Fedor to compete in Combat Sambo Championships in Monaco next month

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Fedor Emelianenko will take part in a combat sambo world tournament next month to ease himself into a return to MMA.

The four-time combat sambo champion will compete in the World Masters Tournament in Sambo and Judo, which takes place November 25^th in Monaco. Tass.ru, who reached out to the press service of the competition, first reported the news.

“Fedor has already confirmed his participation in the competition”, said the press-service.

The tournament will feature competitors from France, the United States and Saudi Arabia. The 1984 Olympic champion in Judo and member of the Executive Committee of the International Judo Federation, Yasuhiro Yamashita, will also compete at the tournament.

Members of the Monaco royal family, the Saudi Arabia royal family, as well as the “leaders of the UN, the Council of Europe, the World Bank and others” will likely attend the event.

Fedor is scheduled to return to MMA on December 31^st at Rizin Fighting Federation at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan. His opponent is yet to be determined.

Check out some of Fedor’s combat sambo highlights below:

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Karim Zidan is a investigative reporter and feature writer focusing on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for BloodyElbow since 2014 and has served as an associate editor since 2016. He also writes for The New York Times and The Guardian. Karim has been invited to speak about his work at numerous universities, including Princeton, and was a panelist at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also participated in the United Nations counter-terrorism conference in 2021. His reporting on Ramzan Kadyrov’s involvement in MMA, much of which was done for Bloody Elbow, has led to numerous award nominations, and was the basis of an award-winning HBO Real Sports documentary.