M-1 pitches Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brock Lesnar

M-1 vice president Jerry Millen is welcoming the UFC to co-promote a battle of champions between WAMMA heavyweight titleholder Fedor Emelianenko and newly-crowned UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar.

"Couture and WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko had publicly acknowledged a desire to fight each other multiple times over the course of the past year," Millen said in a statement released Tuesday. "While M-1 and Fedor remain interested in a match against Couture, we would also like to publicly state for the record that we would welcome a superfight between Fedor and Lesnar that would be held as a co-promoted event between the UFC, M-1, and Affliction Entertainment."

Millen believes that Fedor should remain the undisputed champ, and that the UFC is only calling Fedor "overrated" simply because the UFC has not acquired the final PRIDE champion to its roster.

The UFC currently has two heavyweight champions, Lesnar and interim champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, whom Fedor has already defeated twice. With the Couture fight devalued, Millen wants especially the remaining superfight with Lesnar.

"While Brock Lesnar is an accomplished athlete and a talented fighter, we do not consider him to be the number one heavyweight in the world," Millen continued. "Until someone beats him, we strongly believe that Fedor should continue to be recognized as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. In a match between Fedor and Lesnar, we do not feel that at this stage Lesnar would be able to make it out of the first round."