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Coach Edmond Tarverdyan is in some hot water in his home state.

The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) revoked his corner license last week for allegedly falsifying his application with regards to a past arrest, MMA Fighting has learned.

På nyårsafton gjorde legenden Fedor Emelianenko comeback i japanska Rizin FF. Nu berättar organisationens VD vem han vill se ”The Last Emperor” möta härnäst: den 170 kilo tunga estniska sumobrottaren Baruto Kaito.


Den 31 december gick Fedor Emelianenko (35-4) sin första match på över tre år, när han slog ut Jaideep Singh (2-1) på knappt två minuter. Den löjligt ojämna matchen anordnades i den japanska organisationen Rizin Fighting Federation.

Nu har Rizins VD, Nobuyuki Sakakibara, berättat om vem han planerar att ställa Emelianenko mot härnäst: den 170 kilo tunge estniske sumobrottaren Baruto Kaito (1-0):

”He has great potential and if we talk about the near future, he may even become an opponent of Fedor.”



Vill möta Fedor

Enligt Sakakibara är Baruto sugen på att möta den ryska Pride-veteranen:

”When I talked with Baruto, he said that he would like to enter the ring against Fedor.”

Tränar hårt


Trots att det är en uppenbar mis-match att ställa en legendar som Fedor mot en veritabel nybörjare som Kaito, så menar Sakakibara att det är Emelianenko som bör oroa sig över fighten: ”Baruto, despite the fact that he is a newcomer in the world of combat sports, he won his first fight last year. He is now hard training and weighs 170 kg. The question is, whether Fedor is ready to meet such an opponent on the other side. ”

Bara gått en enda match

Baruto, vars egentliga namn är Kaido Höövelson, har en gedigen sumo-karriär bakom sig. I MMA har estländaren dock bara gått en enda match: han besegrade den åldrade kickboxaren Peter Aerts (1-2) på Rizins tidigare nämnda nyårsgala. Värt är dock att notera att matchen inte gick under det unifierade regelverket, som gäller i t.ex. UFC, och att ronderna endast var tre minuter långa.

Kevin Randleman, former UFC heavyweight champion and PRIDE competitor, has reportedly died at the age of 44.

Så här skriver Bas Rutten om sin relation till Kevin Randleman i ett meddelande till MMAnytt:

“When you think about Kevin, you automatically get a smile on your face. Never had a dull moment with him, truly and amazing person. Even this morning when talking to my wife about him and his family, tears came, but smiles right after because you think about great moments with him. And that’s what he did, he made people feel good, and I mean, he made EVERYBODY he met, feel good. Godspeed Kevin, RIP”.

Holländaren Bas Rutten skrev på för UFC under 1998 och anlände till organisationen med 19 matcher utan förlust och var vid det tillfället av många ansedd som en av världens bästa MMA-fighters.

The show features the one-time “World’s Most Dangerous Man,” Ken Shamrock against former rival Dan Severn in an MMA match; UFC fighter Michael Bisping vs. Chael Sonnen in a grappling match and former Olympic Gold Medalist and WWE champion Kurt Angle vs. former WWE champion Rey Mysterio Jr.

And perhaps the most glorious part of the show, the former pound-for-pound greatest boxer in the world, Roy Jones Jr., will fight CM Punk! Not really. He’ll fight some other guy with no professional fight experience — a random fan who will be selected based on a video they send in.

Barnatt (9-3) won the Venator FC middleweight title in December when he submitted Mattia Schiavolin via fourth-round rear-naked choke submission. The win marked Barnatt's first since his release from the UFC in May. Prior to the Miller fight, Barnatt is scheduled to meet Charles Andrade on Feb. 20 at BCMMA 14 in England.

Also slated to appear on the Venator FC III card is former UFC light heavyweight Matt Hamill.