{"id":336688,"date":"2019-12-29T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=336688"},"modified":"2019-12-29T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T21:02:34","slug":"fedor-emelianenko-could-get-title-shot-against-ryan-bader-but-josh-barnett-more-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/fedor-emelianenko-could-get-title-shot-against-ryan-bader-but-josh-barnett-more-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedor Emelianenko could get title shot against Ryan Bader, but Josh Barnett more likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator president Scott Coker says that Fedor Emelianenko could get a heavyweight title shot against champion Ryan Bader, but a fight against Josh Barnett is more likely.<\/p>\n<p>Emelianenko had one of his most impressive performances in years when he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/bellator-japan-results-fedor-emelianenko-kos-rampage-jackson-video\/\">knocked out Quinton \u201cRampage\u201d Jackson in the main event of Bellator Japan<\/a>. The Russian legend looked fast and powerful in the fight, bouncing back from a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-214-results-ryan-bader-kos-fedor-emelianenko-video\/\">first-round knockout loss to Ryan Bader earlier this year<\/a> in the finals of the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TT91eG1Gn3Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to the media<\/a> after the event, a reporter asked Coker if Emelianenko could get a rematch against Bader next for the heavyweight belt. Here\u2019s what Coker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s something that would really be up to him, honestly. Like I said, he\u2019s 3-1 with this organization and he looked fantastic tonight. So if it\u2019s something he wanted, we can definitely work towards that. But I\u2019m not sure if that is all that important to him. I haven\u2019t really sat down to talk to him. I just said, \u2018Look Fedor, you just rest and take care of your family and we\u2019ll be in touch. Let us know what you want to do and we\u2019ll make it happen,\u2019\u201d Coker said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of getting a heavyweight title shot against Bader, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-eyeing-fedor-vs-rampage-or-josh-barnett-in-japan\/\">Coker suggested that Emelianenko is more likely to fight Barnett<\/a>, who was recently pulled from his fight against Ronny Markes at Bellator Hawaii. Emelianenko and Barnett were scheduled to fight a decade ago in Affliction but the fight fell through. In 2020, the fight could very well finally happen in Bellator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy who keeps knocking on the door is Josh Barnett. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/josh-barnett-issues-statement-following-last-minute-removal-from-bellator\/\">He had an unfortunate situation a week ago in Hawaii<\/a>. He was sick and I\u2019ve been texting with him. He\u2019s been recovering and getting back. He\u2019d like to fight at the end of January but I told him that\u2019s not going to happen because LA is so booked up. But we\u2019ll get Josh in there. If it\u2019s something Fedor wants to do &#8212; and I know Barnett would like to do it because he told me he wants to fight Fedor &#8212; maybe we can put that fight together,\u201d Coker said.<\/p>\n<p>Would you rather see Fedor Emelianenko fight Ryan Bader or Josh Barnett next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator president Scott Coker says that Fedor Emelianenko could get a heavyweight title shot against champion Ryan Bader, but a fight against Josh Barnett is more likely. Emelianenko had one of his most impressive performances in years when he knocked out Quinton \u201cRampage\u201d Jackson in the main event of Bellator Japan. The Russian legend looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":288143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10121],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fedor Emelianenko could get title shot against Ryan Bader, but Josh Barnett more likely | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator president Scott Coker says that Fedor Emelianenko could get a title shot against champ Ryan Bader, but a fight against Josh Barnett is more likely.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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