Fedor: No plans to retire for politics
News hit last week that top heavyweight star and former Pride champion Fedor Emelianenko had his eyes on a seat…
News hit last week that top heavyweight star and former Pride champion Fedor Emelianenko had his eyes on a seat in the Russian Parliament that would soon bring an end to his mixed martial arts career. The report is false.
Fedor’s involvement in the political machine in Russia is true, although according to M-1 Global’s Director of Operations, Evgeni Kogan, news of his retirement is completely overstated.
“He was basically nominated as one of the 58 candidates in the Belgorod Region, to be a candidate for the ruling party, for the Russian ruling party essentially. As far as I know, after he won a seat in the Russian Parliament or Senate, and it just kind of exploded from there.”
“There’s no substance to them at all,” Kogan said about retirement talk. “He was nominated, I’m pretty sure he didn’t nominate himself, so he was nominated by other people. He is one of a number of a dozen people in the same position, and even if he goes through the duties that he would have to undertake as part of that role, (it) would be negligible.”
“His career continues as it has been continuing for the last however many years. So there’s no retirement plan coming up.”