Comments Thread For: Lessons In a Losing Streak: Fedor-Brock Teaches Us

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By Cliff Rold - Last Saturday night, as he went down to defeat for the third consecutive time, the once great Mixed Martial Arts battler Fedor Emelianenko was left right where so many of his fans, and MMA fans in general, were.

He was left to wonder what might have been.

Earlier this year, this scribe penned a column after the last Fedor loss reminding that big fightsa are best served when hot. The gist was simple: the inability of Team Fedor and the UFC to do business, when Emelianenko-Brock Lesnar looked like it could clear Fort Knox, was a warning for boxing.

The warning was most applicable, at the time, to the failure to have made Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye and Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao. The assumption beneath such thinking is that the failure to make the massive fights the fans truly want can do grave harm to the sport.

Watching Fedor felled for the third time in a row, another thought came to mind.

What if it’s all b.s.?

What if no real harm is done at all?

Emelianenko-Henderson happened in front of a rabid, paying crowd and certainly many more were watching at home on Showtime. In the lead to Haye-Klitschko, which ultimately did happen (even if most have already forgotten or at least want to), both fighters sold out arenas against men other than each other.

Mayweather and Pacquiao?

Yeah, without fighting each other, the sport has just been a rudderless mess. I mean, all they do is sell around a million pay-per-views against whoever they fight every time out, leaving people to ***** and moan that they haven’t fought yet and then shell out for the next chapter in the saga. [Click Here To Read More]

[Danny Gunz]

Very good read.

[puga]

i watched that fight(fedor vs hendo) and i think it was a crap stoppage man....

[Bierstadt]

I can't post ***** on the forum because it gets censored yet it appears in all its glory in an article?

[ChickenTikka]

I can't post ***** on the forum because it gets censored yet it appears in all its glory in an article?

These guys want to be front runners in posting new articles i suppose. Out of curiosity what exactly did you write about in relation to this article?

[texasboi15]

i guess the writer is trying to say "the grass isn't always greener on the other side." we moan of the pacquiao-mayweather fight but truth is, if either of them lose before meeting, the fight goes up in smoke and we'll just move on to the next dream matchup. i also think the writer is suggesting floyd and pac better cash in while the window of opportunity is open.

[New England]

you know me cliff
and you know i respect you

but i disagree.

the best big man ever in MMA squandered his late prime and missed out on the better competition in the latter part of his career

what he brought to the sport was not able to enhance it to the degree to which it should have


people didn't get a chance to see fedor in his prime (when he was a stonefaced killer in pride fighting, who nobody could touch)
and they could have

he was shelved for large portions of the later part of his career due to the sport of squabbling we've gotten used to

at his best he was something special
and for no reason other than the inability of the powers in the sport to do business, he spent large portions of his career on the shelf because of a lack of meaningful fights that were possible due to his contractual obligations


that's harmful in my opinion, my friend


as always, great read
we don't have to agree for me to tell you that ^^



when prime kevin randleman (one of the most explosive wrestlers of all time) smashed fedor into the mat kneck and head first and he somehow survived and won, i became a life long fan.
the guy was special in his prime. he had it.
he was as cool under fire as anybody

[prinzemanspopa]

Can't delay big money fights in a "sport" where the majority of the "fighters" have fragile glass chins.Dana White was atleast smart enough to hand Chestner a title shot before his pitiful lack of punch resistance was exposed.

[jtiger777]

i watched that fight(fedor vs hendo) and i think it was a crap stoppage man....

yeah me too

[King Ghidorah]

you know me cliff
and you know i respect you

but i disagree.

the best big man ever in MMA squandered his late prime and missed out on the better competition in the latter part of his career

what he brought to the sport was not able to enhance it to the degree to which it should have


people who didn't get a chance to see fedor in his prime (when he was a stonefaced killer in pride fighting, who nobody could touch)
and they could have

at his best he was something special
and for no reason other than the inability of the powers in the sport to do business, he spent large portions of his career on the shelf because of a lack of meaningful fights that were possible due to his contractual obligations


that's harmful in my opinion, my friend


as always, great read
we don't have to agree for me to tell you that ^^



when prime kevin randleman (one of the most explosive wrestlers of all time) smashed fedor into the mat kneck and head first and he somehow survived and won, i became a life long fan.
the guy was special in his prime. he had it.
he was as cool under fire as anybody

Fedor and Henderson is a all time fight .....

I second this post.....


Regardless whether i'm training in MMA or Boxing Fedor is my top 5 all time of greatest inspirations as a fighter to me next to Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Bruce Lee and Joe Louis....