Veteran UFC color-commentator, Joe Rogan has claimed the most important combat he laments the promotion didn’t guide was a long-speculated title combat between Cain Velasquez, and former Delight FC icon, Fedor Emelianenko in years passed by.
Velasquez, a former two-time heavyweight champion within the promotion, was long-linked with a number of eye-catching tremendous fights throughout his tenure atop the promotion’s division.
Specifically, the Salinas native made good on a conflict with former WWE star, Brock Lesnar, profitable by way of first spherical knockout. Nevertheless, followers additionally advised he tackle then-light heavyweight kingpin, Jon Jones, and even American Kickboxing Academy teammate, Daniel Cormier.
However moreover, a showdown with former Delight FC heavyweight champion and Grand Prix victor, Emelianenko was additionally a sought-after pairing by followers and pundits alike.
Joe Rogan regrets failed Fedor Emelianenko, Cain Velasquez combat
And in accordance with storied organizational caller, Rogan, a failed matchup of Velasquez and Russian is his most lamented pairing which didn’t come to fruition.
“‘If I may have one factor, one combat of their prime, Fedor (Emelianenko) vs. Cain Velasquez,” Rogan mentioned on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Expertise. “Of their prime. That will have been unbelievable.
“My foremost remorse in MMA is we by no means bought to see Fedor combat within the UFC when he was in his prime,” Rogan added.
Failing to ever step foot within the Octagon, Emelianenko did ply his commerce in a number of different promotions in North America, nonetheless. Amid hyperlinks to a transfer to the UFC within the 2000s, the Russian ace would compete largely for Bellator MMA earlier than his retirement, earlier than additionally that includes in now-defunct promotions, Strikeforce MMA, in addition to Affliction — for the latter’s pair of occasions within the fight sports activities sphere.
