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Fedor Emelianenko is meeting the media in Chicago today, but Brett Rogers is in Bristol, Connecticut, promoting their fight at ESPN headquarters, including the above appearance on ESPN First Take.
MMA is still at the point where any attention on ESPN is a good thing, and Rogers noted during his interview with Dana Jacobson that he was just thrilled to be invited to Bristol to spread the word. Part of Rogers' charm is that he's still so new to all this that he seems to genuinely enjoy the interviews.
As for the interview itself, Jacobson asked Rogers about his comment that jaws will drop when he fights Fedor (referencing this FanHouse interview), and Rogers said he's confident that after the fight, everyone will know his name. In reality, MMA hasn't reached the level of mainstream acceptance that everyone will know Rogers' name even if he does pull off one of hte biggest upsets in the history of the sport on Saturday night. But getting on ESPN is a step in the right direction.
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Interesting read.
The only way Bret rogers can beat Fedor is if he gets lucky and catches fedor on the chin. I highly doubt it thow because Fedor is the most well rounded and devestating fighter in the world.
The people who do not know Fedor will know soon how great he is.
There is no such thing as a lucky punch. I expect Fedor to win, but I don't want him to. The reason being is that I am sick and tired of everybody saying that he is the perfect fighter. He is a great fighter but NOT perfect. His striking game is ok at best, and showed it has flaws with his arlovski fight. To me the closest thing to a perfect fighter is Anderson Silva. But there is no such thing as a perfect fighter. Thats the beauty of MMA. But I just wish that Fedor would have signed with the UFC and not Strikeforce.
hey jojo,
don't recall any of your posts proir to this one, but, i gotta tell you...i like this one.
hope to see your thoughts again.
oh another thing,
i don't know whatever hype machine is driving this rogers exposure, but they have done a great job.
2 week ago i really didn't care one way or the other about rogers.
now, i really like the guy.
which kind of sucks, because imo he has no real shot of beating fedor other than the dream punch scenario.
this is also validated with the assumption that he probably has no ground game.
if he can pull off a miracle here, i'll be jumping around like when forrest beat rua.
Hey thanks Neozoo, this is my first post, I usually read every news article, just can't stand it when people make a dumb comment, like a lucky punch. When you are fighting are you not throwing a punch or kick with bad intentions? Then how is that lucky? lol