What looks like a struggle on Fedor's part is what happens to you when you get cut at the beginning of a fight. When that happens to you you then have two things to worry about, your opponent and your cut.
I think Rogers has a lot of strength, and indeed has the power to knock Fedor out, but then again so do 95% of the fighters out there waiting in line for a shot (no pun intended) at the championship.
Let's be realistic here folks, Rogers has no chance. Yes, he can force the Russian around and get out of armbars with his sheer strength, but he got knocked the fuck out with a short straight punch to the chin. And that's a fact, not mere speculation.
Rogers' own words at the end of the fight begging people to "please believe me" reflect the total opposite of what he was trying to say: He doesn't believe it himself.
He's got to be realistic, he's got the brute strength, decent ground game, et cetera, but what I fail to comprehend is how none in his corner told him that that was his only chance, that REALISTICALLY he'd beat Emilianenko in 3 out of 10 fights... and going into the fight knowing that he should've, as he said AFTER the fight, thrown a lot more punches.