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| Sherdog.com MMA Blog: Thursday, June 11 |
| M-1 Willing to Share Fedor |
| By Jake Rossen (jrossen@sherdog.com)
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Thursday, June 11 6:08 am PT: M-1 Chief Operating Officer Joost Raimond has made an offer the UFC can refuse: His organization would be willing to share Fedor Emelianenko for one fight.
“I’d like to reach out with an invitation to Mr. Dana White, Mr. Brock Lesnar and Mr. Frank Mir to come out to our show,” Raimond told MMAWeekly. “… Hopefully we can follow up in the same lines as what the UFC has done for Mr. Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ in a one-fight deal. I think we can make that happen for other occasions, and we’d like to make that happen.”
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| USA Wrestling: We’ll Give You a Quarter-Million Not to Fight |
| By Jake Rossen (jrossen@sherdog.com)
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Thursday, June 11 5:56 am PT: In a move that could have some significant implications in MMA, USA Wrestling has announced an incentive program that would pay amateur grapplers a $250,000 ransom for winning a Gold medal in the Olympic Games.
“MMA is growing, and it’s a basic wrestling sport,” gold medalist Henry Cejudo told the New York Times. “A lot of fighters are ex-wrestlers. A lot of guys take the easy way out, make quick money. This fund will keep wrestlers in wrestling.”
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