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Published: November 7, 2009
On Saturday Night November 7th it’s Strikeforece Fedor versus Rogers from the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. In the main event it will be a fight in the heavyweight division, as Fedor Emelianenko will take on Brett Rogers. Strikeforce Fedor versus Rogers is set to air at 9PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by CBS. The current odds reveal Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko as the –600 favorite with Brett “The Grim” Rogers the heavy underdog returning +400 to pull off the major upset victory.
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Fedor Emelianenko enters his bout with a record of 30 victories with 1 no contest and 1 disqualification with 7 wins by knockout and 16 submissions. Fedor was last seen in an MMA bout way back in January of this year in the now defunct Affliction organization by defeating former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski by knockout in a little more than 3 minutes of the first round. Prior to Fedor’s knockout of Arlovski he defeated another former UFC Heavyweight champion in Tim Sylvia by a rear naked choke at Affliction Banned in just thirty six seconds in July of 2008. Fedor has only fought in an MMA bouts for 4 minutes in the past 16 months heading to his fight with Brett Rogers. He has just made quick work of his opponents. Fedor was scheduled to fight Josh Barnett at Affliction Trilogy on July 22nd of this year but the bout was cancelled as Barnett tested positive for a steroid. Soon after Affliction MMA was shut down and went belly up.
Brett Rogers owns a professional record of 10 wins and 0 losses with 9 wins coming by knockout and 1 submission. Rogers is an American MMA fighter who has competed for over 3 years and made his debut in the sport in May of 2006. Rogers has a notable victory in his last fight by defeating Andrei Arlovski by TKO punches on the Strikeforce Lawler versus Shields card in June of this year. He owns victories over heavyweights Jon Murphy and James Thompson. Brett “The Grim” Rogers stands six foot five inches tall and 265 pounds. He is fighting out of St Paul Minnesota and has boxing, wrestling and Muay Thai training in his repertoire.
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Fedor Emelianenko has a tremendous experience advantage over the challenger. Fedor has fought professionally since 2000 and was the last Pride Heavyweight champion. Fedor owns notable wins Mirko Filipovic, Mark Coleman and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. His submission skills are outstanding and will have a huge advantage over his opponent Brett Rogers when they hit the mat. Many experts expect Fedor Emelianenko to make quick work of the challenger. Rogers is a striker with several of his victories coming by way of his heavy punch. But MMA is not all about striking ability and when the two combatants hit the mat how will Rogers defend against Fedor’s trademark arm bar submission?
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Affliction Clothing (1 comments.) on Fri, 20th Nov 2009 5:21 pm
This was awesome, what did everyone think? Heard Dana White was dissing it?
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