Fedor Emelianenko is not a wild brawler

yo imagine if fedor wins the grand prix and then comes over to the UFC to fight Brock
 
He's definitely devolved into that now and you're blind if you can't see that. It's why he's getting rocked left and right in fights now
 
kflo said:
sylvia, goodridge, zulu, lots of fights he was throwing....
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Maybe so but he was doing it in an intelligent way. He knew his opponent and if it was okay to throw wildly (ie his opponent was nearly finished), he would. But other times he would be much more cautious.

Nowadays (and since many years) he is reckless from the opening bell. He is reckless if his opponent has dangerous hands. There's no context to it.
 
Typrune Goatley said:
He broke his hand so many times his coaches/teammates said he couldn't lift weights or even grab ahold of somebody to attempt a takedown for a while there. Started with breaking it vs Goodridge in 2003, again against Zulu in 2005. Didn't throw too many rights vs Hunt in 2006. He threw almost all left hands versus Sylvia in 2008. Broke his hand again versus Brett Rogers in 2009.

I will try to find the link where either his coach or teammate discuss this
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Everyone always asks what caused Fedor's decline and I thought it was his hands . If you have broke up up hands / thumbs , you cant wrestle or lift weights (to a degree) , which explains his getting smaller and lack of grappling .
 
American "just bleed" audiences ruined Fedor. In the quiet educated japanese arenas Fedor was much more patient and calculated. Much more technical.

Once he came to Strikeforce and he felt the energy of the American just bleed crowds, he became a brawler. Even to the point that he threw himself into Werdum's triangle when normally he would have hesitated and approached Werdum's guard strategically. Instead, he dove in recklessly.

Then look at his fight with Big Foot. Just standing in place and winging punches with his back against the cage. That's not Pride Fedor.

Fedor is an empath. He feeds off the the energy around him. And so the American energy makes him fight recklessly.
 
dmwalking said:
American "just bleed" audiences ruined Fedor. In the quiet educated japanese arenas Fedor was much more patient and calculated. Much more technical.

Once he came to Strikeforce and he felt the energy of the American just bleed crowds, he became a brawler. Even to the point that he threw himself into Werdum's triangle when normally he would have hesitated and approached Werdum's guard strategically. Instead, he dove in recklessly.

Then look at his fight with Big Foot. Just standing in place and winging punches with his back against the cage. That's not Pride Fedor.

Fedor is an empath. He feeds off the the energy around him. And so the American energy makes him fight recklessly.
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at one point, the training routine takes its tool on someone...money too
 
Been a long time since I watched Prime Pride Fedor... I remember him as an unorthodox striker but certainly not a brawler. He always relied on his reflexes to avoid taking a lot of striking damage.

As he aged that strategy has obviously not worn well. He started getting hit a lot more and his chin went. I mean, he went down against Mir last weekend on what looked like a shot that would not have even fazed him in his prime.

His balance looks completely shot now. That is certainly not something anyone would say about Prime Fedor
 
he has that overhand right cast punch they call it that is really good other than that i dont think he was known for him having or being known for any good punches or kicks. Fedor a grappler, clinch, submission guy, ground and pound.
 
grimballer said:
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Strange looking goat
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Weird you responded by posting a picture of Anderoid
 
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 is certainly not an extremely technically skilled striker

fast, explosive, high IQ

not a highly skilled striker
 
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