Brainey fedor

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Of all the superlatives I've seen used to describe Fedor fight iq is not one of them. Just wondering what the consensus was on this aspect of his game. Does he game plan or more of a feel it out fighter?
 
Doubt he really cares who hes facing. Just walks in, wrecks havok, and leaves. Respectfully of course
 
The language barrier makes it difficult to get a true idea. You could probably argue he was never huge on gameplans throughout his career, but after losing to Henderson, Bigfoot and Werdum he definitely started fighting more conservatively.

Brainey Fedor is not a thing but he's got such a refined skillset that he fights very quickly and naturally. He doesn't need a lot of time to process information in fights, it seems.
 
MayankSharma13 said:
Doubt he really cares who hes facing. Just walks in, wrecks havok, and leaves. Respectfully of course
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true at some point, but when you see some of his PRIDE fights, like against Semmy Schilt, that we was also a mastermind.
 
He used to have a very high fight IQ, but that changed once he lost the passion for MMA.

He started to rush and abandoned any kind of game plans.

His trainers were upset with him, which is unusual for yes men.
 
SCADA said:
I'd bet money he gets beat in his first UFC fight....
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Jones is a LHW GOAT. Meaning, he is the GOAT of MMA B league. It wouldn't change anything if he was Russian.
 
He seemed to game plan against Crocop, where he crowned him and moved straight forward a lot, and had a weird kick block technique, that's about it

Everyone else was,

strike until they fall down, then ground and pound
strike until they clinch, toss/trip them, ground and pound
If on the bottom, submit them
 
His fight IQ seemed a lot lower in the Strikeforce portion of his career, and unfortunately, that was the last impression most were left with.

He seemed like a pretty intelligent fighter before that, especially for a HW.
 
Fedor turned into a headhunter towards the end of his career and completely forgot that he was coming from Judo/Sambo backgrounds

it was sad to watch
 
Singlelegsweep said:
He seemed to game plan against Crocop, where he crowned him and moved straight forward a lot, and had a weird kick block technique, that's about it

Everyone else was,

strike until they fall down, then ground and pound
strike until they clinch, toss/trip them, ground and pound
If on the bottom, submit them
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The thing is the "everyone else" strategy you name is reasonably good game planning.

(B) is basically how Ronda has become who she is, with armbars substituted for GNP, and few call her a poor gameplanner.

The method of "strike until..." X happens never failed him over a long period of time, and he had effective contingency plans for however that turned out. Would have been kind of foolish to change that up during a 30 fight win streak.
 
For the showtime documentary before his fight with Rogers they showed how he game plans for fights. He doesn't watch tape on his opponent, his coaches watched A few Rogers fights. They said "good fighter, big fellow." And "fedor needs to stay active and pressure him." That's it lol
 
Fedor knew what his opponents strengths were and challenged them at it. He was so well rounded he didn't care. He went toe to toe with the best ko artist at the time, and jumped into the best jj guys guard repeatedly. Fedor wanted to beat you at your strengths and did so successfully for over a decade.
 
strategy was his greatest attribute. he definitely gameplanned ahead of fights. his fight with Crocop is a great example. he perfected his striking defense specifically for Mirko's left strikes.

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see how he can basically block any left kick from Crocop with this defense.

he also used his right low kick to counter Mirko's kicks and discourage Crocop from using his kicks.

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in his Nogueira trilogy he also used great strategy to stay 1 step ahead of Nogueira, who also was a strategist.
 
He's a true martial artist in the sense that he makes a gameplan off of the sense he's been given from pervious fights but still enters thhe cage (ring in this case) with the mindset to deal with whatever presents itself.

It seems you won't get this simple concept on account of your inbility to get it on your own. You'll never be a true Fedor fan.
 
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