Strikeforce/M-1 Global fighter Fedor Emelianenko (32-2, 1NC) considered retiring before he lost last summer to fellow heavyweight Fabricio Werdum by submission, his first real loss of his career.
Fedor was a guest of The MMA Hour on Monday with Ariel Helwani to talk about the upcoming Strikeforce heavyweight World Grand Prix tournament
“To tell the truth, I certainly, was — I am thinking about retiring but that’s not because of the loss. I used to think about it before [the loss to Fabricio Werdum].”
“This is just because of my age,” Fedor continued, through a translator. “Because of my age, because for the heavyweight sportsman my age is considered a very big one. So sometimes I’m thinking about maybe finishing my sports career because also my former injuries started reminding me about themselves. But I hope that I still will have some time to fight.”