Ha ha me too. I don’t see Fedor having many problems with Barnett tho. Barnett is a solid fighter, say for arguments sake straight 8’s (out of 10) in each skill set.

Thing is Fedor is straight 9’s, he will handle him in every area.

What makes the Brock fight appealing is he has a 10 up his sleave with his wrestling and it would be great to see what Fedor can do to fight off his takedowns/controlled g&p.

I dont think Fedor could handle Brocks TD’s at all, hell Kevin “the midget” Randleman flung him round like a rag doll and Brock’s ten times stronger than him. I believe he’d sub him off his back though.

Cant wait to see Barnett vs. Fedor! That is the main event of my summer!

yOu guys can enjoy your Brock vs. Mir, and gSP vs. Alves, but Fedor against the #2 HW on earth is my personal superbowl

nervous John?

Fedor is facing Barnett, not the #2 HW on earth.

Like it or not Barnett is number two.

I dont know about what you guys think, but Barnett, in his last few fights, has been turning them into a grappling match. His rematch with Noguiera was a boxing match and he lost. I think fedor takes this in decision or 2nd round submission. anddddd, i see UFC making Fedor the first base salary million dollar fighter in the UFC to take on Brock.

as for Jay.. you’re joking right?? barnett over Brock any day.

Brock vs. Fedor sounds great and eveything but how about:

FEDOR VS. OVEREEM
or
OVEREEM VS. BROCK.

Overeem has to get through Werdum first, which is by no means guaranteed if Fabricio can take him down. But yeah, I’ve been calling for a cross-promoted Affliction/Strikeforce Fedor/Overeem fight for a while.

Why exactly is Overeem’s name getting mentioned in the same breath as Fedor and Brock???

The guy has no gas tank, was an average LHW, has lost everytime he’s fought top opponents and wouldn’t pass a drug test so would be unable to fight in the states for a legitimate promotion.

And Coker has not contacted you??? Thank god you have been calling for this fight. Now I am sure it will happen

Yeah I don’t get how Barnett is #2 and I love Barnett but his last few fights were not that impressive imo.

I don’t know kazanski, I’ve been trying to establish a dialogue with Coker about this fight for some time now. I think he may have lost my cell number. Plus he’s really busy. But yeah, I’m confident we’ll sit down together and iron it out sooner or later.

Who’s better than him then???? Please tell us!

AA – Good breeze fells him nowadays.
Big Nog – Past it.
Couture – Past it.
Carwin – Unproven
Velazquez – Unproven

Only legitimate challenger is Brock, but he still needs at least one more quality win to be considered higher than Barnett.

K-Dog-

Agreed.

I think that Brock needs SEVERAL more quality wins before he even deserves to be spoken in the same breath as Fedor. Honestly, Mir is his only quality win, and he has a loss to him as well. Beathing a run-down, hasn’t-fought-in-over-a-year Couture really doesn’t count as a quality win in my book. Plus with his jerk antics at the last show, I don’t think he has even the tiniest shred of class to be mentioned with Fedor.

I know what you mean JJ, but Overeem has looked like a monster lately and Werdum has just looked all right. WAR Overeem, hope he makes this fight look easy. I’d personally love to see Fedor Overeem before Fedor Brock and with the relationship between Strikeforce/Affliction, it seems like it could happen.

Overeem is GOING TO LOSE THE WERDUM FIGHT!

Believe me on that!

like bisping is going to beat hendo. werdum will win if it gets to the ground.

K-Dog -

Overeem gets brought up because he’s a great striker and would be a fun match-up for Fedor if Fedor doesn’t immediately join the UFC. Yeah, he was a LHW but the dude is definitely a HW now. Fedor is a pudgy LHW himself.

attakdog: Right on! Why do these guys even mentin Overeem’s name? What a joke!

Hey John, in reply to your post about Attencio signing Fedor for affliction to 2012 – No I don’t think you’re lying, I think Attencio is lying to himself if he thinks its worth running affliction for another 3 years, or that Fedor is lying to himself if he thinks he will be able to face the best competition by fighting outside the UFC much longer.

Fedor is scared of getting beaten and is currently abusing his position to extort fans of MMA into paying for another PPV just to see the self proclaimed best fighter in the world fight, we don’t actually have a clue who the best is as Fedor has refused to fight in the UFC against the best, he should have faced Coture but the time has passed for that to be relevant, cheers Fedor. I hate him for keeping so many great fights from fans and keeping the HW division in muddy waters without a clear number 1.
 
I am sick and tired of it, man up Fedor! Eventually promoters will get tired of losing money by overpaying Fedor and the big paydays for UFC rejects like Arlovski, Werdum, Barnett and Sylvia will dry up because the promoters simply cant make a return on these fights. I would bet that the third affliction event just costs the promoters even more money with an even lower PPV rating. With all the great ufc ppv cards and free strikeforce and wec cards, affliction is pretty much just a sidenote.

As far as who he will fight, would anyone be surprised to see Grim or Overeem sign with the UFC? That leaves Werdum – you thinks that’s a credible fight for Fedor? Grim sure as hell wouldn’t be a credible fight yet, Overeem is only just credible but he’s ranked 10th in the HW division, beating him proves nothing, the 4-5 UFC HW fighters ranked above Overeem should be Fedors focus but he seems happy to get payed more than he’s worth without challenging himself.

Grim would join UFC in a heartbeat, let him smash kimbo in the TUF finale or on an UFN card as an opener, JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES, then give him Kongo, CroCop, Cain, Dos Santos, man i want to see those fights bad! that would keep him busy and see if he was title material.

Overeem on the UFC “I could end up in the UFC” “I would like to fight Lesnar” “my management team has been in talks with the UFC” the guy was seen on TV chilling with Dana White. Personaly i dont think Overeem would get the belt in the UFC, but i want to see him try.

Here’s what Lorenzo Fertita had to say on Fedor, Brock and teammates not wanting to fight. Thanks to someone for posting the link to this.

 —- There’s an online petition called FedorChant.com, where a thousand people are going to cheer "Fedor" (Emelianenko) during the main event (at UFC 100). Is that going to put more pressure on you, and just the fact that Fedor doesn’t want to sign because of sambo, was that something that you’d ever overlook?

Fertitta: I hope all 12,000 people yell Fedor’s name at the same time. The pressure’s not on me. The pressure’s on him. They already know. The facts are the facts. We made him the best offer out there, more money than anybody offered him –- so you can’t say it’s about the money. Then they come back and they say, "Well, it’s a one-sided contract." Let’s break this down from a logical standpoint. We offered the exact same contract that three hundred other guys have signed, including Brock Lesnar, Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, GSP, all the top stars. Why is that contract not good enough for Fedor? What Fedor wants is this. He doesn’t want to be exclusive. So, it’s like saying, okay, Tom Brady: "I’m going to play for New England Patriots one Sunday, but you know what? After that game’s over, I want to be a free agent and go see where I can play for the rest of the season." Every weekend he’s going to skip around and play for whoever he wants. How does that make sense for us as a business or for the fans? He needs to come into our fold if he wants to cement his legacy as the best fighter in the world. We can figure something out with the sambo thing… (but) at the end of the day, I think we need to have a situation where at least 90 or 120 days before he’s signed a contract to fight, he shouldn’t be out there competing in events like that because I don’t want to take the chance of him getting hurt. But all of this stuff with Fedor: we want Fedor. As soon as he gets done with this show that he’s doing, he can come –- we’ve never met Fedor. I want to sit down. I want to talk to him and that’s part of the problem. We’ve never even met the guy. But it is a shame that he has not come forward to challenge the best guys in the world and I hope he comes. We want him.

Is the sambo really a sticking point?

Fertitta: That’s a big excuse for Fedor to say he’s not coming to the UFC, and quite honestly, I don’t think it’s Fedor. I think Fedor wants to compete. The issue has been his management. They’ve completely kept him aside. I’m not sure he even knows what we offered him, to be honest with you. I think if he knew what we offered, he would have been here a long time ago. There’s been a little bit of disconnect there… we want to meet him in person. We will not sit down and negotiate until me and Dana meet him in person. And if at that time he decides to not be a part of what we’re doing, then we know.

Why did you do a one-fight deal with (Mirko) “Cro Cop” (Filipovic) and not Fedor?

Fertitta: We have a direct relationship with Cro Cop and we talk to him on the phone and the deal went down so quickly. It wasn’t a one-fight deal. The contract was a quick one-fight contract, but he gave us his word that it was going to be a four-fight deal. I just got back from Croatia last week, spent some time with Mirko, went to his house. (He’s a) super nice guy, we went to lunch, and the fact of the matter is yesterday I got a contract signed for three fights.

What was your initial reaction when you were approached by Brock Lesnar? Were you a little hesitant that it was for real or not?

Fertitta: I’ve got to give props to Dana White on that one, man. He called me up one day and said, "You know what? I want to get Brock Lesnar." I had watched Brock when he fought in the (Los Angeles) Coliseum (for K-1) and I was really impressed with his athleticism. I could tell it was no joke. And the other thing we looked at, is we said, "This guy is a world-class athlete." It’s not like that’s some made-up thing… we said we might take some hits here or there because he’s a pro wrestler, but we believed in his abilities and just the sheer size, power, and strength. We sat down and talked to him and this guy’s the real deal. The other thing is, I had heard through a few guys at the Miletich camp, where he’d gone down and trained, and they said, "Let me tell you what. This guy is no joke. If he focuses, he could be the heavyweight champion."

There’s a lot of great superfights out there, but teammates refuse to fight teammates, such as Anderson Silva vs. Lyoto Machida. What’s the UFC’s opinion about teammate vs. teammate fights?

Fertitta: Look, at the end of the day, we’re here to see fighters, we’re here to see fights. If teammates don’t want to fight, then they’re gonna have to go somewhere else. We don’t put up with that stuff.

Barnett got smashed by Yvel, no one can convince me otherwise. I think his ranking should have gone down after that fight or the hurricane’s should have gone up.

Great post paniczoo. I’ve been saying the same thing as Fertitta, if 300 other fighters can sign with the UFC no problem, then the problem is Fedor plain and simple. I’m sure Fedor’s contract was much sweeter than all the others also.

rofl @ paniczoo

please provide sources for fedor proclaiming himself the best fighter in the world.

i’ve seen a couple articles where he said the complete opposite, douchebag.

Axhead, don’t be so naive, Fedor hardly sais anything, ever… but in a lot of his marketing material promoting Fedors fights he is billed as the number one heavyweight, p4p best mma fighter, worlds best, undisputed hw champion, the affliction banned poster even had him billed as the undisputed Pride heavyweight champion! That belt went to Zuffa when they bought Pride and he had the chance to fight Cotoure to unify the heavyweight titles – why the hell didn’t he?

As the biggest commodity/draw in the promotion and highest paid fighter do you think he isn’t consulted to approve how his image is portrayed?

The guy surrounds himself with giggling sycophants and lets them perpetuate this image of invincibility. Or are you going to say Fedor is too weak to control how his image is used or who he associates with and how they portray him?

Gord I agree and alluded to the same thing myself a few weeks ago, Fedor is so arrogant and self centred that he thinks it’s the rest of the mma world that’s wrong and not him. My tagline on this matter is “The Last Emperor Has No Clothes”

Panic-

Your last two posts, much more reasonable length.

Sorry about the first one but most of it was a cut npaste of the fertita interview.

Mac….BROCK! You don’t think that Barnett would beat him do you?

Who has josh fought to prove it

Depends; if Barnett could get out from under him then yes, I think he could win. Couture got up from under him twice, whatever he was doing, someone needs to copy that sh!t and duplicate the feat.

I do man…sorry but as much as respect Brock’s wrestling I just think that he’s too weak on his feet…Mir is a bad bar to judge him on…I might be wrong but there is no harm in hoping right? ;)

Brock beating Barnett is no gimmee Jay, Barnett is hell of a fighter who never seems to get the credit he deserves on here.

With Barnett’s speed, Brock would punch him 10 times before Barnett’s hand left his cheek. Brock would be way too fast for slow-mo joe.

EVERYONE is sleeping on Barnett…he has what it takes to beat the whos-whos of the HWY division in any org…therefore I’m going with Barnett “grinding” out a SD against Fedor…if anyone is going to beat the Big Russian bear right now, it’s him. Brock/UFC or not, I just think Barnett is no walk through, but he’s not going to submit/KO fedor (highly shocked as all hell IF he does). Thats my two cents….

Barnetts problem is history. His roid use won him no fans and tainted his victory over Cotoure. His victory over Yvel was somewhat lack luster. He could not put away a guy with no ground game. Now Barnett is in the unhappy position of yelling “What about me?” Unfortunately everyone is yelling back; well what about you???

Well you can keep your two cents there no good here.

Yvel had only been stopped four times in 50 fights before Barnett finished him.. Barnett is the real deal..

Go watch Barnett fights against crocop – if you still think that brock cant take him down, control him and smash his face in I will be surprised. Barnett is ranked #2 by default, just the same way as Fedor is default #1 its just living off the past.

Yeah that’s the way it works he’s the best until someone proves otherwise.

Yeah, im actually the best fighter in the world, I will only fight farmgirls in mongolia because the UFC wont let me fight naked, its such a restrictive contract. I have a record of 30-1 but the 1 doesnt count cuz it wasnt fair. Until someone proves otherwise im #1. All the other fighters have to come to paniczoo.

haha

i was thinking at least 3 rounds, if you think it will go under that i will take that bet past that i don’t know i really think it will be a decsion victory for fedor and go all 5 but i don’t know if i would bet on that.and just for fun no money maybe a name change or something for fun.

Your funny Kev and you have a gamb prob, lol. “It’s a suckers bet, but I’ll bet you.”

lol, thanks bow. ok roy, ill take the under for a 1 month name change!

well rd 1 is a suckers bet, but under 3 Ill take bow. and you should talk! who you got tonight? american league and over 8 runs?

LOL yea I know. That sounds like the bet to make. I think it’s going to be 13 years straight for the American league if they win. And this will be my last baseball bet of the season……maybe

Can we take a vote on what you guys have to change your names to if you lose the bet? I think some people on here would love the chance to give kevin a new name for a month ;)

its a bet kevin, if you have any ideas for names let me know.

i am up for that, but kevin would have to agree.

i like "kevin"s #1 fan" or
I always agree with kevin"
But we can take a fan vote!

I pick “Kevin stole my man-hood.”
       “Not as smart as Kevin”

Kevin should have to change his name to Peter Griffin. Unfortunatley Barnett will tap due to strikes in the second.

Maybe “I need an additional hobby” for kevin with his 68 posts-a-day average.

name change? wow you guys are losers

Trump might care

Why would Brock leave the UFC? Ive never heard that he gives a rats ass about fighting Fedor or not, and hes getting paid big bucks in the highest profile mma company in the world.

Its the fans that want to see Fedor in the UFC, not Brock.

lol tell it like it is dude!

Fedors Management won’t allow Fedor to fight any to ranked fighter. Why when they can collect on former top ranked fighters…..I see a Couture fight coming next for Fedor LOL.