My Fedor Fantasy

Now I was an unashamed Fedor fanatic, I mean I grew up on a diet of him destroying everyone in his path, and being part of some of the biggest and most exciting MMA fights I've seen. His recent rapid demise took me a little by surprise I have to say. There's no way that he should have lost to Werdum (I still think he'd win that rematch 9 times out of 10, providing he didn't go diving into Werdum's guard). I thought that it was just a blip and he'd bounce back against Bigfoot.....obviously I was totally wrong. Even before the Henderson fight I was pretty confident, I mean he was fighting a sometime middleweight. Hendo's right hand finally shattered his myth of invincibility in my stubborn mind, and I saw Fedor for what he had become, an out of shape ageing, small heavyweight who employs basically no tactics for any of his fights. I always thought he was joking when he said he didn't watch tapes on any of his opponents but I actually think it's true (apart from maybe the Cro-Cop fight).

Fedor is 34 years old, younger than Anderson Silva and yet he is stuck in the dark ages. Modern MMA fighters have top conditioning and nutritionists. They train in every facet of the game, fight at the lowest possible weight class and employ considered tactics. Fedor is still doing pull ups in a disused children's playground somewhere in Siberia. The fact that he is able to compete at all is testament to his warrior spirit and quick reflexes.
Here's where my little fantasy kicks in (and I appreciate that this will NEVER happen), but just imagine if Fedor decided to move to the U.S, joined a top team and knuckled down to some serious all round MMA training with other top level fighters. Imagine if he employed top nutritionists and conditioning coaches and slimmed down to light heavyweight. Imagine if he got his game face on again, determined to be recognised as a top fighter. Pure fantasy I know, but I think he'd be a top 3 light heavyweight if all of the above happened.
Instead we are all brought crashing down to reality with his next match-up, a pointless (and far from straight forward) fight with Jeff Monson in Russia.