Right now Red Devil representatives are training hard for the upcoming M-1 Challenge event planned for November, 21-st at the Ice Palace in Saint Petersburg. Check the photos of the athletes on the verge of the show. Get to know how they live and train and under what circumstances.

Last week a seminar was held in England with pretty remarkable guest-instructors: Ian Freeman, Aleksander Emelianenko and Gegard Mousasi. Photos after the jump.

Brothers Emelianenko spent a week in August in South Korea. Some photos of Aleks and his family, his trainer and the youngest of three Ivan Emelianenko from the beautiful country can be found here. Second part.

Brothers Emelianenko spent a week in August in South Korea. Some photos of Aleks and his family, his trainer and the youngest of three Ivan Emelianenko from the beautiful country can be found here.

The best photos from the M-1 Challenge 4 "Battle on the Neva" held on June, 27-th.

Yesterday the first press-conference dedicated to the upcoming inaugural event of Affliction in association with M-1 was held in Los Angeles. Present were Fedor Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia, Renato Sobral, Josh Barnett, Pedro Rizzo and others. Afterwards an autograph session was arranged for the fans. The news from the conference after the jump...

Affliction in association with M-1 Global will make Honda Center in Anaheim tremble come July, 19-th. Russian brothers Emelianenko will defend Red Devil's honor. The final fightcard is as follows

M-1 Global held its press-conference dedicated to the upcoming fourth installment of team tournament M-1 Challenge. Russian media got the details announced by M-1 Global and Mix-Fight M-1 league president Vadim Finkelstein, league vice-president Sergey Matvienko, culture and sports committee of Saint Petersburg chairman deputy Konstantin Zheludkov. Of course Red Devil's Alexander Emelianenko, Roman Zentsov and Mikhail Malyutin were present, too.

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The best photos from the M-1 Challenge show held on April, 3 in Saint Petersburg.

In the second part you will witness: rating fight between Christian Bombay and Viktor Nemkov, superfight Roman Zentsov vs Daniel Tabera, team fights Russia (Legion team) vs Japan, auction where the boxing bag with the fighters' including Fedor Emelianenko autographs was sold and finally the third superfight: Alexander Emelianenko vs Silvao Santos.

Just an hour ago St Petersburg Ambassador witnessed the conference dedicated to tomorrow's M-1 Challenge show. To the right: bunch of photos and videoreport broadcast on national NTV channel.

M-1 Challenge is a series of events planned to be held in different places of the Earth where 10 best MMA clubs compete against each other.The Challenge introduced by Vadim Finkelstein presents an international team competition among young prospective fighters who aspire to gain more experience and prove themselves at the international level. The most talented ones will earn an opportunity to be chosen to partake in major M-1 events. The teams consist of 5 athletes (in every weight class), one trainer and one coach. Every participating country brings two complete teams which then compete against each other. Every team members fights at least 4 times totally. As of yet, 2008 Challenge has been started and the Grand Finale is scheduled for the end of the year.
The teams are split into the two groups:
Group A: 1.Russia (Red Devil), 2.France, 3.Korea, 4.Finland, 5.USA.
Group B: 1.the Netherlands, 2.Spain, 3.Russia (Legion), 4.Japan, 5.World Star Team.

M-1 Challenge schedule will set the teams to compete against every other team put in the same group. The winners of the brackets will collide in the finals and only one team crowned as the M-1 Challenge winner will be awarded with considerable money prizes and, of course, M-1 Global contracts.

Today Alexander held an autograph-session in TRK “Peak” where the fans could make photos with him and get the posters signed by their hero.

Alexander Emelianenko is a tough as nails fighter out of Russia. He has an extensive background in Sambo, and is a brother of the world class renowned Fedor Emelianenko. Alexander spent time competing in the now defunct Pride Fighting Championship. He is a hard hitter, and has the future ahead of him if he keeps his head in the game.

In his interview to a major Russian newspaper the next day after his latest bout on M-1 Challenge 2 in Saint Petersburg Alexander tells about the victory, reveals the date of his upcoming fight, talks about evolution of sport in Russia and so much more in this huge interview.

In this interview with the coach of Red Devil Team Yuri Sergeevich Razumov he will tell us about club trainings, about his impressions about “Battle on the Neva” and about Alexander Emelyanenko’s preparing to the fight with Paul Buentello.

Fedor Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia, Josh Barnett, Ben Rothwell, Matt Lidland, Pedro Rizzo, Renato Sobral about a forthcoming tournament.

Vladimir Voronov (the headcoach of Fedor and Alexander Emelianenko) shared his impressions on a trip to Canada and told us about future fights of Red Devil fighters.