Schilt was always going to be known for his kickboxing career, but he also made a mark with 41 professional MMA fights.<\/p>\n
When asked about his toughest opponent, the former UFC and Pride veteran, who fought champions like Josh Barnett and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, gave a clear answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe toughest guy in MMA was Fedor Emelianenko. He was a really, really tough guy. I did some damage with him. He was coming from Rings at that time. It was his first fight in Pride, I think. It was a really tough fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emelianenko\u2019s victory over Schilt marked the start of an incredible streak. From there, he went on to beat Kevin Randleman, Mark Coleman, Mirko Cro Cop and many others as part of a 10-year undefeated run.<\/p>\n
According to Schilt, \u2018The Last Emperor\u2019 was dialled in from the very beginning and even though he could not stop the Russian\u2019s takedowns, he managed to hold his own on the mat.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got no emotions. This is what I also wanted always, you know. I don\u2019t want to show emotion in the ring. I just want to be calm and I want to have my goal, I just want to go for that. Fedor has that too. I remember I could not really hit him and then he got close to me really fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, from the ground position, my ground work was not always the best. My takedown defense was not the best; I can admit that, but on the ground he could not damage me really\u2026 I think I had the first fight where he fought until the end, it was a decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not a knockout and after that, he got \u2018easier\u2019 fights. Not easier fights but he won by knockout. So, he couldn\u2019t knock me out so for me, that was a good thing but of course, I remember he was a tough fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schilt was always going to be known for his kickboxing career, but he also made a mark with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-87519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}