STRIKEFORCE NEWS: Bigfoot's manager responds to psychic comments from Fedor's coaches

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Two of Fedor Emelianenko's coaches took a lot of heat on Wednesday when translated comments from Russian new reports made the rounds, featuring a number of ridiculous statements regarding Fedor's loss to Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. Now, Bigfoot's manager Alex Davis has responded in the only appropriate manner.

If you missed yesterday's comments, here's what Vladimir Voronov had to say in an interview with Lifesports.ru.

"We believe that forbidden psychological technology was used," Voronov said in an interview with Lifesports.ru (translated by Fighter's Only). "It seems to us that not everything was right, and that certain technologies were used. Not ones that could be seen by the naked eye but psychological technologies that worked on both fighters at a distance.

"That is why during the fight Fedor was just not like himself. It seemed very strange behaviour from Fedor. He stepped into the ring and did everything exactly the opposite of what we practiced before the fight. We were all shocked! Fedor had never previously done such a thing.

"Now nearly a week passes, everything settles, and we understand why all this happened."

Now, M-1 Global's Evgeni Kogan made a claim on Twitter that it was a joke and that his comments were lost in translation. However, there have been others that have translated the comments from Russian that state nothing was lost in translation and that these comments were made to media at the airport when Fedor and his camp returned to Russia.

Here is Davis' response, posted on The Underground Forum:

"Jeez!! I got cought! I will have to come out with the truth now! I hired a Macumbeiro (Brazilian [witch doctor]) and we killed a black chicken on the cross roads. After this, over a few beers, I showed the witch Dr Fedor's fights, and he was worried that a chicken wouldnt be anough, so we went out and killed a black goat, just to make sure! Very potent stuff! Realy messed Fedors brain waves up!"

"We wanted to try that other military stuff Voronov is talking about,but its expensive technology and we were broke! The chicken and the goat came out way cheaper. Witch Dr is a friend, did it for a few beers and an autograph!"

Penick's Analysis: Davis' joke/mocking response was perfect. It's safe to say Bigfoot and his camp come out looking a lot better than Fedor's coaches. It was interesting reading Kogan's comments trying to downplay Voronov's statement yesterday, then later trying to clarify that Fedor's management and coaches are different entities, an attempt to distance themselves from the statements. Still, Davis hit the right chord with this one, and can bring some laughs to the situation after some ridiculousness out of Russia.

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