Hey, Let's Ask Fedor!

When I was a whole lot younger and watched cartoons on TV with my children, all of the cereal commercials were directed towards a target group of consumers who actually shopped for and bought the family's supply of cereal.

How do you target both mothers and children at the same time? Put two scheming older kids and a very appealing younger boy in the commercial doing what kids their age do.

In this case, it was a case of the older boys being too suspicious of a new brand of cereal to try it themselves. Typical childhood predicament. Hmm! What to do, what to do . . .

"I know Let's let Mikey try it!"

Yeah! A solution is at hand. Sweet faced Mikey takes a spoonful of cereal into his mouth and . . ."He likes it! Look, he really likes it!"

What a hit! Personally, I think Sally Fields, who is every bit as cute as Mikey was even though she is approaching my age, stole her famous Oscar winning line, "They like me! They really like me!" from the cereal commercial.

But of course I am not speaking of cereal here, or Mikey, or Sally Fields and her Oscar.

I am thinking that only Fedor Emilianenko can settle the dispute that arose out of UFC 94. In reading another person's article and deducing that the only fighter whose opinion he would respect was his idol, the Russian fighter who refuses to put himself under Dana White and the UFC's domination.

Fedor is an outsider, an honest and humble man with simple taste in what he wears and what he likes. So, let's give him a big scoop of Hawaiian pineapple coconut ice cream and an equal serving of Maple pine nut ice cream and see which he prefers.

No, wrong commercial, although it does fit in better with the picture I chose (see above). I do like the picture of Fedor making friends with a large goose, too, but it is neither a Canadian nor Hawaiian goose so it could have confused the issue, or obviously, me, so I used a different, but still favorite picture.

Now I think the world of Fedor and tend to put more credence in his opinions than those of most fighters'.

Just as Randy Couture once again correctly predicted the winner of the GSP vs. BJ Penn fight, I think Fedor could tell from viewing the fight if the Penn contingency has a leg to stand on in their complaint claiming an "nth of Vaseline" applied unintentionally to parts of St-Pierre's anatomy could have prevented Penn from winning the fight.

Last I heard, Fedor had a very high opinion of GSP, so I don't think that like Matt Hughes, Mayhem Miller, or Matt Serra, who all have reasons to be bitter about Georges' success in the octagon, Fedor would have a preconceived opinion on the matter and as an MMA expert, would answer only after thoughtful consideration and with great honesty.

Since I do not know Fedor except from being his fan on FaceBook, plus the fact that I do not speak any Russian, I am not really in a position to ask him the big question.

My sincere hope in writing this is that someone who does know Fedor or who speaks Russian well enough to send him a message on FaceBook will ask him the big question and get back to all of us with his answer.

So guys, what do you say on this one? I say, "Let's ask Fedor!"

Fedor will tell us the truth.