Freddie Roach Explains How to Beat Fedor

Knee to the face, Freddie Roach is one of the best if not the best in boxing. I can respect him for that and you should too. Also he does no have much knowledge of MMA so we can forgive him for some comments he made. If I was training I would welcome the Roacher as a trainer.

I loved this just for "my bet is on the chubby guy"

Fedor First Round Knockout

Unless it's an upset? Well, isn't that kind of the point regardless of the way he wins, should he?

Don't be surprised if Arlovski give him problems standing. I wouldn't be surprised to see Arlovski be the 2nd person to rock Fedor, followed by Arlovski getting submitted shortly after :).

Also, I wonder if any of this is purely psychological? Everyone gives Fedor due respect and maybe he's trying to agitate him a bit.

4oz gloves + power, speed, accuracy is always dangerous though, even if Arlovski has superior technical boxing.

Freddie has no idea what he is talking about, shit half of the time it seem he has down syndrome.

Well, today MMA is evolving into superior striking, as in boxing striking, the best proof is Rampage v. Wanderlei and Rashad v. Lidell

As in any evolution whoever adapts faster and better gets to survive, I would not go as far as saying that superior striking through boxing will bring a new generation of fighters, but it could be said that superior striking is the next step in the generation of all around fighters.

Now Fedor on the other part, will sub Arlovski.

I think Arlovski is gonna pull a Frank Mir

You & me, little Benny, you & me....

Ya know, this kinda pre-fight talk always agitates me. So Arlovski is better at the stand up and thats where he wants to keep the fight?

Does anyone think for two seconds that Fedor doesn't know that too?

DUUUUUH!

Fedor is gonna do his damnest to shoot on Arlovski all night. Arlovski better be brushing up on his takedown defense along with his boxing.

That being said, I still think the fight could go either way. But when they hit the canvas, and they will, it won't be to AA's advantage.

And Roach is a hell of a coach who has tremendous insite into boxing. When it comes to the science of punching another guy in the face, Roach is like Einstein.

...or maybe the guy in "A Beautiful Mind".

old, bald and irish i think wins on the comment. it seems theres alot of talk on arlovski's boxing skills. dont you think thats probably been fedor and his trainers number one thought preparing for this fight? i 2nd old bald and irish again on the idea that arlovski should probably scrap whatever he might have learned when it comes to boxing and put all effort in to not getting taking down. which, i feel anybody could work on for a year straight and it probably still wont matter against fedor. i like arlovski and all, but i think in this fight he's predictable. and one thing that ive always thought arlovski lacked was speed which i think we all know fedor has plenty of.

2 1/2 weeks and we'll see what happens.

I think Arlovski has speed, but not heart nor a chin. Two things you will need plenty of in a fight with Fedor.

i wanna see manny vs fedor to decide who is the p4p fighter..!
roflmaocopter..!

Hell yes!!! Im putting $20 on the chubby guy! If Fador wins i might nearly double my money!!! :)

What Freddie is talking like he doesn't know, is that Fedor is one of the most technically superior strikers in the sport. I hear all the so called striking experts always talking shit about his striking technique, and it gets real old after having watched the man school good strikers time and time again. The problem is ignorance to the technique he uses. The system he uses involves a number of strikes not found in boxing or most other striking disciplines. What these guys refuse to acknowledge is that all that cute shit that works with pillows on their hands, is not necessarily the most effective for MMA. And while boxing obviously has its place in the sport, too heavy a focus on it will hurt you(something Rampage found out the night he lost his strap). While there is always a punchers chance, I think AA is going to find out the hard way that you shouldn't let a checker player prepare you for chess. Fedor puts AA on his back with the power left hook in R1 or 2, and only one of two things can happen after that. That is all.

Fedors not chubby, god gave him a few extra pounds of awesomeness, that's all.

i agree with blaphtome, fedor striking style is very very technical. before i was into the ground work aspect of MMA i was strictly the "good striker with take down defense rules all " type of guy. i have never seen anything like fedor. his hopping left hook is like GSP's spinning back kick. he can miss it, he can land it, but you have to cover up or be out of reach for it to not to do some damage. i feel that it forces guys into "please dont hit me in the face" mode. and if they dont, they end up like sylvia very fast.

pitbull has awesome footwork great strike defense, but its kind of a double edge sword. he plays his angles stays in the pocket he has a chance for some good over hand left counters. he stays out of the pocket he cant really strike effectively. by effectively i mean laying on the damage, he isnt gonna pull a petrulli. inside the pocket he needs to worry about the clinch which is gonna get him pwnt by way of dirtyboxing and trips.

all in all i think if pitbull stays outside, cuts angles and only lingers inside when he absolutley needs to it will be a good fight

"it's like Eddie Van Halen talking about singing."

- haha pretty much says it all.

Ask your mom.

So... due to this guy is Arlovski going to have a standard boxing stance or a more squared MMA stance when he fight's Fedor?

he does have slight down syndrome, you asshole. he just dealt with it and became the best boxing trainer there is today. asshole

Bunch of little teenager, zit head queers. STFU! you have no idea what you are talking about. Blowing shit up like this. He doesn't have down syndrome, he has parkinsons disease, he doesnt know the mma game that well, but he also trains Anderson Silva, and also trained BJ Penn, imagine that? now go tell mommy I cursed on this website so they can remove my post from here.....hurry run along little punk high school kids.