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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 latest Fedor x Chael staredown. #Bellator208 pic.twitter.com/LaHLrTXrDJ

— Mike Bohn (@MikeBohnMMA) October 11, 2018

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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We now know when Chael Sonnen vs. Fedor Emelianenko will go down inside of the cage for Bellator MMA.

This fight is slated to go down on October 13 in Uniondale, New York at NYCB LIVE’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which was first reported by Newsday.com although Bellator MMA officials have yet to officially announce this date for this upcoming fight but are expected to do so shortly.

Another event, which has yet to be given a title, will also host Matt Mitrione taking on Bellator light heavyweight champion Ryan Bader that will be held the day before in this same venue.

These fights will serve as a semifinal bouts in the ongoing Bellator MMA heavyweight tournament that will crown a new champion in the division.

As seen in the main event of the Bellator 198 event at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, on the Paramount Network, the MMA legend finished former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir with strikes in the first round of their Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal bout while on the flip side, Sonnen was able to pick up a decision win over former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson at Bellator 192 at The Forum in Inglewood, California in January to move forward in the tournament.

Now, the MMA Legend and former middleweight and light heavyweight contender are slated to fight each other.

It should be noted that just this month, Bellator MMA President Scott Coker did go on record by stating that he would be up for having these fights on back-to-back nights with the idea of one fight airing on a Friday night on the Paramount Network while the other one would be exclusive to DAZN on Saturday night due to the fact that the Viacom-owned promotion recently signed a five-year broadcast deal with the subscription streaming service that plans to launch in September and it appears that’s exactly what they plan to do.

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