Fedor Emelianenko's Loss, Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin at UFC 116 and Everything Strikeforce Discussed on MMA Nation on 106.7 The Fan

I love it when these shows are posted. Only way I can listen at work.

Enjoyed this show. I wish you guys could have talked a little more about Overeem and his next bought and where you think he stands in the rankings.

I had to go and re-listen to the one segment where Emeliachenko called in. Funny stuff

I put a thread up at 2 different message boards I frequent to tune in for this one and the next.

I’ve listened to your show a few times, through the livestream and on the posts you make later.

I’m a huge fan of your writing and radio work, but I think you tend to ramble a lot before making a point. The “tightness” that talk radio is supposed to bring is lost in the process and often results in loss of attention. This only applies to the radio show not your writing.

You know what you’re doing, but I just thought i’d mention it.

‘if you fight consistent contenders in MMA, you eventually lose. I further argue that Fedor never belonged atop the pound-for-pound rankings, but did belong at the top of the heavyweight rankings because no one in the UFC had asserted themselves relative to the other contenders.’

This is absolutely spot on. When Fedor was in his prime he was p4p king but there are guys in other weight classes who have consistently beaten better opponents than fedor in recent years.

With one loss in 18 fights Fedor is still the number one hw on the planet unless you feel that Werdum has overtaken him. Lesnar’s record of 4-1 just doesn’t compare, he needs to beat Carwin and Velasquez before we can talk about Lesnar being the number one hw.

I further argue that Fedor never belonged atop the pound-for-pound rankings,

I’m looking forward this part. All things considered, i always thought Fedor as a top P4P fighter was a little crazy.

thanks.

thanks.

or really, to illustrate how different MMA BJJ is from sport BJJ:

Jacare stomped Werdum in sport competition. Demian Maia stomped Gonzaga twice in sport competition. I wouldn’t really think those fights would go the same way in an openweight MMA setting.

If I’m right, Nog switched to MMA when he was a purple belt, so it really is an apples-and-oranges issue to try to evaluate him in terms of sport play. Werdum is basically a top-level sport player, but even with his heavyweight wins at ADCC, he wasn’t at the Garcia/Jacare/Roger Gracie/Maia rare-air level of the game. He was just talented and enormous.

I found 106.7 the fan on Itunes, but it has some other show.

Lots of good talk on Emelia-shanko. Keep up the good work.

Like always luke the show kicked ass and your side kick is good also. What was most important is we finally after years learned from that caller how to pronouce Fedros last name it’s Fedor Emeli-shanko

cung le vs jake?

Thanks for putting these up so quick this week Luke.

I always knew Werdum had the skills. But I never expected him to submit Fedor. I think two things really colored my opinion of Werdum, fairly or not: 1) Fedor dominating Nog, and 2) Werdum getting KO’d by JDS.

Also Luke, you do have a beautiful beard. So fucking jealous.

This is totally unrelated to the fighting stuff, but more about the music. “Your Decision” by Alice in Chains is a pretty good song off their new album am I’m glad you like it, but I have a feeling you would absolutely LOVE the song “Last of My Kind” off the same record.

Seriously check it out, it’s one of my favorite AIC songs ever.