Fedor Emelianenko Training In The Netherlands For Pedro Rizzo Fight

I’m impressed by Fedor’s agility. The dude moves very well for a big guy. I always thought that he was slightly overrated but he is a champ nonetheless. Beside, you never hear anything bad with him he is a true gentleman.

its so funny that people judge this man so harshly, his record is 31-4, he lost to 3 good fighters recently and everyone rides him off, sorta sad. compare him to say a randy couture, both very nice fellows, but randy was 19-11, and yet people trash on fedor a lot more…get over it people, fighters get old…

Fedor comes to fight, always has. The guy has always shown heart, a true champion in his day and a real fighter for the mma history books. Although his days on any top 10 HW lists are imaginary at best, he still deserves a nod of respect. Writing him off as some kind of looser is just plain wrong.

He still has a gut and love handles…

metallicafan, I agree. And all these fans that say fedor was never good and all this and that are just plain uneducated and probably have not been fans for very long. He went ten years with ou loosing and as the number one ranked heavywieght according to all the major mma websites, magazines and considered by many ufc fighters as the top dog.. HE was without a doubt the most accomplished heavyweight but I agree that he might not be the best of all time. The thing is the sport has grown alot in the past 15 years. back when fedor was on top most heavyweights were not really well rounded like he was thats one thing that set him apart. He also was really good at keeping his composure. If he would have went to the Ufc instead of pride he would have been the most dominant Ufc heavyweight champion of all time. Prides heavyweight division was way better than the UfCs. (and before any dummy starts talking about like “o yea well were are all those pride guys now and jds and cain could whoop them all yadayadayada we are talking about when pride was in exenstence like up until 2006 or 2007. Anyway if fedor would have went into ufc in 2003 instead of pride he would have faced weaker competition and would have one the belt and defended it like 15 times. just think of the guys he would have fought over there. Tim silvia, gan mcgee, frank mir, justin eilers, andrie arvolski, jeff monson, big nog, randy couture, gabriel gonzoga. Some of these guys he probably would have fought several times because of the lack of competition. I Dont think fedor would have ran into any problems with any of the ufc heavyweights until he started fighting guys like jds, anc cain ( and one could argue about brock lesnar and possibely carwin)

31-4 record and as soon as he fights anyone worth their salt he loses. He was never the best because he’s never fought the best. Every opportunity that came to fight the best in the world he turned down to keep fighting cans. I dont care how many times you won in a row when you’re fighting the bottom of the ladder. His career is finished and he will fade away and only be remembered by what he COULD have accomplished had he taken the initiative to fight the best in the world.

guys back in pride he did fight the toughest competition prides heavyweights were way better than ufcs heavyweights when pride was around. He beat all the top guys in pride. Yea after that you can make the argument of not fighting top guys but seriously do some research jeez

imagine if he trained with freddy roach to clean up his wild striking. hed kill anyone standing up

god, fedor haters are retards. mma noobs that worship anything dana says.

UFC wasn’t always the premier organization. Remember, Dana entered Chuck Liddel into the Pride Tournament and Chuck didn’t get past Rampage Jackson and rampage was demolished by Wander and Shogun.

Back then the UFC heavy weight division had either Tim Sylvia, Rico Rod, Andrei or Randy as the champ. Randy would move down in weight whenever he lost. I don’t remember if Andrei even defended his title once. Rico had the most potential but defeated himself with his drug habit and Tim got knocked out in under a minute when he finally fought Fedor. Fedor didn’t duck anyone. He was the champ.

Nothing lasts forever. Fedor got older, slower and eventually lost a few fights. Nonetheless when he was at his prime he was the best and had the most title defenses.

What heavy weight UFC fighter can claim that?

He will always be regarded as a legend in the sport.
I just cant help but wonder how good he could have been if he trained properly, dropped to LHW and got a real camp

LISTEN. WE all know why Fedor was losing these fights….

His Training was very Old-School… Right now we can see he stepped it up with Plyometrics and resistance training. I hope he also changed his training with modern MMA training and BJJ guys.

You have to Remember!! Fedor was beating EVERYBODY based on Old-School type of training and Old-School Sambo grappling. You have to give it up to him. He’s a brawler

fedor suckssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss asssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss he lost to bigfoot silva who got destoyed by cain in less than 2 minutes bioaccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and fedor is same weight as kain …..kain will kill fedor and dos antos will murder his

i think most of the haters are dumbass canadian fans whod rather watch their gay boytoy GSP hump some dudes for 25 minutes.

Rocky Balboa

Dude everybody needs to stop hating on Rizzo. He is a legend and deserves 1 big payday. Ohh you can still hate on Fedor, he will always be cemented as a blown up sack of s*** in my mind since he got knocked out by hendo.

Funny how these nobody’s on here are calling Fedor a nobody.

So accoring to most of you posers MMA didn’t begin until 2008.

Fedor was the best of all time.
Is he still the best? No the sport passed him by.

Plenty of NFL hall of famers would be too small and too slow to even make a practice squad today. Don’t mean they weren’t great in their day.

Additionally, those best qualified to judge or rate any professional in any sport or civil profession are the peers of said individual. In this case it would mean that the opinion of other fighters about Fedor should carry more weight than n00b fans or shady promoters, etc. So if you asked any of Fedor’s peers how great was Fedor you would get responses overwhelming supportive of his greatness. There are several documentaries or highlights detailing how during interviews fighters would always praise Fedor during his prime.

That carries more weight than Dana nut-huggers who cant string together a complete sentence much less have any idea about the history of MMA.

There’s always going to be a new and up coming fighters and to compare era is retarded. Fedor beat every HWs in his org. at the time.

Eventually all champions will lose cause of the wear and tear and age. A prime Fedor can beat any top UFC fighter currently..that’s all I got to say about this. But you guys are entitled to your opinion.

3X World Sambo champ means you have no ground game? Ahhahahahahahahahaha!
Big Nog (2x), Cro Cop and a roided up Colemen were cans?

He should drop down and fight Tito

Also just so everyone can get there facts straight. Josh bartnett former ufc champion beats randy and gets kicked out ufc for drug use and goes to pride. Loses in pride to cro-crop who loses to fedor. Also the only reason why people argue about fedor is because he didnt fight in the ufc. Question how did brock lesner do against overeem who in my opionion is a slightly weaker version of cro crop? How did the ufc become this monster where all the best fighters go? Didnt chuck liddel and jens pulver lose in pride? Didnt shogun,rampage,shogun, and anderson silva come from pride and become champs right when they got here? Isnt the last time silva lost a fight back in the pride days where all the real fighters came from?

Pedro is going to knock him out unless the fight is bought. Pedro can’t be knocked out, and Fedor has a glass chin.