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Bellator champ warns Doubting Thomases: 'Quick' Fedor Emelianenko hasn't lost anything during hiatus

Pfffft. C'mon son, this is Fedor Emelianenko we're talking about.

The former PRIDE heavyweight champion is expected to make his return to mixed martial arts (MMA) later this year (details). In the process, the "Last Emperor" has been sharing some tricks of the trade with Bellator 265-pound kingpin Vitaly Minakov, who passed along this scouting report to FightNights.ru (via Bloody Elbow):

"We had a very good camp in Stary Oskol. We had a lot of heavyweight sparring partners. I learned a lot of new things and worked in tandem with Fedor Emelianenko.