodriguez vs Eric Oganov

185 lbs
Shane Primm vs Mike Geurin
Tyson Jeffries vs Plinio Cruz

205 lbs
Robert Rodriguez vs Daniel Viscaya
Byron Byrd vs Mike Foster

265 lbs
Medi Hassan vs Pat Bennett
Andrei Kapylov vs Kenny Garner

nope

The only name I have heard of from the fighter list is Tyson Jeffries and what I have heard is not impressive.

Primm was on TUF 8
Meisner was on TUF 7


None of them are really any good. The whole selection thing is a joke that they are running. It's not like they take the best fighters for their tourney. They find cheap fighters or guys making their pro debut but it does lead to some decent action fights. The last show they did had some exciting fights. 12 fights were on the card, 1 went to a decision, 1 was a NC, 8 ended as a KO or TKO, and 2 Subs.