A moment in MMA history.

In a night full of one sided fights, Strikeforce: Fedor vs Werdum main card was all finishes. That fact will not be the reason this event will be remembered for. This card’s main event will go down in the short history of this sport as one of the biggest upsets of all time. Fedor Emelianenko, the myth, the outlier, the invincible fighter who is virtually undefeated was submitted with a via triangle/armbar by Pride & UFC vet and bjj specialist Fabricio Werdum 1:09 into the first round.

And just like that, the impossible happens

From Cung Le avenging his only defeat from Scott Smith with a 2nd round mule kick to the gut. To Cris “Cyborg” Santos’s savage title defense against Jan Finney. The nights didn’t lack in excitement in the least bit. Josh Thompsons bout with Pat Healy was surprisingly competitive until the third round submission when a game Healy was put away by determined former champ in Thompson.

The night even had the official retirement announcement of former UFC and Strikeforce champion turned analyst Frank Shamrock.

But the stunning finish in the main event will be the talk of the mma world for weeks to come. With the UFC holding a title unification bout between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin. The long and some will argue still viable notion of Fedor being the #1 heavyweight fighter in the world will come under heavy scrutiny depending on the outcome of the UFC 116 main event.

As a guy who got into this sport way after Pride folded, Fedor losing doesn’t hit me as hard as it would veteran aficionados and hardcore fans. The first live fight with The Last Emperor I saw was his bout against Arlovski. Since then I have borrowed and rented dvd’s, scoured youtube videos of actual fights and highlights and began to see what the big deal was. The only thing different in this fight from others was that Emelianenko got himself in harms way but didn’t get out of danger. Werdums surest chance to win was by sub and that’s what happened. Numerous fighters have jumped on opponents after they have fallen only to get submitted. Fans and detractors will make of this loss what they will and the GOAT discussions will try to distill more out of this fight than there is. No fighter is invincible, everyone loses and at the end of the day a 31-2 record is still among the best in the sport. And now to luck on forums and enjoy the fallout.

Props to Middle Easy, for getting the scoop of scoops.

The regional political council of the party “United Russia” approved the list of candidates for internal party elections – the primaries. In the list of 58 candidates. No less than 10 000 United Russia vote will determine the best, and who will receive the first place in the party list in the upcoming October elections in the Belgorod Regional Duma.

The list of early voting have 24 newcomers who have never participated in elections to the legislature. One of the achievements was the inclusion in the list not only members of United Russia, but also simply to party supporters and even non-party candidates. This is for example the managing director Combine KMA Ruda Vladimir Tom and CEO JBK-1 Yuri Selivanov. They are not only members of the party, but also by working in obldume fourth convocation, not included in the United Russia Duma faction.

Among the most notable candidates, in addition to the deputies (Anatolia Zelikow, Victor Filatov, Vadim Cage, Valeria Skruga, Ivan Kulabuhova, Vladimir Kulikovsky) – a famous athlete Fedor Emelianenko, the new director of Belarusian State Technological University Sergey Glagolev (by the way, non-partisan), director of the Institute of Public and municipal government BSU Alexander Mamatov.

Now fighters and politics are far from a new phenomenon, with such notables like Manny Pacquiao, Matt Lindland and Chael Sonnen providing recent precedent. But its the possibility of this being the end of Fedors career that seems to almost dwarf the announcement of Emelianenko’s political endeavors.

Fedor will be running for a congress seat in Russia for the pro-Kremlin party ‘United Russia’. The party is dominant in the country and holds around 80% of the seats in the senate and Fedor will be representing his region. That’s a fact… Now the accompanied rumor is that after Fedor fulfills the last two fights in his Strikeforce contract, he will retire from MMA.

If this is true the Werdum and possible Overeem fights could be the end of the line for Fedors MMA career. While it will be a somewhat anticlimactic finish, since the possibility of Fedor and M-1 Global ever coming to agreeable terms with Zuffa. Maybe bowing out gracefully is the next best thing.

Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com gets a post event interview with Strikeforce Heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem.

The interview covers the ups and downs of the past couple years for The Reem, who reiterates his desire to face Fedor, despite all of the M1 shenanigans. Good luck with that seeing as how the organizations CEO is having trouble getting the appropriate parties to the negotiation table.

Naysaying aside that would be a good fight if they could somehow pull it off.