Fedor/Werdum Could be Absent From May Strikeforce Card
What is the real reason Fedor is holding out?
While fans clamor at the bit to watch the world’s No. 1 ranked heavyweight fight once again, they may just have to wait a little longer. As posted on MMA news site, Sherdog.com, Fedor could be absent from the Strikeforce May card while M-1 attempts to re-negotiate his current deal. As posted on Sherdog:
Fedor Emelianenko, the world’s No. 1-ranked heavyweight, will not appear on the April card. Emelianenko’s proposed bout with Fabricio Werdum has been pushed to May. However, multiple sources are indicating that the stoic Russian could be absent from both events as his management attempts to re-tool terms of Emelianenko’s existing contract with Strikeforce.
While the bout featuring two Top 10 heavyweights was being looked out for the April 17th CBS card, the fight was pushed back to an unanounced May card. Rumors now have it that the bout could even be in jeapordy for that card as well. Where does this leaves the fans? With some serious questions that probably won’t be answered if these rumors turn out to be in fact true. After the fall of Affliction, Fedor Emelianenko signed a three-fight deal with the California based MMA promotion, and is currently one fight into said deal.
Among the current rumors about Fedor’s proposed May fight with Werdum, Apy Echtfeld of M-1 Global, the company that manages Fedor, told Mixfight.nl, that Fedor would only fight Alistair Overeem, the current Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, if Overeem would pass a 3rd-Party administered drug test prior to the fight, shades of Mayweather/Pac-Man from not too long ago. While many fans have wondered about Overeem’s ability to pass a drug screening, if a fight with Fedor is to occur, he would have to give into the demands and show people he is in fact clean, although Overeem has never failed a drug test before, although it must be stated that Japan does not in fact drug test.
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