MMA icon Fedor Emelianenko rolled back the years to knock out American rival Tim Johnson in their heavyweight headliner on the Russian fighter’s homecoming in Moscow.
Part of the talk leading up to Saturday’s fight at VTB Arena in the Russian capital had focused on whether this would be the last time Emelianenko fights in his homeland – and possibly ever.
But in the end, the 45-year-old veteran scored a stunning KO victory over number two-ranked Bellator heavyweight Johnson, catching him with a perfectly timed salvo of punches in the first round to lay the American out on his back as the contest was waved off and the home crowd erupted.
🐐The Last Emperor scores the KO in Moscow!
— BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) October 23, 2021
What a moment for Fedor, in Bellator’s historic first Russian event.#Bellator269 pic.twitter.com/gZq4pH5bMa
Remarkably, it was a 40th career win for Emelianenko and could now push him into potential talk of a Bellator title fight in what might be his retirement bout.
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