The first fight of Fedor Emelianenko in Russia when he was the current PRIDE champion, President of Russia, Silivio Berlusconi, Jean Claude Van Damme and Peter Aerts in attendance. April 14, 2007 was the big date in the history of Russian MMA.

Bodog Fights event supported by M-1 was held at Ice Palace in St.-Petersburg, it was a great event where the best Russian fighters participated. One of them was Alexander Emelianenko who had already became the top-level star and fought in Russia for the second time.

His opponent was huge American heavyweight Eric “The Big” Pele. He had a lot of knocked out opponents in his resume and he was the first fighter who managed to hand Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva the first loss in his professional career, putting him to sleep with one powerful punch. After that Pele wasn’t scared of Alexander at all.

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