Fedor Emelianenko

On December 29, 2007, Fedor and his longtime girlfriend, Marina, had a daughter, Vasilisa, and in October 2009, Fedor and Marina got married. In July 2011, the Emelianenko couple had a daughter, Elizaveta. In mid-2013, Emelianenko divorced Marina and returned to his first wife, Oksana, whom he married in a church. On March 27, 2017, the media reported that the couple had a daughter. On January 30, 2019, Emelianenko's fifth daughter was born.

From 1995 to 1997, Emelianenko served in the Russian army, first in the fire department, and then in the tank division near Nizhny Novgorod. In the army, Fedor continued to train, but due to restrictions associated with military service, he worked more with a barbell, kettlebells, and also made cross-country runs. During the same period, Emelianenko's parents divorced, but unlike his brother Alexander, Fedor maintained a relationship with his father until his death in August 2012.

In 1999, Fedor married Oksana, whom he met during his school years in a pioneer camp, where Fedor was at a sports camp, and Oksana worked as a counselor. In the same year, their daughter Masha was born. The couple divorced in 2006. Around the same time, after a trip to Diveevo, Fyodor's churching began. Emelianenko began to seriously think about issues of faith while serving in the army, however, Fedor's faith took on a pronounced character since 2006.

Fedor was born in 1976 in the city of Rubezhnoye, Lugansk region, Ukrainian SSR, in the family of Vladimir Aleksandrovich, a welder, and Olga Fedorovna, a vocational school teacher. By nationality - Russian (see more). Emelianenko has an older sister Marina (b. 1974) and younger brothers - Alexander (b. 1981) and Ivan (b. 1988), Alexander also competed in MMA. In 1978, the Emelianenko family moved to Stary Oskol, in the Belgorod region, where Fedor remained to live and train, even as a famous athlete. Emelianenko lived with the whole family in a communal apartment, occupying a room originally intended for drying clothes, and sharing a kitchen and a bathroom with neighbors.

At the age of 10, Emelianenko began to practice sambo and judo. Repeatedly stayed in the gym overnight. It is curious that Fedor began to bring his younger brother, Alexander, with him to training, who had no one to leave at home with, as a result of which Alexander himself became a professional athlete and at one time was among the top ten heavyweights in the world. Fedor continuously continued his studies after school, while studying at the city vocational school No. 22, which he graduated with a red diploma in 1994 with a degree in electrician. On this, Fedor did not complete his education: in 2003 he entered the Belgorod State University at the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports, graduating in 2009, and as of January 2011, he is a postgraduate student at the same university.

At age 11, Emelianenko began to practice Sambo and Judo under the tutelage of Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov. A year later, he was admitted to sport classes taught by Vladimir Voronov, a coach who worked with him. According to Voronov, Emelianenko did not stand out from his peers initially but would achieve future success thanks to his own perseverance and hard work for many years. Voronov died in August 2020 due to complications caused by coronavirus. In this regard, many fans of mixed martial arts, not taking into account this defeat due to its illegitimacy, considered Emelianenko the only undefeated MMA fighter. Before his defeat to Fabricio Werduma, who won the triangle choke on June 26, 2010 of the year as part of the Strikeforce 26 tournament. The loss to Werdum was the first in a series of three defeats in a row, after which Emelianenko's ratings in the lists of the best fighters in the world decreased significantly. After some time, having won several victories in Russia and Japan, he announced his retirement from the sport, but returned three years later, speaking with varying success in various organizations.

For almost ten years he remained undefeated, which is unprecedented in the history of MMA. He received his first official defeat under controversial circumstances: on December 22, 2000, as part of the King of Kings 2000 Block B tournament, the Japanese fighter Tsuyoshi Kosaka cut Emelianenko's eyebrow with a forbidden elbow strike, and already at the 17th second of the fight, the doctors stopped the fight. Since within the framework of the tournament there had to be a winner who would continue his way to the final, and Emelianenko could not continue to participate, Kosaka was recognized as the winner of the battle.

At age 11, Emelianenko began to practice Sambo and Judo under the tutelage of Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov.

Fedor Emelianenko is the older brother of MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko.