Russian mixed martial artist Alexander Emelianenko has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for raping his cleaner. However, the fighter’s manager claimed he would continue his carrier in the ring after doing his time.
Besides aggravated sexual assault, Aleksandr Emelianenko, the younger brother of MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko, was found guilty of stealing his victim’s passport.
In its verdict Tuesday, Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court also ordered the martial arts fighter to pay a fine of 50,000 rubles ($1,000).
The fighter, whose nickname in the ring is the Grim Reaper, refused to admit his guilt, saying that he didn’t remember any of the events that happened on the day in question due to being drunk.
Alexander Emelianenko said he was sure that no sexual intercourse between him and the victim could have happened without her consent.