Heavyweight fights always arouse great interest among spectators. Especially when these are two formidable giants, who have fought in such organizations as Pride, K-1 and Shooto, and between them they have 37 scalps of defeated opponents.
After a sensational defeat from Magomed Malikov, Alexander Emelianenko made every effort to return to business as soon as possible and again begin to destroy all opponents. His next opponent was supposed to be Kenny Garner, but an injury interfered with these plans and the Lithuanian Bear Tadas Rimkevicius, whose size and record was not inferior to Alexander, entered the fight. This fight took place on March 16, 2012 at the M-1 Challenge 31 tournament at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg.
Having started his career in the Lithuanian tournaments of the Shooto and K-1 HERO`S series, Tadas won 10 victories in 10 fights in a row and received an invitation to the English Cage Warriors tournament. After which he fought in many tournaments and by the time of the fight with Emelianenko he had fought 25 fights, winning 19 of them. Tadas already had fights with Antonio Silva, Kostya Glukhov and Harry Goodridge behind him, and the fight against Alexander did not frighten him at all, but on the contrary was considered as another step to the top of MMA.
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