Fedor isn’t a real fighter, he’s a complete joke.

“He’s fighting middleweights and guys who have absolutely no business fighting – and he’s looking like s*** doing it.

“It’s 2008 and he hasn’t had a real fight since 2005. I don’t care about what he did in PRIDE years ago - he can’t live with anyone in the top five in the UFC and that’s why he’s not here.

“He’s not in the UFC because if he was he couldn’t avoid real competition like he’s been doing for years now.

If we look at Fedor's record today, it doesn't look overly impressive due to where many of those fighters went after the years kept passing by. At the time of some of those fights though, many of the men he fought were highly regarded as some of the best Heavyweights in the world, and that does count for something in his current ranking.

Fighting Lindland, who is a Middleweight, is definitely not going to help your potential to keep that ranking, but I'll ask this as I have asked others in the past. Can Matt Lindland beat some of the top 10 heavyweights in the world? I think so. What other middleweights fought Fedor? That's right, Dana. Making more broad statements based on one fight that Fedor fought, it never fails.

The argument that he has fought nobody applies today if you look at where those fighters are, but the fact of the matter is that Fedor still defeated his opponents in the present time and still did so quickly. People consider the Coleman fights complete garbage due to his age, and they could be right, but Coleman's style is still similar to what many wrestlers may try to implement against Fedor. Especially in a ring environment where Couture could find himself.

I'm still a heavy believer in the notion that if a fighter can manage to rattle off the amount of consecutive wins that Fedor has done, you can't really make an argument that he's "not a real fighter". Dana simply needs to avoid these questions, and cut the amount of crap that he manages to spit out when it comes to Fedor Emelianenko. Eventually, UFC veterans will find themselves in front of "The Last Emperor", and I honestly believe that fans will find out how masterful Fedor's transition game really is.