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Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko (Russian: Фёдор Влади́мирович Емелья́ненко, tr. Fyodor Vladimirovich Yemelyanenko, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ jɪmʲɪlʲˈjanʲɪnkə]) (born September 28, 1976) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo championship.

Emelianenko has received widespread acclaim from several major publications, including Sports Illustrated,USA Today, and Sherdog.com. Many analysts, as well as former and current fighters, consider Emelianenko to be the greatest mixed martial artist of all time. He remained undefeated for nearly a decade, during which time he was widely considered the best heavyweight fighter in mixed martial arts.

Emelianenko was born in 1976 in the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine (then in the USSR). In 1978, when he was two, his family moved within the Soviet Union to Stary Oskol, Belgorod of the Russian SFSR. His mother, Olga Fedorovna, was a teacher and his father, Vladimir Alexandrovich Emelianenko, was a welder. Emelianenko is the second child in the family and has an older sister and two younger brothers, including professional mixed martial artist Alexander Emelianenko. Fedor trains with his youngest brother Ivan, who has competed in Combat Sambo, and plans to begin a career in MMA in 2010.

Brett Charles Rogers (born February 17, 1981) is a mixed martial artist who fights in the heavyweight division. Rogers has fought in EliteXC and Strikeforce.

Rogers began his MMA training with Team Bison in Bloomington, MN, in the garage of head trainer Mike Reilly. Currently, Rogers trains with Ambition MMA, a state-of-the-art training facility formed by Reilly and his partners in 2008. Rogers continues to train on a daily basis with Reilly.

Rogers attended Harding High School in Saint Paul, MN.

Rogers was charged in early 2011 with 3rd degree assault on his wife.

A neighbor reported that he had looked out his residence window and saw Rogers standing over his wife, punching her multiple times in the head and face as she lay on the ground. Another neighbour stated he saw Rogers' wife with blood streaming from her face and mouth, and what looked like a missing tooth. The victim blacked out from being choked, suffered a golf ball sized wound on her face among smaller wounds. The couples' daughter had tried to intervene after she saw Rogers strike her mother. The case is set to go to trial on September 13.