It’s probably been a decade since the true prime of Fedor Emelianenko, who was once considered as close to a mythical fighter as anyone in the sport’s history has been.
He was talked about as the baddest man on the planet for years, the old axiom they used to say about boxing’s heavyweight champion. That was until MMA exposed the realities of the limitations of boxing alone in an overall fight.
Except for the fact that his spilling copious amounts of blood in his fights proved otherwise, the joke in his prime was that he was so good he wasn’t human.