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The official site of M-1 has published a video of their new project called Fighting Fedor, which will be a reality show where 16 fighters will be flown to Saint-Petersburg to train in the Red Devil Sports Club and fight each other. The winner will get a chance to face Fedor Emelianenko. Here is the video. It is a good idea. Sort of... Its definitely a good thing from the promotion and - [Read more]

New high quality videos from the recent Russian Combat Sambo Championship 2008.Fedor Emelianenkos (red jacket) fightsVideo of 1/4Video of 1/2Video of final fight: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Stanislav ShushkoOther fights.Aleksander Kosarev vs. Stanislav Shushko. Aleksander Kosarev (red jacket) is from the same club as Fedor (city of Belgorod) and he also fought in the same weight category (absolute - [Read more]

M1mixfight.com published a new information about the next M-1 Global Challenge event. The first event is scheduled to take place in Holland (Topsportcentrum in Almere) already on March 2nd. The event will have four teams (Russia, France, Holland, Germany) with one fighter in each weight class will be competing against an athlete from another country.M-1 Global is launching a new project - M-1 - [Read more]

FCFighter News posted about a sanctioned MMA promotion in Sweden called Zone FC. PRIDE, Shooto and UFC veteran, Enson Inoue (11-8) was on hand as a ring announcer. He fielded some questions from the press. Most interesting was this:What impact has the end of Pride had on MMA in Japan? “It depends where you are looking. If you are standing in the USA it’s a good thing because all the Pride - [Read more]

World Victory Road (WVR) has confirmed that Japanese star Hidehiko Yoshida will meet Josh Barnett in the main event of the promotions March 5 debut card at Yoyogi National Gymnasium No. 1 in Tokyo, Japan. It was previously expected that the Barcelona Games judo gold medalist would meet star grappler Roger Gracie in the marquee fight for the Sengoku card. Barnett last MMA fight was on NYE 2006, - [Read more]

Bogdan Khmelnitskiy at a MMA forum (Russian) met with the Ukranian Mixed Martial Arts (48-10-1) and kickboxing (58-2) legend Igor Vovchanchyn and asked a few questions. Here is the translation of that interview.Question: How did you do in school? Was there a lot of fighting in your childhood? When did you go in for sport? Igor Vovchanchyn: I did OK in my studies. Fought a lot. Beat everybody up. - [Read more]

In his recent open letter, Fedor said that he is ready to fight anybody, including Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. But what does Antonio Nogueira himself thinks about it? FiveOuncesOfPain.com found out.I’ll be here. I have the belt. If he comes here, I am ready to face him,” said Nogueira. And as an extra, here you can see Nogueiras post-fight (with Tim Sylvia press-conference. - [Read more]

A short interview with UFCs Dana White. Interesting quote:Question: Who are the stars of your sport and specifically, how do you address criticism that says Dana White puts himself before the fighters? That you in fact are the face of your company and not Chuck Liddell or Georges St. Pierre? Dana White: Let me tell you what, if you were with me and Chuck Liddell and we were walking down Times - [Read more]

Joe Rogan explains why he thinks Fedor Emelianenko is such a good fighter. - [Read more]

m1mixfight.com has an amateur video from the Fedor Emelianenko vs Stanislav Shushko final bout at the Russian Combat Sambo Championship. - [Read more]

Fedor Emelianenko on Dana Whites statements and situation with Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture.Numerous times I have read mr. White’s statements on Internet concerning myself. In my opinion, allowing yourself to say those things is not a sign of a gentleman or a grown man at all! If he candidly wants to prove himself right then let my fight with Randy happen or let me face the reigning UFC champion - [Read more]

A few news from Tim Sylvia, who lost to Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira in his last match on UFC 81 last Saturday. According to Nogueiras trainer, Tim Sylvia Cheated.Luiz Alves, the Muay Thai trainer for Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, was recently interviewed by the Brazilian news site tatame.com and has made some interesting remarks concerning “Big Nog’s” recent victory over Tim Sylvia. Alvez - [Read more]

The first day of the Russian Combat Sambo Championship is over. Four fighters from the Red Devil Sports Club were fighting and each of them got the medal. Fedor Emelianenko was also fighting and unsurprisingly won gold. It took him three bouts and 1 minutes 55 seconds in total.(...) As expected, Fedor Emelianenko won pretty easily in all of the three battles. Worth mentioning! Hats off to the - [Read more]

Some interesting quotes from the interview(...) “It’s unfortunate that things have kind of degraded to that point,” Randy Couture told MMAWeekly.com backstage at the Calgary, Alberta, Canada show. The suit seeks damages “in excess of $10,000” for these infractions, but if the proceeding drags out in court, lawyers will ultimately win in Couture’s battle with Zuffa, LLC. “I’m sure that’s part - [Read more]

A video and photos from the Red Devil Sports Club training for the upcoming fights and Combat Sambo Championship. The Combat Sambo Championship will take place in Saint-Petersburg on February 7-8. - [Read more]

Dana White was interviewed by The Sun. Some interesting quotes.Would you ever consider hosting an open weight GP tournament like there used to be in Pride or GP tournaments in different weight classes? - Kaleem Malik Dana White: "No, never. For a start the commissions in the US would never allow it, and these things - they are so stupid anyway. I know it was all cool and crazy back in the early - [Read more]

According to the UFC home page, Andrei Arlovski will be fighting on UFC 82 against Jake OBrien. Now we can finally conclude that the rumor about Andreis new opponent wasnt true. Another thing is that this fight wont be in a main card! Can you imagine - the former UFC Heavyweight Champion may not even be broadcasted on PPV! The situation with the contract must be really screwed up for UFC to - [Read more]

MrSunshineVegas interviewed Dana White after the UFC 81. He talks about the UFC 81 obviously, comments on a rumors about selling the Ultimate Fighting Championship, as well as calls Fedor Emelianenko a farce. Dana is once again just being himself. - [Read more]

I know that its already February, but I still want to make a few predictions for the year 2008. Of course, concerning the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) scene.Year 2007 was a year of surprises because of different factors like the overly high hopes for the success of ex-Pride fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). In 2007 factors will change, but the result will stay the same: expect - [Read more]

Currently Im working very hard on a new version of the site. When done, it will include many new features like a new layout and forum. Stay tuned! There are really no new news concerning Russian MMA matters, except for the information that Fedor Emelianenko is in Saint-Petersburg training for a Combat Sambo Championship. - [Read more]