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STRIKEFORCE QUOTABLES: Brett Rogers - "Once everybody sees what I do in the cage, jaws are going to drop."
Nov 2, 2009 - 8:08:07 AM STRIKEFORCE QUOTABLES: Brett Rogers - "Once everybody sees what I do in the cage, jaws are going to drop."

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Brett Rogers [photo provided to MMATorch courtesy Strikeforce]

"I think he's one of the best, looking at his record and his history he's definitely great. But he's facing a new, improved heavyweight: He hasn't fought anyone like me. The way I see it, he hasn't been tested the way I'm about to test him... I had never sat down to watch one of his fights until his last fight against Andrei Arlovski. Before that I had just seen clips here and there. I think it's good that I haven't been a big Fedor fan: A lot of the guys he's fought fall too deep into the hype... I don't rank myself with belts and I don't care about other people's belts. To me, that can be solved with a punch to the head or a punch to the body. Most of my jiu jitsu is just about getting out of bad situations. I want to win my fight by knockout... Right now [there are people] saying I'm fat and out of shape and I have no chance, but the people saying negative things about me are the people who don't know me. Once everybody sees what I do in the cage, jaws are going to drop."

-Brett Rogers talks to MMA FanHouse about his match up with Fedor Emelianenko this Saturday in Illinois.

Penick's Analysis: The closer we get to the fight the more Brett Rogers chances improve in this bout. It's tough to say he'll be the one to defeat Fedor because it would be such a shock just to see Fedor lose, regardless of who becomes the one to defeat him, but from what I've been told from members of his training camp he's looking better than he ever has coming into this one. The rest of the interview is definitely worth a read with him discussing his early years in Chicago and the difficulty growing up there leading his family to move when he was 12, along with juggling jobs, training and family before beating Andrei Arlovski in June.