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Video: Chael Sonnen & Fedor’s Intense Bellator 208 Media Day Staredown

Chael Sonnen & Fedor Emelianenko had quite the intense staredown when taking the stage for the media. Staredown On Thursday, the Viacom-owned promotion held media day to promote the Bellator 208 event that will be one of two events for the company as Bellator 207 takes place the night before this show. The Fight Sonnen […]

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Chael Sonnen & Fedor Emelianenko had quite the intense staredown when taking the stage for the media.

Staredown

On Thursday, the Viacom-owned promotion held media day to promote the Bellator 208 event that will be one of two events for the company as Bellator 207 takes place the night before this show.

The Fight

Sonnen and Emelianenko will battle it out in a heavyweight tournament semifinal bout, which will serve as the main event. The winner of this fight will face the winner of Bellator 207’s headliner between Matt Mitrione and Ryan Bader in January of 2019. You can see the staredown here.

The winner of this tournament will earn the vacant Bellator heavyweight title. Bellator has been without a heavyweight champion since the title was vacated. The previous champion was Vitaly Minakov. Bellator decided to strip him of it in May of 2016 for failing to defend the title.

Emelianenko is fresh off a win in a first round bout against former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir. Before that, he suffered a knockout loss to Matt Mitrione in Bellator’s inaugural event at Madison Square Garden last year.

Emelianenko found success in Pride and is arguably the greatest heavyweight fighter of all-time. However, over the past few years, he has landed on tough times. He retired back in 2012 but came back three years later.

Bellator 208 is set to take place on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

The preliminary card will air online at 7:00 pm EST while the main card will air on Paramount Network at 9:00 PM EST. Alexander Shlemenko vs. Anatoly Tokov in a middleweight will serve as the co-main event.

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[ARCHIVES] Chael Sonnen Walks Back Fedor “Fixed” Fight Accusations

On This Day Three Years Ago… [ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 10, 2018, 9:57 PM] Chael Sonnen has always been one of the most vocal figures in all of MMA. He has tended to be most vocal whenever the topic at hand was a future foe. Fedor Emelianenko was no different. Soon after it materialized that Chael […]

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On This Day Three Years Ago…

[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 10, 2018, 9:57 PM]

Chael Sonnen has always been one of the most vocal figures in all of MMA. He has tended to be most vocal whenever the topic at hand was a future foe. Fedor Emelianenko was no different.

Soon after it materialized that Chael Sonnen would be facing Fedor in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix semi-finals, Sonnen got a head start on trash talking Fedor, stating that Fedor participated in fixed fights.

However, Chael Sonnen also says that Fedor is the greatest heavyweight of all time. When asked to clarify what seems to be a mutually exclusive proposition: being the greatest of all time while participating in fixed fights, Sonnen was happy to clarify:

“I’ll clarify it: PRIDE was fixed,” Sonnen told MMAjunkie at the Bellator 208 open workouts “That’s not to say his fights were fixed. PRIDE was so long ago I can’t believe people are still talking about it. PRIDE had fixed fights, and that’s the way it goes. If you fix one fight your whole organization is ruined. I think it’s one of the reasons that they’re off TV and they’re out of business and they’re not doing it anymore.

“If Fedor had fixed fights – I’d have to go back and look. I don’t remember thinking Fedor was in fixed fights, I don’t remember thinking a number of those guys were in fixed fights. But they fixed fights. Period.”

One thing is for certain: Chael Sonnen has no plans to participate in any fixed fight Saturday night at Bellator 208. Sonnen has no plans of lying down for anyone in his battle with Fedor, quite the opposite:

“As soon as they say, ‘Go’ I’m going to come across the ring and I’m going to get in a fight,” Sonnen said. “I’m looking forward to it. I don’t know if I’ve ever looked forward to a fight before. I look forward to opportunities and matches and strategizing and planning and training, but the actual competitions, I am looking forward to grabbing a hold of him and seeing what happens.

“I want to see what this power is all about, this explosiveness is all about. I’ve been impressed by him watching him through my television set, but I want to be able to tell you first hand.”

Bellator 208 takes place this Saturday from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y and will air on both the Paramount Network and DAZN.

What are your thoughts on these Chael Sonnen’s clarified comments?

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Benson Henderson vs Saad Awad Booked For Bellator 208

Benson Henderson vs Saad Awad is a lock for Bellator 208. MMAJunkie.com reports that a Bellator official has informed them that Henderson and Awad will clash inside the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY on Oct. 13. This is the same card headlined by a B…

Benson Henderson vs Saad Awad is a lock for Bellator 208. MMAJunkie.com reports that a Bellator official has informed them that Henderson and Awad will clash inside the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY on Oct. 13. This is the same card headlined by a Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix semifinal bout between Fedor Emelianenko and Chael Sonnen. […]

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