Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva battered Fedor Emelianenko's eye in round two of their heavyweight tilt last night causing the doctor to stop it before the start of round 3. This was Fedor's second loss in a row after phenomenally going undefeated basically his entire career. The greatest heavyweight of all time is now contemplating retirement. The bitter fued between M1 Global and Dana White came to fruition last night when White ran his twitter mouth rampant on M1 Management and Fedor with some shocking expletives (doesn't he have a corporate communications group to monitor / filter him??). Dana thinks that Fedor isn't that great in the last 4 years and was mismanaged. I don't think that's way off in terms of the mismanagement but in terms of his greatness - I think he has been the best. He was mismanaged in that he didn't get to perform enough during those years. He's still a great heavyweight.
The best thing here is that Silva now moves on and a fight between Overeem and Silva is possible which would be quite exciting. The loser between Overeem and Werdum could likely get a shot at Emelianenko which would be great as well. For Strikeforce, this is a big win since they have a great amount of talent in their organization (especially at heavyweight). It propels the young Silva into the top ten heavyweights in the world meaning Strikeforce now has Overeem, Werdum and Silva in the top ten on most lists (I would also add Barnett, Fedor and Kharitonov). In the UFC, you've got Cain and JDS. That's pretty much it (maybe Lesnar at the bottom).
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