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Aleksander Emelianenko Bio
Aleksander Vladimirovich Emelianenko (Russian: Александр Владимирович Емельяненко, tr. Aleksandr Vladimirovich Emel'janenko, IPA [ˌalekˈsandr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪʨ jɪmʲɪlʲˈjanʲɪnkə]; born 2 August 1981), more commonly known as Aleksander Emelianenko or Alexander Emelianenko, is a Russian mixed martial artist. He is a three-times Russian national Sambo champion and three-time world Sambo champion in the absolute division. He is the brother of Fedor Emelianenko.
Biography
Emelianenko was born in the Russian SFSR in a family of a teacher, Olga Feodorovna Emelianenko, and a welder, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Emelianenko. He is the third child in the family and has an older sister, Marina, an older brother, Fedor, and a younger brother, Ivan (born 1988). Fedor is the reigning WAMMA heavyweight champion, while Ivan is currently in training.
Emelianenko started martial arts training at a very early age: his older brother, Fedor, often had to babysit him, and since Fedor didn't want to miss his Sambo practice, he took young Aleksander with him. At first Aleksander only observed the older kids, but soon he started mimicking their movements and doing pull-ups and push-ups. He started his formal Sambo training when he joined elementary school, but by that time his peers were already no match for him. Emelianenko trained with his childhood Sambo coach, Vladimir Mihailovich Voronov, and his brother Fedor, until June 2006.
During his stay with Pride Fighting Championships, Aleksander fought some of the worlds best fighters, including Josh Barnett, Sergei Kharitonov and Mirko Filipovic. After the purchase of Pride Fighting Championships by Frank Fertitta and Lorenzo Fertitta, he would fight BJJ world champion Fabricio Werdum and would lose by an arm-triangle choke of the first round. In an interview with Sherdog, Emelianenko stated that he didn't train at all for the Werdum fight, and he would like a rematch with him, along with Josh Barnett and Mirko Filipovic.
After the 2008 South Ossetia Conflict he came to South Ossetia to train in sign of solidarity with his comrades, the Ossetian people.
There is speculation that his MMA career in North America has stalled due to work permit problems resulting from his inability to pass the medical licensing requirements. However, he has remained active in both MMA and boxing competition in Russia. Emelianenko most recently defeated former superheavyweight olympic wrestler Eddy Bengtsson for the Russian based ProFC organization in April 2010.
He later fought Serbian heavyweight Miodrag Petkovic in Azerbaijan winning via TKO (Punches) in the first round.
Personal life
Emelianenko married his wife, Olga, on 4 September 2004. The couple resides in Saint Petersburg and have a daughter, Olya, who was born in September 2007. The couple also has another daughter who was born in 2009.
Emelianenko has an older daughter named Ksyusha from a previous relationship.
In an interview, his brother Fedor confirmed that Aleksander had spent time in a prison for robbery. Aleksander was sentenced to 5 years but was released after 3.5 years.
Emelianenko has claimed that he killed a bear by trapping its head with a fork-like staff and stabbing it in the heart with a knife. This is a traditional, but not common, way of Russian bear hunting.
Emelianenko's tattoos are a constant source of questions from his fans and journalists. He explained their meaning in his interview on Fedor's official website.
Tattoos
- Right arm: Cathedral with five domes: symbolizes five years of imprisonment.
- Shoulders: Stars: Symbolize a "career criminal" or Vor v Zakone in Russian (English translation: thief in law).
- Shoulders: More recently he has covered up the Stars with Clouds.
- Aleksander has recently added a tattoo of Muhammad Ali to his shoulder.
- Left shoulder: cobweb: Emelianenko did not explain its meaning other than saying that contrary to what has been suggested by some, it does not have anything to do with the Mafiya. In Russian prisons, tattoos using this symbol typically denote drug addiction or robbery.
- Chest: The Battle of Kulikovo.
- Left shoulder: Russian script.
- Left forearm: Half cat’s head, half skull: “Homo homini lupus est.” Translated: Man is a wolf to his fellow-man.
- Back: Grim Reaper holding a baby.
- Back: "Gott Mit Uns", meaning “God with us” in German: for Emelianenko, it's a symbol of revival. This tattoo caused a controversy, since this slogan was written on belt buckles of German soldiers in the Third Reich. For many Russian prisoners the phrase means you are totally opposed to the soviet penal system. This phrase was very popular among prisoners during the 60's and 70's.
- Knees: Stars: symbolize that the owner will never be brought to his knees. These tattoos also stirred up controversy, after a picture published on his website revealed a swastika in the middle.
- Pirate tattoo: stands for article 167 of Russian Criminal Code: “armed robbery”.
- “Fortis fortuna adiuvat” Translated: Fortune favors the bold.
- A name on his lower abs ('Marina'). Later covered by a tribal tattoo.
- A spider web on scalp.
MMA record
Boxing
Emelianenko fought his first professional boxing match on October 3rd, 2009, in Moscow where he fought to a majority decision draw in 10 rounds against Russian Khizir Pliev.
- ^ Interview with Fedor Emelianenko on Fedor's official website, December 4, 2006. Fedor Emelianenko: "We have not been training together for over six months now. (..) Before his last PRIDE fight, Aleksander went to train in Holland. Since Fabricio Werdum is a very knowledgeable, very serious fighter, Aleksander needed a good sparring partner. And in Holland he simply had no one to grapple with."
- ^ Interview with Aleksander on Fedor's official website
- ^ Fedor intervew.
External links
- Official website
- Professional MMA record for Aleksander Emelianenko from Sherdog
- Professional boxing record for Aleksander Emelianenko from BoxRec
- PRIDE profile
- PRIDE english profile
- Interview in Amsterdam 01.11.2006
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