Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva defeats Fedor Emelianenko via a Doctor Stoppage
Posted on February 12, 2011, 11:07 PM by Anton GurevichAntonio Silva did what a very few people expected from him by defeating Fedor Emelianenko. Silva used his reach and an incredible size advantage to control "The Last Emperor", who struggled to cut down the giant. Fedor's punches landed directly on Bigfoot's chin, but the Brazilian answered with strikes of his own to control the pace during the fight.
Silva opened the second round with a perfect takedown, and quickly advanced into a mount position. Bigfoot landed powerful ground and pound strikes from the top, as Fedor tried to escape three times from the dangerous position. However, Bigfoot was alert, not allowing his opponent to slip away. Second round ended with Bigfoot's kneebar attempt, on which Fedor answered with the one of his own.
At this moment, Fedor's eye was grotesquely swollen. Fedor went exhausted to his corner, as Mauro Ranallo announced that the fight might be over. And after seconds of confusion, Ranallo's announcement proved to be true. Doctors decided to sotp the action.
Antonio Silva advances to the Semi-Finals, where he will meet the winner of the fight between Alistair Overeem and Fabricio Werdum. Fedor Emelianenko is 32-3 in his MMA career, and according to his post-fight interview, may retire from the sport of Mixed Martial Arts.
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I FEEL SICK!
ahhh that's a shame.
i came into this fight wantin fedor to lose...but came away with a shit ton of respect for the guy!!! I have never like seein a athlete retire on a lose or injury...Much respect to fedor for his years of service in MMA!!!!
It was a tough fight. Silva weighing in at 285 at fight supposedly was a bit over-powering. Kudos to both fighters.
Yes, last night he proved that he is the toughest, most resilient fighter ever and we all know that he'd have had no qualms about going into that 3rd round and giving it his all.
I agree the size was the difference for sure. I personally don't want to see him retire at that age though as many others are doing fine at that age and some are champs of the UFC. I still think he is a great fighter as always but when your facing a guy that is 50lbs or more bigger you can't feel that your just too old for the sport. Anyway I always was a critic for years not so much of him but the fans that thought he was invincible but I will always know him to be inline with the greats of MMA.
Damn Damn Dayaaaamn!
B.S decision not taking away anything from Bigfoot but with 5 mins still on the clock a lot could had happen!
almost all the other fights ended in less than 5!
Fedor won the first round and Bigfoot won Big time the second but Fedor was still fighting trying a submission!
Fedor is a Light Heavyweight who become the Greatest Heavyweight in the history of MMA. Nothing but Respect to him , i feel honor growing up watching him make history. Thank you Fedor for being an inspiration inside and out of the ring/cage.
Fedor lost both rounds and by the way, where did you get the B.S decision from?
I'm not sure you were watching the same fight.
Fedor is a light heavy? OK so is Cain then...WEAK
Face the fact that Fedor got destroyed. First it was a "fluke" submission loss and now it's a "B.S." decision by the doctor and the ref. Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva won via HULK SMASH.
And now you wanna label him a LHW, but really he was too undisciplined to make weight at 205.
I'll give Fedor this much credit, he was a good fighter while he was with Pride, but that's about it. I respect him as a man and I hope he has a nice life after his retirement.
I like how he lost via "Doctor stoppage"and not TKO like EVERYONE ELSE!!! Why does there ALWAYS have to be an excuse? Dana should of went off on the nutthugeers as well as his management, worst thing to ever happen to the guy.
it wasn't a TKO. did Fedor ever at one point quit or stop defending himself? yeah he was hurt but that doesn't mean he wouldn't have been able to fight. fighter safety is paramount and the ref made the right call by stopping the fight, but there was still a whole 5 minutes to go.
Fedor is still the man....don't understand how anyone can not like him, sad to see him lose but I'll still tune in to watch him fight again anytime but if he retires thats alright too
I wish I could watch Jerry Millen cry tears of heartbreak. I'd eat popcorn and watch
You are not a good person.
reason y im not impressed with the guy is because he could of joined the UFC and he turned it down, but he will still be a legend in my book.
Same with Overeem but I bet your impressed by him
no, overeem is not p4p in my book
Heart breaks for Fedor but M1 can suck it. There is something to be said for ring rust.
FEDOR WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS THE BEST FIGHTER EVER!
WHO THE HELL HAS HE FOUGHT TO BE CALLED THE BEST YOUR NUTS!!!
He will always be known as "LEGEND"
go to russia and thank him then.
your f***** mom in her bedroom
Is that supposed to be a joke? He went undefeated for ten years. Every man has his time. It seems fedors has come which is fair enough but to disrespect his legacy like u have is a Joke. Fedor is, was and always will be legendary in the sport of mma. Without him and a handful of others we probably wouldn't be having this pathetic arguement. Emelianenko is to mma as pele is to soccer, Jordan is to basketball
. U my friend need to do your homework
ok he and over those 10 years who did he fight that was worth talking about??????aw ok :D UFCUFCUFCUFCUFC HA
Cro cop, noguiera , randleman, sylvia, arlovski, ? To name but 5....
yea they might have been names at one point..but name one of those you just named that arent getting there ass beat rite now??? Aw OK!
Randleman, Sylvia, and Arlovski are not worth talking about.
@crocop
Only 2 people on that 10 year winstreak stand out as elite. Lol@the otehrs you mentioned who current heavyweights would easily destroy in their prime.
HAHAHAHA BYE BYE FEDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @Tchelnik
U probably wank off to child porn in ur size small tapout tshirt u ****ing idiot. U feel like Rambo becuase u went 2-0 on ufc undisputed. People like u deserve the firing squad
i have to give it to you @crocopcullen you jokes are terrible Lmao this is the internet you idiot your not TUFF hahaha UFC!
Lol ur a ufc fanboy this is an mma website. Suprised u even know wot strikeforce is u pervert
Lmao YEA IM SUPRISED I KNOW WHAT STRIKFORCE IS TO :D haha
dont they only fit like 2000 people in there events Lol wow bigtimes huh?
FANBOY
:D
It's funny. The Fedor haters say that his fans are nutt huggers when we make legitimate arguments but their posts fall into two main categories; A, arguments like the one above that argued that Fedor is sh^t because the guys he beat in their prime are now past their prime and getting beat which is nonsense. OR B, Hateful posts about how great it is that Fedor suffers or other such garbage. I have come to the conclusion that most of the people that are not Fedor fans are actually just bad people. That isn't to say you have to like Fedor to be good or that there are not exceptions but in the main this seems to be the case.
he took a beating in the 2d round and still didn't quit, fedor heart is undeniable.
NOOOOOOOOO. i give giant jaw silva credit he dominated the second round but who here just lost a ton of interest in this tournament? lol o well atleast i still got mayorga v cotto and jones vs shogun to look foward to.
I am not counting out Barnett
LMAO AND THIS IS THE GUY WHO EVERYONE SAID WAS THE BEST HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
I'm with you on that. Fedor is a great fighter, but he is definitely NOT the best.
Was the best, but he will always be a well known legend
Fedor was best heavyweight, but not the "best". Award for dumbest fans goes to him handsdown
Did you even watch his old fights?
Ok man, but the time is gone. Now Fedor is only a legend, like many others. The best legend probably, but it's over for him....
Time to hang em up Feeeeyadora
You forgot to mention about him announcing his retirement, anyways even if he is possitivly retiring i would like to thank Fedor for all the great fights
*legend
Silva is a huge beast...Mad props to him.
My heart hurts too but i can honestly say Fedor at his prime was the best fighter ever,period!
Cant say that to much fighters. And really,what a blessed career he has had and remains humble,farewell the Last Emperor.
One of the best. AS is better than he ever was as is Aldo. I personally think Bruce Lee was better than any of them.
its better for him to leave with him as one of the top heavyweights in the world... true legend
u said that multiple times ON THIS POST ALONE. we got it
these guys are just too big. Fedor has had a great career and if he decides to retire then so be it. He will go down a legend
Really? Cain is as small or smaller than Fedor. No one makes excuses for Cain though.. CUZ HE DOESN"T NEED EXCUSES HAHAHAHA
AGREEEED!!! haha its only his silly fans that are making the size excuses for him dont worry!
Cain is WAY bigger than Fedor. Cain is a lean 240. Fedor is a pudgy 230.
no wonder he's been duckin overeem for the past year haha
I hate trolls like you, he isnt ducking he feels he is too old to be fighting.
well thats even worse why stay fighting when you know your too old?
Look at Randy, he is toooo old to be fighting but he doesnt care, he puts age behind him and goes for it. Thats comitment, something you dont know of.
YOU SEEM DUMB..RANDY HAS ACTUALLY BEEN (WINING) FIGHTS!!!AM I RIGHT?
Well of couse he was winning the fights, but Fedor was winning fights to, 30 straight 10 years without a loss. Lets see you try that.
Im not dumb, im 15, im canadian
LIKE I SAID TO THE OTHER IDIOT..IN THOSE YEARS WHO DID HE FIGHT WORTH TALKIN ABOUT?NOBODY..OF COURSE HES GONNA WHOOP EVERYBODYS ASS IF THERE NOT LEGITAMENT TOP FIGHTER!
Randy fights elite competition at over 45 years old. He came out of retirement to beat the so-called wonderman silvia..somehow its a big deal when fedor beats him? Tons of fighters could crush cans to buffer their record, but they don't because people would notice.
Fedor could make 205 pretty easily and maybe he should try now.
I'm just sayin.
his heart aint in it anymore...just like frank said durin the fight fedor not dreamin about fighting or training everyday is frighting...He has just gotten tired of it i think
Werdum stock just plummeted
No, Silva's rose.
I can't believe Fedor got Dominated that second round like that but I guess that's what happens when a man that should be a light heavyweight fights a true heavyweight
Fedor is still a beast regardless
Silva has a condition that makes parts of his body bigger than usual..feet hands jaw bone....hence why his head is the size of a Mack truck!! also why he sounds like andre the giant!!!
EVERYBODY WHO WAS A SILLY FAN OF FEDOR SAY BYE BYE HES DONE :D
lmao
trolololololol
overeem
...this sucks, ...friking mutant beating fedor i almost feel personally offended. fuk this zhit ... fedor is the greatest
Wow Angeles0,your obviously a troll or an ignorant ****,either way gtfo of these boards
Lmao silly fedor fan!
dont know what to think about that!! i am really confused^^
to end the best MMA career like this .... ?!?!
i wish him the best after fighting!!!
Да мужики. Приходит время когда необходимо завязывать со спортом. Великий воин проиграл свой бой. Но он останется навсегда в сердцах поклонников ММА как Великий воин своего времени.
Maybe find a sight that fits your language speaking :/ no offence
Try google translator. I discovered it the other day and it is great. It completely does away with language barriers.
Funny... all these "he's too small" "he should be a lightheavyweight" excuses... CAIN IS AS SMALL OR SMALLER. CAIN NEEDS NO EXCUSES
Cain is much younger! I want to see him after 10 years!
stop sharping yourself
Cain outweighs Fedor by 10 pounds. Check some weigh in results. And Cain carries a lot less fat than Fedor. He is a much bigger guy than Fedor.
CAIN IS BIGGER YOU DUMB SH^T
Why is 10 lbs suddenly such a big deal mousasi?
Cain is a ripped 244. Fedor is a somewhat flabby 244. First of all, thats 14 pounds which is almost an entire weight class at the lower weights. Second, if fedor was as ripped as Cain, he would probably weigh around 210. That kind of weight difference always has been a big deal, but in his prime, Fedor was so good that it didn't matter.
No way dude.. In ten years Cain would REALLY crush Fedor
No Fedor! NOooo! Sob* Dang I feel sad and weird in my stomach. I really wanted to see Fedor fight Overeem... I sure hope he doesn't retire yet.
During the Overeem vs Fedor debates I mentioned that Fedor was declining from his prime. You could see it in the difficulties that he was starting to have in defeating his opponents. In his prime, he would never have had as much trouble with Brett Rogers as he did.
I have been a fan of Fedor's for many years and it saddened me today to see him take the beating that he did in defeat. He suggested in the interview that he may retire. Should he retire, I will remember him as one of the greatest sportsman that I have ever seen and a wonderful example of how sportsmen should conduct themselves, even if they are the best in their time.
As for The Reem War Wagon, I'm firmly on it and believe that it will roll over Fabricio Werdum. Fabricio may see something in Alistair's game he can exploit but I believe that this is Alistair's time now and that Alistair will do to Fabricio what JDS did to him.
Silva did a good job. Fedor may want to look at dropping a weight class. Then again, after the career he has had, you can respect the man for wanting to retire.
Silva beat Fedor. Big credit to Silva. Fedor has lost his edge. His time has to come to the end. Big Nog, Cro Cop, Randy, Chuck and now Fedor past thier prime. Those fighters are true legends.
All I can say that I would like to thank Fedor for all those years watching him fight. He is the true legend!
ITS ALL HIS STUPID MANAGEMENTS FAULT HE WILL GO DOWN AS A TOP HEAVYWEUGHT LEGEND THAT NEVER GOT TO THE BIGTIMES! (UFC)
The UFC's fighters are no different from those elsewhere except that their HW division is in shambles. They have 4 times the fighters that SF has and they still can't find legit fights for their HW's now that Cain is injured.
u must sharp your own comments, does that red line under all the words u misspell not pop up ?
well i'm glad m1-s stocks will plummet and they wont be able to make strikeforce co-promote with them anymore..
and i'm glad i wont have to look at his bored expressionless face or listen to him thanking god all the time, we get it, you like god.
wonder how long it'll take for him to drop out of top10 lists, probably about 4 years after he retires
you should check out dana white's twitter, it's going crazy.
Man it sucks that this happened, but something told me he wouldn't get past Silva.
ILL BE GLAD WHEN STRIKFORCE GOES OUT OF BUSINESS SO FOR ARGUMENTS SAKE EVERYBODY WILL KNOW WHO THE TOP HW FIGHTERS ARE..EVEN THO ABYBODY WITH A BRAIN KNOWS ALL TOP FIGHTERS ARE IN THE UFC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I keep seeing exactly four sharps on the majority of your posts. This leads me to believe that you have four accounts.
hard to watch but it just looked like silva was just to big for him to handle and his chin was just too good for fedor to get the ko at 5-11 229 he is just to small to deal with the big guys anymore big props to silva for fighting a smart fight
I dont understand you guys when you compare Fedor with Cain.Look at Fedor how many professional tough fights had!Those fights have a bad prints on Fedors body,injuries remember it.After Brock fight Cain got injured to,and badly he is out for long time.The point is that when you have a big weight disadvantage you can still win but you can get over powered and injured.The diference between Fedor and Cain is the number of fights.I am curious how Cain will do after 10 more fights!!I hope this great person is gonna retire and take care of his family.Thats enough Fedor..We will love you forever
Fedor is a true gentleman, brave and fierce. He fought and he fought and he fought.. For Years! And still he gets disrespected by people who just need to rip him, for what? What has he ever done to earn such negativity? Find out more about the man. Not so you can fit him into some stupid ranking system, but so you can lean about things like true class and an iron will to compete and succeed. To those who hate: He would never say the things you say, not to anyone. Its called heart, and it goes a whole hell of a lot further than the mat.
would that have been something if Fedor submitted Big Foot with that toe holed reversal.
Damn..
Respect to Fedor--you fought your best.
Don't worry Fedor, M-1 will just have promote some of their other champion fighters. M-1 will be fine.
You Idiot Didnt You See What Dana White Said M1=M-Done Lmao :D
I'm sick to my stomach/ I've never felt that way about a fighter.l It sickens me, i believe little part of me died tonight. Fedor should have been given another chance. Just because he's eye was closed? I've seen a ton of fighters with their eyes closed and they continued to fight.l My heart is broken,.
there is no point of watching mma anymore, i'm outie.
You Sound Like A True Bitch! Lmao
Fedor was obviously fighting to please his "management" His heart hasn't been in fighting since before all the UFC vs M-1 Global crap started. After all that nonsense fighting become a chore for him. Not to mention Fedor was way over-rated. Yes he was a great fighter but people began to think he was unbeatable, no one is unbeatable.
Fedor looked different from normal
than
but maybe its time to wrap it up his still for me best ever
it was a very good stoppage to save fedor from even more of a beating
fat brawler loses. surpise suprise. dont kno how he made it this far withot loss. oh yeah. he fights bums,freak shows and ufc rejects. thats how.