Fedor Taking The Manny Pacquiao Route?

(Fedor's primary political rival)

Fedor Emelianenko is allegedly going to run for a congressional seat in Russia as a "United Russia" party candidate. The press release comes via MiddleEasy who got the lowdown on the former Pride FC kingpin's possible run for office, and the even bigger news that he may retire after his Strikeforce bid is up.

The regional political council of the party "United Russia" approved the list of candidates for internal party elections - the primaries. In the list of 58 candidates. No less than 10 000 United Russia vote will determine the best, and who will receive the first place in the party list in the upcoming October elections in the Belgorod Regional Duma.

The list of early voting have 24 newcomers who have never participated in elections to the legislature. One of the achievements was the inclusion in the list not only members of United Russia, but also simply to party supporters and even non-party candidates. This is for example the managing director Combine KMA Ruda Vladimir Tom and CEO JBK-1 Yuri Selivanov. They are not only members of the party, but also by working in obldume fourth convocation, not included in the United Russia Duma faction.

Among the most notable candidates, in addition to the deputies (Anatolia Zelikow, Victor Filatov, Vadim Cage, Valeria Skruga, Ivan Kulabuhova, Vladimir Kulikovsky) - a famous athlete Fedor Emelianenko, the new director of Belarusian State Technological University Sergey Glagolev (by the way, non-partisan), director of the Institute of Public and municipal government BSU Alexander Mamatov.

Fedor vs. Brock looks even more unlikely given the Russian's penchant for things other than fighting, which he says he has never really loved. He is a fighter by trade, but a religious dude who apparently has more interest in politics and russian bath-houses than state-side MMA. Say it aint so Fedor!