Revision: Fedor Emelianenko not fighting on a NYE?..

Have to go back to the previous article about Fedor not fighting on a New Year's Eve.

Here is the quote from the Tatame.com site mentioned in a previous post.

The Heavy Champion of the Art of War, Pedro Rizzo, who travelled yesterday to Netherlands to help his friend Peter Aerts in the preparation for the K-1 GP final, also has the aim of sharpening his exchanges for a possible fight against the Russian Fedor Emilianenko. "Actually, we received a proposal, but we can't say from whom. Now it's too early to speak", said Jorge Guimarães (Joinha) Rizzo's manager.

Sam Caplan, the Lead Writer/Editor of ProElite.com , said that this situation doesn't seem to be true.

But I wouldn't believe him... I mean, I have investigated a little bit the issue of Fedor Emelianenko not fighting on a New Year's Eve and could find nothing specific. The only bit of information came from MMA Weekly (quoted in previous post) and the information by the same Sam Caplan guy. Here is what he had to say.

I was a guest during the "Insider" segment on Tuesday's edition of Fight Network Radio with Mauro Ranallo. You can hear the audio of the segment by clicking here.

During the segment I broke the news that Fedor Emelianenko will not be fighting in Japan on New Year's Eve. According to M-1 Global CEO and President Monte Cox, the promotion was considering an opportunity for Fedor to fight but the timing simply wasn't right.

So what did he really say? That M-1 Global wasn't able to organize event on the NYE because of the time issues? Cool... Thanks for the information, but it's nothing new - I told you the same info about two weeks ago. When asked about the possibility for Fedor Emelianenko to fight in K-1 New Year's event, Caplan said that it's possible. So what's the new information here, then?

The correct answer is: there isn't! Therefore my guess is can still be very valid.

So here is my wild guess: we will see Fedor Emelianenko fighting in Japan at the end of this year. The event will not necessarily be the first M-1 Global event, but can be organized by a Japanese partner of M-1 (K-1 or World Victory Road?) and will be shown on a Japan's national TV channel (Fuji TV?). Fedor Emelianenko might be fighting Ricardo Arona.