There were times when Fedor Emelianenko destroyed the best fighters in the world, but practically no one talked about it in Russia. Winning the championship belt in a fight with Noguera, winning the heavyweight Grand Prix, a super fight with Cro Cop - none of these epoch-making events even received a line in the sports news on Federal TV. Only a small handful of hardcore fans from one and a half MMA websites followed the progress of the Last Emperor. Everything began to change in mid-2005, when the creator of M-1 Global, Vadim Finkelshtein, was able to promote a number of fights from Pirde tournaments to the NTV channel. Fedor began to gain recognition, press and the number of his fans began to grow by leaps and bounds. And just a couple of years later, Emelianenko’s first fight in Russia as a superstar of the Japanese promotion attracted a full house at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, where they even had to open additional tiers to accommodate spectators. It happened on April 14, 20