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Report: Fedor Emelianenko Will Fight Werdum In May

MMA Heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko

From MMAFighting:

At a pre-fight press conference Thursday for Friday's M-1 Selection Eastern European event in St. Petersburg, Russia, M-1 Global told TV 100 that Fedor's next fight will still be against Fabricio Werdum, but in May.

So as of now the April Strikeforce card will feature a main event between Dan Henderson vs. Jake Shields for the Strikeforce middleweight title.  However, it's still not clear if that event will be featured on CBS as once thought, or if it will air on Showtime instead.  One would think that Strikeforce would want Fedor Emelianenko to headline the CBS event, because even though Dan Henderson is well known he's still not that big of a draw.  Not to mention it'll be almost a year since he defeated Michael Bisping at UFC 100, plus a lot of fans were turned off by Shield's performance on the last CBS event.  Also don't forget that Strikeforce doesn't have any fight footage to use in promoting Dan Henderson(not that they promote well anyways), due to the UFC owning all of his UFC and PRIDE footage.  I guess this also means we will not be seeing a Fedor Emelianenko vs. Alistair Overeem fight anytime soon, not that I expected anything different.

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does anyone even want to see this fight?

by Charles Walker on Feb 25, 2010 5:56 PM EST reply actions  

True. Fabricio gets a reprieve for an extra 30 days.

by Rich Wyatt on Feb 25, 2010 6:55 PM EST up reply actions  

Not really.

Fedor-Overeem is the only bout that would interest me at this point outside of Zuffa land.

That being said, I’d still end up watching Fedor-Werdum.

Contributing Editor - MMAonTap.com

by Gygax on Feb 25, 2010 9:00 PM EST up reply actions  

Fedor has to be on CBS

Lets not forget, if Fedor is fighting for Strikeforce, its mandatory that he’s on CBS. Its part of his contract. I highly doubt CBS would be willing to broadcast MMA two months in a row.

If both Shields/Hendo and Mousasi/Lawal are on the Aporil card, its going to leave slim pickins for the other main card fights on a Fedor card.

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by Gygax on Feb 25, 2010 8:59 PM EST reply actions  

This is true

good to see you posting Gygax…

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by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 25, 2010 10:24 PM EST up reply actions  

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