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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief "[Fedor]has some loopholes. When he gets excited that's when he can get caught. That's the way I see it, especially if he wants to stand and bang with me. Otherwise, I can see a ground-and-pound game, too. I'm definitely not going to allow him to lead the fight. That's just not happening... I'm definitely preparing for [the ground game]. He loves jiu-jitsu, and I mean, jiu-jitsu is good but you have to catch somebody for that. I've definitely been working on getting out of submissions, and most importantly, standing up. It's tough taking somebody down, and [if] you don't succeed in that, it tires you out. So I'm going to shoot for that and keep my weight on him... [If I beat him] I'm God then. I'm the God of MMA. I'll become the God of MMA, right? Isn't that how it goes? I'm the soul snatcher; I'm the grim. I'll take all his wins and put them under my belt, and then everybody can just hush up... I don't fight for fun. I fight for the title; I fight for the money, and the respect. That's me, and a lot of folks need to know that. I don't care to just get in and have fun... I'm going to knock him out. He's going to give me his chin, somehow, someway. He's going to get sloppy with that overhand right that he loves to do or he'll try to shoot in for a takedown, and I'll catch him with either a knee or an uppercut ... something. I'm going to drop him. I want the crowd to go (gasp). I want to get that reaction out of people. So I can't wait."
Penick's Analysis: It's good to hear the confidence from Rogers coming into this one. Of course, he's a fighter and he should always be believing in himself. He's been pushing and pushing to gain respect from fans, fighters and the organizations he's worked for, and you can be sure he's going to put forth his best possible effort in this fight. Whether that translates into him being able to defeat Fedor is another story, and there will be those who completely write him off coming into this fight. He may just surprise a lot of people in this one, but until the fight actually takes place the talk is just that; talk. Strikeforce needs to get their whole act together and promote this fight the way it deserves to be, and then things can heat up big time heading into it. Of course, it'd be helpful to get a date and location locked down to start.
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