I don’t know if you know this or not, but a living legend is stepping into the cage this weekend and trading punches with a brazilian sasquatch. Thats right cocksuckers, Fedor is back and he is looking to reclaim his throne. Before GSP and Anderson Silva were dominating their respective divisions, Fedor was bashing faces and scalping skulls in Japan. He won 27 fights in a row with wins over 5 former UFC champions. He wasn’t just winning most of these fights, he was completely dominating them. MMA fanboys would cream their pants at the slightest mention of his name. Dana White did nearly everything besides blow his manager trying to get him to come to the UFC. All the while, Fedor still had time to shop for sweaters and enjoy a couple of ice cream cones.
All that seemed to come to an end last summer when Fabrico Werdum slapped a triangle on the ultra aggressive Russian and choke the mystique right out of Fedor. The sense of invisibility came to a crashing halt and all of a sudden, no one seemed to give a shit about him anymore. He is fighting this saturday night against a very game Antonio Silva and yet there seems to be little buzz in the air. MMA is very much a what have you done for me lately kind of sport but the lack of excitement for a Fedor fight is somewhat astonishing even considering his recent loss. Lets face it, when you get on the ground with a guy as talented as Fabrico Werdum the chances of survival are about as good as the chance that your girlfriend wouldn’t blow John Stamos if Uncle Jessie starts waving his dick in her face. Sorry guys, but the chances are your girl is going to have a Full Mouth. Fedor took a chance to finish the fight like he has done so many times before and got caught in the spider web that is Werdum’s guard. Shit happens in MMA. It just so happens that shit had never happened before with Fedor so most people didn’t know how to react.
The great thing about MMA is that everyone is beatable. It only takes a split second mistake and all of a sudden some crazy Brazilian is trying to bend your arm the wrong way or maybe you bob instead of weave and you run right into an overhand right causing you to wake up in a puddle of your own slobber and blood. Fedor was never invincible but that doesn’t mean he isn’t freakishly good. This weekend we will be treated to the return of a monster and I think he has something to prove.
The Fedor/Silva fight kicks off a hell of a heavyweight tournament which could really bring Strikeforce into the mainstream. Don’t sleep on Strikeforce if you enjoy watching highly trained people try to hurt each other. The UFC is by far the superior organization but there are some really good fighters and match ups to watch in Strikeforce. The winner of this tournament may have a real legitimate claim as the best heavyweight fighter in the world.
Fedor has came all the way from shitty-ass Russia where he spends his time armbarring brown bears and shadowboxing with wolves to prove once again that he is the fucking man. Tune in this weekend to Showtime to see how Emelianenko rebounds from the only real obstacle he has faced in his whole career. I have a feeling there are still a few more chapters to write in the legend of the Last Emperor.
