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I'm a huge fan of Fedor, always have been, but it bothers me that he is doing his camp for Mitrione in Russia again. Every time Fedor has trained in Russia (for almost the last decade) he has looked sloppy and wild. When he trained in Holland (Monson/Ishii/Rizzo/and part time for Jaideep) he looked much more sharp and powerful. In Holland they have him lifting weights, eating better, training with world class striking & conditioning coaches. He game plans and fights smart. When training in Russia, he generally just wings wild hooks, has less muscle and power, fights stupid and looks physically worse just walking out for a fight.
Fedor first went to Holland to train with Peter Teijsse for his fight against Hendo. He only trained there for 2 weeks so he certainly didn't look as sharp and strong as he did for his next few fights when he trained there full time but we started to see the results even in that fight. When the fight starts, Fedor comes out wild and sloppy, eats punches and looks like he has for his last few fights before Hendo. When there is about 1:30 left in the fight, he finally calms down and starts picking his combos. His combos are a bit sloppy but better than they were before in previous fights. His first real combo drops Hendo, then Fedor goes wild again. Each combo has meaning, a right straight sets up his lead uppercut, which sets up a rear hook, etc.
Fedor used these tactics even more sharply in future fights. He doesn't come out running wild, he looks at defense, picks his combos, doubles up combos on one side (jab to lead hook, etc). He uses very hard and fast low kicks and uses kicks to set up punches. Unfortunately, starting with Maldonado he went back to Russia only training and looked wild and sloppy again. His combos were just left right, left right, etc again. His coaches said he is training in Russia only again for Mitrione so I expect more of the same. I just wish if he was going to continue fighting he would go back to where he has much better training. They even had him working BJJ in Holland.
Fedor first went to Holland to train with Peter Teijsse for his fight against Hendo. He only trained there for 2 weeks so he certainly didn't look as sharp and strong as he did for his next few fights when he trained there full time but we started to see the results even in that fight. When the fight starts, Fedor comes out wild and sloppy, eats punches and looks like he has for his last few fights before Hendo. When there is about 1:30 left in the fight, he finally calms down and starts picking his combos. His combos are a bit sloppy but better than they were before in previous fights. His first real combo drops Hendo, then Fedor goes wild again. Each combo has meaning, a right straight sets up his lead uppercut, which sets up a rear hook, etc.
Fedor used these tactics even more sharply in future fights. He doesn't come out running wild, he looks at defense, picks his combos, doubles up combos on one side (jab to lead hook, etc). He uses very hard and fast low kicks and uses kicks to set up punches. Unfortunately, starting with Maldonado he went back to Russia only training and looked wild and sloppy again. His combos were just left right, left right, etc again. His coaches said he is training in Russia only again for Mitrione so I expect more of the same. I just wish if he was going to continue fighting he would go back to where he has much better training. They even had him working BJJ in Holland.