Fedor Emelianenko is not a wild brawler

I'm a little on the fence with this one.

When you watch him against brett rogers, hendo, mir and most of his fights around that time he does kind of seem like a wild brawler. He has decent accuracy and speed but a lot of times he seems to be winging the punches without a solid base.

That's very different from his crocop fight, for example. He would pick his opening, use solid technique and footwork, and had the rare wild flurries. That would only happen when he had his opponent hurt or turtling up, then he'd let loose with his flurries.

He just seems a lot more sloppy nowadays, both with his defence and striking. So i think he's a bit of a wild brawler now. He used to be a high level striker in his prime. I still think that version of him is the best MMA fighter i've ever seen. But he's a long way off from that.
 
Fedor fans are so fucking odd. I really don’t get it. Creepy.
 
knock_you_out said:
GSP is the GOAT.
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Strange looking goat
 
He's a wild brawler since about the Werdum fight. Totally different fighter to prime Fedor. He just comes out winging shots and throwing himself off balance.

His gameplan today is "im gonna come out throwing wild shots; if Jesus wants me to win they'll connect"
 
grimballer said:
She’s the goat, we’re the goat, they’re the goat, he’s the goat

It might feel good

It might sound lil somethin

But fuck the goat if ain’t sayin nuttin
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From what rap song was that again?
 
I think his lead up to fighting Bret Rogers his team was saying Fedor was slowing down. He was still winning at that point. He brutally knocks Rogers out. But his trainers admitted to it. Fedor much like Tyson was a shell of his former self in his early 30s. Sad but true.
 
IGotAHugePeckah said:
He might not be a wild brawler, but he has an undeniable propensity to brawl wildly.

People who were around when he came on the scene will remember that he started as a brilliant tactician, who was laser focused and stuck to the game plan. His grappling was fantastic and his GnP was the best we had seen up to that point, bar none. Nobody could generate the kind of punches Fedor did from inside someone's guard.

Years later he began to rely heavily on his power and explosiveness. Sometimes it worked brilliantly, but eventually he ended up getting caught.

Even in his prime, he would throw a lot of wild shit. Fedor apologists would excuse them and call them "Russian hooks", but in reality he was breaking his thumb every other fight because of his wild punches.
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Had some drinks last night and rewatched a ton of his fights. He was tactical but still pretty wild with his looping punches into the clnch and gnp. He had a great back step cross and agile HW scramble which has eroded due to age. Still his overall style has not changed so much just less scrambling and reliance on sambo.
 
ClosetVitorFan said:
I think his lead up to fighting Bret Rogers his team was saying Fedor was slowing down. He was still winning at that point. He brutally knocks Rogers out. But his trainers admitted to it. Fedor much like Tyson was a shell of his former self in his early 30s. Sad but true.
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Before or after Arlovski
 
To me, Fedor always had the same game plan: regardless of what happens, he's going to punch you in the face.

He might swing on the feet. He might go for GnP. But he will always punch you in the face. No matter who you are or what you do, Fedor will punch you in the face.

Fedor is really goddamn good at it. Whether you want to call him a "wild brawler" or anything else, he's really just a face-puncher.
 
JustOnce said:
Until mid 2011, for more than a decade of his career, he was the most elusive, least hit fighter in the whole of MMA, ahead of even Prime Machida, before Shogun figured him out sort of then saw the Machida era fall prematurely after becoming the LHW champion.

I know people are calling him nothing but a wild brawler even in his prime, and some people are calling him someone who was a calculated fighter in his prime with high fight iq but now a washed up brawler, but I can't help but wonder it has more to do with his incredibly diminished chin, slower reaction time and speed.

Fedor teaches that because of the small gloves in MMA, it's better to use your head movement to avoid strikes, and he does that. He practices what he preaches, unlike some Brazilian fighter who states in his book that you can get hurt if you throw low kick without setting up and opponents checks it, then does it and break his leg then calls it a fluke.

He has always been super aggressive fighter, but he was able to roll with and slip punches and have cat like reflexes too. Fedor is the only major fighter who had his OWN coaches talk about his decline in performance WHILE he was winning still, unlike a certain Brazilian fighter whose FANS only started to talk about after getting ktfo.

Fedor is the greatest of all time, as much as you don't want to believe in truth. The truth can be hard to handle. But ,he is, and he's not just a wild brawler. He's the complete fighter, the favorite of your own favorite fighter.
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He was a very methodical striker against Arlovski and CroCop, but he hasn't shown that kind of technicality in his standup since then.
 
omg make it stop already
 
chukutee said:
He's a wild brawler since about the Werdum fight. Totally different fighter to prime Fedor. He just comes out winging shots and throwing himself off balance.

His gameplan today is "im gonna come out throwing wild shots; if Jesus wants me to win they'll connect"
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sylvia, goodridge, zulu, lots of fights he was throwing....
 
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