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War of '09: Match #11 - Metal X vs. bruteshot74

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Dana White's running criticism of Fedor Emelianenko is justified.​

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Dana White's running criticism of Fedor Emelianenko is justified.

I shall be taking the side of Dana White’s criticism of Fedor not being justified.

On March 27, 2007, Dream Stage Entertainment sold Pride to the Fertitta brothers, whom were the owners of a rival company known as the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The two fight promotions were set to do business in a cooperative manner, but it never ended up materializing. Instead of running Pride separately from Zuffa’s two MMA brands, the WEC and the UFC, they brought all the biggest fighters in to compete in the UFC.

When Pride fell, they had three champions, holding four belts. Dan Henderson was the middleweight (204.6 pounds) and welterweight champion (183 pounds), Takanori Gomi was the lightweight champion (161 pounds) and Fedor Emelianenko was the heavyweight champion (above 204.6 pounds). The UFC’s original plans were to have unification bouts in each of these divisions to crown an undisputed champion.

Dan Henderson would take place in two unification bouts. The first was at UFC 75 against Quinton Jackson, whom at the time was the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion (185 pounds). Henderson would go on to lose a hard decision. After that he fought Anderson Silva at UFC 82 to unify the Pride Welterweight and UFC Middleweight Championship’s. Henderson would once again get the short end of the stick losing by submission. Now all that was left to unify were the Lightweight and Heavyweight titles. Gomi went on to sign with World Victory Road and never came over to fight for the UFC. Last off was “The Last Emperor” Fedor Emelianenko. At times it seemed like Zuffa had him signed, but there was never at dotted signing on the line. We would even see UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture leave the UFC just so this fight could happen, but against nothing ever fell through. Fedor had wants that the UFC was not willing to give him and still to this day we do not see the best heavyweight fighter in the world in the UFC.

Dana White for one has let it be known that he is not happy about Fedor not signing with the UFC. In various video segments and interviews, Dana continued to bash Fedor. To get to the point of things, nothing that Dana has said has been justified. Lets take a quick look at some stats and bring up when they try and debate that Fedor is not the top pound for pound fighter in the world.

First off, look at the amount of former UFC Champions that are on his resume. To this day, Fedor has beat five UFC Heavyweight Champions, which consists of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (2 times), Mark Coleman (2 times), Kevin Randleman, Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski. Nogueira was able to take it the distance in both of the losing encounters, but Coleman, Randleman, Arlovski & Sylvia were all finished before the final bell rang. If that is not domination, then I do not know what is. These guys were boxers, BJJ black belts and All-American wrestlers, and Fedor was able to beat them all. Number six could be added to this list right away as well with a fight looming with Josh Barnett probably at the next Affliction event.

The thing that people like to bring up before his Affliction opponents was that he was not taking on game opponents. Look at his five opponents before Affliction. They were all wins against Hong-Man Choi, Matt Lindland, Mark Hunt, Mark Coleman and Zuluzinho. The Japanese like the freak show fights and that is where you insert Zulu and Choi. Choi outweighed Fedor by close to 100 pounds, while Zulu had 160 on him. I do not care how untalented these guys are, overcoming that much of a size difference has got to mean something in the end. Choi was even on top of him and Fedor still kept his cool and was able to finish the fight. Matt Lindland and Mark Coleman were two former UFC fighters who had both been near the top in their respective divisions at one time or another and once against Fedor dismantled them both. Finally you got Mark Hunt. He was the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix champion and a man who had got a reputation of being unfinishable. Fedor once again came out ending the fight via submission in the first round.

Since then as I said before, he has beat two former UFC Heavyweight Champions, both in devastating fashion, but still people doubt that he is the best. He has expressed interest in fighting Brock Lesnar & Randy Couture so maybe we shall see that one day, but it is something that I doubt. Seems like those would be two guys that Fedor needs on his resume to stop all this criticism he receives which is totally unjustified.

There is nothing more he can do to prove the haters wrong. His unblemished professional record and his legacy in the MMA world is something that we most likely are never going to see again.
 
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