There have been a bunch of releases about the newly formed M-1 and how they have Fedor and nobody else does. The big question is who will be his first victim. Finkelchtein seems to be successful in MMA so far so I don’t think he would be dumb enough to throw his marquee fighter into a ring with a guy that could possibly beat him, IE Randy Couture. So what does Finkelchtein do, he grabs a big name out of the sky. A fighter that everyone knows and is synonous with MMA and no holds barred fighting, Rickson Gracie. I don’t think this would be an easy fight like Finkelchtein is assuming. Rickson is not known as an easy fight or a fight that you can even win for that matter.

I believe alot of this name dropping will go on until the actual fighter is announced so that M-1 can keep the lime light on them bright.

“It would be an honor for me to fight him,” said Emelianenko of the former UFC
heavyweight champion. But Finkelchtein was quick to add another interesting name
into the mix. “We would like to fight (Rickson) Gracie because he makes these
statements that he knows how to fight to defeat Fedor.

Source: http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=4943&zoneid=13