Tomorrow on The Fight Club, we will recap the Strikeforce card from this past Saturday night as the biggest upset in MMA history occured as Fedor Emeliananko lost to Fabricio Werdum.. We will discuss the fight and what is next for both fighters and for Strikeforce.... And we will have a slight preview for UFC 116 this Saturday night headlined by Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin for the undisputed UFC Heavyweight Title...
We will be having former UFC fighter Eliot Marshall on at 11:30CST, MMATorch.com Editor-in-Chief, Jamie Penick at 12:05 CST and Loretta Hunt from sherdog.com on at 12:30 CST.. So, make sure you tune in to another action packed episode of The Fight Club on www.sportstownchicago.com from 11:00AM-1:00PM
Monday, June 28, 2010
What's next for Fedor Emelianenko?
When Mike Tyson lost to Buster Douglas in 1990, that was the end of the Tyson era before Tyson even knew it.. He was a train wreck heading into that fight with Douglas.. He was going through a divorce with Robin Givens, geting arrested it seemed like on a bi-weekly basis and his camp was a disaster with changing of trainers and so on and so forth... After that fight with Douglas, he went to jail for rape in 1992 and in 1999 for a road rage incident, the infamous ear biting incident with Evander Holyfield and the incident in New York at the press conference to kick off the tour for his fight with Lennox Lewis in 2002...
Fedor Emelianenko is considered the MMA version of Mike Tyson.. He is the baddest man in MMA... He was beaten a whose who in MMA... Mirko Cro Cop, Minotauro Noguiera three times, Josh Barnett, Matt Lindeland, Kevin Randleman, Andrei Arlovski, Tim Sylvia and the list goes on... He was 31-1 and that lone loss was due to bad cut he suffered in the first 15 seconds back in 2000... So, Emelianenko was undefeated in his career... When you are undefeated, you are the baddest man on the planet and you are the best P4P fighter in the world today, no questions asked...
The knock on Fedor in the last 5 years is that he hasn't beat anybody since Cro Cop... He beat Matt Lindeland and yes he was a middleweight, but he only weighed 15 pounds less than Fedor going into that bout.. Then, he faced Hong Man Choi, who infamously faced former baseball star Jose Canseco... Then fights with Arlovski and Sylvia in Affliction and people said they were washed up since they weren't in the UFC anymore...
The only fight that he shouldn't have taken is the fight with Choi and he will admit that it was a freak show fight and shouldn't have done it... His management team, M-1 Global, which is a minority owner of, pulls a lot of the strings when it pertains to his career.. They are the reason he hasn't fought in the UFC and accepted their contract offer and has never had a face to face talk with UFC President Dana White.. I think if that happened, then he would be in the UFC...
And, this leads us to Saturday night as Fedor took on Fabricio Werdum... Everyone thought, including myself, that Fedor would easily walk over Werdum and then getting the highly anticpated matchup with Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Alistair Overeem... But, Werdum is a 2 time Brazilian Ji-Jitsu World Champion, which is nothing to laugh about...
And within the first 30 seconds Fedor knocked down Werdum with 2 left hands and a short right uppercut which rocked Werdum and knocked him down to the mat and Fedor went for the kill... But, he made a simple mistake and got caught as Werdum used his superior Ji-Jitsu and locked Fedor in a traingle choke and armbar and the rest is history... The great Fedor Emelianenko lost truely for the first time...
As always, Fedor was gracious even in defeat.. He gave credit to Werdum and said he needs to work on some things and hopes their will be a rematch in the near future.. That rematch needs to happen and that would be the best thing for Strikeforce.. This is a matchup you can put on pay per view... People like seeing rematches and especially with the way it happened, a lot of fans will want to see the matchup...
Could we see him retire? He says no and he will finish his fight contracted fight with Strikeforce... I think he faces Werdum and then signs a one fight contract with Strikeforce and face Overeem... Then, if he beats Overeem, then we will see his long and anticipated debut with the UFC towards the end of next year... But, Fedor needs to be making these decisions and not M-1 Global management... With this loss, Fedor will be more motivated than ever and went to cement his place as the greatest MMA fighter of all time... We will not see a Mike Tyson story, as the best is yet to come for Fedor Emelianenko...
Fedor Emelianenko is considered the MMA version of Mike Tyson.. He is the baddest man in MMA... He was beaten a whose who in MMA... Mirko Cro Cop, Minotauro Noguiera three times, Josh Barnett, Matt Lindeland, Kevin Randleman, Andrei Arlovski, Tim Sylvia and the list goes on... He was 31-1 and that lone loss was due to bad cut he suffered in the first 15 seconds back in 2000... So, Emelianenko was undefeated in his career... When you are undefeated, you are the baddest man on the planet and you are the best P4P fighter in the world today, no questions asked...
The knock on Fedor in the last 5 years is that he hasn't beat anybody since Cro Cop... He beat Matt Lindeland and yes he was a middleweight, but he only weighed 15 pounds less than Fedor going into that bout.. Then, he faced Hong Man Choi, who infamously faced former baseball star Jose Canseco... Then fights with Arlovski and Sylvia in Affliction and people said they were washed up since they weren't in the UFC anymore...
The only fight that he shouldn't have taken is the fight with Choi and he will admit that it was a freak show fight and shouldn't have done it... His management team, M-1 Global, which is a minority owner of, pulls a lot of the strings when it pertains to his career.. They are the reason he hasn't fought in the UFC and accepted their contract offer and has never had a face to face talk with UFC President Dana White.. I think if that happened, then he would be in the UFC...
And, this leads us to Saturday night as Fedor took on Fabricio Werdum... Everyone thought, including myself, that Fedor would easily walk over Werdum and then getting the highly anticpated matchup with Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Alistair Overeem... But, Werdum is a 2 time Brazilian Ji-Jitsu World Champion, which is nothing to laugh about...
And within the first 30 seconds Fedor knocked down Werdum with 2 left hands and a short right uppercut which rocked Werdum and knocked him down to the mat and Fedor went for the kill... But, he made a simple mistake and got caught as Werdum used his superior Ji-Jitsu and locked Fedor in a traingle choke and armbar and the rest is history... The great Fedor Emelianenko lost truely for the first time...
As always, Fedor was gracious even in defeat.. He gave credit to Werdum and said he needs to work on some things and hopes their will be a rematch in the near future.. That rematch needs to happen and that would be the best thing for Strikeforce.. This is a matchup you can put on pay per view... People like seeing rematches and especially with the way it happened, a lot of fans will want to see the matchup...
Could we see him retire? He says no and he will finish his fight contracted fight with Strikeforce... I think he faces Werdum and then signs a one fight contract with Strikeforce and face Overeem... Then, if he beats Overeem, then we will see his long and anticipated debut with the UFC towards the end of next year... But, Fedor needs to be making these decisions and not M-1 Global management... With this loss, Fedor will be more motivated than ever and went to cement his place as the greatest MMA fighter of all time... We will not see a Mike Tyson story, as the best is yet to come for Fedor Emelianenko...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Judging in MMA
Is the human eye good enough in MMA and do we need monitors at the judging table? The answer is most definitely yes.. After the WEC card on Sunday, it is more evident due to the draw in the main event with Jamie Varner vs Kamal Shalorus.. One judge for some ungod known reason scored the fight for Shalorus.. Varner dominated the whole fight and the only offense that Shalorus had were the 3 low kicks in the groin area... If I was Reed Harris, I would not make a rematch of this fight and I would match Varner against Ben Henderson for the Lightweight Title...
The question is: Was it on the level of Matt Hamill-Michael Bisping and Shogun-Machida 1? I would it was more on the level of Hamill-Bisping... With the Shogun-Machida fight, you could make the of Machida actually winning rounds and possinly the fight.. In the Hamill-Bisping fight, Bisping didnt even win a round..
It would be as simple as the judges having monitors to see if they did not see any of the action, like if there was a bad angle or the fighters were far enough and the judges couldn't see that far... It is basically up to the State Athletic Commisions.. Nevada is the trendsetter for everything.. Keith Kizer has said that right now it is not an option and Dana White has said numerous times that the fighters should never leave it in the hands of the judges.. There is a reason he says it and it is for that reason... So Mr.Kizer, lets get the ball rolling with this, and lets make a measure to have monitors for the judges and then all athletic commisions will start adopting the measure and we won't get result like the Varner-Shalorus fight this past Sunday night...
The question is: Was it on the level of Matt Hamill-Michael Bisping and Shogun-Machida 1? I would it was more on the level of Hamill-Bisping... With the Shogun-Machida fight, you could make the of Machida actually winning rounds and possinly the fight.. In the Hamill-Bisping fight, Bisping didnt even win a round..
It would be as simple as the judges having monitors to see if they did not see any of the action, like if there was a bad angle or the fighters were far enough and the judges couldn't see that far... It is basically up to the State Athletic Commisions.. Nevada is the trendsetter for everything.. Keith Kizer has said that right now it is not an option and Dana White has said numerous times that the fighters should never leave it in the hands of the judges.. There is a reason he says it and it is for that reason... So Mr.Kizer, lets get the ball rolling with this, and lets make a measure to have monitors for the judges and then all athletic commisions will start adopting the measure and we won't get result like the Varner-Shalorus fight this past Sunday night...
Friday, June 18, 2010
Today's show...
We would to thank sherdog.com writer Loretta Hunt, Bellator fighter Saul Almeida, Affliction President Tom Attencio and yahoo.com MMA blog writer Steve Cofield for coming on the show today... Who knew that Tom Attencio hated Josh Barnett with such a passion? I guess that's what happens when you cost the company millions of dollars and having to fold your promotion by testing positive for doing steroids for a third time.. And the sad part is he couldn't be a man and own up to the responsibility... It is the Tom Atencio's of the world who are good for the sport.. Admit your mistakes and move on and do not repeat those mistakes again..
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tomorrow's Show
On tomorrow's edition of The Fight Club, we will be recapping UFC 115 and the retirement of Chuck Liddell... We will be having Showdown Joe Ferraro from Fan590 in Canada at 12:15, Jason Harkes from canadianprofighter.com at 12:30 and former UFC fighter Tim Hague at 12:45.... So make sure tune to another action packed episode of The Fight Club from 11:00AM-1:00PM CST on www.sportstownchicago.com
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Tomorrow's Show
On tomorrow's edition of The Fight Club, we will be having Damon Martin from mmaweekly.com, will be on 1:40PM CST, Cat Albert, The Ring Of Fire 125LB Woman's Champion at 2:00PM and John Silver, MMA writer from the Chicago Sun Times will be on at 2:15 as we will be previewing UFC 115 and going over yesterday's two hour episode of The Ultimate Fighter and all things MMA... So make sure you tune in from 1:30PM-3:00PM Central Standard Time at www.sportstownchicago.com as it will be an action packed show, so do not miss it...
Monday, June 7, 2010
Tommorows Show
Tomorrow on the show, we will be having Danielle Vale, promoter of the Hoosier Fight Club, as they have a card this coming Friday night in Gary, so Danielle will be appearing the show at noon to hype up the show Saturday and the feeling to be the first female promoter to be regulated in the Midwest.. And we will be having our UFC insider Sean Lennin on at 12:30 to help preview UFC 115 this coming Saturday night. We will also be discussing all things MMA. Who are the top 5 pound for pound fighters in the world? Give us your thoughts, so tune in from 11:00AM-1:00Pm CST on www.sportstownchicago.com, call in at 630-403-5200 or email us at thefightclub2010@gmail.com.... And you even Facebook us... just search The Fight Club Chicago..
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