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Saturday night at the co-promoted event by Strikeforce and M-1 Global an upset occured. Fedor Emelianenko, considered by almost every MMA expert as the best heavyweight in the world, submitted to Fabricio Werdum at 1:09 into the first round. Fedor from Russia is under contract with M-1 Global and Werdum from Brazil is under contract with Strikeforce.
What happened? Fedor knocked Werdum to the mat and proceeded with his well known ground-and-pound attack to gain a quick win. Then the unthinkable occured. Werdum grabbed Fedor's left arm and applied an arm bar hold and, with Fedor between the legs of Werdum, Werdum was able to use his legs and put a triangle choke on Fedor. Fedor could not escape either hold and had to tap out.
In the post match press conference Fedor explained that he failed to counter Werdum because of being overly aggressive to have a chance to end the match quickly. Well the match ended quickly with Werdum victorious.
This is one of the reasons that make MMA so popular in my opinion. No matter the skill level of the opponents if one recognizes a mistake made by the other and can capitalize on it they will win. That is why I like Brock Lesnar. I know he used to be a pro wrestler but he has extensive amatuer wrestling experience which is the key. Amatuer wrestling, otherwise known as grappling, is a form of combative sport without striking. One just has to learn the art of striking to add to the arsenal. Lesnar is doing that. Each form of martial art has their own submission holds not unlike grappling.
All the talk of a Fedor/Lesnar match may or may not happen. My thoughts on that and MMA's popularity on a later post.
Getting back to the results from saturday night. As I stated earlier this kind of upset is one of the reasons that increases this sports popularity. The prospect for a rematch will be up to the co-promoters. Will a title shot against Alistair Overeem, current Strikeforce heavyweight champion happen soon for Werdum? We will have to wait and see what happens.
