Rumored Rampage vs Fedor

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Through ESPN news app bellator planning of making a match in japan for Fedor vs Rampage on Dec 29th.

Thoughts?

(I am kinda excited honestly).
Sorry for the sloppyness.
 
With their recent intentions of doing stuff with RIZIN, I hope it takes place there.

I'd love to see Rampage in that Japanese ring again.
 
Awesome, adequate match up that i wanted to see. Both have similar fight mileage, both have similarly deteriorated skill sets and chances of winning. Better match up than many other possible ones for either of them, so it's fits like a ring on the finger for all parties involved even for Bellator who will get a bump in viewership and sales
 
If they do
- Fedor Emelianenko vs. Rampage Jackson
- Julia Budd vs. Gabi Garcia
- Kyoji Horiguchi vs. _________

That would be a great start.
 
2004 account said:
Bellator who will get a bump in viewership and sales
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The Japan Dec 29th event would be a 2am Sunday morning event in the US. This would entirely be for the Japan audience and DAZN, unless they run an early show (7pm US time) like RIZIN did last year for Yarennoka. That RIZIN card drew 7.2k which was a better number than ONE's DJ/Eddie/Aoki card which had 6.8k
 
norsuu said:
i would like to see...if the goat wins, but i hate mma rumors...95% of them are fakes
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It is not really a rumor since it came right out of Coker's mouth during today's media day (OP didn't mention that part).
 
If in a RIZIN ring it’s probably the fight I’m most looking forward to for the rest of this year
 
Japan would love old dad bods fighting...its a respect thing...good way to retire half the Bellator heavies! All are past being entertainimg.......Japan is a great place to say goodbye!
 
2004 account said:
Awesome, adequate match up that i wanted to see. Both have similar fight mileage, both have similarly deteriorated skill sets and chances of winning. Better match up than many other possible ones for either of them, so it's fits like a ring on the finger for all parties involved even for Bellator who will get a bump in viewership and sales
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My only problem with this fight is that Rampage hasn't been stopped by strikes in the last decade + and Fedor has been getting floored in 3 of his last 4 fights by shots that dont appear to be that hard. Rampages chin is very much intact. Not a good fight for Fedor because he comes to brawl and brawling with Rampage will end badly for him. Oh well, better to get KOd by Rampage than someone like Mitrione, Ayala or even Mir.
 
they're doing a huge favour for RIZIN here, Bellator supplying both fighters for a big new years eve matchup
 
Mixfight said:
My only problem with this fight is that Rampage hasn't been stopped by strikes in the last decade + and Fedor has been getting floored in 3 of his last 4 fights by shots that dont appear to be that hard. Rampages chin is very much intact. Not a good fight for Fedor because he comes to brawl and brawling with Rampage will end badly for him. Oh well, better to get KOd by Rampage than someone like Mitrione, Ayala or even MIR.
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Don’t have to worry about that last one

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The only option is both team up in ururesu show against two masked bodybuilders.
Fedor is finished as a fighter, another ko and he will wake up like Goodridge
 
Mixfight said:
My only problem with this fight is that Rampage hasn't been stopped by strikes in the last decade + and Fedor has been getting floored in 3 of his last 4 fights by shots that dont appear to be that hard. Rampages chin is very much intact. Not a good fight for Fedor because he comes to brawl and brawling with Rampage will end badly for him. Oh well, better to get KOd by Rampage than someone like Mitrione, Ayala or even Mir.
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Really though Rampage hasn't fought many opponents you'd expect to threaten much, an old Wanderlei is arguably the most danger he's faced since Glover in 2013.

Its been mostly wrestlers like Mo, Sonnen and Ishii or mid level opponents.
 
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/27210887/bellator-discussions-japan-card-dec

Here's the full article.

- Plan B is Fedor vs Barnett
- Coker also said he'd like Ryan Bader to face Jiri Prochazka on the same card.
- Bellator wants to bring their best to Japan.
- Lorenz Larkin, Phil Davis and many other fighters expressed interest to fight on this card.
- Time is running short. If they can't get it done in the next 2 weeks, then it won't happen.
 
moreorless87 said:
Really though Rampage hasn't fought many opponents you'd expect to threaten much, an old Wanderlei is arguably the most danger he's faced since Glover in 2013.

Its been mostly wrestlers like Mo, Sonnen and Ishii or mid level opponents.
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Further proof that his chin is still very durable. He hasn't put it in the line of fire since 2013 like Fedor has in recent years on top of not being stopped since 2005.

Since then hes fought Jones, Hendo,Liddel, Wand 2x, Glover, Rashad,Lyoto, and Bader and was never even badly hurt or dropped.

Pretty impressive and speaks of volumes of his chin durability in comparison to Fedors who gets dropped by range finding jabs these days.
 
Mixfight said:
Further proof that his chin is still very durable. He hasn't put it in the line of fire since 2013 like Fedor has in recent years on top of not being stopped since 2005.

Since then hes fought Jones, Hendo,Liddel, Wand 2x, Glover, Rashad,Lyoto, and Bader and was never even badly hurt or dropped.

Pretty impressive and speaks of volumes of his chin durability in comparison to Fedors who gets dropped by range finding jabs these days.
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Part of that of course is how he's fought, Rampage first became a counter striker and then as he started to drop off just a very defensive safe fighter, and indeed has fought a lot of opponents who played it safe.

You look at that era and really how much has Rampage's chin been tested? Glover is pretty much the only fight since Shogun where he's really taken significant punishment. I'd agree it might well mean its held up better but that hasn't really been tested much, if Fedor wades forward throwing bombs its going to be as much a "kill or be killed" as Rampage has faced since Pride.

The way Fedor fights these days pretty much grantees a first round finish one way or the other.
 
Fedor will lose by T/KO. Fedor has the far superior skillset but no chin at all. Rampage's chance will be to touch Fedor's chin, and he'll have 15 minutes to do that. He'll find it too.

It's a shame. If this fight took place in 2005 Fedor would rearrange Rampage's anus for him. Rampage actually publicly stated back in PRIDE that he wanted no part of Fedor. "I like fights I can actually win."

Here you go Rampage, a fight you can win.
 
Fedor is my all time favorite but I see him getting stopped. His chin is gone. He is strictly a head hunter now too. Page by early KO/TKO.
 
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