Fedor Emelianenko hasn’t grown up, he has evolved. Fedor has spent his training life focusing on every single weakness that he knows of to became the winner he wants to be. To know what it is to succeed is something Fedor has become familiar with. Fedor Emelianenko is the W.A.M.M.A. world champion because he wanted it, he trained hard and he earned it. Fedor is a shining example of setting goals and training to obtain them. He has successfully improved where he wants and overcome every area that needed improvement, finishing with his Muay Thai training that he began in 2005 after realizing he desperately needed to improve his kicking techniques.

Throughout his training he has endured countless comments and criticism about where he needs to be, what he needs to improve. Fedor has taken these opinions and turned them around, formed them into his source of inspiration; allowing him to become more than what people think of him. Even his own trainer, Vasilev, was aware of Emelianenko downfalls, and made him aware of them. The only thing these facts did was to make him a modest person, aware of strength, but also aware of his humanity. He isn’t the fighter type to walk around and mind submit people, staring at them to intimidate, prove their strength without violence, Fedor is just a person, a fighter, but a person.

Throughout his fighting career, he has juggled a multitude of things, school, military, a family. He has managed to maintain all of this, and although he is not always successful, he tries. In 1999, at the age of 22, he married Oksana, his girlfriend of many years. In the same year Oksana gave birth to their first child, Masha. Fedor had everything, a good job he enjoyed very much, a loving wife and beautiful baby girl. He did his best to maintain everything at once. They were a happy family, but with time and Fedor dedication to his fighting, his relationship with Oksana eroded and in 2006, he ended his relationship with her. Fedor did not wait long; he almost immediately began his new family with his current girlfriend Marina, who gave birth to his second child, Vasilisa, in 2007. A special name for a special reason, his second daughter is his pride and joy and he was more than happy to honor first his trainer with naming his daughter after him.

Fedor is a man of common sense, he knows what he needs and he gets it, for him it is obvious were his improvements lay. His team of is a reflection of his ideal training environment. Consisting of 6 professionals; His Grappling coach Voronov, Muay Thai coach Ruslan Nagnibeda, His personal doctor, a maseusse, even a psychologist when needed. His team also consists of his two training partners Roman Zenstov and, until mid-2006, his brother Aleksander.

Fedor makes mistake, he is aware of it, he knows he is not perfect, but maybe that subtle sense of self is what makes him so popular in the fighting circuits.