Inglwood, 35th second, flooring

The career of the fighter Fedor Emelyanenko ended with a disaster

Uncle Fedya did not eat a bear. Ryan Bader poked his paw, and the career of 42-year-old Fedor Emelianenko, the greatest of the Great, de facto in California and ended.

A bag to fall on the flooring at the 35th second of the “battle of the year” is strong. The multimillion -dollar television, especially the Russian one, shocked not even a defeat that was predicted by serious experts, but how it happened. The homework of the American fighter (and his coaching staff specially rehearsed the starting hook) worked murderously and the first time.

The most authoritative person in the world of mixed martial arts, bearing a proud nickname, the last emperor was in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Ten years ago, he would have shown to Ryan Bader what a real battle is. But now the decade is ending, which has very spoiled the image of the Russian fighter number one and the legend of MMA.

The story, of course, is banal. At the end of the zero really shredient for Emelianenko and at the beginning of the tenth, he lost three fights in a row - Fabrizio Verdum, Antoniu Silve and Dan Henderson. Already after Silva, Fedor made an accurate diagnosis - "It's time to tie." He interrupted his career, but did not finish, and in 2017, unfortunately, resumed.

The world loves such returns, PR in many ways stands on this, especially in boxing and mixed martial arts. In nine cases out of ten, such outputs end in collapse, but who stopped?

The sports community is easily bought for advertising, the inner circle of joy to get everything to the bottom, the former champion at some point begins to believe in a fairy tale, gets completely money, but also by reputation-too. Fedor was sincerely sorry when in June 2017 in New York he tried to fight on an equal footing with Matt Mitrion, but immediately after the mutual knockdown was destroyed-at the 74th second from the beginning of the fight. It was not even a call, it was an alarm: that's enough, enough!

But the contract with Bellator was already concluded, Emelianenko appeared at the Grand Prix, and it seemed like nowhere to retreat. He got the grid much easier than the future opponent in the finale, but the Grand Prix was spinning under Emelianenko. He overcame two barriers, defeating the Frank of the World and Cheila Sonena, then the final and the last fight was waiting for the contract. The fact that the great return will inevitably turn into a great humiliation has no longer worried anyone. Emelianenko was guaranteed to receive 300 thousand dollars, his rival, 35-year-old American Ryan Bader,-150 thousand, all this without taking into account various kinds of bonuses.

Bader was preparing purposefully for Emelyanenko. Without any discounts on the age of the opponent.

The Russian man did not change the manner of fighting throughout his career, she was studied along and across, but Bader and the team prepared surprises. After the battle, the future champion himself will say about this: “We believed that he would be afraid of my struggle, so it would be easier for me to hit my head ... I knew that this hook would decide the outcome of the fight.”

What tactics did the coaching staff of Fedor Emelianenko develop, it was unclear - there was no reason to analyze it. While the optimists from among the fans of the Russian veteran reasoned with a smart look that Fedor had a chance against Bader in the rack, the opponent’s team was preparing to beat the legend of his own weapons. From training camps Emelianenko (Old Oskol -Holland -California), rainbow news went on a stream. The coach of Fedor Peter Taiss said that his ward “knows anything”, and expressed the wish that Emelianenko of his opponent “kills in the stalls”. That is, where Bader is most strong. The fact that the American will not wait for a convenient moment to transfer the battle to the ground, the coach did not take into account. He also said shortly before the battle that Fedor was "in very good shape."

However, after Fiasco, in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Inglade, Peter Taiss said that the last emperor had problems-he bothered his shoulder and knee, and he fell ill during the training camp in Holland. The coach, it seemed, knew everything about the level of readiness of Emelianenko and his state of health, but worked out the number until the end and correctly misleads the public. And the cup of shame was to drink to the Russian.

The result of the mentor summed up this: "I think Fedor will end his career." And without that it is clear.

Few of the returners admit that they were risk for material reasons. Probably, Fedor will say that they were driven by the desire to worthy to end his career at the highest level. How this attempt ended, saw the whole world: Inglewood, 35th second, flooring, seven thirty in the morning of Moscow time.

Now all the well -wishers write that such a result will not affect the reputation of Fedor Emelianenko, whose authority is unshakable. In the meantime, Ryan Bader, the triumph of the last battle, said best of all about Fedor: “I take off my hat in front of him.”