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M-1’s Vadim Finkelchtein has confirmed there are “contract issues” with Strikeforce in regards to Fedor, however it sounds like everything is going to get worked out. From an interview with MMANews.su translated by TMR from the UG.

There’s two sides to every story, and today, M-1 president Vadim Finkelchtein gave his regarding allegations that M-1 are “a bunch of crooks” made by Golden Glory’s Bas Boon.

Alistair Overeem’s manager and Golden Glory head, Bas Boon, dropped a bomb on us a couple weeks ago when he called M-1 ‘a bunch of crooks’ and insinuated Alistair wouldn’t fight on any Strikeforce/M-1 Global co-promoted cards.

The question of what’s next for Cung Le has been answered, and unfortunately it’s not the one any of us want to hear.

Ariel Helwani asks Vadim Finkelchtein the money question at the 3:00 mark. What’s more important? Building M-1 Global or Fedor Emelianenko’s career?

Behind the scenes look at the production of one of their events after the jump.

Strikeforce, M-1 Global, Fedor Emelianenko and Showtime held their joint conference call this afternoon. Here’s a rundown.

This is a lot of what we already heard, but Vadim does clarify one thing: Fedor never had any contract with Affliction. Fedor has a contract with M-1 Global, who in turn had the contract with Affliction.

A little over 24 hours ago, a headline on LATimes.com read “Fedor Emelianenko, UFC finalizing deal.”

Late Friday, M-1 Global released an official statement vowing they were working hard to “ensure Fedor returns to active competition as soon as possible.” Of course, the big question is where.