Brett Rogers to Appear on ESPN 2 Tomorrow
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Nov 3, 2009 at 11:37 pm ET8 Comments
Strikeforce heavyweight Brett Rogers, who takes on Fedor Emelianenko in the main event of Saturday’s CBS-televised event, will make live appearances tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov. 4) on ESPN 2.
Rogers will appear at 10am ET on “First Take” and will also be a guest on “Sports Nation” at 4pm ET.
For the latest Strikeforce news and Strikeforce rumors stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.
Tags: Brett Rogers
Loading ...
Hmmmm. He seems a little relaxed considering he’s fighting arguably the greatest fighter ever.
Guess Strikeforce really did pay him enough to pay for that house of his.
Rogers has every right to be relaxed IMO.
All of the pressure is on Fedor to deliver Saturday night. It’s not Rogers’ handler/s who make a$$es of themselves signing their man to sideshow fights and passing them off as top shelf competition, it’s not Rogers’ handler/s who make insane demands from potential employers and embarrass their man in the process, and its not Rogers’ handler/s that have been loudly promoting their man as the “best MMA fighter ever” for as long as I can remember.
If Fedor loses, or wins in a unimpressive fashion, his finish gets scuffed, if you follow, and M-1 Global and Strikeforce takes the hit. Plus CBS possibly looks less than savvy for going with Strikeforce rather than coming to terms with the UFC, which I’m sure Dana White would have been receptive to if they’d offered him “the right deal”, as he often calls it.
Rogers has everything to gain, and nothing to lose. For Fedor, the opposite is true.
Why shouldn’t Rogers, who is the larger, stronger, younger, and hungrier fighter, and is a native Midwesterner fighting in Chicago, go into this thing on Saturday night with a smile on his face and a song in his heart?
Plus, he also has something in common to talk about should he ever meet up with Tsuyoshi Kohsaka at some MMA fan event.
If Rogers loses to Fedor, he’s done no worse than the other thirty some-odd men to step in against Fedor have done. If he wins, he becomes one of the biggest names in MMA literally overnight, and suddenly has both Scott Coker and Dana White as his new BFF’s.
Plus this Satuday night will almost certainly be the biggest payout of his short MMA career.
Rogers might as well bomb on down to the cage on Saturday night, scream like King Leonidas reminding some fool that he and his 300 buds are from Sparta, and swing for the fences as soon as the cage door closes.
Rogers might get lucky and land a Sunday punch like he did against Arlovski, and make MMA history. If not, in all likelihood Fedor will submit him about 3 minutes into the first round, and he’ll be at the club with a honey in his lap and a Heineken in his hand before midnight, central standard time…
CBS probably doesn’t care that much about the success of MMA on their network, if it flops they will blame the sport, not the organization, and certainly not their own production/promotion people who haven’t exactly done the greatest job promoting the thing.
As far as Dana being happy about Rogers beating Fedor, I beg to differ. Dana has said “Rogers has a chance of knocking out Fedor, and it sucks. Fedor should be fighting Brock.”
Did you forget Fedor’s married? He won’t be in a club with a honey, he’ll be trapped at home watching a Sandra Bullock movie.
Dana White can say whatever he likes publicly.
Privately, I’d bet real money from my own pocket that Dana would giggle like a monkey watching the Banana Channel if Rogers KTFO’ed Fedor, after all of the M-1 nonsense a few months back…
i wonder how much both fighters are getting for this?
anybody knows?
What?
We’ll find out afterwards. You could do some research and find out that Brett Rogers earned around $40k for fighting Humphries. Fedor’s disclosed payout will be a few hundred thousand, and of course, he’ll get his overwhelming share of M-1’s paycheck. Don’t know about exact dollar figures.