From MMANews.com:

Tom Atencio, Vice President of Affliction, told MMANews.com this week that the company has just extended their current contract with Fedor and will look to have the WAMMA Heavyweight Championship fight in January or February when they intend on holding their 3rd show.

“We’ve just extended our deal with Fedor and we are very happy about that. We absolutely want to put that fight on our third show.” Atencio stated of the title fight “We are looking at the Arlovski/Barnett elimination fight right now with the winner fighting Fedor for sure in January or February.”

This is great news all around. Fedor gets to fight in front of the Japanese fans he loves and will get to make more of a name for himself here in the States. I really appreciate his loyalty to the Japanese crowd and I think the knowledgeable MMA fan will understand and respect that loyalty as well. I for one am really looking forward to him fighting either Barnett or Arlovski.