Jackonflame
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Look ready to bang, losing the dad bod. i get hints of that Pride body.
well, well, i guess he is getting ready.
and a nice shoop by East European
lol nice
Fedor looking huge (recent pic)
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there are lots of religious fighters that are successful.
I think he just got bored, not interested. he was mainly in it to make a good living and represent his country. once he did that for 10 years he started to slack.
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Religion has never kept any athlete from reaching his potential. In fact the religious fighters are usually the ones that train the hardest, that are mentally the strongest and live the healthier lifestyle. There are so many religious fighters in the UFC, there have been so many, it never affected them. What about Ben Henderson? Are you going to blame some of his losses on Jesus? What about Belfort? List goes on and on. Fedor is getting old, that's just the way it is. His religion has nothing to do with him losing a couple fights. This is what happens to every older fighter, they lose some of their athletic skills (speed, strength etc.), they lose some of their passion, they aren't as aggressive, they don't necessarily have the killer instinct at age 35-40 compared to 25 year olds.
I think Fedor can bounce back but he's just in a weird situation in terms of his weight and everything. Sort of like Crocop. Too small for the Heavies in my opinion. At this stage if he stays at HW he needs decent matchups but most top UFC HW's aren't great matchups for him. His sambo won't help him that much against 250 pound wrestlers/grapplers. And I don't see him pushing around punchers like Mark Hunt either. I hope he drops some weight and moves down to LHW. He could absolutely dominate there for a couple years.
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Notice he's bald, could be he's so big now there's no space left for hair to grow.
He wears the ring on his right hand.
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True.
BUT, when you're "finding religion" in the twilight of your career, one can start wondering if that does you any good, fighting wise. I suspect it's more of a way of explaining an inevitable decline to yourself - "it was God's will. Not my fault".
And when you reach that point, I don't think you're coming back, mentally.
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i agree with most of what you said and noway was i trying to justify his losses by linking only to religion. he was getting old and basically disinterested in the game. now, for some reason, he found that interest again and wants to compete.
my point was different and perhaps i should have elaborated - orthodox Christianity, when practiced thoroughly, like i believe he is doing, is quite demanding - one of the most important parts of the entire religion is the ritual fasting that, if observed as it is written, basically eliminates a large part of the nutrients required to fuel not any fighter, but in this case - a older, past his prime fighter, no matter how dominant he used to be. the vodka drinking fedor of the pride days is now a orthodox observant fighter, his focus towards religion is clearly higher than his winning days.
also, there's this inherent fatalism in his speech of late - compare the "this man, that stands between me and food, has to be eliminated" to "how god wills it". it's a huge difference because in his case i think "how god wills it" translates into fedor going in the gym, doing the same routine he did 10 years ago and not paying attention to how fast and substantially the sport has changed.
that was my original point. i hope for him to make a successful comeback but, even with the new pictures with him looking in better shape, i don't know, man...
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FEDOR KICKS ASS!!!! hope he fights before year's end.
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Fedor Bless
cmon
fedor was always religious, as most russians
has nothing to do with his performance
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I hate religion, because it is a blind belief in something which can't be proven.
I hate blind belief.
Fedor's career got directly damaged by his OBSESSION with religion, which started in 2008.
I just hope he will set it aside and focus 100 % on MMA.
We should be seeing him training with huge grapplers instead of seeing him picking up religious cr*p.
Fine, thank God for creating everything, being responsible for everything. If it exists and is allmighty it should remember, that Fedor thanked him. Nobody likes a kiss as*. If I'm made in his image, he doesn't like as*kissing either.
If God exists, I curse it for creating serious deseases and torture. If it exists and it is allmighty then it created awesome stuff, but it shouldn't have created f*cking cancer etc. I won't forgive it for that stuff.
I want 100 % health for everybody. Is that too much to ask?
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I don't have respect for religious people's intelligence.
I don't respect sheep.
Kids are happy too when they believe in Santa, but that still doesn't make parents lying to kids about Santa right, nor does it make Santa real.
I preffer truth, no matter how harsh.
What if people who believe in a good God get to meet that God, but it starts to torture them forever for being kiss as*es? The supposedly allmighty God invented all kinds of cruelty. What if God is evil?
[YT]watch?v=JCuqR2l4Ztk[/YT]
What if this explanation is real?
We don't know, yet all religions claim to know the ultimate truth, making them all or the vast majority, wrooooong.
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Yeah, there's no consolidation possible among disparate religions as many of them take the stance that you must believe their way or you fall from grace/go to hell/etc.
For bonus points - the MRI was created by a fundamentalist. Believes literally that the universe was created in 6 days and God took a breather on the 7th. The most significant medical advance in decades invented by someone who takes most of the Bible literally.
I think there's something there where people can go through some of the horrors of life (dead loved ones, lingering disease, etc.) and believe it all works out in the end. Seems to work wonders for pro athletes.
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It's not a question of intelligence. I'm not religious or anything and I think every religion is BS, made up by some crackhead hundreds of years ago. But a lot of religious people are pretty smart. If they want to believe in whatever they believe in, that's their choice. You can't say for sure they are wrong, they can't say for sure they're right. I think that there is something that created life, but not these bullshit stories you hear from all those different religions. All that shit is made up. Back then there were no laws really so they had to go by something to keep people from becoming criminals. But I still think there's something out there somewhere that we don't know (yet). I mean we have machines here that can think a million times faster, that are a million time more productive. We are complete morons. What makes us think that there isn't a gazillion times more intelligent life out there somewhere? Do you think they need nasal spray and all that shit? Do you think they get sick? Do you think they have to take shits? That they get hungry? We can't even imagine how far advanced that life somewhere out there in space. Maybe they're so advanced we can't even see them, maybe that life is so big it looks at us like bacteria. I have no clue. What the fuck am I talking about? Anyway, drifting off.
I think religion can be a great thing because religious people try to become better human beings each day, they try to improve all the time, they think about themselves all the time. They don't waste their time partying, not being productive, wasting their time with playing video games or whatever. I just don't think there's any correlation between Fedor losing and him having found God. That's just an easy way for people, maybe his big fans, to explain his "downfall". He's not superhuman, he's no exception. Everybody slows down at some point. It's natural. Don't blame God for Fedors losses, that's an easy copout.
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50 Pages? Do you have it set up to see one post per page?
It's 20 pages for me.
LMAO. 10 posts per page. Too lazy to change it.
