Fedor win, not overturned.

[BJJMMA]

In a surprising turn of events, the World MMA Association (WMMAA) announced that Fedor Emelianenko's latest victory against Fabio Maldonado would be overturned to a draw after the Brazilian's appeal to the association.

Maldonado, who initially lost a majority decision to Fedor despite a dominant opening round, later appealed the decision to the Russian MMA Union. He suggested a conflict of interest between Fedor, president of the Russian MMA Union, and the officials assigned by the same union to work the fight. The union denied the appeal because the Brazilian didn't file it within 40 minutes of the decision's announcement, even though he was never informed about this particular rule. The appeal was denied by vice president Radmir Gabdullin, a former M-1 Global fighter who has a well established working relationship with Fedor.

Maldonado later took his appeal to the WMMAA, the governing body for international amateur competitions. Russia is one of the member nations involved in the WMMAA and the Russian MMA Union is the regulatory body responsible for the sport in Russia. The entity suspended Gabdullin and assigned three officials to re-evaluate the match. The selected officials were Youri Lamoureux (CAN), Lukasz Bosacki (POL), Alexey Zemskov (RUS). All three judges offered an identical 28-28 result.

According to the WMMAA, the officials' advice to "change the result to "Unanimous Draw" will be applied by the WMMAA. This decision will be announced to Fight Nights and communicated with Fedor Emelianenko, the Russian MMA Union and Stefano Sartori. With this decision I will consider the Appeal to be official closed."

Maldonado wins WMMAA appeal but Russian MMA Union refuses to overturn Fedor result


So let's break down what is happening here.

First Russian MMA Union is the one with authority here. They denied the appeal for obvious reasons.

It was then sent to WMMAA and amateur governing body headed by Vadim Finkelchtein Fedor's former manager and M1 promoter. Also Karim Zidan's employer. They overturned it. Unsurprisingly. Of course Zidan puts this in the article near the bottom.

RMMAU is not overturning the result. Which means the official result will still be a win for Fedor.

In the end what you are seeing is a pissing contest that is making Russian MMA look like a circus.

 

[Kingtony87]

Lol what a shit show.

 

[RaginCajun]

I have seen much worse judging than in this fight. It could have been judged as a draw but there seems to be no consistent judging for 10-8 rounds in any organization.

 

[wiz]

 

[BJJMMA]

I have seen much worse judging than in this fight. It could have been judged as a draw but there seems to be no consistent judging for 10-8 rounds in any organization.

I think everyone can agree on this point. The ridiculousness comes with the repeated appeals and what is clearly two organizations vying for supremacy.

 

[kneeblock]

Not Russian MMA, but MMA in general. Absent a world regulatory apparatus it's always going to be disputable how legitimate wins, championships and rankings are.

 

[Ryann Von Doom]

I have seen much worse judging than in this fight. It could have been judged as a draw but there seems to be no consistent judging for 10-8 rounds in any organization.

Bingo

 

[BJJMMA]

@stielar you are missing a golden opportunity to take shots at Zidan today. His article vs his Twitter are drastically different.

 

[dacofty]

it doesn't matter, the World knows it was a draw so its a draw, Russia can keep thinking how ever.

 

[BJJMMA]

it doesn't matter, the World knows it was a draw so its a draw, Russia can keep thinking how ever.

What it is, is making Russian MMA that Fedor loves so dearly look like a complete sham. Something tells me Putin gets involved by the end of this.

 

[Pitbull9]

What it is, is making Russian MMA that Fedor loves so dearly look like a complete sham. Something tells me Putin gets involved by the end of this.

Damn if he does bodies will be turning up.

 

[Ceiling Fan]

Sherdog and wikipedia now list that fight as a Draw.

Tapology, Mixedmartialarts.com, Fightmatrix still have it as a Fedor win.

Not good to see the resources are split as of now, maybe they'll reconcile. By those sites, I mean their official records, and not some schmuck on a forum.

 

[BJJMMA]

Sherdog and wikipedia now list that fight as a Draw.

Tapology, Mixedmartialarts.com, Fightmatrix still have it as a Fedor win.

Not good to see the resources are split as of now, maybe they'll reconcile. By those sites, I mean their official records, and not some schmuck on a forum.

It will be whatever Russian MMA Union decides as official result. Even Zidan knows that.


View: https://twitter.com/zidansports/status/753984488430940160

 

[member 3289]

Misleading thread title is misleading. It will be recognized as a draw everywhere but Russia.

 

[BJJMMA]

Misleading thread title is misleading. It will be recognized as a draw everywhere but Russia.

I don't think so. I think at the end of the day the Russian MMA Union will have the final say. All WMMAA can do is pressure them to change it. And I'm not sure how much they can pressure outside of saying we found something different. Even Zidan acknowledged this on Twitter.


View: https://twitter.com/zidansports/status/753984488430940160

 

[BJJMMA]

Misleading thread title is misleading. It will be recognized as a draw everywhere but Russia.

What was misleading was his original tweet saying it was overturned when in reality the WMMAA said it should be changed to a draw. Not that it had been changed to a draw.

 

[MMAHAWK]

Meanwhile Fedor as @stielar said continues to give 0 fucks

 

[BJJMMA]

Meanwhile Fedor as @stielar said continues to give 0 fucks

Yup. Bellator just RT'd a video of him smiling standing next to a ring card girl signing autographs. He obviously isn't worried.

 

[dacofty]

What it is, is making Russian MMA that Fedor loves so dearly look like a complete sham. Something tells me Putin gets involved by the end of this.

I agree, Russian MMA is compared to Dana's match making

 

[stielar]

This is what I don't understand:

I edited my profile some days ago, and I added the following signature: "Zidan sucks Vadim's dick". Shouldn't it be shown under all my messages now? What's wrong with signatures? Mods, administrators .... please get to work.

 

[Ryann Von Doom]

This is what I don't understand:

I edited my profile some days ago, and I added the following signature: "Zidan sucks Vadim's dick". Shouldn't it be shown under all my messages now? What's wrong with signatures? Mods, administrators .... please get to work.

It's there.

 

[Wild]

WHY IS FABIA MALDANADA NOT FIGHTING THIS??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH FABIA MALDANADA?!?!!!