After suffering a somewhat humiliating loss to Dan Henderson, who is better known to fight at middleweight, his third loss in as many fights, Fedor Emelianenko has been let go by the Titanic of MMA Strikeforce.

Naturally, UFC President Dana White handled this news with the circumspection and grace that we have come to know throughout the years. Oh wait, nevermind.

UFC president Dana White on Thursday confirmed his release to MMAWeekly.com.

“Yeah, he’s being cut,” White confirmed. “You guys thought he was the pound-for-pound best in the world, I said he was overrated for years.”

Emelianenko’s legendary undefeated run first came to a halt when he faced Fabricio Werdum last year, and after clipping the Brazilian early in the fight, he was submitted by triangle choke.

Bummer. But wait, there’s more!

According to White, he believes Emelianenko’s contract was up anyway, which paved the way for him not to come back to the promotion.

“Yeah, I think so as far as I know,” White said about Emelianenko’s contract.

White also stated he had no conversations at all with Emelianenko or his camp, and has stayed out of the situation since Zuffa purchased Strikeforce earlier this year.

It would have been cool to have Fedor in UFC during his prime; but his handlers protected him, at least some of the time, from fighting top quality fighters. Fedor went beatless for almost a decade; and has notches in his belt over the likes of of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic. His Pride fights are some of the best stuff you will ever see in MMA. Still, once he started fighting in the U.S. his aura collapsed like he was Kimbo Slice.

If UFC has taught us anything it is that on any given Saturday night you can fall. It’s not all just father time stuff, either, doing boxing exhibitions in half-empty arenas is not top-notch competition and won’t do you any favors during legacy talks. But I guess that doesn’t really bother Fedor; or at least it didn’t when he started doing it. I hope Alistair Overeem is paying attention to this development because he could be facing the same decision. If Overeem wants to do random boxing exhibitions for paydays, then fine; but it could eventually diminish his drawing power. Both fighters are represented by Golden Glory, a promotion that pays their fighters; and shields them from outsiders.

Former aerobics instructor turned Zuffa Lottery winner Dana White has a habit of shooting his mouth off. He also has a habit of burning fighters. To many, his comments are refreshing in an age where athletes and promoters are actively encouraged to say nothing and offend no one, an impossible feat unless you’re Will Smith or somebody like that. To others, White represents a somewhat tired act of ingratitude, and his relationships with his fighters have run the entire spectrum of love and hate. So you basically want to give him a hug but then start to strangle him, like most of my sexual encounters.

Given what we already know, just take a guess what happened after Fedor got pounded in the cage last week and White had his smart phone (Now with 4G!) to tweet about it:

With plenty of longtime mixed martial arts fans on the emotional edge following the beatdown of Fedor Emelianenko, there was one man who was fired up to see the Russian go down in flames. Minutes after Fedor fell badly at the hands of Antonio Silva, Dana White hit Twitter, posted a smiley face and then opened up the blowtorch.
Longtime Fedor backers and fans of PRIDE were bent and White stirred the pot. He threw out barbs like “M-Done” for M-1 and “VaDummy” for Vadim Finkelchtein, Fedor’s manager.

Twitter is terrific because athletes and celebrities can muse about all kinds of topics, most of which they know so little about that to even try to debate them would be a waste of time. This is not one of those times. Fedor chased quick paydays and tomato can opponents and built a reputation as the baddest heavyweight fighter walking the planet. Eventually everybody in MMA is going to go down. It’s like when you buy your girl diamonds…they pretty much have to.