Fedor Emelianenko to compete at Affliction’s revamped ‘Day of Reckoning’ card for January 2009
By: Jesse Holland
Not since Jonathan Lansdale has a man had so much trouble with his hand.
Affliction headliner and WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko is set to return to action at the recently reconstructed fight card for Affliction ‘Day of Reckoning’ in January 2009 according to NBC Sports.
Emelianenko was kept off the original ‘Reckoning’ card (previously scheduled for October 11 in Las Vegas) due to a serious hand injury - the second of his career - until some undermining by “unknown” meddlers forced Affliction officials to abandon The Thomas & Mack Center - and the home of the UFC - for a more welcome atmosphere.
The postponement and subsequent transfer to Affliction’s home base of California may cost them money up front, but it may also bring greater reward with the inclusion of Emelianenko. That’s not to imply that Andrei Arlovski vs Josh Barnett isn’t a solid main event - it is, but the T-shirt giant didn’t shell out millions to have its marquee player riding the bench.
Emelianenko does not yet have an opponent, but it’s not unrealistic to think of the crowned prince of Combat Sambo facing Andrei “The Pitbull” Arlovski. The two were set to do battle in October before the hand injury sidelined Emelianenko.
While all of the combatants on the original ‘Day of Reckoning’ card are expected to compete in January, there may be some minor changes after the addition of Emelianenko.
From Affliction Vice-President Tom Atencio:
“It is to be determined. We are considering changing the combatants. We have not finalized that at this time. That is as a result of the issues to be revealed at the announcement.”
Affliction is also preparing to make a blockbuster announcement about the future of the promotion during Boxing’s big lightweight title fight between Joel Casamayor and Juan Manuel Marquez, which will air on HBO pay-per-view (PPV) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, September 13.
Fedor is here and Randy is gone, so that takes care of the obvious. For now, all we can do is speculate: MMA on HBO? Tito vs. Fedor? A Japanese alliance?
Stay tuned!
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im waiting for what all the fighters have to say. i heard mr. arlovski wasnt to happy about hearing that his fight was cancelled/postponed through the media and not Affliction themselves 10 weeks into his training camp. training camps are’nt cheap according to tito. i would like to hear what all the scheduled fighters for octobers event think about not fighting, including mr.barnett, who is not one to mince words. i would also like to know what fedors management thinks about fedor fighting in jan, when you know they are going for nye in japan. where’s donald trump during all this?
No kidding. Attencio - “Hey what’s-yer-name, oh right, Josh, um you know that main event fight against the Pit Bull? Welllll….”. If they don’t handle Barnett properly, he’s going to murder them in the MMA media. Although he does have that fat paycheck from his latest pro wrestling “match” in Japan to cushion the blow.
Definitely curious to find out how this affects the whole new hears eve freak show fight for Fedor.
I think Trump is (was?) just a fancy hood ornament for affliction. I believe he’s been known to “rent” out the Trump name for a piece of the action.
And now we’ve got this Dana White like, “big announcement” on Saturday to figure out. Crazy day.
well, I guess this is good news! Yes we have to wait til January but the card will be better and that is very important. The next event has to be done right, they need to put their best foot forward and that wasnt going to happen with the Oct. 11 show!
At this point I dont care if its Fedor vs. Arlovski or Fedor vs. Barnett, I am happy to see either fight.
Hopefully Sylvia vs. LeBanner gets added to the card, or they can always just let Barnett Destroy Sylvia!
Believe it or not, I really find myself wanting to see Babalu vs. Tito.
Now that its pushed back to January I have to assume that the match is back on between:
matt “Tylenol PM” Lindland vs. Vitor!
I know something NONE OF YOU KNOW!!!! NA, Na, na, na, na, na!
And Its GiaNormeous! lol
Oh it’s Big! (and I am not talking about lil John) lol
Just tell.
It’ll be times like this when hijacking threads should be allowed! lol. But I do like Mania’s idea for something else on the site where we can do that all day long. I know there’s some guys on here who can’t scroll past something and not get p.o.ed, but I for one like the chit chat/banter.
I love mania’s idea of providing us with an empty thread to Hijack, that way I dont have to hear people bitch and cry like you said, about having to scroll down past it.
Im going to respect mania’s (communist lol) wishes and not post it. I am curious to see how long it takes the internet to find out about this HUGE news!
HEY JOHN!!!!! you cant just say some sh*t like that and then not tell us! WTF! is it with the UFC?
YES, leave it alone, thats all I am saying so dont ask. Mania scolded me yesterday so I will respect his communist wishes lol (just teasin you mania, you serious MoFo!
I think it will be weeks before this news reaches the internet so just forget about it and when mania reports it, I will tell you guys that its what I was talking about it!
Na,Na, na,na, na, na! LMAO!
I wonder if the amount of posts on normal threads will decrease some when this new feature is added. Just cuz so many of us go off topic. lol. Guess it’ll depend on how it will be set up.
Fine, I will tell you guys: UFC 89, Lyoto Machida vs. Bas Rutten!
Yea sure john! Lyoto - Rampage? Wandy?
Maybe mmamania should provide a forum?
Just teasing about Bas and it doesnt have anything to do with Machida. I am not going to post it.
I want to see how long it takes the internet to catch on. whether he provides a forum or not, I WONT post it. I get bitched at too much for Hijacking so let mania go do his job and dig up the scoop. He laughed at me when I was posting the Brock vs. Couture news, bitched at me yesterday and many of you have been bitching about the hijacking for months. I am done! I will just sit back and talk about the issues at hand!
Cheers
Just Brace yourselves for HUGE news that wil dominate this site for a week once it is out the bag!
john, lol, my e’mail is jts2cm@hotmail.com!
C’mon John I need to know, you always seem to be right about your inside scoops. If it is big news I need to know now.
I heard that Brock Lesnar is really a female! Is that it?
u can thank mania for my silence!
I already know what huge news you are talking about John.
The winner of Slice vs. Shamrock gets Tito in Affliction ‘day of reckoning’. You heard it here 1st folks. It is just going to be amazing if Ken wins and gets another crack at Ortiz. I can’t f’n wait.
I am talking about UFC news, so No you dont know what I am talking about. Trust me when I tell you that y ou have NO idea!
How would Tito vs. Ken part 4 be amazing?
Big John McCarthy is coming back to ref? GSP vs. BJ. for the new years show? Arlovski told Affliction to stick it and is coming back? Chuck is a HW? Other than that I don’t think the news could be that big.
Affliction is scrambling! Better get it together on January for sure, Fedor vs Arlovski and a deal with HBO would give Affliction hope.
LOL… and why do we always have to see Fedor with funny ears or something? What’s your beef with Fedor anyway?
fighting more than once a year might help.
you guys ever wonder if russian women jump all over fedor? i mean… as atheletic, gifted and talented he is, who wouldnt want to have his kids? i know i would! lol
You really are sick brendan, lmao!! You definitely have a creative mind! On the previous thread you said somethin’ about semen, and now this! LOL!!!
Im trying to get a hold of his sperm to artificially inseminate my sister! lol
Speaking of my sister, she is 17. I had a dream that she left her boyfriend for Rampage! It was a crazy ass dream!
I showed her a pick of who Rampage is and told her about the dream, she punched the crap out of me!
someone should artificially inseminate fedor’s sperm into chris cyborg. then there truley would be little russian cyborgs running around. could you imagine what kind of wunderkind they would produce.
wow! their offsprings might take over planet earth!
Have you seen Cyborg? She might use her sperm to inseminate Fedor.
lmao. Chef strikes again!
YOu are one Kick ass Chef!
Fedor should fight someone else like Crocop assuming crocop beats overeem otherwise overeem would be a great fight! Then after he wins he can face the winner of AA vs Josh(more then likely josh).
But it is very interesting whats gonna happen with Fedor in japan he wants to fight NYE as always, so maybe a sambo match? I wouldnt mind that.
fedor would destroy overeem and would beat crocop also, but probably not quite as definitively as an overeem match. at least cro cop took fedor to a decision back in the day
Keep in mind that Fedor was called out at this past Olympics by the heavyweight gold medalist Judoka from Japan. That would be a HUGE fight in Japan that the Japanese people will want to see. If he does continue with his NYE tradition in Japan, I have to think that it will be against the Japanese Judoka
Fedor v Arlovski? That match does have merit, but it isn’t the one that I want to see. Fedor’s next match should be against Josh Barnett. Christ knows Fedor ducked Barnett enough times in PRIDE…
Thank God someone else knows how deserving Barnett is, especially compared to Arlovskis last four mediocre performances. I was expecting to see a bunch of Arlovski vs. Fedor comments but I am quite pleased. In response to Brendan, Fedor would NOT destroy Overeem and you have nothing to back that. Overeem will in fact quickly dismantle Cro Cop and put him into his overdue retirement. Fedor vs Overeem or Kharitonov would be almost as exciting as a fight with Barnett..
I think that you are ranking Alistar a little too high buddy! I find alistar to be a very entertaining fighter but If i am going to keep it real, he usually looses his fights against top notch opponents. Thats why he has never been in the top 10
fedor/kharitonov would be a good fight… i think kharit top could give fedor some problems
they used to train together at the Russian Top Team, before they robbed Fedor and he switched over to the Red Devil Fight team.
Dont know how they feel about fighting each oother. Then again Aleks fought Sergei so it probably wouldnt be a problem
Aleks put a beatdown on Sergei too… great fight that was
Fedor and Barnette were on a card to fight in PRIDE.
It wasn’t Fedor that ducked out, it was Barnette and they had to replace Barnette.
.. This hasn’t been the first time either that Fedor has had opponent’s back out from a card fight either.
Yeah, what’s with Fedor and the ears?!?Haha! First it was Mickey mouse ears[which I believe was photoshopped], then now it’s dolphin antennae!! IT really is very ironic in that he seems like a harmless individual when he looks like this, but inside the ring, he’s the devil himself!
So true, hahahaha. In those pictures he looks like he couldn’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag.
thats why he is the man!
As others have pointed out, Chad Dawson vs. Antonio Tarver (boxing) takes place in Vegas on Oct 11. The UFC might be able to go head-to-head with a big boxing event, but not Affliction. The boxing event is scheduled to take place at The Pearl Theatre at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. I think Affliction was going to have a difficult time going head-to-head with a huge boxing event. I doubt that the UFC had anything to do with their reschedule of Affliction.2.
Nothing makes me get up in the morning and laugh like a new goofy Fedor pic. The guy seems so harmless you would trust him to babysit your kids and at the same time he’s the most dangerous fighter in the world.
Honestley, if they merged with DREAM or something huge like that, I would say they would have a better rounded roster than the UFC (except for that freak of nature GSP)
I think that Afflication alone may already have a better HW division than the UFC, but they’re weak everywhere else. to say that an Affliction/DREAM merger would be more rounded than the UFC is just silly. It would take an Affliction/DREAM/EliteXC/Strikeforce merger for the complete roster to maybe (MAYBE) compare with the UFC from top-to-bottom.
not really
the ufc has an awful middleweight and heavyweight divisions and mediocre welter, middle and light. their only real outstanding division is 205. No one complains about ww, lw, and mw because GSP, BJ, and the Spider are all super talented.
The MW division is not nearly as bad as you think, it’s just that Anderson Spider Silva is that much better than everybody else right now. Bring in any other MW in the world, and they would get crushed by Franklin, Henderson and Marquardt.
Hey Bill name an organization with a better MW or HW division. Can’t can you? Even though the MW division is thin it is still better than anyone else’s. And the UFC has 8 of the top 10 WW, so what are you talking about?
I really hope they arn’t serious about Fedor v. Titio. I really don’t want to see that garbage. It would be rude to Fedor he needs to fight a big name in the HW division and perferedly not some one who Afliction has already put on the last card.
Don’t worry, Tito would never step in the cage with Fedor, Tito wants someone that he can beat… Guarantee u he would never do it.
if barnett beats fedor, and has already dominated couture - he’ll be throned.
nog fedor barnett i consider the best HW’s based on their fights.
other top dogs IMO are Arlovski, Schilt, Sylvia, Werdum, Gonzaga, Kharitonov.
Couture I really wonder about because of his age.
Whichever dude beats all of this list decisively wins a Herbal Tea.
barnett is 1-1 against nog too.
i agree that spider is out in front however. he lost round one to hendo and lindland would win all rounds with a similar strategy.
greco can trump muay thai.
lindland vs spider would certtainly be a test of that anyway