Thread: Fedor Emelianeko Calls Out Brock Lesnar

In a move right out of step one of a professional wrestling storyline, Fedor Emelianeko, considered to be one of the best MMA fighters in the world not currently under contract to UFC, issued a statement challenging new UFC Heavyweight champion and former WWE star Brock Lesnar to a MMA Superfight. The complete statement released by M-1, which has Fedor under contract is as follows:

M-1's Official Statement on Brock Lesnar's victory

M-1 would like to congratulate Brock Lesnar on his UFC heavyweight title victory as well as acknowledge Randy Couture's return to active competition after a layoff that lasted over a year.

Couture and WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko had publicly acknowledged a desire to fight each other multiple times over the course of the past year. While M-1 and Fedor remain interested in a match against Couture, we would also like to publicly state for the record that we would welcome a superfight between Fedor and Lesnar that would be held as a co-promoted event between the UFC, M-1, and Affliction Entertainment.

We've invited the media to speak with us today to not only make it clear we would welcome a Fedor vs. Lesnar matchup but to act in a preemptive fashion to address the possibility that UFC officials will try and position Lesnar as the No. 1 heavyweight in the world, much like they have tried to use a marketing ploy to brand Anderson Silfva as the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

In the past, UFC president Dana White and Zuffa, LLC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta have tried to claim that Fedor was "overrated" and that his "record was irrelevant." They make these claims in spite of the fact that Fedor holds career victories over UFC champions past and present. While we have tremendous respect for the contributions Mr. Fertitta and Dana have made to this sport, we do not believe they are sincere in their statements.

It is the position of M-1 that the UFC has adopted an anti-Fedor policy because multiple attempts to sign him have not been fruitful. For a company that has tried to market itself as the number one promotion in the world, they are unable to accept the fact that the number one fighter in the world does not reside on its roster of contracted fighters.

We believe that the UFC has determined that it's much more inexpensive for them to use their marketing resources to use smoke and mirrors to brand a fighter as the pound-for-pound best as opposed to actually paying the pound-for-pound best what he is truly worth on the open market.

While Brock Lesnar is an accomplished athlete and a talented fighter, we do not consider him to be the number one heavyweight in the world. Until someone beats him, we strongly believe that Fedor should continue to be recognized as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. In a match between Fedor and Lesnar, we do not feel that at this stage Lesnar would be able to make it out of the first round.

For those who feel our statements in regards to Fedor are self-serving, we'd like to refer you to a video interview on the website RawVegas.tv in which at his UFC 91 after-party Couture himself acknowledges that "Fedor would probably tear Brock up at this point."

Originally Posted by Honk-A-Meter

Could not be arsed reading your copied and pasted piece there

It's a news article just like what's on the main site.

Since you seem to be so stuck up on giving credit and stuff, I think maybe you should change your username, after all WWE owns that phrase not you, and I'm pretty sure you don't have permission to use it.

Originally Posted by Honk-A-Meter

nawwww, still upset about my thoughts on TNA?

Why would I care about your thoughts on TNA, everybody is entitled to their own opinion and I respect the fact that not everybody has the same opinions, and I actually am glad that not everybody has the same opinions on things because if they did this would be a very boring world.

Originally Posted by Y2Jim

wow, that would be a good fight

NO it wouldn't, do you know anything about MMA at all? Fedor would murder LEsnar, he's a seasoned veteran who is in his prime. YOu're just another wrestling fan who thinks Brock is the greatest fighter ever, damn this is getting annoying.

This will never happen unless F-1 lets him go and sign with the UFC, UFC isn't about doing inter promotional fights. That'd be like Ted Turner and Vinny Mac saying "hey what the fuck, let's throw goldberg against austin" in the monday night wars. Let Fedor sign something like a one fight contract and then it could happen cause there's no way UFC is going to promote another organization by co-sponsoring a PPV together.

Besides, Brock's next opponent should be Mir, who will probably destroy Brock. Then when Mir's the undisputed champ, talk to Fedor about that one fight deal and have those two fight because that would be a much more entertaining match then Lesnar vs Fedor.