Sonnen (left) provokes Fedor (right). Photo: Montagem SL / MMA Press
Known for not asking for words to prove his opponents, Chael Sonnen has already started 'work' to promote the fight against Fedor Emelianenko, valid for the semifinals of the Bellator heavyweight GP. Faced with the division's greatest athlete of all time, the loud-mouthed North American minimized the Russian's achievements in Pride, the now-defunct Japanese event where Fedor was champion. For Sonnen, his rival's triumphs were in armed struggles.
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“You won't say anything about me, but I will talk about you. I don't recognize your armed victories in Japan. The referee wore a headset, you never went through a weigh-in there, there was never an athletic commission in Japan. Everyone who came from there to the USA had a negative record. Why? I will say. Because here the fights are real, and there the fights were arranged. Fedor would be very offended if I told him that his fights were fake. I said this to Mirko Cro Cop and he was offended, he couldn't believe I had said that to him. Wanderlei Silva He also didn’t believe I said that,” said Sonnen.
Chael also made a point of comparing the event where names like Rodrigo Minotauro, Mirko Cro Cop and Wanderlei Silva they were champions with the WWE show – telecatch from the United States.
“The guy who competes in WWE goes to the same room as his opponent and the two practice the choreography of their fight. What they did in Japan was say that the fight was fake for just one of the fighters. That's why the guys chosen to win were never in the same room as their opponents, who were chosen by the event promoters, also known as the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, and they told these guys when they would have to lose”, he added. .
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To reach the semifinals of the tournament, Chael defeated Quinton Rampage Jackson, while Fedor passed by Frank mir. In the other semifinal, Matt Mitrione faces the winner of the fight between King mo Lawal and Ryan bader.
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