Fedor Emelianenko Suffers Broken Nose, Injured Hand in Win Over Brett Rogers
Top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko suffered a broken nose and injured his hand in his second-round knockout of Brett Rogers on Saturday in the main event of Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers, according to Sherdog:
After attending the post-fight news conference, Emelianenko was sent to a local hospital. He returned later the same evening with his left arm in a soft cast nearly up to his elbow.
The source said the first examination could not determine if Emelianenko had broken bones in his hand, but that the Russian is expected to visit a doctor again Sunday to further assess the damage.
The extent of Fedor’s injury is likely to affect the upcoming matchups for Strikeforce, as Fedor was likely to fight Fabricio Werdum, who also won on last night’s card, or heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem in his next fight, but Werdum and Overeem could instead square off if Emelianenko is sidelined.
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i cant believe this…im shocked that fedor broke his hand
Amen.
Me too.
he breaks his hand nerly in every fight …
broken nose was abundantly clear to everyone watching the fight. Tough break though with the hand. Us average folk would be finished if we had our noses broken like that which makes Fedor’s win that much more impressive.
Yah the broken nose didn’t even phase him… I always find it amazing how Fedors expression never changes in a fight. Tough break on the hand tho… w000 puns!
markus J…this happens on a regular basis with fighters. how long have you been watching MMA? fighters break all kinds of bones, but keep fighting – this is nothing new.
Clearly your just trying to pick a pointless argument with markus.He just pointed out the obvious nothing more.There’s no need to question his knowledge of the sport.And to be quite frank i find it annoying when people like you feel compelled to prove that there bigger fan than the next guy.Grow up!
thank you… i hate when people call out other people over stuff like that
Well said, RJA.
welcome to the frenZy RJA
and those who second his comment. it’s annoying when new guys resort to trolling for attention.
trolling for attention…. what are you talking about? i’ve been coming to this site for a while and just because i don’t post all the time doesn’t make me a new guy trolling for attention.
eldiablo,i’ve been commenting on this sight for a long time now.Well over a year.Thats the first time i ever said anything like that.Because i do find it annyoing.More than half the time i don’t even comment.So i’m sorry i should have got blessing first before giving my opinion.His comments just seemed intaganistic.
what are you talking about RJA? I literally welcomed you to the frenzy cause I liked your comment and haven’t noticed you post before.
I agree with Markus J it makes the win much more impressive. Even when Brent had him on the canvas pounding Fedor. Fedor was thinking of his next move. Brent made this a great fight big guy, heavy hands and can move quick. Props to Brent for making it much more spectacular. I can say although I love boxing more than the ground game I can watch Fedor on the ground anytime the guys is always thinkg of the next move while his opponent is concentrating on the move at hand.
Hail The Emperor!
Does it make Carwin’s win over Gonzaga equally more impressive?
P.S. Brett.
Brent, lol
Yes man of course.
Bret dose have bad sportsmanship do.
He could have shook Fedors hand after the fight.
And just admit he lost fair and squre but he kept saying its my foult i did not frow more my foult i did not hit harder.
If he frew more he could have gotten counterd faster probably.
and give some credit to emperor.
Bret proved to be a great hw do.
I see him lossing to guys like lesner and nog
because of the groudn game
and weather he will conect with such a good shot agian i dont know
but fedor even more impresive then i seen before.
Oveream Fedor make it happen.
Then of course brock
He beat Big Nog on more than one occasion, I don’t see him having a chance with Fedor.
“Then of course brock”
My memory may be failing a little bit, but I seem to remember a reputable website reporting on this desire over the summer and suffice to say, it didn’t go so well.
Go honk off somewhere else with that crap and do your research.
I personally think that brock is brock
but hey
you never know
brocks punches are strong
but not like bret
and going on gorund
well fedor can submit him
i think
Oveream
is real apponent for fedor
Over4eam is underated because he did not fight any huge apponents recently
mabye hunt
but still hes hard couse hes good striker
and very storng
They are in two different organizations, and if you’d read the links that I put into my post, you’d realize that negotiations between M1 (Fedor) and the UFC broke down making it beyond highly unlikely that they will ever appear in a cage together. Read the links.
I understood.
But Oveream is a great opponent.
If not better then brock.
In my Opinion.
But you do know he can always tell Finkelstine to get lost.
He dose have connections in russia with Putin and stuff.
Im sure they wont hold him liable their.
no wounder fedor broke his hand he was swinging from the hips last night, big big punches, still ide like to see fedor fighting in the ufc wiv lesnar/carwin, just like to say whats the deal wiv henderson? i haven’t been online for like a week i come back on and dans not signing with the ufc, weird dana an dan seem close also rampage an dana seemed close could the ufc be loseing its appeal?? shout out to the hayemaker new heavyweight champ of the world!!!!
wiv? what’s that mean?
Fedor swings from the shoulder. Check out the vid in the forums section Justin posted about his “casting punch”
I just realized you’r just sticking up for a fellow intaganist.I guess they need people like you on this sight.
RJA, if you’re implying I’m sticking up for an antagonist, you’re sorely wrong.
Eldiablo,
I sincerly apologize for those comments.I COMPLETELY took your comments the wrong way.Sometimes it’s easy to misinterpet,or hard to convey on a key board…but that was completly my bad.sorry man.
HEY ANY dirt about the fighter salaries?
I missed the fight. Anyone know when cbs will replay the fight card?
i highly doubt it will be replayed, perhaps on showtime, but not on cbs
Remember that adrenaline allows you to temporarily ignore the pain. But this is not to deny that The Emperor’s win was very impressive.
good fight for brett not even in top ten heavyweights just imagine if that was brock on top of fedor his face would have looked alot worse and he definitly wouldnt have been getting back up fedor has to man up and go to the big show and fight some real competition then he can have some respect carwin lesnar congo nog mir valasques acctually wouldnt even mind seeing him and couture
i have heard that Dan Severn might challenge Brock to a fight?
Don’t be a troll.
yes it’ll air on the national geographic nature type channels.
dont u think dan could still take brock?
No. And Dan isn’t even in the UFC.
Dan Severn?!?!
Jesus, gibor, Severn is like 50.
What are you thinking?
Also, over on the other thread I kept reading about how Fedor could beat Brock Lesnar. After reading the “injury report”, I’m thinking, “how the He11 is Fedor going to hang with Lesnar in this theoretical throwdown when he breaks his hand [again] and his nose fighting Brett Rogers, who is at about the TUF level of MMA proficiency?
Regardless, I hate seeing any fighter hurt, let alone an exemplary sportsman like Fedor. Hopefully he recovers fully and quickly and returns to action as soon as medically cleared…
Once you’ve broken your hand it pretty much always breaks if you punch normally, plus if you change your striking style to accomodate that then you’re called dirty because you accidently hit people in the eye (kevin burns).
Plus at the rate Overeem is at Fedor’s hand could heal and have his skeleton replaced with adamantium and still recover before Overeem makes a strikeforce appearance.
Truth…
Great Fight great Knock Down!
oh wow
fedor broke his hand…
AGAIN!
Jcohl,
You can’t be serious about the comment “Brett Rogers, who is at about the TUF level of MMA proficiency”. You can’t honestly believe that ANYONE on TUF could hang with Brett for more than 30 seconds {If that} do you? Most of those guys on this season are an embarrassment to watch.
Brett hung with Fedor “the proclaimed” best fighter p4p in the world longer than his last few opponents did, who witch both held the UFC brass if you will.
I thought he would have earned more respect from a guy of your MMA knowledge!
Now that Brett has been in the cage with a killer he knows what to expect next time he faces a guy as respected a Fedor, the problem is Strikeforce don’t have a guy with the qualifications.
there was a wink there… my friend
Ahhh, didn’t catch that. My bad, you just never know anymore what people are thinkn.
How do you realistically miss the yellow winky face? It’s the only yellow thing in the post. Only yellow thing on the page, for that matter.
Um, yeah, I definitely said that thing about Brett Rogers with a
Although, I’ve said it before, and if I forgot the
then apologies.
And no worries, animosity, anything with Fedor is usually pretty charged, so its always possible that someone posts something off-the-mark…
I’m not sure the broken hand thing makes Fedor’s victory any more impressive, for all we know the break could have occured with the KO punch and as such not bothered him once during the previous 7 minutes.
That said Fedor is the greatest fighter ever and would find a way to defeat Lesnar if the two ever shared the octogan.
bsbiz,
Realistically I said MY BAD!!!
The hatred I have for people talking up Fedor made me look past the dam dumb smiley face is that OK with YOU?
The world will still rotate my friend.
wow we need some smiley faced conseling on passive aggresion – ON AN MMA SITE !
cool
I seriously can’t believe a lot of the stuff I’m reading. I’ve been traing/watching MMA for a very long time & by no means am I a big Fedor fan but he is the best all-around MMA fighter I have ever seen. I can’t believe all the people who think Brock can beat Fedor. I know “different times, different fighter” but I think a lot of people need to look back at the Fedor vs Randleman fight. The Randleman that Fedor fought was actually “a beast” & would have destroyed Lesnar back then. He put Fedor on his neck & almost killed him yet Fedor still sub’d him. I think a lot of you need to check Fedor’s resume & or watch some of his fights before posting a/b how he has not fought anyone of quality. I respect all you guy’s opinions & am not attacking anyone but it seems like I’ve seen a different Fedor than a lot of people are describing…
Best all round mma fighter you’ve ever seen? I guess you havent seen GSP fight ever, or a lot of lighter weight fighter. There are fighter out there who are willing to put the fight anywhere they want and be dominating the whole time (ie Miguel Torres, Urijah Faber
Uriha febor{haha sorry dont know how to sell his name}). Febor looked more impressive, IMO, with his fight agaist Brown and he had two broken hands.Edited {spelling of Name}~ FR702
i agree that he handled a beast in randleman,
insanely quick was randleman, and i gotta say fedor has handled quite a few beasts so far.
BUT,
brock is a different set of obstacles though for sure.
in 2 years there is a good chance someone will have figured out and beaten both fedor and brock.
if they fought today i’d put my money on fedor because he seems to be smart and versatile:
against mark hunt’s KO power and chin
fedor beat him by letting hunt roll around and fail at kimura 101 until he got tired fedor then finished him.
against nog he mostly avoided being swept and armbarred by throwing flying insane power shots from further away than what was normal in that day
against crocop he rarely let him set up
against sylvia he closed the ditance
against rogers he mixed it up standing (he also tried for subs but just couldn’t pull it off)
there are lots of examples which in hind sight NOW seem obvious but i don’t doubt that fedor would find a solution to brock.
probably it’ll be one of the topfew UFC HW’s first.
Dose anyone also feel upset that Fedor dose not gets enough credit for the win?
Its ether Bret did a great job in the fight, or Fedor could not finish him fast enough and took punishment.
In my opinion it was a good test for Fedor in recent years.
He got unlucky with the broken nose in the begging of the fight.
While gasping for air he still was able to take Bret down at will with no problems.
He attempted a submition and Breat was bigger and lucker to be able to frow him off landing what looked to us as punishing GNP.
But its Fedor so we don’t really know .
And he got out of it regardless.
He lost the armbar attempt, because of sweat blod and that arm bar dose not always connects cause of tightness. Its different from the slower bjj armbar.
And he nailed him in the second round.
He still knocked the man out in round 2.
Bret had a punchers chance against Fedor.
And he used it and got lucky
But it was the bigger man who won that night.
As far as Fedor getting his due credit for this fight, let me say that we’ve discussed this fight here at the frenZy at great length, and the determination of the collective was that this was almost a no-win scenario for Fedor.
Consider:
If Fedor won, which he did, then Rogers gets labeled as a monodimensional striker with about 1/3 the MMA experience of Fedor, and thereby SHOULD have lost.
If Fedor had run some shoot and hook on Rogers, like I thought he might, and finish the larger, younger, stronger man inside of 3 minutes, again, like I thought he would, then Rogers gets labeled just another tomato can, and people have to wonder WTF Scott Coker was thinking?
If Fedor lost, or went to a decision, or won by some controversial method, then all of his detractors, of which I am one, would have rocked out some sort of “we told you so” post, and Strikeforce would seriously re-think their Fedor/M-1 Global strategy for 2010.
I do think that Fedor deserves credit for signing a fight wherein he had so much to lose, and relatively little to gain, other than his payout, which I’m sure will make his broken hand and a nose a bit less painful.
Also, I think Rogers showed heart, and should be commended for making into the second round with Fedor, when some other more noted fighters have not.
However that being posted, I don’t think Rogers demonstrated any sort of exceptional/top 10 HW MMA ability.
Yes, he’s a powerful striker, but he’s no Mirko CroCop. And not to be unfair, but I saw no evidence of submission skill, or anything remotely resembling wrestling ability.
Finally, his chin proved to be nore more resilient than any other fighter who Fedor has beaten by T/KO.
So lets credit both Fedor and Rogers for what they DID in fact do, and not go out of our way to praise them for things they did not do…
Brent-I would be a fool to say GSP was not up there but he’s not in the class as Fedor. The only thing I see GSP being better than Fedor is at the stand up leg game. How does GSP handle adversity? (Serra). How does Fedor? Sometimes brute-force outweighs skill no matter how skilled you are (Lesnar/Mir 2 & Lesnar/Couture) But Fedor is a horse of another color (Fedor/Choi). Fedor is always trying to work something even on the defensive. I think you would think differently of GSP if he fought A. Silva at a catchweight b/t 170 & 185..
Respectfully, as a GSP fan, I disagree. I don’t think saying GSP vs. A. Silva is a fair example to make. Both of them are the elite of the MMA world, and Silva is probably the most dangerous striker in MMA, and no slouch on the ground (though his TD defense seems to be a chink). So to somehow imply that if GSP got beat by Silva means GSP is not in the same class as Fedor is ill-conceived. While I respect everything Fedor has done and I have him as the number one HW (if not in actuality down the line, then most definitely in skill) he has NOT faced anyone in his whole career that is larger than him while also being p4p as good as Silva, imo. So, saying that GSP is somehow not in the same class as Fedor cause he would get schooled/beaten by Silva is unfair…Fedor has never had a comparable challenge in his illustrious career like the hypothetical one you suggest that should somehow open our eyes to GSP’s true standing.
Also, I think it is unfair to say Fedor is a ‘horse of another color’ when talking about the whole brute strength/skill thing. I believe Lesnar can’t be compared to Choi. Choi is really a kickboxer who doesn’t have a great MMA resume by any means. IMO Lesnar is far more skilled than Choi in the MMA game. So saying Fedor is this exception to ’sometimes brute force will overcome skill’ because of his victory over Choi is quite weak, imo.
I actually do think GSP is one of if not the most well-rounded fighters today. He trains with the the best people in the world in each individual area of MMA (wrestling/submission game/stand-up) and hangs with ALL of them. Everything he does is very technical…imo he is the best wrestler in MMA today, and he is actually a very good striker. He doesn’t possess one-shot KO power like Fedor or others, but he is solid and technical…in fact at UFC 100, he outstruck Alves, which was where Alves was supposed to win. Fedor has a better submission game.
I also don’t get your Serra example with adversity. I guess he was going through some personal problems at the time – but in regards to opponent, I don’t understand what you’re saying…Serra was a huge underdog. That wasn’t adversity. Adversity was when he was facing Hughes the 2nd time, Penn the first time (arguably 2nd as well…iirc plenty of people on various forums thought Penn would win…and with Primetime and all the publicity there was a lot of pressure on GSP), and Alves most recently. In all of these circumstances GSP proved he could handle the pressure/adversity.
Furthermore while GSP doesn’t finish people as quickly on a whole as a guy like Silva or Fedor as of late (though also imo, GSP’s competition has been much stiffer than Fedor’s lately) he is still very dominant, and finishing fights is not the only mark of dominance. In fact in his Fitch, Penn, and Alves fights, he was awarded one or more 10-8 rounds in each of those fights. Also, I don’t think GSP has lost a round in the UFC since over two years ago with his fight with Kos (that’s just one round short of 20). That is dominance.
Again, I don’t want to take away from Fedor…while I think he’s great and all, I think it is unfair to say that there aren’t 2 or maybe 3 fighters out there today (key word: today) that can be mentioned in the same sentence as Fedor and greatness in this sport.
Another thing to Rogers’ credit, the guy has an iron jaw b/c that left hook Fedor hit him with in the 1st would have knocked 90% of the heavyweights today out cold. I was really surprised he wasn’t out cold from that right over hand he took in the 2nd that finished him. That thing sounded like an A-Rod homerun crack. I saw the hook that Couture rocked Lesnar with & you think Lesnar can take a punch like that from Fedor. I doubt it..
wow…that fight was right up there with the Lesnar decision over Herring.
haha, jk. Fedor couldnt lose if he tried.