Fedor Emelianenko Joins Strikeforce

It looks like the budget conscious MMA promotion Strikeforce has signed the best heavyweight in the world. Fedor Emelianenko and his M1 Global promoters have signed on with Strikeforce for a multi-fight co-promotion deal. It's unfortunate that they couldn't reach a deal with the UFC as that is likely where the biggest fights could happen. Nonetheless, Strikeforce has a few solid heavyweights that could challenge Fedor and make for some interesting fights for the MMA titan. Fedor continues his run outside the UFC and still manages to make huge fights that maintain his longstanding as the king of all heavyweights. The question now becomes whether or not he will ever fight in the UFC. It could still happen but the window of opportunity is closing fast. The UFC really had only one big fight for Fedor and that was Brock Lesnar. Randy Couture would have also done big business against Fedor but he is fast approaching his late 40s. Once the UFC can secure the biggest and baddest heavyweights in the world as they have done in the other weight divisions it would leave Fedor little choice. Until that happens, Fedor will always have big fights outside the UFC and continue to follow them wherever they happen to be ...