Fedor Emelianenko var tillbaka i buren i helgen där han, tillsammans med Chael Sonnen och Matt Mitrione, har avancerat till semifinal i Bellators tungviktsturnering. Ryssen avancerade i turneringen genom att besegra Frank Mir genom teknisk knockout i rond ett.
Emelianenko är nu vidare och kommer att ställas mot den forne titelutmanaren i UFCs mellanvikt, Cheal Sonnen. Sonnen är dock inte imponerad av ryssens MMA-karriär och menar att hans matcher i Japan var uppgjorda. Genom sin egen podcast säger Sonnen följande.
You won’t say anything about me, but I will say something about you — I don’t accept your wins in Japan. The referee was wearing an earpiece, you never had a weigh-in, you never had a commission. Anyone that came over from Japan to America has a losing record. Why? I’ll tell you because the fights over here are real and they are fixed in Japan.
You got a whole lot of rub and a whole lot of money out of doing fake fights, that pisses me off as a fan who bought those fights and that later found out I was buying wrasslin’
Sonnen anser dock att Emelianenko har en bra MMA-grund och förnekar inte hans färdigheter i MMA.
I don’t deny the guy has got skills, I don’t deny that he’s big and powerful and all these things. I’m not pissing on his skills at all. I’m just telling you that when I think about him it’s very hard to go out and study him because his fights were fake in Japan. His opponent was told when to go down.
