Fighting Fedor - New reality TV show!

The recently restructured M-1 Global organization is teasing a new weekly TV reality series called “Fighting Fedor,” in which 16 heavyweight prospects will take part in a tournament-style competition. The winner gets a fight with the organization’s biggest (and right now, only) star: famed Russian Fedor Emelianenko.

The video was posted on www.mix1fight.com, a news site run by Emelianenko’s management in partnership with M-1 Global.

No debut date or broadcast partner for the series is revealed on the site, though, and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) was unable to immediately confirm details of the show with M-1 Global.

However, according to details released in the video, the show will use a familiar format.

“M-1 Global is embarking on a journey across four continents to find MMA’s best young heavyweight contenders,” the video’s narrator states. “Sixteen fighters will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia’s Red Devils Sports Club (where Emelianenko trains), where they will open their doors to American television cameras for the first time. From there, the fighters will spend the next several weeks living together, training together and fighting each other in a full-contact mixed-martial-arts tournament — the likes of which have never been seen on American television.“

(Viewers of “The Ultimate Fighter,” the UFC’s hit reality series that airs on Spike TV, may disagree.)

M-1 Global was recently purchased from Emelianenko’s manager and restructured by a group of American investors. The company’s first order of business was signing Emelianenko to a long-term deal back in October, and the organization has been on the hunt for heavyweight talent to fight the famed Russian ever since. M-1 Global will likely hold its first event in Chicago on May 3.

The 31-year-old Emelianenko, who held the PRIDE Fighting Championships’ heavyweight belt for more than four years before the organization’s eventual demise this past summer, owns a career mark of 27-1. Although he’s defeated some of the most notable fighters in the sport — including current UFC fighters Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and Heath Herring — he’s fought few (if any) top-tier guys in recent years.

Emelianenko recently turned down an offer to fight exclusively for the UFC, saying the contract was too restrictive.

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Watch the video: (top left)
http://www.m1mixfight.com/

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I don't get it?

 

Oh, well thats true but don't let one mans embarrasing and pathetic actions sully the name of the whole of MMA and its fighters, fighters who consistenly fight ranked worthy opponents, fighters such as BJ Penn, Georges St Pierre, Anderson Silva, Rampage Jackson, Nogueira and many many more.

One mans actions should not cast a dark shadow over the many honourable and decent fighters of MMA.

 

No no, when you said "It actually makes you appreciate Boxings P4P best, and thats a scary thought" it seemed like an attack on the P4P fighters in MMA and that your were basing your assumption on one fighter, I then made the case that you shouldn't judge the whole of MMA one one farcical member and look at the bigger picture to the fighters who actually fight decent, worthy and top 10 ranked competition in legitimate organizations.

 

Well, that is one of the dangers of the boxing system, ducking. Something Fedor is adept at, Floyd obviously far less so, He did fight a top 5/10 P4P fighter less than 3 months ago, so I find it hard to fault him and be too angry at him. Oscar is no push over.

 

Indeed.
I think your avatar is in need of a change.