Video interview with Fedor Emelianenko, Gracie Rickson

Pancrase.org made a video interview with Fedor Emelianenko right after the press-conference.

In the interview he says that he won't be moving to the USA (because he loves Russia), that he is not afraid of darkness anymore, and that besides Randy Couture, he would also like to fight Rickson Gracie, because he said to know how to beat Fedor.

It is not a new information.

Despite Rickson not having fought since May of 2000, the fighter’s name is still being aired by the world’s biggest MMA events. The hope was for a fight between Rickson and Sakuraba at K-1, but as the Japanese fighter has already been scheduled for another fight, another name has been mentioned to keep the forums abuzz around the world: Fedor Emelianenko.

The rumor started going around on Tuesday before a press conference in which the Russian announced his new home, M-1 Global. After Fedor had said he would love to fight the American wrestler Randy Couture, his agent, Vadim Finkelchtein, was quick on the trigger when he added the name Rickson to the list of possible adversaries for his client's debut in the new event.

“We would like to fight Gracie (Rickson), because he is always saying how he knows how to beat Fedor, although there are several on the list of the ten best," fired Vadim.

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Even though this fight would make a lot of sense for M-1 Global (I will post a few articles about the action strategy of the new MMA organization), I don't think they are real. Rickson Gracie is almost 49 years old, weighs 185lbs (84kg), has MMA record of 11-0-0 and surely wouldn't want to worsen it, but most importantly he doesn't really want to be beaten up by Fedor Emelianenko - nobody wants that.

Of course, at the end money will decide (and M-1 Global has some), but I don't think that it is a legit proposal. I believe it is only a correct, political way of saying "Shut up!". Rickson Gracie has been for a long time saying that he knows how to beat Fedor Emelianenko; now Fedor and his manager, Vadim Finkelstein (Vadim Finkelchtein) decided to stop it. "Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it."