Strikeforce Fedor vs. Rogers: Mythical Status, Winning Streaks, and Stooopid People

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What happens when an indestructible force meets and immovable object? We’ll find out on CBS on Saturday night as the indestructible Russian Fedor Emelianenko puts his mythological status as the best in the world on the line against the immovable American Brett Rogers. If you miss it, you’re stooopid!

638 Rogers’ longest fight lasted only (6:38) and it came earlier this year at Strikeforce in April. Only twice has Rogers been to the second round in route to a perfect 10-0 record.

101 Back in the days of Elite XC, Rogers needed (1:01) to stop Jon Murphy at Elite XC Primetime. The victory marked MMA’s first ever live fight on network TV.

1 Fedor has (1) loss against 30 wins and it came back in Rings in 2000 and was due to what most call an illegal elbow by Tsuyoshi Kosaka that opened up a cut Fedor had suffered earlier in the evening against Ricardo Arona.

533 Percentage (53.3) of Fedor’s wins to come via submission. In his last six outings he finished five of them by submission. The only time he didn’t was when he knocked Andrei Arlovski out of the air in dramatic fashion.

140 Fedor gained much of his mythical status by going an amazing (14-0) with one no contest in the now defunct PRIDE. Big Nog, Cro Cop, Kevin Randleman, Mark Coleman, and the aforementioned Kosaka were amongst his victims.

45 Combined win total (45) for middleweights 22-6 Jason Miller and 23-4-1 Jake Shields. They are meeting for the vacated (by Cung Le) Strikeforce middleweight strap.

3 Combined number of times (3) Miller and Shields have been stopped. Miller was TKO’d by Frank Trigg and submitted by Todd Carney. Shields was TKO’d by Marty Armendarez almost ten years ago.

120 Record (12-0) of Shields in his last 12 fights.

102 Record (10-2) of Miller in his last 13 fights including a no contest in a rematch with Ronaldo Souza.

142 Seconds (142) that placed Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou on the map when in 2007 he KO’d Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Ricard Arona in back to back fights.

33 Since those devastating wins he has gone (3-3) and struggled during a stint in the UFC. He’s got a tall order in Gegard Mousasi.

60 Seconds (60) that got a lot of MMA fans talking about Mousasi. During Strikeforce’s August show Mousasi destroyed the highly-touted Renato Sobral in just one minute.

13 Mousasi’s been impressive for a long time before August. The Sobral destruction was his (13th) win in a row and during it he beat Hector Lombard, Denis Kang, Ronaldo Souza, and Melvin Manhoef among others.

914 Winning percentage (91.4) of Mousasi who is 26-2-1

636 Winning percentage (63.6) of Sokoudjou at 7-4, we’ll have to see if he can shock everyone like he did Little Nog and Arona.

533 Time (5:33) Antonio Silva has spent inside the ring since being suspended for a positive steroid test by the California State Athletic Commission. In that stretch he stopped Yoshihiro Nakao and Jim York both in Sengoku. Now he returns to the States to take on Fabricio Werdum.

45 It was just (45) days since Silva’s last fight, a submission of York.

121 Werdum was riding a two fight win streak in the UFC after beating Gabriel Gonzaga and Brandon Vera, but possible contract issues and (1:21) against Junior Dos Santos during which time Werdum was knocked senseless, led to his dismissal from the promotion.

19 Pounds (19) Werdum will be giving up to Silva when they hook up on Saturday night.