My Take Radio

I have issue with this game not because of the fight­ers involved but because EA allegedly told UFC to go fuck them­selves when the UFC wanted to cre­ate Undis­puted 2009. After a suc­cess­ful out­ing by THQ it seems EA wanted a piece of the MMA pie. Based on the trailer they seem to have a solid for­mula but I notice a rub­bery tex­ture to the fight­ers and some fight­ers do not resem­ble their real life counter parts. Of course the sell­ing point is Fedor vs Cou­ture which is a fight many have wanted to see but which has been eclipsed by the need to see Fedor vs Lesnar. Does this game have tools to dethrone the UFC offer­ing or is this just a lame attempt by EA to cash in on the hottest sport today? I have to admit that the dif­fer­ent fight­ing are­nas are nice though hahahaha

Last week, I shared with you some footage of Fedor vs Rogers 360 on Show­time. This past Sat­ur­day, M1 Global and Strike­force pre­sented Fedor vs. Rogers on Sat­ur­day Night Fights. While this card had a lot of hype going in, I’ll be the first to admit that I expected most of the fights to be for­mu­laic in terms of the right guys win­ning and the card lack­ing   any drama. I’ll start off by say­ing that all the fights on the card delivered.

I am going to go fight by fight shar­ing my thoughts.

HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT — Anto­nio Silva (13–1) vs. Fabri­cio Wer­dum (12–4-1): Werdum-Decision

Excit­ing heavy­weight bout that showed a wealth of tal­ent with plenty of action. I expected Silva to come away with the vic­tory but Wer­dum (pro­nounced Ver-Doom) showed great cage aware­ness as well as great scram­bles and solid stand-up to defend against the larger opponent.

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT — Gegard Mousasi (26–2-1) vs. Rameau Thierry Sok­oud­jou (7–4): Mousasi-TKO 2nd Round

HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT: Fedor Emelia­nenko (31–1-1nc) vs. Brett Rogers (10–0): Fedor-TKO 2nd Round
 

Fedor and Rogers were fight­ing for the WAMMA Heavy­weight Title instead of the Strike­force title which is cur­rently held by Alas­tair Overeem. Rogers came into this fight as the under­dog, but boy did he promptly intro­duce him­self with a swift jab to Fedor’s face which may or may not have bro­ken his nose. Rogers showed zero fear in tak­ing the fight to Fedor, at one point secur­ing the mount and pum­mel­ing Fedor in the first round. Fedor has not seen a sec­ond round in years but seemed unfazed as the round started. Sadly, like I said last week, Rogers made a mis­take and was hit with a huge right that put him to sleep.

I must say Rogers got a lot fur­ther than I gave him credit for and had a decent chance. Fedor is a great strate­gist and knows to wait for his oppo­nent to make a mis­take. Rogers will see Fedor again since I am sure Fedor enjoyed the competition.

In clos­ing I’d like to com­mend Strike­force for a great card, but you guys need to get rid of Gus John­son because he sucks.

EA treated us to some footage of EA Sports MMA which showed not only what the game looks like but the main event we were about to see. While the footage was wel­come, the fight­ers didn’t look as real­is­tic as the ones in UFC Undis­puted 2009. Given that it was a just a trailer, I am sure EA will tighten up the graphics.

I am not sure I’d buy the EA game given how they gave the UFC a hard time when their game needed to be pub­lished but that may change if the game is good and has a good roster.Have a look for yourselves

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9M7d3osNYQ]

Fedor Emelia­nenko is a name that for the last few years has been syn­ony­mous with “the gold stan­dard” for heavy­weight fight­ers. Fast, Strong, Sub­mis­sions, Sambo and KO Power are the words used to describe this emo­tion­less phe­nom, and with good rea­son. Fedor comes into this bout poised to claim another vic­tim and show the UFC why he is the bad­dest man on the planet. Brett “The Grim“Rogers comes off a KO vic­tory over for­mer UFC Heavy­weight Champ Andrei “The Pit­bull” Arlovski, and with seri­ous KO power and Muay Thai skills at his dis­posal he has some­thing to prove.

Show­time debuts their inside look at the train­ing and lifestyles of these very dif­fer­ent fight­ers lead­ing to their clash on 11/7 on CBS. Whether you are a fan of the UFC or MMA in gen­eral this is a fight that can’t be missed and most of all it’s free.

Here is a sneak peek at the 360 spe­cial which you can watch on Show­time all this week lead­ing to the fight. Check with your local provider for show times.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79aPABWCmA]

Here is the CBS advert for the full card as well

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ5Fc_EyPkA]

MAIN CARD

FEDOR “THE LAST EMPEROR” EMELIANENKO (30–1) VS BRETT “THE GRIM” ROGERS (10–0)

JASON “MAYHEM” MILLER (29–6) VS JAKE SHIELDS (28–4) — MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

GEGARD “THE DREAMCATCHER” MOUSASI (29–2) VS RAMEAU THIERRY “THE AFRICAN ASSASIN” SOKODJOU

FABRICIO “VAI CAVALO” WERDUM (12–4-1) VS ANTONIO “BIGFOOT” SILVA (13–1)