Aleksander Emelianenko Fighting in Calgary 10 May
Posted by Chad Edward on April 8th, 2008In an interview at www.m1mixfight.com, Fighters.com’s 10th-ranked heavyweight Aleksander Emelianenko (13-3) claimed he was negotiating a 10 May fight in Canada.
Last October, Emelianenko submitted Dan Bobish (17-9) in a guillotine choke in Hardcore Championship Fighting in Calgary.
An e-mail to HCF CEO Keith Crawford to confirm Emelianenko would return to Calgary on HCF’s 10 May card hasn’t been responded to.
Emelianenko said, “I don’t know an opponent yet.”
Last weekend, unfortunate Brazilian Silvao Santos (1-1) was sacrificed to Emelianenko in a first-round TKO in M-1 Challenge.
Emelianenko said of the poor matchmaking, “Everyone refused to fight with me; [Santos] was the one who’d agreed. He is not weak; he’s a good fighter; he had a lot of fights. It’s just that I’m strong and train a lot.”
Emelianenko also fired across the UFC bow.
“The UFC, for example, won’t take me; because, if they let me in there, I would beat everybody and take the belt to Russia. They don’t want that. They want their own American champions. We already beat everyone in Japan, even though no one bet on us.”
Half of the current UFC heavyweight title is held by Fighter.com’s first-ranked heavyweight “Minotauro” Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (31-4-1), a Brazilian.
It’s speculated Emelianenko has never fought in the United States due to visa complications stemming from his stint in a Russian prison.
