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Seriously, whenever I heard that Fedor was a free agent after splitting with M-1 Global, my first thought was that we’ll see Fedor fight Tim Sylvia or Kimbo Slice long before we ever see Fedor vs. Randy Couture.
As much as I would like to see Tim Sylvia win this, it’s not going to happen. In my [...]
Written by admin on April 9th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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That’s right, former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia, as well as former IFL heavyweight Ben Rothwell have both signed with the new Adrenaline MMA company (formerly M-1 Global). Here is the official press release from Adrenaline MMA:
Adrenaline signs MMA heavyweight standouts Sylvia and Rothwell
NEW YORK — Adrenaline MMA announced today that heavyweight stars Tim Sylvia [...]
Written by admin on March 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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NEW YORK — Executives at M-1 Global announced today they have started a new promotion called Adrenaline MMA and will begin promoting major events in the U.S. beginning in June.
Adrenaline will replace M-1 Global in the U.S. immediately. The change also includes the release of Russian fighter Fedor Emilianenko, who is free to seek fights [...]
Written by admin on March 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Official Press Release from M-1 Global:
NEW YORK — M-1 Global announced today a mutual agreement with Vadim Finkelchtein, manager of former PRIDE champion Fedor Emelianenko, to release the heavyweight from his contractual obligations.
“There is so much going on in the world of mixed martial arts right now that we have decided it [...]
Written by admin on March 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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(“Hey, shit happens, right?”)
Contradicting his earlier claims that M-1 Global’s relationship with Fedor Emelianenko was still A-OK, Monte Cox recently went on Sherdog’s Savage Dog Show to set the record straight: Cox and Sibling Entertainment have parted ways with Emelianenko, and the “M-1″ name is now wholly under control by Emelianenko’s managers. But even though their marquee fighter is gone, the former American faction of M-1 still intends to keep working towards putting on its first MMA show. As Cox told Sherdog:
“The group that formed M-1 Global is still together and we’re going to remain together and put on an MMA event. It won’t be under the name M-1 Global because that is definitely associated with Emelianenko Fedor and the Russians, and we’ve come to an agreement that we’re going to part ways…I am looking at June 14 to do our first show in Chicago…It won’t be the UFC. We don’t have that kind of money to throw away. Now, without Fedor, I expect the show in Chicago to turn a profit.”
Cox also admitted that Emelianenko never signed a contract with M-1 Global; Fedor only signed a letter of intent that prevented him from competing outside of M-1 Global during contract negotiations:
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Written by admin on March 26th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Might as well pop some Excedrin now, because your head will be aching after this one. According to ADCombat.com, M-1 Global is quietly setting up its first event in Russia, which will go down at St. Petersburg’s 3000-seat Ice Palace on April 3rd. One of the promotional images is above; the event will be headlined by Aleksander Emelianenko (against a yet-unnamed opponent), with M-1/PRIDE/Bodog vets Roman Zentsov and Amar Suloev also scheduled to fight (ditto). According to ADCombat’s anonymous “Russian insider”:
“With the Russian elections last weekend, advertising before [then] was next to impossible, as most attention is focused on the elections. The smaller venue may indicate a good bit of pragmatism on the part of the promoters, since they are only going to have a month or so to really push the event.”
So, by now you’re thinking, “if this is supposed to be an M-1 Global event, why does that ad clearly say M-1 Mix Fight?” Very good question. ADCombat writes:
In a previous conversation, M-1 Global’s Monte Cox confirmed that [Vadim] Finkelstein and [Apy] Echteld would be promoting events with the M-1 Global name, however the infrastructure for the show and promotion are independent of what Cox will use when M-1 Global begins to move forward in the United States.
Which explains absolutely nothing, considering that Finkelchtein isn’t promoting this event with M-1 Global’s name, but under his old Mix Fight label. According to RussianMMA.com, the St. Petersburg event will actually be the second leg of the not-very-well-publicized “M-1 Challenge” that we briefly mentioned last month. The first M-1 Challenge event was apparently held last Sunday in the Netherlands, with the Fedor-coached Russian Red Devil Sports Club competing against France’s Team Amossou, and a Netherlands team taking on a pack of Germans; shockingly, the Russians lost three out of five matches to the Frenchmen. (Don’t ask how the Netherlands/Germany matchups went down, because results weren’t published on M1MixFight.com, and news hasn’t yet trickled down to any other American MMA websites.)
RussianMMA reports that the April 3rd M-1 Challenge event will include teams from Russia, Japan, and “Europe,” and Emelianenko/Zentsov/Suloev will be competing in superfights. Checking M-1 Global’s official site, of course, confirmed nothing — it hasn’t been updated since New Year’s Eve, and you can’t expect Monte Cox to keep tabs on Vadim all the time. Especially when M-1 Global is such a disorganized pit of confusion…
Written by admin on March 6th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Check out the MMA Forum for results, don’t open the thread unless you want to know the winners and losers.
Written by admin on December 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The Yarennoka! show by M-1 Global featuring Fedor/Choi will be aired at 6:00am EST in the United States on HDNet. I think it will be replayed later in the day, but unless you want the fights spoiled, I suggest staying away from any MMA news sites that might have the results on their front page.
Written by admin on December 31st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The website Mixfight.ru is reporting that M-1 Global will hold a press conference in Japan on Wednesday to announce to announce the promotion’s first card to be held on Dec. 31.
Yes, you read that right. M-1 Global’s first event. Here’s what it says on the site:
M-1 Global Press-conference in Japan
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. 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.
It’s interesting news that both Aleksander Emelianenko and Roman Zentsov are expected to be on the card. But I find it even more interesting that it says M-1 will be represented by Vadim Finkelstein and Fedor and not Monte Cox or anyone from Sibling Entertainment.
Who speaks for M-1 Global? And is there a difference between M-1 Global and Mixfight M-1? If there is a difference, what did Sibling Entertainment acquire?
The confusing part is that I spoke to representatives for M-1 Global on Monday night who confirmed that Fedor would be fighting on New Year’s Eve in Japan but that the card would not be an M-1 Global event. Instead, Fedor was being “rented out” for the evening so that he could compete on a card being organized by the Japanese as a way to bid farewell to PRIDE fans.
It should also be noted that Mixfight.ru is not the official website for M-1 Global.
Is this a case of Vadim Finkelstein going into business for himself even though the assets of M-1 were sold to the Sibling Entertainment Group?
Welcome to Russian Business 101.
Written by admin on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The official website for M-1 Global has published an “open message” from Fedor Emelianenko in which the current PRIDE heavyweight champion raises the possibility that his next MMA bout could take place in Japan on New Year’s Eve.
According to the post, which is written in broken English and appears to be a translation, Emelianenko has received a great deal of fan response from fans asking that he take part in the country’s recent tradition of promoting major kickboxing, pro wrestling, and MMA events on New Year’s Eve.
Emelianenko indicates that he hopes he can satisfy the requests of the fans by competing on New Year’s Eve, assuming that a fight can be arranged.
To read the entire post, just click here.
Written by admin on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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