John G… I’m looking for an Un-biased opinion, so you might be the wrong person. I had never seen Fedor fight before and while I was impressed with the way he launched himself into the KO of Rogers, he didn’t seem like a GOD to me. Can you give me an honest break-down of this fight from Fedor point of view, or can anyone.

Fedor was losing this fight on the score cards, for sure. He wasn’t able to keep a guy (with no Jitz sweeps or wrestling to speak of) on the ground. He waited for the big man to gas then threw a lucky punch and won when his opponent was still conscious and defending his face. Game over.

If you looking to see why Fedor is considered the greatest fighter just youtube his fights against CroCop, Nogueira, Randlemann, Sylvia, Arlovski, Kohsaka, Fujita, and Herring.

i love how people watch 1 fedor fight in there life and think their opinion about him matters..like seriously that was the only fight beerman watches and he thinks he knows what fedor is about..and i bet ufc’s second game blows this outta the water, and i would seriously comtemplate buying this game if i haft to listen to mauro renallo as the analyst

Wow Jay, I disagree. I think Fedor was winning for sure, no doubt, I mean seriously. He rocked Rogers in the first round and took him down a few times and the only time he ended up on his back was when he went for a kimorua so I mean Rogers landed 1 straight and landed some ground and pound while Fedor stayed busy and unphased by any of it. And to answer BeerMan’s question the thing that is so awe inspiring about Fedor (in my opinion) is his self control. You know getting his nose broke hurt but he didn’t flinch, you know those ground and pound hits hurt but he stayed busy and going for the submissions. But, that is Fedor being Fedor, I was actually more surprised by how well Roger’s did. By the way I watched the fight last night with a buddy who was born in the Ukraine and Fedor’s translator was not doing a very good job lol. Also, someone posted this a while back and it has changed since last night but…

There is only ONE fighter that has beaten:

5 different X UFC champions
Coleman
Randleman
Sylvia
Nog
Arlovski

4 kick boxing champions
Schilt
Hunt
Goodridge
HMC

6 different MMA champions
Coleman
Randleman
Sylvia
Nog
Goodridge
Arlovski

2 silver olympic medalist
Lindland
Ogawa

1 ADCC open weight champion
Arona

Honorable mention
Mirko Crocop
3 time K-1 finalist
2005 GP finalist
2006 GP winner Post Fedor fight

There is only 1 fighter that has gone 30+ fights that has

- Never lost a decision.
- Never been sub’d
- Never been knocked out

Only one fighter that has ever won 5 different mma championships.
- Wamma HW belt
- Pride HW belt
- Pride Grand Prix tournament
- Rings king of kings tournament
- Rings world class tournament

All while finishing 76% of his opponents.
A current 25 fight win streak
With 22 victories in the first round
4 victories in the first minute
12 victories in the first 2 minutes

No other fighter in all MMA has any where near the list of accomplishments.

Fedor Emelianenko

JG..read what I wrote. I never once acted like I knew what he was about. I actually asked if a fedor fan could break down his performance for me. (even went as far as to say his ko was impressive). What were you reading?

Oh and JG by the way…I didn’t give an opinion. I asked for one.

why fedor is a damn demi-god, he tends to take what ever his opponets are best at, and is always still standing. unlike lyoto he is not too elusive, and will take big shots from the hardest hitters in the game, gets slamed by the best wrestlers, grapples with the best sub artists, and never, NEVER goes out, and that is just his defense. For being one of the smallest HW’s you will be hard pressed to find a harder hitter, for being a puggy little guy, he is crazy fast, and can pull armbars as fast as any fighter in mma. There is too much to list about how great this guys is, but bottem line is he is damn amazing, and as humble as it gets, wich makes him about the most likablbe guy in mma, but for some reason people can’t hate on him enough.

EdgeCrusher, you would have given the first round to Rogers? Wow. You are officially worse than Cecil Peoples. WOW.

Not Rogers, Fedor. First sentence.

wow edge u need a girlfriend haha..

The first round was much closer than I thought it would be. I thought Fedor would TKO him in the 1st. Rogers put some hurtin on Fedor in the 1st but I think you still gotta give it to Fedor. I think its just the fact that it was Fedor who Rogers was able to hurt a bit so it makes it a bigger deal becuase he seems untouchable.

Re-watch the round Jay, seriously, I did. Fedor was never in danger, when Rogers was actually rocked once. Rogers landed 1 straight jab that yes opened Fedor’s nose. Fedor scored take downs and the only time he ended up on his back was when Fedor was threatening for a Kimora. So he was threatening again and in grappling if you are going for the sub sometimes it puts you on your back but you are the one threatening and in grappling Fedor ending up on his back because of going for the submission would not score points for Rogers because Fedor put himself there by threatening and then Rogers landed a couple punches while Fedor again grabbed an arm. In every sense the round was dictated by what Fedor wanted to do. I have firm backing for my opinions, and what are your reasons for giving it to Grim if I am so off base here? What point would you give Rogers? 1 jab and couple of ground and pound hits that he couldn’t even control… that doesn’t stack up to Fedor rocking Rogers, threatening submissions and scoring takedowns.

Guyverbob haha, I’m married man, and like I posted I did not come up with those numbers. Someone posted it on mania a while ago and I just copied and pasted it. Took about 25 seconds so not to much time out of my life.

Guyver, married for 12 years, thanks for the concern.
Edgecrusher71… I’m sure you know the three points for scoring an MMA bout, so I won’t go over them. Rogers was the aggressor while Fedor was always the last one to get the shot off. Cage control goes to Grim because he was in charge of who was where. When he wanted Fedor off him he threw him off. Take downs don’t mean anything if the guy on the bottom is able to throw you off with ease. It was a lot more than 1 jab that Grim landed, and none of Fedor’s sub attempts were close to damaging Grim or ending the fight. Fedor got out grappled by a guy with no background in Martial Arts. I thought for sure once this fight hit the ground Grim would look like Kimbo, but Fedor was the one flailing for position. I don’t really see how you could score it for Fedor, but it doesn’t matter this fight didn’t go to a decision and this debate is useless. Watch the fight as though you aren’t a fan of Fedor and just a guy walking by them fighting on a street corner. Grim was winning. Damage and reversing and nullifying take downs also score huge points.

Whoops sorry Guyverbob, I thought you were talking to me about the girlfriend thing, sorry bud.

If you think Grim only landed one jab, take a look at the pics from after the fight. Fedor is jacked up. Grim looks like he could fight today.

haha ok i stand corrected..

Read the comment again, he landed like 2 or 3 and yes Fedor’s nose was bleeding at the end of the round but if that is a case for winning a round BJ has never lost a round in his life.

As far as the aggressor PLEASE PLEASE watch the fight again. Fedor had the center of the cage for damn near the whole fight while it was on its feet except for some hugging by Rogers and that is a fact, watch it. It is apparent Rogers knows some grappling (defensive grappling but it still counts) and being so much bigger it helps. I do a form a Jujitsu that incorporates grappling and I am a former college football D-lineman so I am big and I grapple guys at the Dojo who have been doing this a lot longer than I have but with my basic understanding and strength I can nullify a lot of things. Do I still regularly lose yeah but its usually because I have gotten so gassed that my size is kind of null. I have also grappled guys much larger than me who have almost no experience (this is not a case for my accomplishments or accolades) but experience that it does make a difference as far as size goes if the bigger man has a basic grasp of grappling. BUT IN NO WAY IS THAT BEING OUT GRAPPLED. Fedor threatened multiple submissions while Grim threatened about 3 punches, how is that being out grappled? In a grappling tourney Fedor would have been winning on points. Grim wouldn’t even have got one for putting Fedor on his back in most cases (depends on your judge) but because it was Fedor going for the finish that put him on his back Grim wouldn’t get points until he advanced his position which he did not. Your right though this could go on all day haha.

I dont know how he think rogers had octagon control…..fedor was stalking him down the whole fight…and to say rogers out grappled him is just retarded

THHHHHANK YOU JG.

Completely agree with JG and Edge, though I thought it was close enough to where a dumb judge could have given it to Rogers. As far as the “damage” Fedor took, I think he looked worse after his fight with Hong Man Choi, he just reddens easily. Comes with his pastiness I guess. Cofield put pictures of both of them and asked who seems to have lost the fight, what a dumbass. I’ve seen guys look worse after a friendly game of tackle football.

Edge: thanks or taking the time to write an intelligent post supported by some good facts.

I personally thought Fedor won round 1. Only points Grim scored was a jab and 3 seconds of ground n pound. I was however impressed by the skills he displayed. I would be lying if I thought that Grim could defend fedor’s submission attempt or sweep fedor. I thought that once the fight went to the ground, it would be over in an instant. Props to Grim for actually having some sot of ground skills.

haha true that if he was a once in a lifetime athlete he probably wouldn’t have that pot belly and tits

it’s where his power lies

THE VOICE!! He needs to get into the UFC NOW.

i like him in dream, always has beautiful lines for everything, by far the best commentator in the business

The Voice is the man, EA should have made him the main commentator. Him and Mezger are a great pairing, though I’d love to have Schiavello-Rutten or Schiavello-Rogan on commentary, they’d make any fight entertaining because of their one-liners and witty banter plus all 3 are very knoweldgeable. Mauro is alright, Frank is far too indecisive for a colour commentator (he doesn’t even decide who won a round, anything can happen in MMA my arse) and Gus Johnson is just an idiot who is dragged out by CBS for all fight cards, even dozier than Goldberg. He shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a mic for a boxing or MMA show. Jimmy and Lenne are both great in their own way, got to love the Buffer Bros as well even if Michael doesn’t know anything about MMA.

I’ll rent this befor buying it EA usually makes good games but if it’s a knock off of Undisputed I’ll have no part in purchasing it as a MMA fan I’m a little pist at EA for not calling MMA a sport now that Undisputed sold how many games they want into MMA now? I still buy Madden and NHL every year I think it’s good for EA to taste their own medicine. If the game plays well I might purchase it depending how it compares to the new undisputed.

gaara knows that. It’s a figure of speech. You’re north american right?

welcome to mma? rofl jay…where u guys consider brock as the HW champ? hahaha

welcome to wwe! :)

I found your rant here to be informative as well as fairly accurate. I was impressed with the knockout. But felt like he made Rodgers look good. Rodgers clearly has some power in those hands, but he is big and lumbering. I would like to see Fedor drop down a weight class and fight some of the elite light heavyweights, guys like you mentioned Shogun, Machida, Anderson Silva, maybe Belfort.

Thanks, worst thing is im a big MMA fan and I would like to be a big Fedor fan, but he just wont let it happen… its like a really hot chick who is good in bed but everything she says and everything she does just pisses you off. You might enjoy boning her but you still hate her afterwards, just like I enjoy watching Fedors fights but just cant bringmyself to like the guy. Maybe if he drops M1 and Garry Jerry Millen, but that would be like getting a hot chick to disown her annoying best friend…

Fedor – people want to like you, stop being such a cock about money, get some passion for fighting and drop the losers that cling on to you, fight better competition! ALLOW US TO LOVE YOU.

he doesnt have to hunt them down but it would help if he didnt turn them down when he is offered millions and publicy encouraged by fans to take the fights. he turned down the ufc when they offered him a fight with Randy after Pride folded and he just did the same thing a couple of months ago by turning down a title shot against Brock Lesnar – he was having money thrown at him and fans were begging him to take both fights – he didnt – so people hate him for it.

Thats exactly the point – “its how he makes his money” – he doesnt care about the sport, he doesnt care about the organisations, he doesnt care about the fans, he doesnt care about the quality of fights, he just cares about himself and taking our money – selfish, shallow greedy people tend to be hated – so we hate fedor.

annoying fans – It is Fedors fault – he constantly sells himself and surrounds himself with others who sell him as a god – people who try to trick the masses into believing they are god like -so we hate fedor.

It shappened too many times to give Fedor the benefit of the coubt, Fedor is the red death of MMA Promotions. If fedor and his opponents had been paid the same as the ufc main eventers affliction et al. would have broken even and still been around, he positions himself financially as a huge draw but then neglects to even attempt to promote himself or his fights or the org he fights for, he is a paracite sucking up gulable fans money and sucking the life out of the MMA industry – again it comes down to him not caring about anything else but himself and his $ like you said – so people hate him.

The original question was “why all the fedor hate” im answering that question – not saying its good or bad / right or wrong that people hate him, just explaining some of the many, many reasons why.

Paniczoo, Fedor has never once called himself a god or said that he is the best ever. Thats a label that others have stuck on him.
Fedor didn’t sink affliction, Josh Barnett did when he was taking roids and was banned from fighting in the main event of their biggest show ever, nothing to do with fedor being demanding.
As for Fedor only caring about money, surely you disproved that when you said that he didn’t jump at the millions of dollars that Dana supposedly offered him.
As for calling him a paracite “sucking the life” out of mma, I just think that’s quite a bizzare thing to say about the most successfull mma fighter of all time.

What I don’t get, is what you want him to do?
Join the UFC? Yer… there is an org that really gives a sh*t about MMA. Cut Thales Leites 14-3 and re-sign Phil Baroni 6-5. Sporting Integrity?.. no

Fedor haters hate Fedor because they actually belive the sh*t that Dana white spouts and because they are unfamiliar with him.

beating brett won’t make u number one, its keeps u in the top ten but how does this really prove hes the ebst..