cant watch the video. what did he say?

he said he went to the sauna too much. He likes to experiment with his training techniques and apparently this was not effective.

i thought he said “Sambo” not sauna

Since Gegard has Fedor as a mentor he tried the russian sauna experiment. I guess it only works for russians.

Isn’t “The Russian Sauna” where you fart in bed and pull the covers over your girl’s head?

Thats a ‘dutch oven’ PW.

of course you would.

yea, because tito is big and talented and yet he can’t do very well either so im sure u wud’nt jack to the best lhw fighters..

But Tito doesn’t have striking, that’s the big difference. As for Soko, good TDD would do the trick….His grappling could use some work though…

like a judo black belt?

Really it is just the ground part of his grappling that isn’t very good. Like Randy said, he is a great Judo practitioner, but he doesn’t have the submission skills to finsih someone he gets to the ground. He got off a few nice takedowns on Gegard, but when he had the dominant position, he didn’t seem to know what to do with it.

I know Syd personally, and I’m telling you: he would walk through the whole UFC light-heavyweight division.

Syd and MMA crossfire are the same person. Get out of here with this complete bull your feeding us. Your the definition of a keyboard warrior. If your so damn good go out and get a few fights locally and get your name out there. If you’ve already dominated on the local scene give us your name and let us look up your record. Otherwise please shut it on the subject and remember your place is at home on a computer.

lol.Thanks Cogito i needed that laugh.

Cogito Ergo Sum, I was just sayin’ “what if”. Why so jealous man? And I ain’t MMACrossfire, so that is another one of your stup!d comments.

Listen, anyone who isnt impressed with what mousasi and Fedor did last night are just ultra-critical haters. Being top fighters doesnt mean you destroy everyone they put in front of you in 1 minute and a half. and if Haters want to bash guys like Soko and Grim its just pathetic. Both are worthy opponents and very tough guys in certain aspects of mma. They just arent WELL ROUNDED like the Fedor’s and Gegards’s of the world. Sokoudjou is a very tough opponent, especially in the 1st round! Its just that we are too critical of him because he was hyped up way too fast after shocking the world ko’ing rogerio and arona. The guy is really young with not a lot of experience. THose fights with Nog and arona werent wars..they were quick ko’s. He has good and powerful hands, and some of the Nastiest kicks in the division. His egs are so strong that it gives him a great base and he knows how to use it because of his Judo, so when Gegard would take him down he was able to land on top. Its not like he was taking gegard down. There wont be too many people that can land on top of MOusasi the way soko did last night. Dont think Hendo can at all! Wrestling had nothing to do wiwth last nights fights. They were both attempting Sambo and Judo throws…thats snot Hendo’s world…so you cant automatically assume that Hendo wil be on top Gegard when they hit the ground the way Soko was.

Gegeard was awesome. He got some ring time and like Fedor he fought the perfect strategy. You have to be patient with guys like Grim and Soko and weather the early storm. its not that Gegard wasnt dominant because he was for the most part. He was following the game plan and being patient. Mousasi is turning into an Elite fighter and he will only improve. He now has Fedor’s demeanor, mental fortitude, gameplan execution,patience, calm, he is even holding his hands like Fedor and implementing Sambo throws. Same, ruthless Ground n pound. Watching Mousasi is a amazing. Its like a MOnster growing before your eyes!

just cause he didnt beat Soko in under a minute, iit doesnt change the fact that it was a masterful performance.

We actually have a lot to be thankful for when it comes to this event. We got a great ground clinic from Werdum while also getting a great fight from Soku and Gegard and another from Fedor and Brett. I didn’t particularly enjoy the Shields fight but he showed us how dominant a wrestler really can be… I personally will try never to watch a Shields fight again until he gets into the UFC, where he’ll have competition that he can’t hold down. I felt like Gegard controlled the whole fight and was playing smart waiting for Soku to wear down. Soku on the other hand was playing smart and not going all out like he normally does, he was trying to counter most of Gegards moves. And Brett stood his ground but at no point in that fight was I worried for Fedor. You could tell early that Brett had bought into the Fedor Aura. All in all a very great card imo, could have done without Shields and the constant booing. but imo that was because his opponent was to busy trying to play it to the camera and the fans rather than trying to play it safe and keep his distance standing.

Cogito: you dont have to wait for Jake to get to the UFC to see him lose and not be able to hold someone down…HE CANT BEAT JACRE!!!! BET MY CAR that he cant beat Jacre!!

Sheilds will lose to Jacre by Febuary/March!

i’m sure he’s torn up about it. you said it yourself. Professional. These are not little kids. Fans shouldn’t get so caught up in handshakes and the like. Who cares, it’s about results, not what happens before or after the fight/game. Anaconda, you don’t want to root for him because of his attitude, it doesn’t matter. If he gets you to hate him and root against him, he’s still doing the job. It’s the Tito effect. The only way it hurts the business(and these are professionals right?) and his pocket is if you don’t care. Part of the biz is to garner interest in the fights.

All that is beside my point. I was just trying to point out that it’s the guy’s first loss and ppl shouldn’t jump all over him just yet. It’s not like he ran out of the ring before he could get interviewed or anything like forrest(twice) and to this point he has not had a nervous breakdown, stayed up all night drinking red bulls and then driven recklessly. So save all the outrage over his comments. There are much worse ways to handle a loss then saying “best believe next time I’m gonna throw my hands more”….come on guys, it’s not like he said fedor is a bitch and got lucky. Grow up. These are the type of “participation award” attitudes that are gonna ruin this country.

To me, for a guy that just got laid out cold, he sure was pretty cocky and full of himself. Just shut your mouth, say I could have done better and take the loss like a man, period.

“UFC Champ”

Exactly!

I said this before and wondering I think Rogers may have lost something between the Fedor interview and his interview. It almost sounded to me like he felt Fedor called him out for the Rematch. Go back and watch his reaction and what he says. I think it is being overblown as well. He just ran the media circuit with Fedor for the last 2 months and now he just lost after doing more then anyone thought he was going to do. Most people didn’t give him more then 30 seconds, yet he took FEdor into the second round for the first time since 2006. Doesnt make sense…

In fairness to Grim, it was the 1st time that he suffered a lost, and I am sure that he has never been Ko’ed like that. Its an emotional sport and I try not to hold post fight comments against fighters!

i thought it was real cool how THE GRIM made his enterance to the Undertaker song!

Let the grim be cocky. In a rematch he still gets his head knocked off. The aura of Fedor got to him and he felt Fedors power. Do you think he’ll be any different in a rematch? I would actually like to see him rematch Arlovski first.

two years in a row! that would be amazing

But if Pacman wins yet again in the Cotto bout, then PAcman again is fighter of the year!
Suck it up, MMA fans! LOL!

he was’nt in 2008, rashad was..

uhhh no, mousasi was fighter of the year for 2008, he fought six times in mma, finishing all but one opponent, and once in K1, also finishing his opponent… rashad evans knocked out chuck lidell and forrest griffin, while that is impressive, its nowhere near what mousasi did

Rashad was the UFC’s Fighter of the Year. The whole of MMA’s Fighter of the Year was Gegard Mousasi. I dunno if Sherdog did it or what, but it was Mousasi.

oh i see, but sherdog is lame, who cares about that site, this one is cooler even though the writers are alittle funky and the commenters r d1cks..

I think HDnet gave it to Gegard as well. Either that, or Break out Fighter of the year

I don`t know randy I hope your right because there is only one good fight in Strikeforce for Dan but Strikeforce needs a LHW fighter bad to compete against Gegard and might be willing to pay Dan a nice wad just look at what they give shamrock at least Dan is a top five LHW.

I agree. Machida and Rua, as well as a few other lhw fighters in the uFC could take him. Anderson throttles him.

Has everybody just forgot that this dude is
1) Very young and improving… FAST!
2) Really a MW, who jumped UP to LHW! Because his THAT good!

So if you wanna do a world ranking or PP-ranking, you better count him in as MW! My opinion: He would land as high as 2-3 and climbing.

He’s not flashy, he’s not cocky, he’s just very cool and confident and finds a way to win. Very Fedorish…

I believe he’s top 5 based on his record which is very impressive.But labeling him top 5 based on his opponents i dont agree with,he needs better quality opponents to legit his top 5 position.Chuck destroyed babalu 2wice,Lambert knocked him sensless 2,Babalu submitted Soko for goodness sake,who Machida made look like a beginner,Jacares a legendary grappler not mma fighter yet and he even gave Gaga a scare until the 4th grade bike pedal,my point is he needs quality wins over guys like Hendo,Machida,Page,Nate,Jardine,Evans, and so on to legitimately start considering him on the pound for pound list.