Brock Lesnar is not an easy prey for Aistair Overeem

Brock Lesnar doing his thing

Zuffa have a pleasant gift for all the MMA fans out there - UFC 141 features a main event bout between Strikeforce's former champion Alistair Oereem and the former UFC champion Brock Lesnar. A fantasy matchup that the fans have demanded and now have it given to them. Good job, Dana!

You know that I'm the last person on Earth to make predictions. With that said, I feel that Brock Lesnar is going to beat Overeem.

I just watched Brock's newest "I'm back after the surgery" video (the one where he shot an innocent buck deer) and to me Brock looked super fucking depressed, mentally beat up and almost... hmmm...  crazy?
His mumbling about still being the baddest man on the planet didn't look scripted to me. It looked like Brock really had lost his mind.
It's not a surprise after the horrible experience he had gone through - the guy just lost 30 centimeters of his colon bowel, so he most probably is not in a good physical shape either.
Add to this the fact that Brock Lesnar is considered to be an one-trick pony, a newbie and a learner of the game of MMA, a glass-hearted gold digger and a Zuffa cash cow who is afraid to get punched in the face, and you may start to think that he'd be an easy prey for Alistair Overeem.
I mean, Overeem is that unstoppable Dutch striker, he is the Strikeforce champion and the K-1 GP winner, so Lesnar has no chance against him, right?

Let me explain why you punks are all Wrong.

It's very easy - this fight is a super bad matchup for Overeem.
Lesnar may not have a whole lot of diverse tools and weapons in his arsenal, but the guy has the only thing that is required to beat Overeem: Wrestling - the skill that so many MMA fans fail to understand is the single most important martial art in the whole game.
I know what people are going to reply to this and I kind of sorta agree with that: Lesnar's wrestling is a tad overrated. Maybe it is!
But no matter how mediocre Brock's wrestling has become, it is still *WAY* better than the wrestling skills of the fighters Overeem's been fighting so far. Brock has scored a takedown in every single one of his fights. Including against a top wrestler in Cain Velasquez.

So you can forget about Overeem stuffing Bock's takedowns. Lesnar is not Werdum - he simply takes people down at will, and when he takes them down, he fucking runs through them. His top control and the pressure he applies on a grounded opponent are hard to overcome. Plus I am pretty sure that 90% of Lesnar's training camp will be focused on taking Overeem down and mauling him from the top position.

In  other words, I am pretty sure that Overeem is going to be taken down by Lesnar.
I'm tired of listening to all those claims about how good Overeem's ground game is. The Reem's grappling is good, and it is more than OK in the standup - he has submitted quite a few people with a standing guillotine... but great grappling skills from the guard he does not possess.
So what the fuck is The Reem gonna do from the bottom? Triangle Brock?
And let's not forget that Overeem CHOKES in big fights and that he has one of the weakest chins in the HW division. Once Lesnar starts ground and pounding him, I don't see him coming out of this.

So, will Overeem beat a sick, depressed, weak, coming from a 12 month lay off Brock Lesnar?
I wouldn't bet the house on that!
Brock Lesnar by ground and pound KO.

Fedor "loses" to Dan Henderson via TERRIBLE early stoppage ROBBERY

Fedor Emelianenko and Dan Henderson

So, Fedor just lost to Dan Henderson...This is what his MMA record will show from now on - a loss to Hendo. However, what his record will not be showing is the way he lost: via ref robbery!

The early stoppage in a nutshell:

Fedor loses position in the ground game and while on all four gets hit by an upercut from Dan Henderson, coming from behind his back and underneath his armpit. As a result Fedor suffers a flash knockout for about one second, he then recovers and starts fighting back immediately, but Herb Dean stops the fight in a great hurry.

What kind of bullshit is that???! Fedor was robbed.

When Brock Lesnar was flash KO-ed by Cain Velasquez and when he hit the ground face-first, the referee, Herb Dean, gave him all he time in the world to recover. But when Fedor got rocked by Hendo, the same damn referee, was in a bloody hurry to call the fight off!

BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!

So, you bums don't think that Fedor deserves at least the same recovery time they gave to fucking Cheick Kongo when he got dropped by Pat Barry?
Don't you, punks, remember the Paul Daley vs Nick Diaz fight? Don't you? Are you telling me that when Daley flash-KO'ed Diaz and Nick did a faceplant and was out for a second, the fight should have been stopped? Don't you, morons, remember what happened when Diaz recovered from that short flash knockout? He freaking beat the snot out of Daley - the guy who just knocked his ass out for a second.
...Bloody teenage punk ass emos...

You know what?  Screw you, screw Herb Dean and screw Herb's closest friend - Dana White too!

Not to get too deep into conspiracy theories, but hey: you know what I mean? *wink*

Brett Rogers unlawfully fired by Dana White

Brett Rogers (left) with Fedor Emelianenko

So, elite MMA fighter and Strikeforce top contender Brett 'The Grim' Rogers allegedly beats his wife and child in a domestic quarrel and gets arrested.
As a result of the arrest, the new president of Strikeforce, Dana White, fires Brett Rogers immediately.
Hmm...
Don't you people find it interesting that Dana was too quick to pull the trigger on Brett Rogers without any proof of his guilt?
I am not saying that Rogers is innocent but guess fucking what: legally he is just that. Until proven guilty.
So, technically Brett Rogers was fired unlawfully and in my humble opinion SHOULD fucking sue Dana's ass.


I wonder what's next, Dana?
Firing fighters, based on rumors you heard in the locker room? I'm sure you've done this too.

The control Zuffa & Dana White have over MMA is just fucking ridiculous. These dudes are literally doing whatever the fuck they want to.
They have done it all: they have fired fighters after only one loss while keeping fighters on a long losing streak, they have bashed fighters from competitive orgs just to sign them a month later and now, with Brett Rogers, they are playing The Jure & Citizen Law too! Quite literally.

This shit is fucking ridiculous. Obviously Zuffa control the MMA market. But who the fuck controls and regulates them?
Let me give you a hint: it's not the NSAC.

Brock Lesnar is out with health problems --> Junior Dos Santos gets screwed by Dana White.

Dana's golden boy Brock Lesnar

The latest news in the world of MMA is that UFC's superstar Brock Lesnar is out of the game for god knows how long due to health problems. I'm not a Brock hater and I wish him a fast recovery. With that said, I think that Brock Lesnar is and has always been nothing but Dana's personal cash cow.

Anyway, Brock is out and the bout between him and Junior Dos Santos is not going to happen. Dos Santos will have to fight Shane Carwin instead.

And this brings up the question: Why isn't Dana White just doing a Velasquez vs Dos Santos title fight?
This was the initial schedule before Dana decided to give Brock Lesnar another push and another undeserved try at getting the title. Yep, I understand - money talks here and it is all about the pay-per-views, but Brock is out now! The big PPV money is gone, so can we have our sport back, Dana?

The eternal contender Junior Dos Santos

Why not just go back to fair matchmaking again, you clown?

A few months ago things were well arranged and simple. The announced plan was very logical: Lesnar fights Velasquez in a title bout and then Junior Dos Santos faces the winner of that fight for the title. Cool, huh? Problem is, it didn't go that way, apparently.

The champion Cain Velasquez got injured and, instead of waiting for his well deserved title shot, Junior Dos Santos was arranged to fight the LOSER of Velasquez / Lesnar (which happened to be Brock Lesnar) so to be able to eventually get to a belt fight...
Maybe it was Velasquez's injury that forced JDS to seek an immediate payday in a non-title fight, who knows... But it looks like Junior just got the money that he needed - I'm sure that his paycheck for coaching in TUF was just as good, if not better, than any salary he's ever gotten. So now he can just sit and wait for Velasquez to recover, right?

Dana White

Wrong!
Dana still makes him fight another contender in Shane Crwin. Talk about getting screwed.

Now, when Lesnar is having health issues, there is no longer any point in making Dos Santos fight another contender before he gets his shot at Cain Velasquez! The fucking shot that he earned way back in time...

JDS should wait for Cain Velasquez to recover and fight the champion.
Or does Junior have to fight 50 more guys before he gets his shot, Dana, you oily piece of shit?

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Fedor Knocks Out A Movie Stuntman

It looks like some funny shit happened at the set of  Fedor Emelianenko's first movie - "The Salamander Key".
In this video interview Fedor tells the story and I took my time to translate it for you, you MMA weirdos. Next time learn Russian just like I learned English, you punks. Transcription is below the video:

Fedor:
You know, I actually liked acting in a movie - it was interesting, but I feel that at this stage I should not be doing this because I am a sportsman and I have to compete. 

Fedor:
There was a curious and not very pleasant situation involving me and a stuntman. The scene didn't go the way we rehearsed it.

Journaist:
What happened?
Fedor (smiles):
He suffered a light knockout.

Fedor:
I wish that people started thinking a little bit more and always tried to do good things, it doesn't matter whether in a movie or in real life.

Fedor Emelianenko's Movie Is Finally Out - 'The Salamander Key' (previously titled "The Fifth Execution")

Russian Poster for 'The Salamander Key'

The MMA community has been waiting for Fedor's first feature movie to come out for quite some time. Two years or so, if I'm not mistaken.
Don't know what took the movie crew so long to release the thing but it's great news that the film is finally going to see the day light with its Russian  premiere on the 24-th of March.

The name of the movie has been chaged from "The Fifth Execution" to "The Salamander Key". I like the new title better - makes things sound more mysterious and catchy. And this is a good thing even for an action movie - it's good to see they have dumped the dudebro approach, even though no body was going to complain should they've left the old title anyway.

Poster for the old title - 'The 5th Execution'

Just saw the new trailer (the old one was a 30-minutes long excerpt on YouTube) and it looked promising.
You can't go wrong with names like Rutger Hauer & Michael Madsen. The film is going to deliver lots of violence, firearm figths and explosions, all of this combined with a touch of female nudity. Sounds good enough to me. I'm gonna watch it.
And you know what, I think The Salamander key is a must-watch movie for every MMA fan. No body expects great acting from Fedor but hey, no body expects great acting from the whole cast anyway. Action movies are not meant to please the intellectual elite of the population, are they? All we want to see is the greatest MMA fighter of all time kick some ass in a movie. So go see the film, you chumps.

Scot Coker Speaks Up About The Zuffa Purchace of Strikeforce + Fedor's Next Fight

A great video interview with Scott Coker by the Inside MMA guys. Don't know how to comment on this. Just watch it.

Or maybe I'll just sum it up: 

- Scott Coker believes that the Strikeforce brand will not die off and will not get engulfed by the UFC.

- The relation between Strikeforce and the Japanese MMA promotion Dream remains intact.

- Women's MMA will be kept alive in Strikeforce.

- A Strikeforce / CBS deal is possible.

- Fedor has "multiple fights" remaining in Strikeforce and his contract is with the San Jose MMA promotion, not with Showtime.

- M-1 Global had to learn about the purchase from the news.

- UFC vs Strikeforce superfights will be happening. It is a matter of time.

- Looks like Dana White is not directly involved with Strikeforce. Lorenzo Feritta is.