Strikeforce: Fedor vs Werdum Press Conference Highlights
Posted on June 25, 2010, 08:57 AM by Anton GurevichStrikeforce: Fedor vs Werdum participants gathered for the official pre-fight press conference, discussing this Saturday's long-anticipated event. Fight card headliners Fedor Emelianenko and Fabricio Werdum talked about their mutual respect coming to their fight, and its legitimacy as one of the top Heavyweight collisions of the recent time.
Co-main eventers Jan Finney and Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos were also present at the presser, as well as Cung Le, Scott Smith, Josh Thomson and Pat Healy.
Strikeforce: Fedor vs Werdum will take place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, starting its broadcast on 10 P.M. ET. Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that they will counter-program Strikeforce with the successful UFC 113: Machida vs Shogun II event, which will be aired on Spike TV.
Full Fedor vs Werdum Fight Card:
Main Card
Heavyweight bout: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Fabricio Werdum
Women's Featherweight Championship bout: Cristiane Santos(c) vs. Jan Finney
Middleweight bout: Cung Le vs. Scott Smith
Lightweight bout: Josh Thomson vs. Pat Healy
Preliminary Card
Light Heavyweight bout: Yancy Medeiros vs. Gareth Joseph
Lightweight bout: Bobby Stack vs. Derrick Burnsed
Welterweight bout: Brett Bergmark vs. Vagner Rocha

Comments
Werdum is just getting famous with that fight...good for him!
new at this? was just wondering Werdum has been a great fighter for
a while not sure if he will win but is a good fighter and beat a lot of good
guys.... Vera and Gonzoga twice
can't wait for Fedor to shut everybody up once and for all!
GO FEDOR!!!!!!!!
With his win over Werdum? Its not like the odds are stacked against him..... Im just saying.
lol who is Fedor going to shut up with Werdum? If anything, he has more to worry about if a fluke happens and he loses, than gaining anything from a win. Beating Werdum will say absolutely nothing about his status as a top heavyweight, considering I've seen it argued if Werdum is even top 10 HW.
Idiot. "man i can't wait for GSP to silence all fans by fighting kenny florian...or better yet, matt serra!"
Yeah he's right.......I just don't see Werdum givin' fedor any type of trouble. Maybe on the ground-and that's a big "maybe", but standin' up?? Fabricio needs to start prayin'...................
From all the posts i have seen the last couple of days it sounds like your sending in Peter Pan into fight Darth Vader or somethen.....Even thou i dont like fedor iwould have to say he will win...even tho it sickens me to say such words....THERE I SAID IT!!!!!
This is a good card from SF
Fedor to stop the controversial about HW records and Werdum maybe the first one breaking Fedor records.
Cung has a chance to redeem his first lost or Scott got something to prove his first fight not just a lucky punch .
Josh vs Pat will be a good match .
Cristiane vs Jane not a good match.though .I see Cyborg pulls off this fight.
The Cung Le fight will be interesting. He's facing quality competition at least.
Great to see top fighters getting it on without DW making a penny out of them. I expect Cung Le to finish this one and not get caught like last time , and the Fedor fight is much tougher than people seem to think,. Werdum is excellent on the ground. If he can get on top of Fedor he has a very good chance of finishing. That is an IF though. Fedor should finish it on the feet but as said Werdum does have a chance.
Fedor wil have no problem with Werdum, Overeem is a bigger danger...
Werdum is a top 10 fighter. Brock only fought Mir to get his status.
Fedor will f** Carwin up, who wil win the UFC titel..
Hah... We'll have to take your word for it on what Fedor WOULD do, IF, he was ever cornered in to facing real competition. Which won't happen.
Werdum top-10, hah...
The rankings and maths do not support your Dana White brainwashed opinion. In several posts regarding Fedor you assert the same old trash yet when i ask for you to provide a list of HW's whose RECENT resume stacks up better than Fedors you can't. Why is this. Are you unable to research facts? Or have you researched facts and just anable to find any that support your BS? Either way you are unable so stfu fool.
Wow, u are still at this bro?
Maybe because if carwin or brock or mir or cain fought some of the guys fedor has, fans would call BS because they'd recognize they were buffering their record.
And it's not that Fedor is buffering his record, it`s just that alot of the guys he`s fought could easily be beaten by other top heavyweight fighters. Bret was the very best fighter fedor has fought since crocop, and look what overeem did to him, is overeem superman? Or was bret just seriously overrated, as overeem probably is now.
Fedor won't join the UFC out of principle, not because he's afraid to fight the best, but the best could easily buffer their records, it's just not going to happen that easily in the UFC.
scott coker looks like a toad
Werdums last loss was 2008 when Lesnar got his loss to Mir same year actualy Werdum TKO'd Brandon Vera who KO'd Mir this makes Werdum better fighter than Lesnar at the time.And Werdum is top 10 becose of the win over Big Foot who was 13-1 and win over Rico Rodrigez who made Randy shitt him self
this kind of logic makes me wonder if you're a retard. Chuck Liddel beat babalu twice and Shogun lost to babalu so at ufc 97 Chuck liddel should have schooled Shogun.....Liddel got kod in the first Rnd
look man your talking to new fans and nut huggers....
but Fedor if he was the god he USE TO BE yeah odds r werdum
would have a bad day but he isnt looked like chit against Brett
and not ready for a real fight like overeem that he declined to fight
so maybe the beast will wake up or get crushed in his sleep
i think they should make a "retarded" option to select for comments that you make mokoko.
Keep talking about top competition look at Werdums record better than Mir.And got wins over Big foot ,Gonzaga 2 times,Vera,Overeem,Fedor bro,Zentsov.Carwin one year older than Fedor and Lesnar one year yonger booth together got 17 fights bunch of amatours in Prison league
Fedor isn't even fighting for the weak-belt in Strikeforce. He's fighting someone who left the UFC because he got destroyed and knew that he didn't have a chance to compete.
Who has better victories on their resume? Lesnar, Carwin? Ah no!! So again stfu. most fighters lose, but it's their victories you go by also in order to attain an accurate assessment. Perhaps this titbit of information has always failed to register in your head. Well know you know so go back look again at the FACTS and then formulate an opinion. Don't just listen to Dana's BS and any fighter he can get to tow the anti Fedor line. 2 of his current champs say he p4p best, at least 4 of his ex champs say he p4p best. Why is that?
records are for dj's. Just because you have a massive record doesnt mean you are a better fighter than someone with a smaller one. Brock should just go and fight people like hong man choi for a year then he would be best.
Talking about Vera he KO'd Mir and Robbed against Randy this makes him same class fighter es Lesnar they were the reson Lesnar is champ in UFC
Same year when Werdum lost to a lucky upper cut to JDS, Lesnar lost to Mir and was ok for him to comeback and be a champion.
If UFC think's they got the best HW fighters put them in thest in Coopromote Heavyweight Grand Prix just like in PRIDE just to see who is the best. UFC HW gona end up just like Lidell came to dominate PRIDE and got his ass kicked.Dana dosen't wan't that becose is scared to loose the busines
actually all pride fighters but anderson and rampage got their asses handed to them when they first came to the UFC. Stupid nuthuggers,theres absolutely no way anyone with a working brain can look at some of these guys and think they can hang with the top UFC. It's just realism.
Thats why right now 2 belt holders in UFC are ex pride and look at what happened to 2 ex UFC HW champs who fought Fedor they got destroyed. Every fighter is different and adapts differently. Some fighters have a dip in form others improve so your opinion is nonsense.
yea, like brock could destroy silvia or arlovski....like ANYONE who's anywhere near being top 10 in UFC couldn't destroy those 2. Infact it's a little bit of a challenge to find someone Fedor has destroyed who those guys couldn't also destroy....go ahead and try.
It's pretty interesting how you mention a drop in talent but hype up "ex ufc champs!!!" like it meant something at the time Fedor fought them. Shogun came hairs close to losing to coleman, what would you say if he had lost? Coleman is terrible and was never really that good, use your head for something other than a seat.
yeah its true that anderson and shogun are beasts still and rmpage did well, but thats 3 pride guys that did well, now think of how many did badly..wand crocop both nogs randelman herring werdum the list goes on...most of them just couldnt adapt, which MAY have happened to fedor if hed come to the ufc
the key phrase in your argument there is "ex ufc hw champs" enough said.
Yes, most fighters who fight in America where there is regulation, will look bad when they go fight roid-monsters. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Rampage was known for epic body-slams in Pride but has never done it once since.
Co-promotion would be idiotic, and only people who are stupid enough to not care about the consequences advocate it. Pride failed remember? See how it is not around anymore? See how Strikeforce is struggling to stay relevant and doing their best to drag out Fedor's name? The UFC shouldn't be taken advice from the many fringe organizations who are riding the UFC's coat tails anyway.
I can't wait to watch this fight.
Fedor just can't win. Win or lose people are still going to bash him, poor guy. People should be happy to watch him fight live while he can.
MMA fans are always happy to see Fedor fight. It's the new generation who only tuned in since DW been running his mouth who bash him. I'm sure should he lose once he is deemed as uselss and phony by most the young and new fans, but those who been in mma for years know his achievements and know no loss will detract from that no matter what fools and their opinions exist.
no most of us are quite happy to watch fedor fight. Its the dip shit retarded fans like you who piss us off, sucking his balls night and day. Saying he is the best. 5 years ago, he was the best. Not anymore, he hasnt fought anyone relevant in the last 4 years that would give me any reason to believe he is the best hw in the world.
Fedor doesnt care about people on the internet, i'm sure he realizes alot of his fans are quite stupid and only like him because he wins. The result of the fight doesnt matter anyways, it's just always interesting to see his strategy.
It isn't just his win streak that gets him fans, it's the way he gets them. He dont run away like Silva sometimes does, or lay and pray like GSP sometimes does, he is prepared to take hits in order to get a chance to finish and always tries to finish. 8 of his last 11 he finishes, last 3 fights finished 3 top ten opponents. He also doesn't give a crap about what me you or anybody else has to say either, helikes to compete and try his best, hasn't got his head up his own arse like Brock has and is very respectable. That is why he has many fans. Dana White and Brocks muscles and a modern generation of ill educated think they know it alls are the reason he has haters.
just a quick question azzkika, is fedors **** realy as big as all his fans say it is?
See you're the kind of guy im talking about..which really surprises me. First silva has no reason to actually run away, he was clearly better than leites and maia, it's just another way to win besides smash and bash. Second, even though GSP has only been taking down opponents lately, its not lay and pray because he's actually doing something. If you look at arona vs Fedor, is fedor lay and praying? Because he was doing a hell of alot less than GSP does.
3rd, you'd have to be...typical to think that Fedors last 3 opponents could hang with ACTUAL top contenders in that division. I mean silvia got knocked out by a 48 year old retired boxer after he left UFC for example. Fedor hasn't had a serious challenge since crocop.
I don't know how you could say that and then talk about "ill-educated" persons. The insane, constant stupidity of Fedors fans are what gets haters, nobody actually hates on Fedor.