LONG BEACH, Calif. – Fedor Emelianenko is eager to rematch Bellator heavyweight champion Ryan Bader . Since losing to Bader in the heavyweight grand prix final in January 2019, Emelianenko (40-6 MMA, 4-2 UFC) has scored back-to-back first-round knockouts of Quinton Jackson and Timothy Johnson. The legendary heavyweight is looking to fight one more time before calling it a career and absolutely wants to run things back with Bader (30-7 MMA, 8-2 BMMA). Bellator president Scott Coker said he was trying to set up Emelianenko’s retirement fight at home, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a halt to those plans. “We were talking about this earlier, and we had a fight set in July of this year in Red Square to have Fedor fight in his final fight,” Coker told MMA Junkie and other reporters.
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