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Coker: Fedor negotiations ‘closer than ever’

The prolonged contract negotiations between Strikeforce and M-1 Global over the services of Fedor Emelianenko have reached the point where…

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Chris Palmquist
December 8, 2010 · 1 min read

The prolonged contract negotiations between Strikeforce and M-1 Global over the services of Fedor Emelianenko have reached the point where Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker can joke about it.

I’ve been back and forth, back and forth. The lawyers are going back and forth, back and forth. We’ve already been in touch with the State Department about calling the Kremlin and giving us a hand to finish this contract, Coker said Monday on the Sherdog Radio Network’s Beatdown show. I think we might have to go through the government to get this thing done. In all seriousness, I think we’ll have something to announce here real soon.

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