Bellator 290 main event featured a heavyweight title fight rematch between Fedor Emelianenko and Ryan Bader. The MMA legend and arguably greatest heavyweight of all time, Emelianenko (40-7 MMA), was making his final cage appearance this evening. ‘The Last Emperor‘ entered the matchup coming off back-to-back first-round knockout victories over Timothy Johnson and Quinton Jackson….
LOS ANGELES – All four fighters involved in the two Bellator 290 title bouts came together for faceoffs following Wednesday’s pre-fight news conference. In the main event, heavyweight champion Ryan Bader (30-7 MMA, 8-2 BMMA) puts his belt on the line in a rematch with Fedor Emelianenko (40-6 MMA, 4-2 BMMA) in what will be…
Fedor Emelianenko will be competing for the final time in his legendary career when he challenges Ryan Bader for the heavyweight championship at Bellator 290 on Saturday night. During his appearance on The MMA Hour, Bellator President Scott Coker revealed that he received calls from a number of MMA pioneers who wanted to be in…
Bellator heavyweight fighter Fedor Emelianenko has confirmed that he’s planning on hosting an MMA tournament in Russia as a touching tribute to the late father of Khabib Nurmagomedov. Abudalmanap Nurmagomedov was also ‘The Eagle’s coach as well as a mentor for UFC fighters such as Isam Makhachev and Umar Nurmagomedov. The late Nurmagomedov passed away…
As we previously reported, the legendary Russian heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko chose an American Timothy Johnson as his opponent for the fight in Moscow. A US representative commented on this situation. Johnson (15-7 MMA, 3-3 BMMA), who is coming off an interim title-fight loss to Emelianenko’s (39-6 MMA, 3-2 BMMA) pupil Valentin Moldavsky at Bellator 261…
Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos was disappointed with the organization of the fight between Fedor Emelianenko and Timothy Johnson, which will take place on October 23 at the Bellator tournament in Moscow. Emelianenko is set to return to the Bellator cage this October in Moscow, Russia, and when the news first broke that…
Former UFC light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, personally called Fedor Emelianenko after Bellator 261 to congratulate the legendary Russian heavyweight champion and his training fighter, Valentin Moldavsky, who won the title fight against Timothy Johnson. “I wanted to congratulate you on the victory of your fighter . I was glad to see your success, ”…
Mixed martial arts legend Fedor Emelianenko can hold a repeat fight with American Matt Mitrione, who four years ago managed to finish the Russian in the first round. This was reported by the sports correspondent of the TASS news agency Igor Lazorin, referring to the head of Bellator Scott Coker: “Matt Mitrion can become the…
The head of the Bellator MMA promotion Scott Coker said that the Russian Fedor Emelianenko is going to hold two more fights, after which he will end his sports career. “Fedor has two fights left before the end of his career. This will be his farewell tour. If it wasn’t for the coronavirus, we would…
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