Media Prime Fedor walking in Japan

[Deleted member 504083]

Of course it wasn't before the 2000s...

good call, for some reason thought Fedor fought in the 90s too lol

<{ByeHomer}>

 

[Sweater of AV]

A beautiful time to be alive. No phones, no stupid nonsense. Just a country in respectful awe of the GOAT.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

I used to be a ringside photographer and I did some interviews w fighters for 411 mania for about 2 years. Got to interview several fighters and meet many others. Fedor was actually one of the first I ever interviewed in 2007. Very nervous!

That, is super cool!

 

[LoopingRight]

Men and women, young and old gathering around to pass their respects to the GOAT! Heart warming really.

 

[Zanmato]

Ah the pre-selfie days. *wipes away a tear*

 

[Bongzilla]

One of my homies I grew up and trained with flying knee’d KO’d a dude on a M-1 show on a fight he took on very short notice

Fedor was on-site

I was suppose to corner that fight but had to work that evening, I missed the KO but entered the building as they were raising my friends hand

My friend went directly from the *ring to Fedor’s room and knocked. A room full of russian suits opened the door and stared. Fedor from the back of the room said something in Russian and the suits parted opening a path to the great Fedor.

My homie got both his M-1 gloves (white ones) with blood stains still on them, signed by Fedor and I am the proud owner of one of those gloves and my friend came to the stands and said, “Look what I got for you”


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Shogun, Fedor, A. Silva, J. Pulver

Champ-shit only


edit: my dumbass put cage instead of ring

That's an amazing friend man!

 

[Pequeño Corey]

What a GOAT.

 

[Guest84]

That's super cool

 

[Rio Ferdinand]

Hespect.

 

[Brigfa2]

It's like prime Khabib walking in any muslim country

 

[CombatCyborg]

Men and women, young and old gathering around to pass their respects to the GOAT! Heart warming really.

Yeah cool to see the one senior coming through to give him respect too

 

[don't ask]

good call, for some reason thought Fedor fought in the 90s too lol

<{ByeHomer}>

Maybe thinking of Igor?

 

[don't ask]

Wait until you see the Van Damn footage / gif lol

Or the gif of Tito giving flowers to Sakuraba.

 

[don't ask]

My favourite part of that vid is Fedor nudging the guy in the red shit away with his arm. Unbothered, still pleasant, just calmly enforcing his boundary. I once wrote a university paper on Fedor's psyche because he exhibits strong mentally healthy behaviours that only 10% of humans do. I wish I had more access to interviews with him when I was writing it.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

OG MMA just felt different.
ain't getting much of that vibe with today's mma.

 

[Kwic]

Nice share, never seen it!

 

[Serge421]

Pretty much par to Jesus

 

[Kwic]

 

[IloveTHIS]

My favourite part of that vid is Fedor nudging the guy in the red shit away with his arm. Unbothered, still pleasant, just calmly enforcing his boundary. I once wrote a university paper on Fedor's psyche because he exhibits strong mentally healthy behaviours that only 10% of humans do. I wish I had more access to interviews with him when I was writing it.

I'm not saying you are wrong but I would love to hear specifically what "behaviors" he does that 9/10 don't.

I mean obviously a GOAT doesn't have an average mouth breather mentality, just like Jordan still to this day views winning/losing in a massively unhealthy way but it leads to greatness. However I don't think Fedor is weird in any kind of sense. He views every single fight as a chance to feed his family, and then once he became rich it morphed more into national pride. Nothing really crazy there. Really the only interesting thing you can try to make of his psyche is how he seems to look completely through his opponents eyes/face. He's not looking into your soul, he has no concept of trying to stare you down and intimidate you. He looks at an opponent the way a mathematician might look at an uninteresting math problem then know exactly how to solve.

I'm rambling

 

[don't ask]

I'm not saying you are wrong but I would love to hear specifically what "behaviors" he does that 9/10 don't.

I mean obviously a GOAT doesn't have an average mouth breather mentality, just like Jordan still to this day views winning/losing in a massively unhealthy way but it leads to greatness. However I don't think Fedor is weird in any kind of sense. He views every single fight as a chance to feed his family, and then once he became rich it morphed more into national pride. Nothing really crazy there. Really the only interesting thing you can try to make of his psyche is how he seems to look completely through his opponents eyes/face. He's not looking into your soul, he has no concept of trying to stare you down and intimidate you. He looks at an opponent the way a mathematician might look at an uninteresting math problem then know exactly how to solve.

I'm rambling

I'm talking about mentally healthy behaviour and you're talking about mentally unhealthy behaviour (people who have to push themselves in extreme ways, succeeding at the expense of other areas of their lives, like personal relationships or their family lives).

He doesn't need to distort reality to reassure himself, both before things that could induce trauma/stress/fear and during things that induce trauma/stress/fear. Fighters will tell you all the time how great they are, how unbeatable they are, what a bad dude they are, etc. The need to psyche themselves up in the face of potential danger and / or consequences is very necessary to the vast majority of humans and, at any time, a fighter could lose their career, their health, their ability to support their family, and their self-identity. Regular people, whether they know it or not, receive great mental comfort from stability. People who engage in risky professions/behaviour are also typically the ones who engage in bravado because it brings them comfort in their risk-taking. That vast majority of people cannot allow themselves to actually think about consequences or failure and still perform their best, unencumbered; humans are practically wired to distort reality to make it through the day.

Fedor never displayed any indication of these behaviours. In his interviews, he matter-of-factly acknolwedged that one day he will lose, he's fighting very dangerous opponents, and all he can do is his best. (And he absolutely did do his best at every single second, frequently snatching victory during an opponent's split-second mistakes because he was present enough to see the opportunity in the chaos. The vast majority of people's minds would be in turmoil as they juggled thoughts of pain, fear, strategy, stress and self-protection. We see fighters struggle with this all the time.) The closest thing I ever saw to him distorting reality was his famous quote about how he views each opponent as someone who could take food away from his family... but it was true. He turned a fact of reality that should cause him fear into a motivation. When he did finally lose, it didn't bother him because he had always been at peace with the inevitable. In his post-Werdum interview, he understood that the loss was just another step on his journey, saying that a man can not stand up unless they've fallend down first.

I don't have all the statistics on me because it was over a decade ago, but I also touched on his lack of need to self-medicate, his lack of need to glorify himself, and examined how he actually seemed to draw groundedness and peace from his religion (which isn't as common as you might think). I also examined his strong devotion to his family and how much value he places on them. He is absolutely in the top ten percent of mentally healthy humans.