| Fedor Emelianenko has been hailed as one of the | | | | overly tall, husky, or overweight. |
| greatest MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) athletes that has | | | | Fedor Emelianenko graduated from his high school in |
| ever been. He is currently the World Alliance of Mixed | | | | 1991 and enrolled in a professional trade school, where |
| Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion. Born on | | | | he was an honors student and an honors graduate in |
| September 28, 1976, Fedor Emelianenko has proven | | | | 1994. From 1995 to 1997, Fedor Emelianenko was a |
| throughout the last decade that he is a prime | | | | soldier in the Russian Army, where he held his position |
| heavyweight champion fighter, and is second to none. | | | | as a military firefighter. While he was in the army, he |
| In Mixed Martial Arts fighting circles, he is known as | | | | continued his training with Sambo, his only workout |
| The Last Emporor and has worked his way to | | | | area being a makeshift gym that he had put together. |
| becoming a legend in the sport. | | | | Two years after he left the Russian Army, Fedor |
| Fedor Emelianenko was born in Luhansk, Ukraine, of | | | | Emelianenko married his girlfriend, Oksana. A few |
| the former USSR. Fedors father was a worker in the | | | | months after they were married, their first child, a |
| steel mills, and his mother was an elementary school | | | | daughter named Masha, was born. In 2006, his |
| teacher. Fedor Emelianenko has one older sister, and | | | | marriage to his wife ended and he began a family with |
| he has two brothers who also are fighters in Mixed | | | | his girlfriend, Marina, and another daughter was born. |
| Martial Arts. When Fedor Emelianenko was still very | | | | In 1997, Fedor Emelianenko was honored when he had |
| young, he started getting involved in the world of | | | | earned the official certification of a Master of Sports in |
| fighting. He started out training in Sambo and judo. By | | | | Judo and Sambo. The following year, Fedor |
| the time he was 10 years old, Fedor Emelianenko was | | | | Emelianenko earned the bronze medal n the Russian |
| working his way steadily up to becoming a master of | | | | Judo Championship. In the year 2000, Fedor |
| both of those sports, even though apparently he had | | | | Emelianenko started competing on a professional level |
| been very small as a child. Now standing at 6 feet tall, | | | | in mixed martial arts and combat Sambo. |
| at 235 pounds, when he was a child he had not been | | | | |