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Q: You have defeated Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski using your hands in the stand up. Now both of them want to try boxing. How would you rate their chances?

- Fedor held a long pause. The crowd started laughing, because the silence was the answer.

The punch that brought Andrei Arlovski chin-first into the canvase, was not a "lucky punch". Everything was calculated.

"I remember that I had a thought at that moment" - smiled Fedor - "I was thinking: I should either take a step back to the ropes to avoid the knee strike, or to step forward with a punch"

Everyone remembers what Fedor chose...

There has been thousands of questions after the victory over Andrei Arlovski - about who will Fedor fight next. So far nothing has been set in stone yet.

- It will probably be Josh Barnett - said Vadim Finkelstein. It all depends where this fight will happen. In Japan, for example, they want to see Fedor against a local fighter. But we would love to organize Emelianenko vs Barnett on New Years. That would be sensational. But if that doesn't come to fruition - there will be a show in Los Angeles.

- Vadim, do you read interviews with Dana White?

- Yes

- I think they're pretty funny.

- Soon I will answer all the Dana White's dumb questions through the internet. For example, he constantly says that I asked him to build some academy. It's just nonsense.

- What does he mean when he says that the main obstacle in getting Fedor to fight with UFC - is in that you only want a contract for one fight.

- We can do two or three - that's not a problem. We just don't want to be under UFC's heels. Their demands say that Fedor cannot compete in Dream, or Combat Sambo - nowhere else, except UFC. I have a question - why?

- And how do you answer that question yourself?

- UFC wants to monopolize everything. But we, together with Affliction, are really strong.

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Vadim Finkelstein talks about Aleksander Emelianenko

- Aleksander is not in the Red Devil club, but he will participate in M-1 Affliction. He's an independent person and wants to do everything himself.

- Is everything OK between Fedor and Aleksander?

- Absolutely. It's just that Aleksander wants to have his own PR agency, do his own advertising.

- But when you read Aleksander's interviews: he implies that Fedor say something bad about him.

- You know that Fedor and Aleksander are like night and day. You can't even get Fedor to say a word, and Aleksander likes to slightly exaggerate - how it happened with Barnett. He said something like "He got grey, or green". I saw how people on the internet discussed this story. Barnett got upset of course, and now says that he's ready to fight wherever they meet. Fedor will never say that about his opponent. All of it is hard to judge. It's time to get used to the fact that they're different.!