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According to mixfight.ru web site, Fedor Emelianenko, Aleksander Emelianenko and Roman Zentsov will be fighting at the Saitama Super Arena, Japan on a New Year's Eve, in the first M-1 Global organized event.
M-1 Global will hold its press-conference on November,21 which will be dedicated to the first event of the organization.
The event is scheduled to take place on New Year's Eve at the Saitama Super Arena. The league Mixfight M-1 will be represented by Vadim Finkelstein and Fedor Emelianenko.
www.mixfight.ru cought up with Fedor before his departure and asked him to comment on this situation with the fight on the Japanese soil that became kind of home to Fedor.
Among other questions Fedor was asked this: "You will fight again in Japan but do you feel sorry it won't be under the Pride banner anymore?"
Fedor said: "Pride was a great organization with the best fighters and I believe that now M-1 Global will become new Pride".
Other Russian athletes scheduled for this event are Alexander Emelianenko and Roman Zentsov.
The name of Fedor's opponent will be announced later.
Monte Cox, the CEO of M-1 Global, has confirmed that Fedor Emelianenko will indeed be fighting on a NYE in Japan against 7’2” (218cm) and 352lbs (160kg) Korean Hong Man Choi. Hong Man Choi has MMA record of 1-0 (he won Bobby Ologun in only 16 seconds in his only MMA bout), but has a very good kickboxing record of 12-3 (with wins over Gary Goodridge, Mighty Mo, Semmy Schilt, Bob Sapp and others).
Emelianenko will fight (Hong Man) Choi, according to (Monte) Cox, as part of a show being organized by the promoters of the Japanese professional wrestling organization Hustle. Several of Hustle’s employees were involved in operation of the now defunct Pride Fighting Championships.
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