Fedor Emelianenko Doesn't Care About You, the Internet Fan
by Anton Tabuena on Jun 22, 2010 4:11 PM EDT
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For better or for worse, MMA probably has the largest online grassroots following which has played a huge part in developing and building the sport to what it is today. Fedor Emelianenko though, doesn't care about bloggers and journalists, nor does he care about what you, the internet reader, thinks:
"I'm more interested in spending quality time in my everyday life with my family and my friends than cruising the Internet, listening to rumors, or callouts,"
"As far as my reaction, I don't have any reaction. I don't really have reactions to any compliments people tell me, nor criticism. It's not something that's that important to me. I have more important goals in my life than seeking out the Internet to see what people are saying about me.""I often get second hand information, friends or somebody will tell me about what people (say about me). I don't really pay attention to it or seek it out. That's usually how I get information about what people are saying."
It doesn't matter how many times we talk about him. It doesn't matter if you think he's the the greatest of all time, or not... and it certainly doesn't matter if you love his sweater, or just really really like it. The man simply doesn't care about that sort of thing.
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Duh
Why would an athlete care about a person he’s never met?
I don’t care about him, either.
Nobody cares if he cares or is forcing him to care.
We just like talking about such things.
Hmmm
For some reason I feel like I’m supposed to be upset but I’m really not.
Fedor never seemed like the kind of guy that was balls deep into the sport from the get go. His motivations for fighting have always seemed muddled in my eyes. I don’t think it’s the money and it certainly isn’t fame.
This just doesn’t come as a surprise to me at all.
I apologize for my never-ending assault on the English Language. I feel like Qui the promoter from Jade Empire...
right, we knew that already
Fedor is a throwback to simpler times. He doesn’t get caught up in the outside influences and just does his thing. That is part of his allure. He says he does this more for a job. I am sure he still enjoys it but just imagine if he had a burning passion for the sport…would he be even more dangerous? Or just more in shape ;)
Right. That’s what makes him awesome.
Instead of presenting it in a snarky way, the writer should commend him prioritizing his family over trivial crap.
LOL.
you guys take things too seriously. I wasn’t being “snarky”. It sucks that it has to be pointed out to some people, but this was actually for fun.
by Anton Tabuena on Jun 22, 2010 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions
One more thing
Are we supposed to be surprised a man born in 1976 USSR doesn’t care about the internet?
The internet didn’t really get started until he was 20, he didn’t grow up with it like my generation did.
I care about the internet
and I’m 2 years older than Fedor.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Meh. I’m only two years younger, not a huge gap IMO, and the internet is a huge part of my life and all my friends’ lives. I could live without TV. But I can’t without the Internet.
That is because you’ve made it a necessity . He fights(swings hammers and flips tires on a kids playground in rural Russia) and has people work out his deals, for the most part. Seems like a very family and God oriented man. Don’t see why people have to throw a fit over this.
"For your information, I would like to ask a question."
-Samuel Goldwyn
born in 1976
The internet didn’t really get started until he was 20
LOL
You crazy kids. Us old-timers have been surfing on the internet and it’s predecessors since you were an itch in your daddy’s pants. Hell, I remember killing time and downloading porn from usenet newsgroups back in the 1980s.
by Steve4192 on Jun 22, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bullshit
AOL was the very first Internet toob evar.
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by Derek Suboticki on Jun 22, 2010 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
For a major event on Saturday the breaking news is kind of lack there of. I just read a two second rant that Fedor doesn’t care about his fans on the internet? I also assume Britney Speers didn’t care about her readers in the tabloids. I guess I’m a great example of this article, as I don’t care for it either.
"90% of this sport is 50% mental" - Tim Sylvia
What’s with all the articles in the past 48 hours about Fedor’s greatness??
Fedor: Greatest Ever
Fedor: He doesn’t care what you think
Is this Bloody Elbow or Fedor’s Elbow?
well when the guy widely regarded as the best hw of all time cancels interviews at the last minute, is talking retirement, doesn’t care about his fans, says he’s not a fan of ufc and is rumored to be entering politics, I’d say any halfway decent mma site should cover it.
by kanodogg on Jun 22, 2010 4:22 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Fedor's Elbow is a great site!
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A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who -- Jay-Z
Typical manipulation of his words
He clearly doesn’t care about the internet and what people say but the headline just generalizes his exact quotes to the point of sensationalism.
I love Fedor just as much as the next guy...
but I wouldn’t be too upset if he just disappeared.
Take ONE Karate class, if you're so into Karate... - Charlie to Mac
IF YOU CANNOT WRESTLE, FIND ANOTHER PROFESSION...
yeah really
he’s not really doing much with his “World’s greatest heavyweight” title.
I mean i respect the hell out of him and his accomplishments and truly believe him to be the greatest in the sport, but unless he’s fighting overeem i’m not really interested in any fights outside of the UFC. I care about the sport, the fights…not whether a fighter cares whether or not i care.
and now i know for sure he doesn’t!
by Body Triangle on Jun 22, 2010 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm starting to look forward to his retirement
Just so I don’t have to hear people talk about him any more.
by simpsycho on Jun 22, 2010 4:18 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
It's all good
He’s the best. Still think he’s ducking the best competition and leaving money on the table for it.
I don’t care that he doesn’t care.
Probably the best decision he could make as a fighter
considering how most people on the internet are idiots and/or sychophants. I mean really, what kind of desperate nimrod spends all their time on the internet, hoping one of their comments will be clever enough to get greened? Wait, wut?
Perhaps it’s because we are wise to the racket that he enables.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
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by Derek Suboticki on Jun 22, 2010 4:19 PM EDT reply actions
No
It’s because he doesn’t give a fuck what any of us say (like he said). He’s busy training, praying and being Russian. We’re busy typing, bitching and disagreeing with each other.
"All I guarantee is violence" - Wand
by rockied on Jun 22, 2010 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
First off, who really cares?
Secondly, who’s surprised by this? Is this article supposed to present some reason to be upset about this cause I could have figured as much about the guy regardless. I wouldn’t think any of the top guys of any sport are spending their hours cruising around web sites to see what the fan boys are going on about, especially not a reserved Russian cyborg like Fedor that screams old fashioned. It’s not like I come on here everyday expecting the specific person I’m commenting about to actually read what I’m saying, if that was the case Tom Hanks Fuck You, you know what you did you black bastard and when I see you in the street it’s on son!
Fake Emcees, we always act hard, but won't walk the streets without our bodyguards.
You'd be surprised
At home many MMA people read EVERYTHING written about them.
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by Jonathan Snowden on Jun 22, 2010 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Not really
I know a lot of fighters post on the UG frequently and everything, I just don’t think that it’s a lot of guys priorities to look this stuff up on a regular basis if at all. I’m sure the exact same story could be done about Brock tomorrow.
And why the fuck are you talking to me Snowden, you know your #2 on my shitlist right below Tom Hanks.
Fake Emcees, we always act hard, but won't walk the streets without our bodyguards.
it’s all generalizing, but i have to disagree. many fighters do read what is said about them, and get worked up by it.
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I respect your opinion
but it’s wrong, everything your saying is wrong and I’m right so I win. I’m not saying guys don’t look, if your famous how could you not, but I just think it’s not something a lot of guys are going to be regularly doing. You got guys like Miguel Torres who I’m sure is doing it ALL THE TIME, but then you have guys like Fedor or Brock that probably don’t have much interest at all. I shouldn’t have stated my opinion like I’m convinced NOBODY does it ever.
Fake Emcees, we always act hard, but won't walk the streets without our bodyguards.
Fedor has stated something like what this article is saying numerous times. He has said that he isn’t that big of a fan of the sport of MMA, and he generally does it because he is good at it. Also, he really doesn’t come off like he cares that much about his legacy, and that it seems like it is his fans that care more about Fedor’s legacy in MMA than he does.
Exactly, it always amuses me seeing people saying he ducks Brock or the UFC, chances are he doesn’t want to please US fans, to prove them anything, he just wants to have the biggest paycheck in the best conditions (co-promotion FTL), and M-1 takes care of that.
I'm a lover not a fighter
Fedor has always been that if he can fight Hong Man Choi for $600,000.00 or Brock Lesnar for $500,000.00 (these are just totally arbitrary numbers and examples by the way), then he will not fight Lesnar and fight Hong Man Choi. Fedor doesn’t hide it either, and he makes no exaggerations about how he views MMA and his role in it.
Come on now Weo...
“I’m more interested in spending quality time in my everyday life with my family and my friends than cruising the Internet, listening to rumors, or callouts,
this is Fedor bashing the internet? That’s a pretty big leap.
I'm fine, but I think John Marsden has a gambling problem.
How in the world did you are anyone else get that this was supposed to be Fedor bashing the internet or anything else? Why are people getting worked up over this? It’s a fluff story, for goodness sake people chill the fuck out.
Well for one the attention grabbing title is “Fedor Emelianenko Doesn’t Care About You, the Internet Fan”
I'm fine, but I think John Marsden has a gambling problem.
The internet doesn’t interest this man, but ice cream does
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Well perhaps you should read the whole article which is full of obvious humor instead of just getting worked up over the title of it. It’s not like the humor and sarcasm was hidden in there, it’s supposed to be fun not something to get your panties in a wad over.
this is why I like you
who? me? Yes, who me, you.
by Anton Tabuena on Jun 22, 2010 7:57 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It was a rough day and perhaps I’ve been a bit gruff but good grief I thought this would be a fun discussion about sweaters and eating two ice cream cones at once.
Oh and I don’t guess anyone has ever got the humor of my nickname?
The real roots of Dalton’s work go back to World War II — to a compound called Who Me that was designed for use by the French Resistance. Who Me smelled like fecal matter, according to Dalton, and was issued in pocket atomizers. The plan was for a Resistance member to sidle up close to one of the German officers then occupying Paris and unobtrusively spray him.
“This, of course, would totally embarrass the officer,” Dalton explains straight-faced. “And Germany would then lose the war.” The flaw in the plan — or perhaps, one of the flaws in the plan — was that Who Me’s ingredients were extremely volatile and therefore hard to control: The person who does the spraying ends up smelling as bad as the sprayee. For two weeks, Paris reeked. Afterward, “The experiment was pretty much deemed a failure,” Dalton says.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/05/22/smell.DTL
It was a rough day and perhaps I’ve been a bit gruff but good grief I thought this would be a fun discussion about sweaters and eating two ice cream cones at once.
I thought it would be like that also… until a Japanese ninja punched me in the tummy.
by Anton Tabuena on Jun 23, 2010 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions
liked you a lot better as weo, just saying
I'm fine, but I think John Marsden has a gambling problem.
Though I try to, I know I can't please everyone... so I guess that's fair...
and it’s cool that you’re honest about it. :)
by Anton Tabuena on Jun 23, 2010 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions
Why do you ask that?
This is clearly not a “news” site.
"The best book on the real history of MMA that I've seen," Dave Meltzer
by Jonathan Snowden on Jun 22, 2010 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Okay, I’ll give that this is a news and editorial site. That being said, what was the impetus behind writing a brief editorial that basically states the obvious? Thus all the “duh” comments. I generally like Anton Tabuena’s pieces here, but this one seems a bit pointless to me.
He even used the two ice cream cone picture for goodness sake, just because Fedor’s name was mentioned doesn’t mean that everyone should go into dead serious attack mode.
Fedor said something
just like if GSP, Brock, Anderson or at this point Chael Sonnen say anything it’s going to be something people have an interest in.
"All I guarantee is violence" - Wand
Zentastic
If he doesn’t care that he’s being suplexed by Kevin Randleman or kicked by Cro Cop, I’m not surprised that he doesn’t care about the comments from strangers.
Fedor doesn't care bout any of his fans.
Internet or Not. What fedor fan really wanted him to fight barnett? or Rogers or Timmay
Fedor cares about money. first, last and always
ok ok ok i get it nobody cares about anyone
shouldn’t he promoting his fight not demoting it!
this cant be true..
Fedor told me he loves all his fans, and he helped me create my account here on bloodyelbow… ;(
by kinghaze on Jun 22, 2010 4:36 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I'm cool with Fedor not giving a shit about internet fans.
Really, it is, because I honestly care less about this guy as each day goes by.
by I Can't Feel My Face on Jun 22, 2010 4:38 PM EDT reply actions
You obviously care enough to work up a mini rant and post about it. Fedor has already beaten you mentally.
So he is 90% beaten.
"The only reason I'm cryin is cuz of the adrenaline."
by Earl Montclair on Jun 22, 2010 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
He didn't say he didn't care about internet fans
"All I guarantee is violence" - Wand
Really though
who does this dick hole Fedor think he is dissing out all of us internet folk. Does this bimbo realize what we’ve done for him? We put his ass on the map, if it wasn’t for us spending countless hours arguing about what soup he likes to eat in the morning, or the consistency of his bowl movements and what it could mean for the future of the sport this nobody would still be giving hand jobs in a Chucky Cheese’s parking lot to single fathers and vagrants. Saying “oh I like to spend time with my family” if that ain’t the most pussy shit I’ve ever heard in my life, how the fuck could he act like his family has given him half the support and love we have, that bald headed mook. Brittney Emelianenko, he’s already got the shaved head, just can’t stand the fact that he’s not the #1 in his weight class or the sport anymore so he has to do things like talk about how he’s not much of a computer person, or act out in his fights by decisively beating top ten ranked competetion in a timely mannger.
Werdum will put this Sally in his place come saturday with his significant advantage in nothing, and if he doesn’t do it than that chocolate Hulk from Dutchland will fuck him into a living death. BELIEVE THAT.
Fake Emcees, we always act hard, but won't walk the streets without our bodyguards.
your post reminds me of “the mad rapper” from Ready to Die
Even when I'm laying on my back I'm never backing down
by Austin Martin on Jun 22, 2010 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I dont know if your joking
but I laughed till i had tears
nooo
Does this mean we are breaking up, Fedor? :(((
Internet fans are not some homogeneous group of insatiable ingrates.
They’re just people that want a hero. They’re fans of the sport that are confused as to why Fedor doesn’t care about being the GOAT like the athletic icons that we’re used to. Americans love athletes that are DRIVEN to be great, and obsessed with breaking down boundaries. Tiger Woods, LeBron, Jordan, Peyton Manning – they all are heavily invested in not only being the best, but understanding what “the best” means in the sport’s cultural context.
This is only an opinion, but I think that an athlete needs this kind understanding and drive to really be considered the best ever. How do you transcend people’s assumptions about a sport when you don’t really care about getting better? GSP “gets” it, but Fedor can’t even sniff it. I’m not talking about skill here, although I think that eventually it manifests itself in performance. GSP wants to be the Platonic ideal of a fighter. Fedor just does his job. He’s supremely talented, but his current status in pound-for pound discussion basically comes from the (essentially) unblemished record, which is largely due to luck, and his self imposed quarantine from the new guard of fighters.
by Manzanillos Cup on Jun 22, 2010 5:23 PM EDT reply actions
+1 for your use of "Platonic ideal"
by BigDNotDallas on Jun 22, 2010 6:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
This hype will soon subside...
When Overeem knocks him the fuck out. Then all this and that about Fedor will quiet. Unless Werdum beats him, which I can’t fathom.
I personally am SHOCKED at this news!
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 22, 2010 5:37 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Sounds more like
He doesn’t care about Internet Journalism, I’m sure he cares about his fans.
by Patrick John McGreevy on Jun 22, 2010 5:41 PM EDT reply actions
Responsibility in journalism
Talk about twisting words and coming up with your own interpretation. Jesus Christ.
Internet is the future, Fedor is not!!!
The present has passed Fedor. The internet is growing and Fedor better watch what he says. Who brought Tiger Woods down from his perch?? The internet. We’re all watching and one fuck up by Fedor and his reputation will be doomed. Internet is full of information and whether he likes it or not, there is nothing he can do. He probably doesn’t know how to use the internet. Of course he won’t care..it’s too tough for him to grasp. The internet brought him to the top of the MMA world, but the internet can also bring him down faster than a speeding bullet. The internet is here to stay, sorry we can’t say that about Fedor.
Dana White was a 100% right, when he said that Fedor would rather fight nobody’s than fight the best. Fedor is fighting for a minor league MMA and is doing nothing to help make the sport grow. This is what really upsets me. Fedor had the chance to help MMA go mainstream and be acceptable, but instead he had other plans…whatever those were. I don’t know about the rest of the people, but I can care less about his other plans…I know he is a great fighter…just prove it. Prove it to the new fans.
Fedor’s legacy will consist of him dodging fighters like Brock and Cain. I don’t like either of them, but I think they would have schooled Fedor. Fedor does not want to look bad, this late in his career.
i mean i agree with the internet part
everything else is pretty garbage
by Body Triangle on Jun 22, 2010 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions
well...pretty much garbage
the only pretty garbage i like are the spears sisters and sarah jay.
by Body Triangle on Jun 22, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
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