A Thursday just isn't a Thursday without a little bit of Fedor news that will make you throw your coffee table across the room in pure elation. MMA Ironman somehow got their hands on tomorrow's issue of Nikkan Sports which features a report about Fedor potentially facing Yoshida in his retirement fight April 25th in ASTRA. Since most of you guys probably don't speak Japanese, largely in part because there's something called 'English' that keeps getting in the way, here is my rather accurate translation of the newspaper's feature story. Now excuse me while I pat myself on the back.
An article in tomorrow's Nikkan Sports newspaper says that Yoshida's retirement fight in ASTRA will most likely be against Fedor. The exact quote is "Retirement match against Fedor, world's strongest man". According to the newspaper, Fedor's camp got in contact with Yoshida when he announced his retirement fight somewhere around February 8th and both parties have been negotiating ever since. There is a final meeting that will be held in Japan at Dream 13 which should finalize the negotiations. If nothing pans out after Dream 13, then they apparently have other fighters readily available to fight Yoshida.
Nikkan Sports is not the most reliable source when it comes to these types of fight rumors. With that being said, if this fight does go down it would be a gross waste of the man who is arguably the world's greatest fighter.
From what I've been told the rumors of this fight, as well as rumors that Fedor has been in negotiations with the UFC again are both false.
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Typical Fedor
fighting lesser competition… what a joke!
I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it
by PHISH NATION on Mar 19, 2010 11:15 AM EDT reply actions
Hahaha jumped the gun didn't you?
Always too excited to try to bash Fedor,
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -Dr. Johnson
by Diceman on Mar 20, 2010 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Typical Fedor hater
who exactly is there to fight in StrikeForces Heavyweight division?
by Blog-a-bullshiter9 on Mar 19, 2010 2:39 PM EDT reply actions
You cant be that dumb.... Cause the answer is obvious... Overeeem... Werdum... Hell even a rematch with Roger's would be more entertaining... And relavent.
"The Red-eyed Jedi...holds a 7th degree Black Belt in Bonghitisu"
by ItsNormlToSmokePot on Mar 19, 2010 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
none of those besides overeem would be worthy.
Werdum who got ousted out of the UFC after getting beat a few times. Ok lets say he KO’s Werdum, beats overeem, then what? Another rematch with rogers? After that ?. Lol come on dude you cant be that dumb not to know that strikeforces Heavyweight division is wack.
by Blog-a-bullshiter9 on Mar 20, 2010 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
then he needs to leave Strikeforce!!
I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it
by PHISH NATION on Mar 20, 2010 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I never said Strikeforce HW division was good
You called phish a “Typical Fedor hater” Then asked…
“who exactly is there to fight in StrikeForces Heavyweight division?”
All i did was I answer with his obvious options… fighting yoshida (what the topic was about) Doesnt seem like a better option than anybody he could be fighting in strikeforce.
Get your shit together and maybe you could make a good point.. What is your point? Strikeforce HW’s suck? For the most part that’s true… but what do you think fighting yoshida would have been better?
"The Red-eyed Jedi...holds a 7th degree Black Belt in Bonghitisu"
by ItsNormlToSmokePot on Mar 21, 2010 1:34 AM EDT up reply actions
The Strike Force HW division is prety solid actually
by Rilly on Mar 21, 2010 7:38 AM EDT reply actions
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