regards to his takedowns.
One of many reasons why Fedor is the greatest of all time.
According to Fedor, he was number 3 in Russia national team behind these two guys: Tamerlan Tmenov, eventual silver and bronze olympic medalist, two time silver and two time bronze world championship winner, and Alexander Mikhaylin, eventual three time world championship winner and two bronze, and silver olympic medalist. And between Tmenov and Mikhaylins, they have 13 European gold medals.
Personally, I was and not and probably will not be sold on Combat Sambo. Yes there have been Fedor and Khabib, but yeah. If you have been around while Fedor was killing people, combat sambo competition level seemed questionable, and if you look at guys like Krill being multiple time combat sambo world champion, it makes you wonder. Personally, Fedor's Judo is a lot lot more impressive to me than whatever he did in combat sambo.
It's funny though but totally in line with Fedor's behaviours that Fedor try to brand himself as only Sambo guy. Many years ago when Yoshida was retiring, he mentioned about having a Judo match, exhibition, with Fedor, and he gifted him special gi, and Fedor said he was a Sambo guy, not a Judo guy, and I think politely declined.