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In your opinion which was the last fight of Fedor Emelianenko's prime?

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Just as a note, no one was better in another's guard than Fedor. It wasn't Werdum's guard as much as Fedor got hung up on the cage which is where the fight changed directions. Fedor's lack of cage experience got him in trouble, not fighting from a guard.
 
Hong Man Choi. That was the last time I saw Fedor with a gameplan.

After that he just swinged for the fences all the time. Went from a well rounded guy to an impatient brawler. He could get away with that in a bunch of fights but it always backfire.
 
Either Brett Rogers or Bigfoot for me personally. The Werdum fight was more of a tactical error than anything. If Fedor had still been in his prime he could've and should've beaten Bigfoot and Hendo. Werdum capitalized on Fedor's mistake masterfully.
 
Arlovski was the last fight he fought intelligently, although he wasn't physically prime then either.
 
Fedor was still in his prime when he fought Maldonaldo.
 
ExitLUPin said:
Fedor fell from grace following the Werdum loss, then b2b losses to TRT Bigfoot and Hendo. While he was the #1 HW in the world before fighting Werdum, many believe he was already showing signs of decline as evidenced from the Rogers fight and even in 08 with his wild swinging approach around 07/08, abandoning technical aspects/strategy from when he dominated the world as the P4P #1. Which fight do u believe was the last of the Emperor's prime?
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Bigfoot wasn't on TRT for that fight.
 
When he left Japan, he left behind his transitions and clinch game.

It was a slow process, but he became more predictable and more one dimensional as time went by.
 
HMC. Against Sylvia he started to turn into a brawler and depend on his blitz far too much. Then, his training and game-planning went to shit with fasting during camps and praying instead of developing a strategy. He was great enough that he got away with it for a few fights, but reality hit him very hard, then so did quite a few other people.
 
Hunt or Coleman 2. His performance against Lindland was a bit lacking and from there on we saw various parts of his game disappear with each fight until he was just a heavy handed brawler. His transitions disappeared, then his clinch, then his footwork, then the setups for his striking. And at the same time his fight smarts went out the window and he had a physical decline as well.
 
I believe even his own coaches said they noticed physical decline by the Arlovski fight. That he wasn't quite as fast anymore. They said he had to rely more on his fight IQ to make up for diminished physical abilities. They would know, considering they train with him and see him day in and day out.
 
To me Mark Hunt was the first fight where he had bigger (longer then few seconds) problems... Everything before that he dominated more or less from start to finish. Unfortunately not so much after that... So 2005 was the last prime year.
 
I said Werdum. Even though he lost.

Why?

Because he came out agrees and was able to drop Werdum to the ground and went in with very aggressive ground and pound. The problem is he went in way to aggressively against a ground master and he got caught in the triangle. I beleive if Fedor would have been more patient he would have won and probably ko'd Werdum.
 
It probably was the Mirko fight.

He cleaned out the division. His next fights were against Zulu, Coleman and Hunt... He lost motivation, he had no challenges left.

He looked pretty close to prime still in the Timmy fight... but it was so short and one-sided... I think he had already declined by then.
 
Jim Gleason said:
I said Werdum.

Why?

Because he came out agrees I've and was able to drop Werdum to the ground and in with very aggressive ground and pound. The problem is he went in way to aggressively against a ground master and he got caught in the triangle. I beleive if Fedor would have been more patient he would have won and probably ko'd Werdum.
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Even when Fedor dropped Nog in one of their fights he had a chance to jump into his guard but he went in then pulled back after thinking.

He had much more strategic approaches and entries for situations like that. Against Werdum he just bumrushed in without thinking.
 
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