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I made a short twitter message about the Fedor Rogers
fight, and I got a lot of feedback from it, so I thought
I should elaborate when I got some free time.
What I said in the message was that I thought Fedor got
exposed a bit.
What was going through my mind after the fight before I
wrote that tweet, was that I was surprised that Rogers
was able to easily reverse Fedor, despite the fact that
he's not a very experienced grappler. The conventional
wisdom was that if Fedor could get the fight to the
ground he would be able to finish it quickly, but
obviously that wasn't the case.
Rogers wasn't able to hold Fedor down and only landed a
few clean shots, but I couldn't help wonder what Lesnar
would have been able to do with that position.

I think part of Rogers' success there lays in that he's
very powerful and athletic, and also that he's just such
a huge guy. At 230lbs I absolutely believe that Fedor is
the very best in the world, but at 265 I'm not sure if
that weight difference is not too much of a disadvantage.
For sure he's one of the top 3 pound for pound fighters
in the world, and determining who is number 1 is really
just a matter of opinion and speculation. The truly
amazing thing about Fedor is that he has gone through his
career as a heavyweight undefeated except for one cut,
yet he could easily fight at 205 or possibly even at 185
if he really wanted to get crazy. That just shows you
what a special fighter he is.
At heavyweight when guys like Lesnar or Rogers get up as
big as 265 at the weigh in and maybe 20lbs over that
during fight time I really wonder if these gigantic super
athletic guys with better grappling like Brock might be
able to exploit that size advantage where Rogers
couldn't.

I've always been, and continue to be a huge fan of Fedor.
I love his style, I love his no frills approach to
training, and I love his emotionless approach to combat.
Objectively though, I think there are some exploitable
holes in his striking that we saw a little in the
Arlovski fight, and the size disadvantage he has against
the best big men might be a big problem if they were to
meet as well.
He's not perfect, but he sure is fun as hell to watch.

When I think about the best pound for pound fighters in
the sport I think of Anderson, GSP, Fedor and BJ. The guy
who has been impressing me the most lately is really GSP
for his ability to neutralize really dangerous guys like
Thiago Alves and Jon Fitch. Sure, he's made mistakes and
lost in the past, but I think that might be one of the
things that make him so good. He's learned from his
mistakes and adjusted and improved. His ability to
implement the perfect game plan is the best, in my
opinion.
Anderson impresses me the most with his spectacular
finishes, and his beautiful technical striking. With
Fedor it's his ability to rag doll bigger guys like
Rogers and land brutal bombs on guys like Arlovski, Tim
and Brett and just the sheer savagery of his aggression.

Really I would love to see Fedor fight anyone in the UFC,
but if I had my choice I would want to see him fight
Anderson over Brock. I think they are much closer in
weight, and I think it could be an incredible fight.

The UFC pays me, and it's an honor to work for them, but
I am and always will be a fan of all mixed martial arts.
I watch it all, including all the HDNET fights, K-1,
boxing, etc.
I have never been told to alter my opinions, and if it
comes out of my mouth whether you agree with it or not,
it's my opinion and not the talking points of my
employers. There was a lot of talk after my twitter post,
and I just wanted to clear things up as much as possible.
A lot can be lost in 140 characters. In the future I'll
try to avoid confusing comments like that without
elaborating on what I meant.