Fedor grew up in a poor, Soviet family with four children. His father worked as an electric welder at a local enterprise, and his mother was a teacher.

In 1978, the Yemelyanov family decided to move to Russia. In Stary Oskol, they settled in a tiny communal room.

In 1988, the boy enrolled in the martial arts section: judo and sambo. Fedor went to training with his younger brother, because his parents worked. As a result, both sons became professional athletes. Having received a certificate of maturity, Emelianenko entered the school, and mastered the profession of an electrician.

From 1995 to 1997, Fedor served in the army. Even there, the guy did not stop training, which allowed him to get stronger, gain twenty kilograms muscle mass. In 2003, Emelianenko entered the Belgorod Institute of Physical Culture and Sports, which he successfully graduated in 2009.

The beginning of a fighting career

In 1998, Fedor took part in the international sambo class "A" tournament. There he took first place, became a master of sports of Russia. Then there was another tournament in which the young man won a bronze medal in judo and sambo. At the end of the 99th year, Emelianenko signed a contract with the Japanese organization Ring, and moved to MMA. Of the 11 fights held, 9 ended in victory.

Fedor Emelianenko in the photo on the right.

With the advent of zero Fedor started boxing under the guidance of experienced coaches. This allowed him to become one of the Russian Top Team fighters. But Emelianenko spent there less than a year, but as a result of a conflict with the manager of the organization, he left the team. Almost immediately after that, Fedor joined the Red Devil Fighting Team.

The triumph in his fighting career came in 2001, when Emelianenko became the deserved champion of the Rings. The guy managed to put such titled rivals on the shoulder blades as: Sami Schilt, Heath Herrington, Antonio Rodrigue Nogueroya. In 2004, Emelianenko again repeated the triumphal procession, and became a two-time winner of the Rings.

Until 2009, there were ups and downs in the career of a Russian with Ukrainian roots. Only after the fight with the Belarusian fighter Andrei Orlovsky did he win the new WAMMA title. This was followed by the conclusion of a contract with Strikeforce, under the terms of which Emelianenko undertook to hold 3 fights. Although he lost two of them, he is still considered one of the best fighters according to MMA.

In 2016, Fedor's last fight took place., his opponent was the Brazilian fighter Fabio Maldonado. In this fight, bookmakers made big bets on the Russian athlete, but Emelianenko made those present and fans nervous.

The victory came incredibly hard, and the video from this event has collected a lot of views on YouTube. Now Fedor continues to train, and is the president of the MMA Association of the Russian Federation.

Personal life

Fedor had known his first wife Oksana since childhood, even then they were making serious plans for the future. The girl waited for the return of her beloved guy from the army. In 1999, Oksana and Fedor officially registered their marriage., and a few months later they became the parents of their daughter Maria. In 2006, the news of their divorce came as a surprise to relatives and close friends.

As it turned out later, Emelianenko had an affair with a girl named Marina. In 2007, the daughter Vasilisa was born. In 2009, Fedor and Marina got married, and a year later their daughter Elizabeth was born. Despite the birth of a child, Fedor still loved ex-spouse Oksana.

Unable to bear the separation, the famous fighter terminates the marriage with Marina and returns to Oksana. In 2013, the reunited family got married in a church. In March 2017, Fedor and Oksana had a daughter.

Fedor Emelianenko - the famous Russian boxer, multiple world and European champion, was born in Ukraine in the village of Rubezhnoye on September 28, 1976.

Childhood

Fedor grew up in a large simple family. His father, a welder by profession, worked at a factory, his mother worked as a teacher. The boy was the second child. Two years earlier, his sister was born, and then two more brothers were born.

Shortly after the birth of Fedor, the family decided to move to Russia. They settled in Novy Oskol in a small room. Nevertheless, they all lived together. Neighbors in the communal apartment were often surprised that the children in the family were very organized, maintained order and helped their mother with the housework. The older ones took care of the younger ones.

Fedor in childhood

To feed their noisy crowd, the parents had to work hard, and they were almost always at work. And the children spent most of the day on their own. At the same time, they all studied well, and at the age of 10, Fedor independently enrolled in the sambo section, and a little later judo training was added to it.

Playing sports disciplined the boy and instilled in him composure and a sense of responsibility for his actions. This helped not only him to become a champion in the future, but also greatly influenced the life of his younger brother Alexander.

One of Fyodor's family duties was to look after him. And since he had training almost daily, the boy began to take little Sasha with him to the gym. The coaches reacted to this with understanding, and Sasha, who had been engaged in martial arts from early childhood, also subsequently won the champion title.

Having received a basic education, Fedor decided to enter a technical school in order to start working early and financially help his parents. He chose the specialty of an electrician and graduated from college with only excellent grades. Immediately after that, he was drafted into the army, where he continued to train hard and returned from there even more prepared and strong.

Amateur career

Fedor's active sports career began after demobilization. In 1997, he passes the standards for the master of sports and regularly takes part in competitions. In 1998, just a year after starting his career, Fedor won the Moscow and then the All-Russian judo championship and won bronze medals in sambo.

In 1999, the coaches included him in the Russian national team, and he began to compete in the most prestigious competitions. For the first time, having left for international competitions as part of the national team, he becomes the champion of Europe.

But at the same time, he begins to understand that even amateur sports are dominated by money that goes to non-athletes at all. And by this time he already had a family that needed to be provided for.

Making money on sporting achievements officially in the late 90s was simply unrealistic. Therefore, many promising athletes involved in martial arts fell under the patronage of criminal authorities and became bandits. But the rigid moral principles of Fedor did not allow him to even think about it.

Professional Fighter

Fortunately, he received an offer to try his hand at mixed rules fights, in which he performed very successfully. Thus on initial stage the athlete combined performances in amateur and professional competitions. But mixed fights were not very popular with the audience, and rare earnings not enough to provide the family with a decent life.

In 2000, Emelianenko decided to retrain and become a professional boxer. The fact that he came to boxing from another sport was both his advantage and a big disadvantage. On the one hand, he developed a completely different style from other boxers, which was famous for its unpredictability. On the other hand, it was difficult for him to adapt to a new combat technique.

In the same year, he made his debut in the professional ring, and the very first fight gave him an extremely unpleasant surprise and almost unsettled the novice boxer. His opponent Kosaka cut Fedor's eyebrow with a forbidden blow, and since in the previous fight he had already received the same injury, his whole face was covered with blood, and the athlete could not continue the fight.

He was credited with a technical defeat. But a year later, in a rematch, Emelianenko easily laid Kosaka in the ring.

From 2000 to 2002, Emelianenko played as part of the RINGS club, but when it ceased to exist for commercial reasons, the athlete was immediately taken by one of the most famous and largest clubs, PRIDE, in which he soon won his first champion title . In "PRIDE" Emelianenko fought for more than 5 years, but this club also declared itself bankrupt in 2007 and ceased to exist.

In 2006, Emelianenko received a serious hand injury, for the treatment of which he had to undergo two operations and a long rehabilitation period. About a year later, he began to perform again, but was no longer as invincible as before. His success alternated with defeats, and by 2011, having changed a few more clubs, he thought about coaching and ending his sports career.

Currently, Emelianenko is working hard to promote young athletes, and is the president of the Russian MMA Union. His original training system has proven its effectiveness and is actively adopted by novice boxers. In addition, he considers the psychological preparation and moral qualities of the fighters very important and sets a personal example with his faith in God, modesty and good deeds.

Personal life

Returning from the army, Emelianenko did not marry a girl, Oksana, who had faithfully been waiting for him all two years. Oksana was the athlete's first love. They met during a training camp at a sports camp, where the girl worked as a counselor.

With his first wife Oksana

At first, she did not take the student seriously - Oksana was several years older, but over time, his perseverance won her heart. In 1999, they nevertheless got married, and soon their daughter Masha was born. But after a few years the marriage broke up.

The second wife of the athlete was another old friend Marina, who admitted that she had loved him since childhood. Fedor married her a year after the birth of their joint daughter, and soon another girl was born, the third daughter of Emelianenko. But even the presence of two small children did not keep him in this family.

With second wife and daughter

AT recent times fighters mixed style are gaining more and more popularity and can already compete in this area with professional boxers. Probably the most legendary and respected among them is Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko, whose battle statistics cannot but amaze the imagination. He never shied away from fights with the strongest opponents and at the same time for almost ten years he did not know defeat, remaining an undefeated champion. The fights of Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko have always caused a huge audience excitement, and he himself has long become an idol and role model for many young fighters.

Chess player in the ring

Every MMA fighter needs to strike a balance between wrestling and striking training. Fedor Emelianenko's fighting style is characterized by the fact that the Russian opponent is constantly in suspense, not knowing what to expect from him in the next second. A native of Lugansk, he specialized in sambo and judo. He feels great when fighting, but Fedor's blows are a formidable weapon. Emelianenko's boxing style has its own distinctive features: He rarely uses jabs, using side kicks with a wide circular amplitude. While standing, he prefers to work with his hands and rarely resorts to kicks. However, depending on the opponent, he is able to rebuild and inflict significant damage on him even with restraining low kicks. So, for example, in a duel with Fedor after one of these blows, the American received a broken leg.

Yet calling card Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko, whose height (183 cm) is relatively small for his weight category, are his painful and suffocating techniques from the arsenal of sambo and judo. In addition, very often, having knocked over an opponent, he successfully unleashes a hail of powerful blows from the top position on him and knocks him out. The composure of Emelianenko during his fights was always amazing. He never gives in to emotions and in the most difficult moments of the battle he is able to calculate the situation in a split second and instantly accept best solution. Many of his victories were obtained in situations where the opponent seemed to dominate and was one step away from victory.

A little about the life of a fighter

Even the most short biography Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko will take many pages from any conscientious sports historian. One of the MMA of all times and peoples has gone through a difficult path in sports to its world fame. Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko (born in 1976) was born in the Luhansk region in an ordinary working-class family. Fedor's brothers Alexander and Ivan also followed in his footsteps and took up mixed martial arts. The men's company is diluted by the elder sister of Fyodor Marina. Soon big family moved to Belgorod, where parents and their four children huddled in a room communal apartment. Fedor began to engage in sports from the age of ten, he gave preference to sambo and judo. I attended training sessions with him. younger brother Alexander, who will also become a professional fighter.

From 1995 to 1997, the future sports legend conscientiously repays his debt to his homeland in the Russian army, first in fire departments, and then in a tank division. After the end of the service, Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko continued active sports, which became his profession. He married in 1999 to a girl whom he met at the training camp. Fedor and Oksana had a daughter, Masha, but this did not save them from a divorce in 2006. A second marriage followed with an old friend Marina, thanks to whom Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko became the father of two more daughters - Vasilisa and Elizabeth. However, in 2013, the legendary athlete returned to his first wife, whom he even married in a church.

First steps in sports

Fedor's first coach was Vasily Gavrilov, thanks to whom Emelianenko mastered the basics of judo and sambo. Soon he entered the sports class at the Youth Sports School, where he began to train under the guidance of Vladimir Voronov. According to the latter, in childhood, Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko did not stand out among his peers with special talent and achieved tremendous progress solely due to his perseverance and hard work.

After military service, he continued to actively engage in sports, focusing specifically on sambo. Having won a prestigious international tournament, he received the MSMK badge. Fedor Emelianenko felt like a fish in water in combat sambo. In 1998, he became the second prize-winner at the national championship among military personnel. Soon he received an invitation to the Russian national team, in which he managed to win the European team championship. However, at a certain point, Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko nevertheless decided to leave the national team and focused on MMA fights, explaining this by the need to earn a living for himself and his children.

Rise of a Champion

To test his strength in mixed martial arts, Fedor Emelianenko first began to hone his skills in boxing under the guidance of his current trainer Alexander Michkov. In 2000, he joined the Russian Top Team, then headed by Vladimir Pogodin, and focused on MMA performances. Three years later, Fedor left this club, explaining his decision by the dishonesty of the director.

The first organization involved in the preparation of mixed-style fights for Fedor Emelianenko was the Japanese company RINGS. Under its flag, he spent 11 fights, managing to become a two-time world heavyweight champion during this time. The best fights of Fedor Emelianenko were still ahead, but it was in those years that he gained fame and popularity in the world of MMA.

In 2002, he suffered his first loss to Japanese fighter Tsuyoshi Kosaki. However, many experts refuse to count Fedor's lost fights from now on. During the fight, the Japanese cut the Russian with a forbidden blow, and he could not continue the fight and further participation in the round-robin tournament. However, the judges awarded the victory to the Japanese in order to determine the fighter from this pair who would go to the next stage. The weight of Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko allowed him to take part in fights against the toughest opponents and fight for the title of champion in the absolute weight category. The last time he won the championship belt according to RINGS was in 2002, after which the Japanese organization ceased to exist.

Collaboration with Pride

At the beginning of the 2000s, the UFC was not yet considered the leader in the world of mixed martial arts, and Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko preferred to cooperate with the largest organization at that time, Pride. Fedor made his debut fight under the auspices of the new company against the giant Dutchman Sami Schilt and defeated him by unanimous decision. Then he overcame the resistance of the American Heath Haring, who at that time was considered the favorite. Having transferred the fight to the ground, the Russian athlete brought down a hail of blows on him and ended the fight ahead of schedule.

The countdown of the best fights of Fedor Emelianenko can be started with a match against Antonio Nogueira. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu master was considered almost invincible and the main contender for the championship belt. However, that evening Fedor was unstoppable. Emelianenko managed to knock down the Brazilian with a powerful blow and take a dominant position on the ground. In this position, he brought down a hail of finishing blows from above and stunned Nogueira. The jiu-jitsu specialist tried to perform painful holds, but the sambo master was on the alert and brought the fight to victory. So Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko became the world champion according to Pride.

Fights with Nogueira

In 2004, the Russian met twice more with Nogueira, who longed for revenge. The first fight ended in a mutual cut and was declared invalid. The Brazilian claimed that Fedor Emelianenko deliberately went for it in order to avoid defeat. The cold-blooded fighter from the Belgorod region maintained silence and preferred to continue the fight in the ring without getting involved in an exchange of insults.

The re-battle turned out to be very stubborn. Fedor understood that it was very risky to fight on the ground against a jiu-jitsu specialist and avoided his dangerous ones. Emelianenko fought in a standing position and methodically processed Nogueira with blows from a distance, effectively defending himself against the attempts of the latter to move closer. As a result, the Brazilian's plan failed, and Fedor won a landslide victory.

Epic battle with Mirko Cro Cop

The main event of 2005 in the world was, of course, the duel between Emelianenko and Mirko Filipovich, nicknamed "Cro Cop". The Croatian fighter moved to MMA from K-1 and was famous for his killer punch with both legs. In one of the fights, he inflicted a crushing defeat on Fedor's brother Alexander, so that the meeting with the Croat became a matter of honor for Emelianenko.

The long-awaited fight did not start very easy for the Russian fighter. The Croatian threw some accurate jabs and smashed Fedor's nose. He also constantly threw out his deadly kicks, and as a result, Emelianenko developed a hematoma on chest. Nevertheless, the Russian athlete continued to bend his line and, by the last round, exhausted the Croat with constant clinching and wrestling. In the last round, Filipovich was unable to resist and simply fled from Fedor's powerful blows. After 20 minutes of exhausting confrontation, the victory was unanimously awarded to Fedor Emelianenko.

Transfer under the banner of M-1 and conflict with the UFC

Aggressive marketing and competition from the UFC led to the bankruptcy of Pride and the subsequent buyout of its remains by the American organization Zuffa, led by Dana White. Fedor Emelianenko by that time was considered the best MMA fighter, regardless of the weight category, and the owners of the UFC did their best to lure the Russian fighter to them.

However, Dana White did not want to share future profits with anyone and imposed an enslaving contract on Fedor Emelianenko, which put an end to his cooperation with the Red Devil club. The owner of the latter, Vadim Filkenstein, tried to negotiate the involvement of the rest of the club's fighters in the UFC, as well as the holding of tournaments under the joint auspices of Red Devil and the UFC. However, he was adamant and opposed the participation of Fedor Emelianenko in fights under the auspices of other companies, as well as in sambo tournaments.

All this ended with the fact that the negotiations reached an impasse, and the UFC never received the best heavyweight of those years into its ranks. After that, the Russian announced the beginning of cooperation with the M-1 organization. Her "father" was the same Vadim Filkenstein, and she was largely created under Fedor Emelianenko. The main advantage for him was the opportunity to play in various tournaments and complete freedom of action. In addition, he was one of the owners of the company and had 8.5 percent of its shares.

Big victories of the "Last Emperor"

In 2007, one of the most spectacular fights took place with the participation of Fedor Emelianenko. The "Last Emperor" was challenged by the "Technogliath". That was the name of a very prominent Korean fighter who came to MMA from K-1. With a height of 218 cm, he weighed 160 kg, and millions of viewers around the world were looking forward to how Fedor Emelianenko would fight such a giant.

In the first seconds of the battle, the fans of the Last Emperor were seriously worried about their idol, because it seemed that the opponent was too huge for him. The first attempt to hold a wrestling technique ended with the fact that a huge Korean simply crushed Fedor to the ring with his mass. However, he did not lose heart and left Choi Hong confused. Entering the clinch, Fedor again tried to knock down the Korean, and when the fighters were on the floor, Emelianenko held an elbow submission and forced the opponent to surrender.

After the victory over Technogliaf, Fedor Vladimirovich met with former champion UFC by Tim Sylvia for the WAMMA World Championship. Before the start of the battle, he fell upon the Russian with a hail of insults, promising to defeat him in a matter of seconds, but Fedor kept his composure and saved his strength for the fight. The audience was looking forward to a hot battle, but it all ended in the first minute. Fedor literally crushed Sylvia with a series of blows, and then carried out a lightning-fast choke hold from the back and won.

Emelianenko had to defend the championship belt in a match against another UFC fighter, Andrey Orlovsky. The Belarusian treated the great fighter with respect and did not allow himself extra words before meeting him. However, in the ring, all respect was forgotten, and Andrei Orlovsky rushed to win. At first everything went well for him - the blows hit the target. In euphoria, Orlovsky flew off to finish off his opponent and frivolously opened up when he tried to strike with his knee. In response, he received a powerful right cross on the counter and collapsed like a mowed down.

Black series Emelianenko

Everything comes to an end, and the impressive winning streak of Emelianenko has come to an end. In 2010, he lost for the first time in his career. Brazilian Fabricio Werdum called himself a fan of Fedor, but at the same time he was able to become the first fighter who managed to catch a Russian in a choke hold. It seemed that it was an unfortunate misfire, because in the course of the fight Fedor was able to shock the enemy with a strong blow and was one step away from victory.

However, he soon suffered a second defeat in a row. Antonio Silva in one of the rounds of the fight with Emelianenko managed to overturn him and began to deliver finishing blows in the stalls. A hematoma formed, and the judges awarded Fedor a defeat.

American Dan Henderson was also a fan of Emelianenko and became the third fighter in a row to defeat The Last Emperor. Possessing a strong striking technique, the former middleweight managed to deliver a powerful uppercut to the Russian, after which he began to finish him off. The judges stopped the fight and awarded the victory to the American.

The years take their toll, and Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko, after several successful fights after a series of defeats, announced his retirement in 2012. However, he soon got bored with retirement, and in 2015 he returned to the ring. To warm up, Fedor chose the former kickboxer Jadeep Singh as an opponent, whom he defeated without much difficulty. However, in 2016, he already met with a serious opponent. Fabio Maldonado in the debut of the fight managed to suppress Emelianenko, and he was one step away from defeat. However, an experienced fighter in the subsequent rounds evened out the situation and achieved the final victory, which many considered controversial. Now everyone is looking forward to new fights with the participation of Fedor Emelianenko, whose awards only to a small extent reflect the importance and status that he has in modern sports.

Fedor Emelianenko, whom the whole country knows by the nickname "The Last Emperor", married a second time in 2007. The name of the newly-made wife of a mixed martial arts fighter is Marina, she is a faithful wife and a loving mother who has already given Fedor two daughters.

The history of personal relationships in the life of Emelianenko

For the first time, this courageous and promising athlete got married back in 1999. His first chosen one was a girl named Oksana, with whom he had been talking since childhood. Despite the fact that Oksana strongly supported and encouraged Fedor's hobbies with such a difficult and dangerous view sports, like wrestling, the family soon broke up. Why this happened and what was the reason for the gap, the young people did not comment. From his first marriage, Fedor had a daughter, Masha, with whom he continues to communicate. However, the fighter also maintains contact with his first wife, because they parted as adults, not holding evil against each other.

A few years later, namely in 2007, the "Last Emperor" marries for the second time. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, little is known about the new life partner of the athlete. The name of the girl is Marina and she also fully supports her husband in his career.

However, this is not surprising, because Fedor himself, being such a formidable and dangerous opponent in the ring, is a very kind and responsible husband and father. In the same year, Marina gave her husband his second daughter, whom it was decided to name Vasilisa.

Right before the girl was supposed to be born, Emelianenko brilliantly performed in a duel against Hong Man Choi. In an interview that the fighter gave after the performance, he talked a lot about the fact that the family comes first for him, and that success and career are all gainful, and family and children are the most sacred thing that can be.

The second child in the family of Fedor and Marina was also born on the eve of the battle. In December 2011, a very important fight in the athlete's career took place - Emelianenko-Henderson, in which the victory was not on the side of our fellow countryman. Fedor was credited with a knockout and the fight was stopped in the first round. According to eyewitnesses, Fedor was very worried and could not concentrate. Perhaps the reason for this was all the same worries about the family, because almost at that moment Marina gave birth to her second (for Emelianenko already the third) daughter, Elizabeth.

Church wedding

In mid-2013, the athlete divorced his second wife. He again returned to Oksana, with whom they got married in the church in February 2014.

Fedor with his wife Oksana

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Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko - the legendary champion in fights without rules, was born on September 28, 1976 in the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk region. The invincible fighter has many titles, including the title of World Champion according to Pride, according to Rings, Pride Grand Prix champion, three times World Sambo Champion. The athlete fights in the heavy weight category. The physical data of Fedor are as follows: height 183 cm, weight 104 kg. Of the fights held, the athlete won almost everything. On May 16, 2012, Fedor Emelianenko was elected the first president of the established Union of Mixed Martial Arts MMA of Russia.

Start

An athlete was born in a family of workers (gas-electric welder, crane operator). In 1978, a family from Ukraine moved to Russia, to the city of Stary Oskol. In the biography of Fedor Emelianenko, the passion for martial arts manifested itself at the age of 10 years. Then he began to study in the sambo and judo section, where Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov was the coach. In 1987, Fedor entered the sports class of coach Vladimir Mikhailovich Voronov. After graduating from school in 1991, the athlete began to study at a vocational school. A year after his graduation in 1995, he began serving in the army.

After the army Sambo

After serving, in 1997, Fedor again began to intensively play sports and participate in competitions. In the same year, the athlete won the international sambo competition for the first time. Also in 1997 he was awarded the title of master of sports in judo. In 1998, Fedor won the international sambo competition. So in the biography of Fedor Emelianenko, the second title of master of sports was received, now in sambo.

In addition, 1998 brought many other victories to the treasury of the athlete's achievements. Fedor won first and third places at the Russian Judo Championship, and took third place at the Sambo Championship. The athlete also became a champion in the competitions of the Russian armed forces, and in the absolute weight category of this competition he took second place. AT next year Fedor Emelianenko won international sambo competitions. At the same time, the athlete's team became the first at the European Championships.

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hand-to-hand combat

However, the athlete did not stop there. In 2000, he began to study the technique of hand-to-hand combat with coach Alexander Vasilyevich Michkov. Fedor began to participate in fights without rules, and at first in a more humane version of Rings. Having immediately achieved considerable results, already in 2001 Fedor became the world champion in this version of fighting without rules. After that, the athlete switched to a more prestigious version - "Pride". The cruel rules of Pride allow you to beat the enemy in a lying position with your feet and hands to the head, and if the fighter is knocked down, to finish him off.

Without stopping doing sambo, Fedor won the Russian championship in 2002, then the world championship in Greece. In Panama, Fedor became the first in the absolute weight category at the World Combat Sambo Championship. Then in 2003, Fedor Emelianenko won the title of world champion in fights without rules of the Pride version, defeating former champion Antonio Rodrigo Nagier. Many of the strongest fighters were defeated in the fight with Fedor, among them Sam Schilt, Heath Hiring, Kazuyuki Fujita, Gary Goodridge.

In 2004, in the biography of Fedor Emelianenko, several outstanding fights were held with such rivals as Kevin Rendleman, Naoya Ogawa, Mark Colman, Antonio Nogueira. Fedor received two more titles: Grand Prix champion, world champion in fights without rules of the Pride version. The following year, the athlete became the Pride World Champion for the third time, and also became a three-time SAMBO champion. In 2006, Fedor Emelianenko was awarded the title of four-time world champion in fights without rules according to Pride.

From 2002 until November 2008, Fedor Emelianenko never lost. Only in November 2008 did he lose to Blagoe Ivanova from Bulgaria at the World Combat Sambo Championship, held in St. Petersburg. Many then started talking about the fact that it was time for the 32-year-old fighter to retire. However, after 2 months, Fedor was able to prove the opposite to all skeptics by defending the title of world champion in fights without rules within 2 minutes. In this fight, Emelianenko knocked out Belarusian weightlifter Andrei Arlovsky in a crowded Honda Center gym (USA, Anaheim).

M-1 Global

After the bankruptcy of Pride and the buyout of its assets by Zuffa, the parent company of the UFC, there were widespread rumors in the media that Emelianenko would fight in the American octagon.

As a result, negotiations failed, and in October 2007, Emelianenko signed a two-year, six-fight contract with M-1 Global, a company about which little was known, since it was formed quite recently and was an alliance of Mix Fight companies. M-1, Sibling Theatricals, Garlin Holdings Limited, SFX Media & Event. It was also not known about the level of fighters, the scale of events and the financial viability of the company. However, Fedor pointed out that in "M-1 Global [he] met with full understanding and respect for himself", in contrast to the "UFC", and the contract itself was more attractive than the one offered by Dana White. In particular, a feature of the agreement was the lack of exclusivity, which gave the fighter the right to play for other organizations.

In the future, the activities of M-1 Global became the cause of conflicts between Finkelstein, who, as of 2011, served as president of the company, and other organizations, in particular, Affliction. As a result of this, Fedor's performances were noticeably limited: if in Pride he could fight from three to five fights a year, then after signing a contract with M-1 Global, he began to fight, as a rule, one fight a year, despite the need to fight 3-4 fights per year according to the terms of the contract. Fedor himself is also a minority co-owner of M-1 Global, having a shareholding of 8.5%.

Last Stand

June 21, 2012 Emelianenko came out against the Brazilian heavyweight Pedro Rizzo, known for his performances in the early UFC tournaments. Fedor won by knockout in the second minute of the first round. After the fight, the athlete announced the final decision to end his career in mixed martial arts:

I think the time has come, I'm leaving. I also have the World Combat Sambo Championship. The decision to leave was influenced by the family. The girls are growing up without me, so it's time to leave.

Personal life

In 1999, Fedor married Oksana, whom he met during his school years in a pioneer camp, where Fedor was at a sports camp, and Oksana worked as a counselor. In the same year, their daughter Masha was born. The couple divorced in 2006. Around the same time, after a trip to Diveevo, Fyodor's churching began. Emelianenko began to think seriously about issues of faith while serving in the army, but Fedor's faith took on a pronounced character since 2006.

On December 29, 2007, Fedor and his longtime girlfriend, Marina, had a daughter, Vasilisa, and in October 2009, Fedor and Marina got married. In July 2011, the Emelianenko couple had a daughter, Elizabeth.

Awards and titles

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree (May 21, 2007) - for services to development physical culture and sports and many years of conscientious work.

Order of Peter the Great, 1st class (2007).

Honorary title "The best in the sport of St. Petersburg" (2009).

Medal "For Merit to the Belgorod Land" (2009)

The title of "Honorary Citizen of the Belgorod Region" for outstanding achievements in sports and personal contribution to the development of physical culture and sports (2009).

Golden Order of the Romanov family "Saint Nicholas II", 1st class (2010).

Honorary title of laureate of the regional campaign "50th anniversary of the region - 50 glorious deeds".

Activities outside of sports

Movie

In 2009, in preparation for the fight with Rogers, Fedor took part in the filming of the film Key of the Salamander, where he played the role of a special forces soldier - Fedor.

Book

In 2008, Victory Belt Publishing published the book Fedor: The Fighting System of the World's Undisputed King of MMA (eng. Fedor: the fighting system of the undisputed King of MMA), co-authored by Glen Cordoza, Eric Kraus and Fedor Emelianenko.

Political activity

Since September 3, 2007, Fedor Emelianenko has been a member political party « United Russia". In October 2010, Emelianenko was elected to the Belgorod Regional Duma as part of the list of candidates from the party. In the fighter's election program, considerable attention was paid to the development of youth movements and sports interests of the public. After being elected, Emelianenko said that he would "to uphold human rights and make people's lives better".

In 2011, Emelianenko became the face of the Russian sportswear brand Forward. The company plans to release a separate line "from Fedor Emelianenko", in the development of which the athlete himself will take part. According to Emelianenko, he would like the collection to contain not only a national, but also a spiritual component.