Sweet article--must have been a great set. Fedor seems like a great guy.
"However, it was the Couture-Emelianenko staredown that brought the room to a standstill. The soft-spoken pair struggled to keep their trademark smiles hidden throughout the shoot, then sat and spoke for minutes. Couture invited Emelianenko to Las Vegas for a fantasy camp he was leading at his gym on Saturday. The former military firefighter extended his home in Russia to Couture.
“For me, it’s important I want to be his friend,” said Emelianenko. “For me, fight[ing] is just a sport. After the fight, we stay friends.”
For a sport and organization that touts it isn't like boxing, if this fight does not happen, it will make the boxing criticisms more than hollow, and speak volumes about the viewpoint held towards the "sport".
For a sport and organization that touts it isn't like boxing, if this fight does not happen, it will make the boxing criticisms more than hollow, and speak volumes about the viewpoint held towards the "sport".
