My Take On: Strikeforce/M1 Global present Fedor vs Rogers

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fedorvsrogers 11x17 My Take On: Strikeforce/M1 Global present Fedor vs Rogers

Last week, I shared with you some footage of Fedor vs Rogers 360 on Show­time. This past Sat­ur­day, M1 Global and Strike­force pre­sented Fedor vs. Rogers on Sat­ur­day Night Fights. While this card had a lot of hype going in, I’ll be the first to admit that I expected most of the fights to be for­mu­laic in terms of the right guys win­ning and the card lack­ing   any drama. I’ll start off by say­ing that all the fights on the card delivered.

I am going to go fight by fight shar­ing my thoughts.

HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT — Anto­nio Silva (13–1) vs. Fabri­cio Wer­dum (12–4-1): Werdum-Decision

Excit­ing heavy­weight bout that showed a wealth of tal­ent with plenty of action. I expected Silva to come away with the vic­tory but Wer­dum (pro­nounced Ver-Doom) showed great cage aware­ness as well as great scram­bles and solid stand-up to defend against the larger opponent.

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT — Gegard Mousasi (26–2-1) vs. Rameau Thierry Sok­oud­jou (7–4): Mousasi-TKO 2nd Round

Mousasi, much like Fedor is very emo­tion­less and very tal­ented at just 24 years old. The fight started off very explo­sive with Sok­oud­jou show­ing great Judo skill and explo­sive strik­ing. I hon­estly thought “The African Assas­sin” stood a chance against “The Dream­catcher” but Mousasi main­tained his com­po­sure and cap­i­tal­ized on Sokuodjou’s lack of ground game to earn the TKO. Mousasi is just get­ting started and should be a force in the light heavy­weight divi­sion for years to come.
 
MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE BOUT — Jason “May­hem” Miller (22–6-1dr-1nc) vs. Jake Shields (23–4-1dr):
Shields-Unanimous Deci­sion

Shields vs. Miller was for the vacant Mid­dleweight Title and did not dis­ap­point. I really didn’t know much about May­hem going into this fight other than his work on the MTV show Bully Beat­down, but  he made a fan out of me with his per­for­mance against a very tal­ented Shields. Shields used his wrestling and Gra­cie Jiu-Jitsu skill to take the fight to May­hem, who while on the los­ing end of the deci­sion showed tremen­dous com­po­sure through­out the fight and had one of the coolest entrances I have ever seen in a US MMA fight. I see a rematch between these two in the near future. 

HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT: Fedor Emelia­nenko (31–1-1nc) vs. Brett Rogers (10–0): Fedor-TKO 2nd Round
 

Fedor and Rogers were fight­ing for the WAMMA Heavy­weight Title instead of the Strike­force title which is cur­rently held by Alas­tair Overeem. Rogers came into this fight as the under­dog, but boy did he promptly intro­duce him­self with a swift jab to Fedor’s face which may or may not have bro­ken his nose. Rogers showed zero fear in tak­ing the fight to Fedor, at one point secur­ing the mount and pum­mel­ing Fedor in the first round. Fedor has not seen a sec­ond round in years but seemed unfazed as the round started. Sadly, like I said last week, Rogers made a mis­take and was hit with a huge right that put him to sleep.

I must say Rogers got a lot fur­ther than I gave him credit for and had a decent chance. Fedor is a great strate­gist and knows to wait for his oppo­nent to make a mis­take. Rogers will see Fedor again since I am sure Fedor enjoyed the competition.

In clos­ing I’d like to com­mend Strike­force for a great card, but you guys need to get rid of Gus John­son because he sucks.

EA treated us to some footage of EA Sports MMA which showed not only what the game looks like but the main event we were about to see. While the footage was wel­come, the fight­ers didn’t look as real­is­tic as the ones in UFC Undis­puted 2009. Given that it was a just a trailer, I am sure EA will tighten up the graphics.

I am not sure I’d buy the EA game given how they gave the UFC a hard time when their game needed to be pub­lished but that may change if the game is good and has a good roster.Have a look for yourselves

My Take On: Strikeforce/M1 Global present Fedor vs Rogers
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Josh

Rogers had no chance. you could see the fear in him as he backed up at the beginning of the fight. yeah he made it to the second round but he is a much bigger fighter which gives him a big advantage. fedor is just much, much better and if they had a rematch rogers probably wouldn't do any better.

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Handel

Gotta disagree. I would think Fedor would not bother with someone that could not give him any issues. That dude has no fear in his eyes whatsoever. If I was as well known for making people tap as I was for knocking them the eff out, I'd have respect for the fact that I could not lock anything on Rogers. Rogers needs to up his ground offense because his defense against Fedor (on the ground) was great, all things considered. With some polishing by the right trainers, he could definitely beat Fedor - I gotta see a rematch.

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ANdrea

Shield's looked right at the clock and was well aware there was milliseconds left in the round....his cardio most likely allowed him to tough out that choke. Miller clearly was out-wrestled here. I didn't choose sides for this fight because Jake Shields is a great fighter, and Miller amuses me to no end. (come on, the guy DANCED to the cage!!!! fracking awesome!) I would have definitley liked to have seen at least one stand up round, however, strategy is how you win fights - and Shields KNEW not to stand with Miller. When a belt is on the line, you do what you have to, regardless of what the fans want.

Antonio Silva's back tattoo of a foot is dumb - and he has the loooooooongest face I have ever seen in my life. The doctor must have delivered him by pulling chin first...fight was good though...

I don't like Gaygard Moose-cocky or Predator Sokoudjou...so I slept throught that fight.

I can commentate better than Gus Johnson....Dear Strikeforce - offer me a job.

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Handel

I only caught the last two fights but I have to disagree on my feelings of the middleweight bout. Miller did stay very cool and really was on the floor most of the fight to the dismay of the crowd (boos heard more than once), but Miller won the fight to me. MMA is the "anything can happen" sport and in something like that, I do not feel that one should be saved by the bell. Miller was biding his time the whole fight and was unlucky enough to score the rear naked choke in the final 10 seconds of round 3 (correct me if I am wrong on that number). He better get a rematch because Shields was seconds from straight passing out - he was not getting out of that hold.

Rogers earned my respect and I was proud of his performance (for the most part) against Fedor - considering I feel that no one gave any credit to Rogers against "the greatest MMA fighter in the world." I hate titles like that. I feel that Rogers did show some fear against Fedor and on at least one occasion he backed up when he should not have. Fedor must respect Rogers and not because he got his nose busted; not because he had to fight a second round; not because he got pounded out horribly on the ground. Fedor was unable to truly show dominance like he normally does and if not for that one instant, I think the fight would have gone decision (which in my book would make Rogers the winner) Fedor had at least three submissions locked in and Rogers was like "you ain't getting me this way," powering out of each one. If Rogers works on speed and evasion and keeps up his ground game, Fedor is gonna have a serious problem in a rematch. I would love to see Rogers payback Fedor with a TKO of his own.

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