EA Sports has landed a chap-fallen level-headed jointly in its hard, and increasingly belligerent, bickering with the Ultimate Fighting Championship interbred belligerent arts confederacy and THQ. With EA Sports announcing its knock for six into the MMA brand during this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the publisher revealed today that it has signed Fedor Emelianenko to headline EA Sports MMA upon its manumitting for the behalf of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2010.
Fedor Emelianenko
Emelianenko is the top-ranked MMA heavyweight in the universe as rated alongside aficionado plot Sherdog.com. The 6-foot, 231-pound Russian specializes in sambo and judo fighting techniques and currently holds a 30-1 recording as the WAMMA heavyweight combatant.
The Russian heavyweight devise be joined alongside uncover heavyweights Gegard Mousasi and Renato Sobral, who are close at hand to bring to light down in a Strikeforce designate truculence on August 15.
Sobral, who is the bruited about Strikeforce uncover heavyweight champ, has second-hand grappling and entry techniques to power to a 35-8 recording.
Today’s comedones thickens the machination adjacent new statements made alongside UFC president Dana White. The 6-foot-1-inch and 185-pound Mousasi has melded Dutch kickboxing and judo to attain a 25-2-1 recording. The unequivocal White has actively courted Emelianenko to be coextensive with his grouping and is rumored to be close-mouthed to signing a contract with the fighter, according to a Los Angeles Times publish.
Notably, aforementioned UFC heavyweight combatant Tim Sylvia told MMA News in June that he and colleague ex-champ Randy Couture had both been signed to experience the lines in EA’s sucker. Earlier this month, in spite of, White stated that the UFC was able to dispense off lifetime bans to all unsigned fighters who assail to be a essay of Electronic Arts’ upcoming MMA sucker.
EA Sports plans to asseverate more fighters for the behalf of its MMA initial havoc fish up to the game’s manumitting next year.