Fedor Emilianenko

[LarryMahan]

The guy is amazing. He seems unstoppable, I thought if any Heavyweight could stop him it would be Sylvia. He just slings those hands so goddamn fast. I think this will force the UFC to hook up with organizations.

[Ahknaton]

Is he going to fight Kimbo some time?

[Warka]

The guy is amazing. He seems unstoppable, I thought if any Heavyweight could stop him it would be Sylvia.

I've read more than one comment similar to this on various forums. I don't know what some of you see in Sylvia, one of the most unskilled, least-intelligent lumbering clumsy fighters in the game. Take his size away and he never would have made it in top-level MMA. Average fighters half his size embarrass him but he was supposed to be a challenge for Fedor, arguably one of the best in the world? C'mon...

[Warka]

The fight:

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Emelianenko dominates.

[LarryMahan]

I don't see Fedor fighting Kimbo anytime soon. Fedor would beat him handily if they did fight though. I think Kimbo will get beat here pretty soon as he ventures deeper into the MMA world.

As for Sylvia, I thought the whole size thing would be overwhelming for Fedor. Of course I never took into to consideration that he beat Hong man choi however huge he was. The fact that Fedor is only 6'0 tall and slaying all these heavyweights makes it all the more impressive. Also, i'm a bit of a pessimist when it comes to my favorite fighters.

I know this choi guy isn't one of the greats but the contrast in size between the two makes this victory amazing. Look amazing at least.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QzX1ZadJM

[raven]

When a 6 foot Sambo/Judo specialist can drop a 6 foot 8 striker with his hands like that, that is pretty pathetic. I thought Fedor would try to take Sylvia down to neutralize him but he didn't have to. Sylvia may have reach and size but he is not a skilled striker. This just goes to show that the level of striking in MMA is pretty poor. The anti-Fedor haters on Sherdog and elsewhere now can not deny that Fedor is without a doubt the undisputed heavyweight champion in MMA. Fedor's beat the current UFC champion (Nogueira) twice already so there is no one else he needs to fight to prove himself. Couture is too old to be a real challenge for Fedor. No one can rationally say that Fedor isn't the #1 heavyweight now.

[LarryMahan]

Aleksander Emilianenko on Kimbo and the UFC

On Kimbo:
Aleks Emelianenko: In reality, as a fighter, as a fighter he’s weak. For me anyway. My promoter [Vadim Finkelshtein] suggested this fight to his promoters, that I go there and fight Kimbo. And they’re not taking the fight. They realize that for me he’s too weak.
I won’t be fighting with him, playing with him. I’ll go there and tear him apart, bite him in two. Exactly like it was with me and [James] Thompson, whom it took almost three rounds for Kimbo to put away. No. He’s to be congratulated on one hand, though. …
What does he need? For people to know about him. For people to have seen him. Everyone earns money anyway they can these days. He’s not a fighter, he’s not a sportsman. I’d say he’s more like a showman. I can say this about him.
As a sportsman he’s very one-dimensional. Hands? Is that all? These days everyone can use their hands. When fighters at a decent level compete, you won’t understand who he was before. A boxer or a wrestler. … I train with boxers. I used to beat -- I now beat world champions. I box with them. I’m not a fighter that fought with fatties, with who knows who on some field or something. That’s not a display of his prowess as a fighter. It’s just a show. They are elements of a show.
On the UFC:
Aleks Emelianenko: I also wanted to fight in the UFC . But as a Russian fighter, I’m not interesting to them. They are interested in their own, in Americans. That’s why they didn’t let me compete in their organization. They were saying that “We don’t want Aleksander to fight for us.” Because I’d arrive there, beat everyone and then take the belt back to Russia. They don’t need that.
Those organizers, promoters, they need their own person. That’s how they make their money. And that’s how they carry themselves, the UFC. I know that as of right now, they’ve ruined relationships with many and that many fighters have left them. They are now facing some very serious competition, and I think they’ll fall. I think they’ll fall to the second tier. To the place where they were, when Pride still existed.
Pride was better; Pride was number one in the world. So I think that it’s criticism of the organizers -- it’s not a criticism of the fighters. They’re worthy sportsmen. Good fighters. It’s a criticism of the organizers, of the promoters. They take everything and just wreck it. Instead they should be strengthening everything, making everything stronger, stronger and stronger. But people are leaving them.
Instead they now have very serious, very worthy competition in the world. And not that much time will go by before things change.

http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/2/From-Surviving-the-Streets-of-Russia-to-MMA-The-Story-of-Aleksander-Emelianenko-Part-2-13709

[Emu]

Aleks is right. Kimbo lost a street fight to a guy that got mauled in the UFC.

As for Fedor, nobody can beat him. He is invulnerable to pain. I've seen all his fights, he's been slammed on the head, kimura'd for a whole minute and received numerous KO punches, but always comes out on top.