For those that thought Fedor looked apprehensive in his fight against Andre Arlovski, this is what his trainer, Vladimir Voronov, had to say,

"He's obviously got unbelievable potential, but he had some distractions getting ready for this fight," Voronov said through an interpreter. "The movie. The commercials. If Fedor wants to keep winning, and winning well, he needs to train professionally. Right now he won with his old tricks."

"The fact that Fedor won, don't get me wrong, I'm very happy about. But he won this fight because of the training before this fight. The experience he had before this fight. The trainers did everything we could to get him ready. But for title fights, we can't train the way we trained for this one."

Fedor's next likely opponent would be Josh Barnett, Voronov seems less than enthused with the possibility of facing "The Baby-Faced Assassin",

"Barnett is a thinking fighter," explained the man who's known Fedor for 20 years. "I think Barnett is much more dangerous than Arlovski. If Arlovski is a master in chess, then Barnett is a grandmaster."    

The specter of Barnett forced Voronov to take a breath. It means a serious training camp, he said, more than the month they took for Arlovski.    

If that was a poor performance by Fedor then I am extremely interested (excited) to see what Fedor could look like at his best.