Perhaps the greatest fight of the year, only four days left.

I'm talking about Fedor Emelianenko vs. Dan Henderson.

Let's start with the fighters and you will see what I mean when I say this might be the greatest fight of the year.

First we have Dan "Hendo" Henderson, a very good olympic greco-roman wrestler, who has won gold and silver in Pan American Championships and the World Cup in greco-roman wrestling.

Henderson has then moved on to a very solid MMA career, noted for his chin (He has never been knocked out), a very strong mind and a powerful right hand that knocks everyone out once it connects.

His MMA record stands at 27 wins 8 losses. 12 of his wins are by knockouts, his losses are 5 decisions and 3 submissions. He's 3 time Pride FC champion, a former UFC champion and current Strikeforce Light Heavyweight champion. Henderson is noted for fighting in different weight****s, having won championships in welterweight, middleweight and light heavyweight.

His opponent is Fedor "The Russian Experiment" Emelianenko.

Fedor, is black belt in Judo, having won bronze in the world cup of Judo, but where he excells at is Sambo. A russian martial art that resembles Judo, winning gold in world combat Sambo championships four time. Fedor is noted is for being able to take the fight anywhere it goes, pulling of quick submissions or defeating his opponents with his heavy hands, his mind coming in to fight is probably one of the best, the man never loses his cool.

His MMA record stands at 31 wins, 3 losses. 8 wins by knockout and 16 wins by submissions, his losses are 1 doctor stoppage, 1 cut and one submission. He's a 2 time Pride FC champion, 2 time Rings champion and a Wamma champion.

Both of these fighters are mentally very tough, have heavy hands and both are very exciting to watch.

This is basically Street Fighter/Tekken come to life. If I got you hyped up for this fight, then remember the date July 30th.

man i didnt even know this was happining! wow am def watching this.. i got fedor, lets see if he comes back from that loss...

what weight are they fighting at? HoolaHoopMan

henderson never fought anyone good, and got destroyed by anderson silva. he thinks he's good enough to be paid high when he's a boring fighter. dana white let this cocky fool go which was a good movehadoken

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

immortality20

Not true! The greatest fight of the year happened already...right in my backyard and I was there to witness it. A black spider vs a wasp. The spider won by the way.

That was the greatest fight this year!

[QUOTE="immortality20"]

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

m25105

I'm sorry I can't jump on his bandwagon. If he wanted to prove he was the absolute best, UFC is the place to do it. I don't think he'd get by Carwin, Valaesquez, and Lesnar. He even turned down an auto title fight and like couple million a fight. Just so he doesn't have to fight the best.

I wish cross promotion fights weren't a fantasy.

Dan Henderson has been owned by Anderson Silva, twice. He's a solid fighter, but I wouldnt say he's one of the greatest.

[QUOTE="m25105"][QUOTE="immortality20"]

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

immortality20

I'm sorry I can't jump on his bandwagon. If he wanted to prove he was the absolute best, UFC is the place to do it. I don't think he'd get by Carwin, Valaesquez, and Lesnar. He even turned down an auto title fight and like couple million a fight. Just so he doesn't have to fight the best.

I wish cross promotion fights weren't a fantasy.

Or let's take Fedor's own words.

"The contract that we were presented with by the UFC was simply impossible, couldn't be signed -- I couldn't leave. If I won, I had to fight eight times in two years.
If I lost one fight, then the UFC had the right to rip up the contract. At the conclusion of the contract, if I am undefeated, then it automatically extends for an as yet unspecified period of time, though for the same compensation."Basically I can't leave undefeated.

I can't give interviews, appear in films or advertising. I don't have the right to do anything without the UFC's agreement. I could do nothing without the OK from the UFC. I didn't have the right to compete in combat sambo competition. It's my national sport. It's the Russian sport, which in his time our president competed in, and I no longer have the right to do so.

There were many such clauses; the contract was 18 pages in length. It was written in such a way that I had absolutely no rights while the UFC could at any moment, if something didn't suit them, tear up the agreement. We worked with lawyers who told us that it was patently impossible to sign such a document."

Fedor

Dan Henderson has been owned by Anderson Silva, twice. He's a solid fighter, but I wouldnt say he's one of the greatest.

sonicare

Dan Henderson has been owned by Anderson Silva, twice. He's a solid fighter, but I wouldnt say he's one of the greatest.

[QUOTE="HoolaHoopMan"]what weight are they fighting at? m25105

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

immortality20

[QUOTE="m25105"][QUOTE="HoolaHoopMan"]what weight are they fighting at? HoolaHoopMan

Fedors record is decent but in the past few years it hasnt been great, his managment did duck the UFC for sure. Dana White was going to give him one of the best contracts in MMA with an immediate shot at Lesnar and M1 Global turned it down for the lesser deal at Strikeforce, they definatly were protecting Fedors legacy and win streak. Fedor faught great fighters at one time in his career but the last few years he has been no where near the level of Dos Santos and Lesnar sadly, I hope he kick starts his career though and would like to see him fight in the future.V4LENT1NE

he thinks he's good enough to be paid highhadoken

when he's a boring fighterhadoken

dana white let this cocky fool go which was a good movehadoken

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

when he's a boring fighterhadoken

dana white let this cocky fool go which was a good movehadoken

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

immortality20

Scared to fight in the UFC? He's fighting the best Heavyweights in the world in Strikeforce.

Wow need to check this out

Hendo gave Silva some of the best competition that he's faced in the UFC to date. It won Fight of the Night. Even still, who doesn't Silva destroy? [QUOTE="hadoken"] Henderson boring? Really? What more could you possibly want from him? [QUOTE="hadoken"]dana white let this cocky fool go which was a good movedodgerblue13

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"]Fedors record is decent but in the past few years it hasnt been great, his managment did duck the UFC for sure. Dana White was going to give him one of the best contracts in MMA with an immediate shot at Lesnar and M1 Global turned it down for the lesser deal at Strikeforce, they definatly were protecting Fedors legacy and win streak. Fedor faught great fighters at one time in his career but the last few years he has been no where near the level of Dos Santos and Lesnar sadly, I hope he kick starts his career though and would like to see him fight in the future.m25105

[QUOTE="immortality20"]

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

heytheredarlin

Scared to fight in the UFC? He's fighting the best Heavyweights in the world in Strikeforce.

[QUOTE="m25105"][QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"]Fedors record is decent but in the past few years it hasnt been great, his managment did duck the UFC for sure. Dana White was going to give him one of the best contracts in MMA with an immediate shot at Lesnar and M1 Global turned it down for the lesser deal at Strikeforce, they definatly were protecting Fedors legacy and win streak. Fedor faught great fighters at one time in his career but the last few years he has been no where near the level of Dos Santos and Lesnar sadly, I hope he kick starts his career though and would like to see him fight in the future.V4LENT1NE

Tim Sylvia was never the model athelete people somehow have in their minds, that fighters should be. But the Tim Sylvia vs Ray Mercer fight that people complained about his shape, happened a 11 months after he fought Fedor. You can get out of shape in less than a week by just eating junk food.

Andrei Arlovoski was ranked number two at the time Fedor fought him, prior to that people were saying how Fedor was ducking Arlovski, look what happened.

And MMA MATH FAILS!

With your logic Chuck Lidell sucks too, cause he got owned by Rampage as does Randy Couture against Lyoto Machida as well as Chris Leben against Brian Stann. Hell even Anderson Silva sucks cause he lost to a heel hook back in Pride. But that doesn't count? A fighter gets caught sometimes, it happens, Werdum got caught by Junior Dos Santos who happens to be a knockout artist and now Werdum suddenly sucks? The man made Alistair Overeem look bad in the times when they enganged standing up (which wasn't a lot, due to Werdum trying to troll Overeem down on the ground) and is probably one of the best jiu-jutsu practioners in the world. Fighters evolve, the Werdum that fought against Dos Santos is not the same Werdum we have now.

Fedor made a mistake, it happens for any fighter, he thought he smelled blood and went in for the kill and got trapped with no sweat to help him get out.

You seem to respect the UFC more than fighters and again, the UFC fighters have had nothing, but respectful comments towards Fedor always saying stuff like "Fedor is a true champion", "He's the best" etc.

Fedor has already made it clear why he didn't sign with the UFC. There is not much to it.

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"]How is Werdum not the same as he is now? You mean that he is to chicken **** to even stand with people now like he did with Reem? Werdum was on a 2 fight win streak over big names when he faced Dos Santos, and he got destroyed. I am not saying Fedor is bad, I am saying in his recent years he has been sheltered by M1 Global and Pride nostalgia nut huggers plain and simple, he was the best, maybe even the best ever, but he isnt now and M1 Global and milking him dry. The reason they didnt get the deal with UFC is because M1 wanted to Co Promote to get more money off Fedors name because they have no other decent fighters, thats it plain and simple, they couldnt co promote and they new he would be going up against the likes of Lesnar, Dos Santos and Cain, they were ******* their pants and even when Fedor got offered a stupid amount of money and an immediate title shot his managment made Dana jump through hoops, they did not want him in the UFC. Even Dana White said he flew to random countrys and gave him probably the best deal he couldnt get anywhere else and his managment still would not take it, thats greedy M1 Global for you, they want him safe and they want to co promote, thats why Fedor isnt the best right now like he was in Pride. I am no UFC nuthugger, but I love my MMA from all companys whether it be Dream, Strikeforce, Affliction(RIP), Pride(RIP) or whatever so dont start pulliung that one either. I just like to watch the best fight the best and right now Fedor isnt fighting the best and hasnt done for some time, thats all I have to say on it.m25105

[QUOTE="m25105"][QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"]How is Werdum not the same as he is now? You mean that he is to chicken **** to even stand with people now like he did with Reem? Werdum was on a 2 fight win streak over big names when he faced Dos Santos, and he got destroyed. I am not saying Fedor is bad, I am saying in his recent years he has been sheltered by M1 Global and Pride nostalgia nut huggers plain and simple, he was the best, maybe even the best ever, but he isnt now and M1 Global and milking him dry. The reason they didnt get the deal with UFC is because M1 wanted to Co Promote to get more money off Fedors name because they have no other decent fighters, thats it plain and simple, they couldnt co promote and they new he would be going up against the likes of Lesnar, Dos Santos and Cain, they were ******* their pants and even when Fedor got offered a stupid amount of money and an immediate title shot his managment made Dana jump through hoops, they did not want him in the UFC. Even Dana White said he flew to random countrys and gave him probably the best deal he couldnt get anywhere else and his managment still would not take it, thats greedy M1 Global for you, they want him safe and they want to co promote, thats why Fedor isnt the best right now like he was in Pride. I am no UFC nuthugger, but I love my MMA from all companys whether it be Dream, Strikeforce, Affliction(RIP), Pride(RIP) or whatever so dont start pulliung that one either. I just like to watch the best fight the best and right now Fedor isnt fighting the best and hasnt done for some time, thats all I have to say on it.V4LENT1NE

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"]

[QUOTE="m25105"] So it all boils down you taking Dana Whites side on why Fedor didn't sign with the UFC and me taking Fedor's side. I think I'll go Fedor on this one.m25105

[QUOTE="m25105"][QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"] And what is M1 Globals excuse? Sorry I meant Fedor. Becasue from what I read is was all that M1 wanted to Co Promote and get more money.

V4LENT1NE

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[QUOTE="immortality20"]

Fedor's done, the legend is broken. He might win this fight but he's still a coward who didn't want to fight the best in the UFC. Hell Silva can jump up TWO weight classes and still beat him.

V4LENT1NE

Scared to fight in the UFC? He's fighting the best Heavyweights in the world in Strikeforce.

You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. Strikeforce's Heavyweight division is pretty stacked. Bigfoot, Kharitonov, Overeem, and Werdum are all legit. I'd take any of those guys over Lesnar, Carwin, and Mir anyday.

Since someone has trouble finding Fedor's own words on the very first page, here is a video instead of him explaining why he didn't sign in the contract.

My 8th grade PE teacher was Dan Henderson's father, he talked about him all the time and even had posters up. im not so sure of the validity of his statement cause he always seemed kind of sketch, but my teacher had the same facial structure so i guess it could be true

My 8th grade PE teacher was Dan Henderson's father, he talked about him all the time and even had posters up. im not so sure of the validity of his statement cause he always seemed kind of sketch, but my teacher had the same facial structure so i guess it could be true

omus101

[QUOTE="omus101"]

My 8th grade PE teacher was Dan Henderson's father, he talked about him all the time and even had posters up. im not so sure of the validity of his statement cause he always seemed kind of sketch, but my teacher had the same facial structure so i guess it could be true

BMD004

Honestly i don't remember his first name. This was in Victorville, CA and ive seen when Dan is introduced it sometimes says he fights from Temecula which isn't too far off

Final edit- i did some research and apparently his dad's name is bill, and Dan was an alumni at my old high school, pretty cool i guess, his dad was a pretty strict teacher though