Episode 536: Is MMA ready to let go of Fedor?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We are led to believe that Saturday's Bellator 290 will include the last fight for The Last Emperor. The 46-year-old Fedor Emelianenko will do the damn thing one more time in a rematch against Ryan Bader. Do we really believe this will be it for him? That's hard to say. If we had our druthers would Fedor's swan song be a rematch with Bader? Nah, not really. But this man was once a phenomenon and he might still be the greatest heavyweight of all time. We guess that means he gets to write his own ticket. Plus, yet more layoffs in the MMA media world and Derrick Lewis finally meets up with Sergey Spivak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast, and now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.7	That's right, you're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:24.5	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists, and for nearly the last 11 years,
0:31.2	we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and
0:37.4	occasionally wonderful world of mixed
0:39.9	martial arts.
0:41.7	Uh, Ben, after a somewhat slow start, I guess, to the year, we are about to dive into the thick
0:48.3	of it.
0:48.6	There are UFC events every weekend for the next eight weeks, and that includes three paper views. UFC 284,
0:58.3	which of course is Volcanov versus Mahachev. That's on February 12th. UFC 285, which is Jones
1:04.9	versus gone. That's on March 4th. And UFC 286, Leon Edwards versus Kamara Usman, the rematch, that is on March 18th.
1:13.4	So if you're scoring at home, that's three pay-per-views in a little over a month.
1:17.7	It's actually three pay-per-views in 35 days.
1:21.4	So I guess my question is, are you ready to take this ride all over again?
1:28.3	I mean, maybe it doesn't matter if I'm ready or not.
1:31.7	Maybe it's just what needs to be done.
1:33.7	Yeah.
1:34.2	I've ever thought of that.
1:35.1	I guess so.
1:36.9	They kind of took it easy on us to begin the new year.
1:39.8	We're coming up this weekend on Derek Lewis versus Sergei Spivak,
1:43.8	which of course was rescheduled
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