What You Should Know, and What I Think of It. Strike­force is mak­ing some moves this week, hav­ing announced the World Grand Prix Heavy­weight Tour­na­ment. It is a three-stage, single-elimination tour­na­ment tak­ing place over sev­eral events in this year. Further, they have signed a multi-year agree­ment to co-promote events head­lined by...

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...

Fedor Emelia­nenko is a name that for the last few years has been syn­ony­mous with “the gold stan­dard” for heavy­weight fight­ers. Fast, Strong, Sub­mis­sions, Sambo and KO Power are the words used to describe this emo­tion­less phe­nom, and with good rea­son. Fedor comes into this bout poised to claim another vic­tim and show the UFC why he...