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You may or may not have heard this, but if you hadn't I'm calling "exclusive". Fedor Emelianenko has signed with Strikeforce! You read it here first! Right?

We can only hope that they didn't give ALL of their money to Fedor. Strikeforce has proven to be a pretty compelling show, even more so than when Affliction was around (when was that anyway?). If they pull an Attencio or a Shaw and sink all of their money into "The Last Emperor", they may go the way of the dodo($kala). Fortunately, SF already has a bunch of stars, great fighters, and compelling match-ups under their belt.

That being said, pull up a chair, relax, and allow me to spin a little yarn for you about a great Emperor that ruled over no one. Here's a list of HWs currently fighting in SF via their website:


Alistair Overeem: A 29-11-1 record sounds better of paper than it does in reality. He's lost to Shogun (twice), Werdum, and Nogueira, and beat a string of guys I mostly don't recognize (including Filipovic "twins", which I totally don't recognize). Does this mean he's a bad fighter? No. He suffers from the same dearth of competition that Fedor does. Fedor will kill him. I don't mean that metaphorically. He also beat Vitor Belfort twice, which puts him on my hate list. F' him.

Brett Rogers: "The Grim" beat the snot out of a slumping Andrei Arlovski. That's got to count for something, right? Sure it does. But he doesn't have the experience to take Fedor now (maybe not ever). Fedor also has the jaw of a real pit bull... one punch won't be enough, and what else has he got? Moxie?

Fabricio Werdum: A super-dee-duper Jits guy who's got some big fights to his name, then got his head punched off by Junior dos Santos. This is actually my favorite fight for Fedor. Why not? To paraphrase... some one's got to beat Fedor, why not Fabricio Werdum?

Bob Sapp: That's right, Bob Sapp.

Paul Buentello: Nah.

Phil Baroni's Ego: There's actually a good chance that the NYBA'a ego could overcome Fedor in a fight. It's def a heavyweight. But it would have to escape from the body of average fighter, and that would be it's down fall.

I could go on (not really, there's just not that many) but I'm not going to bother. Dana White might be right. Fedor will never be the best until he beats Ric Flair. He isn't doing that in Strikeforce. For years, the HW division in the UFC was a joke. I mean this guy was champ! The story goes that Randy Couture called D Dubbs and begged to come out of retirement because the HWs were lazy! But the new HWs are stacked, jacked and ready for crack! Fedor's missing out... on a handful of beatins'.

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