Fedor's Garry Goodridge win is one of the biggest in Heavyweight history.

[blaseblah]

I don't know if it is one of the biggest. It's not even one of Fedor's 10 best wins. Fedor has many bigger wins than that like:

Nog 2x
Cro Cop
Arlovski
Sylvia
Herring
Hunt
Coleman
Randleman
Fujita
Rogers


But it is a very underrated win. Gary was on a good run and was a very dangerous and very experienced HW with KO power in his hands and feet.

Fedor closed the distance on the bigger man and took the fight right to him immediately.

Garry is a better win than Hunt.

 

[blaseblah]

Lol what

205 > HW

For fucks sake, the two greatest HWs ever have been beaten by one LHW lmao

And the greatest MW was beaten by a WW. So?

 

[Shoot Boxe Hero]

Garry Goodridge was 7-1-1 prior to his fight against Fedor and that sole loss was against Big Nog. After losing to GOAT GG will go 6-1 in his next 7 fights.

Unfortunately Fedor doesn't get much credit for that win Which is kind of sad.

If that is the case then 13 people before Fedor can claim having "one of the biggest wins in HW history".

You must be a fan of Wes Sims, just like him you don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

 

[AnotherOldGuy]

Lol Fedor lost when he was like 32 years old…GSP lost but atleast he avenged those losses unlike fedor

Just stop with the excuses man. Would respect your posts if you were not so damn fake

Well, actually 34, the same age that Gretzky stopped being a top goal scorer, the same age that Roy Jones Jr started losing, the same age that Ali started losing to guys he never would have lost to before, older than the age that just about every tennis great can no longer win in the grand slam tournaments, three years older than Usain Bolt was when he started losing at 100 m, the same age Shaq was when he was no longer an all-star, older than Tyson was when he started losing.

The percentage of Olympic gold medal winners over the age of 30: 5%
The percentage of NBA MVP's over the age of 30: 10%
The percentage of NHL MVP's over the age of 30: 10%

Do you notice a pattern? What is it about Sherdog posters that they think being over 30 is still in your athletic prime? Some guys (see 5% of Olympic gold medal winners) age well. Most athletes are out of their prime by age 30. The biggest statistical source of this is the Olympics - thousands of athletes each year, and very few gold medals for the over 30's. Think about it.

To any unbiased person the four greats are, in no particular order, GSP, Anderson, Fedor and Jones. Anyone who thinks that what any of those guys did is easy should try it themselves.

 

[AnotherOldGuy]

Fedor makes money with M1 Global Co-Promotion. Why would he want to fight for another promoter when him and his team were promoters themselves? That was the main reason he never signed with UFC. UFC didn't want to Co-promote. That plus he was already far past his prime it didn't even matter at that point.

Sherdog posters think Steve Jobs ducked because he and Woz stayed with their own company instead of joining the biggest player, Microscoft. Its impossible to discuss anything to do with business with them, they really think people work for challenge and legacy rather than money.

 

[AnotherOldGuy]

He's not an elite striker either.


And there's other fights besides Mitrione. Lmao

Watch some clips of Ali's last fights. You'll walk away thinking he was never any good. Or watch Shaq in his last years. Or Gretzky. Or Roy Jones Jr. Or Anderson.

Everyone gets exposed by injury and time. Young folks don't understand this.

 

[TAK47]

I find his win over Herring more impressive, to me it was the moment that the Fedor we know was "born".
Herring was expected to beat him with relative ease and Fedor just slaughtered him on the ground. Dayum what a savage beating that was.

 

[MCS]

GG was OK, but he wasn't one of the top HW's in Pride. More like entry gatekeeper to the promotion.

Aside from Fedor, the top HW's there were Nog, CC, Barnett, Sergei for a bit, Coleman for a bit, while Herring was promising and Aleks was pretty good. Werdum was still new from BJJ, though he did well. Fujita, Yvel & GG were lower tier than all of those.

 

[I Am Legion]

Arlovski was on a 5 fight win streak. He had just beaten Werdum and finished Roy Nelson and Ben Rothwell with strikes!

Did you just say Hunt has little skill? Ban yourself right now. He is one of if not the best and most technical striker in the history of HW MMA. Yes, he has a great chin and power but he also has amazing technique and setups.

Fedor lost to Mitrione when he was 40...

Fedor was in his 12th year of fighting when he lost to TRT Hendo.

Fedor isn't perfect but he is the best fighter we have ever seen. Nobody else has ever looked so good for 10 years against so many dangerous fighters.

Hunt is a fan favorite but he is a power puncher with a great chin that just got subbed 4 months before his fight with Fedor and then lost a ton in a row to way lesser fighters than Fedor. I said Arlovski was a good win, but that guy has been put to sleep by a huge list of again, lesser fighters than Fedor.
His loss to Hendo was the biggest proof he wasn’t the unstoppable robot people thought, but more a factor of a career padded with weak opponents. Good wins, a good champion, but had he faced better guys he would have lost sooner. Fedor had HUGE stretches of easy fights and never took much damage until later, the head spike not withstanding.

 

[Typrune Goatley]

Hunt is a fan favorite but he is a power puncher with a great chin that just got subbed 4 months before his fight with Fedor and then lost a ton in a row to way lesser fighters than Fedor. I said Arlovski was a good win, but that guy has been put to sleep by a huge list of again, lesser fighters than Fedor.
His loss to Hendo was the biggest proof he wasn’t the unstoppable robot people thought, but more a factor of a career padded with weak opponents. Good wins, a good champion, but had he faced better guys he would have lost sooner. Fedor had HUGE stretches of easy fights and never took much damage until later, the head spike not withstanding.

Hunt is a power puncher and a world class striker. He hits about 1000x harder than Serra.

Fedor lost to Hendo in his 12th year of fighting. Everyone declines and loses after 9 years of fighting. Fedor didn't even lose until his 11th year. Hendo had his career revived with TRT. No shame in a declined Fedor losing to TRT Hendo. Fedor even knocked him down but Hendo reversed and landed that big shot on the chin.


What do you mean "he would have lost sooner had he faced better guys?"

Fedor beat

Nog 2x
Cro Cop
Arlovski
Sylvia
Herring
Coleman 2x
Randleman
Schilt
Goodridge
Fujita
Rogers


Nog beat Barnett, Werdum and Sergei

Cro Cop beat Sergei and Aleks.


Those guys couldn't get to Fedor because they lost to Nog and CC who were fucking amazing themselves and were knocking contenders back down the ladder.

No matter how you look at either Fedor, Nog or Cro Cop beat every good HW for a whole decade. Fedor was on top of the HW mountain.

Even into the next era JDS was mentored by Nog yet still lost to another old school guy in Reem while Cain was finished by PRIDE vet Werdum.

 

[NotoriousMillions]

Watch some clips of Ali's last fights. You'll walk away thinking he was never any good. Or watch Shaq in his last years. Or Gretzky. Or Roy Jones Jr. Or Anderson.

Everyone gets exposed by injury and time. Young folks don't understand this.

Don't you ever put some overrated MMA fighter in the same sentence as the greatest. Ali was still a world champion at 35, while Fedor was getting beaten by WWs like seven years older than him. Ali looked great even at 40, for a 40 year old or even a 30 year old.

Fedor looks like exactly what he is. A 40 year old overrated fighter that can't even get past his fellow senior citizens. Don't talk to me about age little man. Fedor is the same age as practically everyone in the top 5 today.

Fedor has been exposed for what he is though, and everyone under the age of 50 that doesn't have stolen pride dvds from blockbuster knows it. The only reason Fedor dominated is because he was the original Ronda Rousey. That's all he is, a guy that fought in an undeveloped era against sub par talent (which still sub-par at HW even today), to which most of he still didn't even fight. Who knows if PEDs, or fight fixing was involved too in that criminal organization as well. What is certain though is as MMA evolved and Fedor faced better competition, his mediocre blitz you striking style was exposed for what it is.

Fedor is still a pioneer of the sport, and thus a legend. His contributions to MMA were vast, but a GOAT or even being consideration for, he is not. Anybody with a tiny sense of a brain instead of one filled with nostalgia and fandom knows this.

 

[MyEnglishIsPeperoni]

Don't you ever put some overrated MMA fighter in the same sentence as the greatest. Ali was still a world champion at 35, while Fedor was getting beaten by WWs like seven years older than him. Ali looked great even at 40, for a 40 year old or even a 30 year old.
Fedor has been exposed for what he is though, and everyone under the age of 50 that doesn't have stolen pride dvds from blockbuster knows it. The only reason Fedor dominated is because he was the original Ronda Rousey. That's all he is, a guy that fought in an undeveloped era against sub par talent (which still sub-par at HW even today), to which most of he still didn't even fight. Who knows if PEDs, or fight fixing was involved too in that criminal organization as well. What is certain though is as MMA evolved and Fedor faced better competition, his mediocre blitz you striking style was exposed for what it is.

Fedor is still a pioneer of the sport, and thus a legend. His contributions to MMA were vast, but a GOAT or even being consideration for, he is not. Anybody with a tiny sense of a brain instead of one filled with nostalgia and fandom knows this.

 

[Ancient Warrior]

Not really.

Look at the early 2000s HW division:

Fedor
Big Nog
Cro Cop
Josh Barnett
Sergei Kharitonov
Werdum
Aleksandr Emelianenko
Andrei Arlovski
Frank Mir
Tim Sylvia
Ricco Rodriguez
Pedro Rizzo
Randy Couture
Heath Herring
Mark Coleman
Kevin Randleman
Roman Zentsov
Kazuyuki Fujita
Semmy Schilt
Gilbert Yvel
Gary Goodridge
Mark Kerr
Igor Vovchanchyn
Tom Erickson
Bobby Hoffman
Don Frye
V Overeem
A Overeem occasionally at HW


Compared to today:

Stipe
40 year old Werdum
super green Ngannou
Broken chin Overeem
43 year old Hunt
Broken back Lewis
Volkov
Blaydes
Tybura
Broken chin Struve
41 year old Oleinik
Broken chin Browne
Mitrione
42 year old slow ass Nelson
Broken chin Arlovski
Diaper guy that just lost to Arlovski



Come on now. Everyone was in their athletic prime and were lifetime martial artists back then. Nowadays you got guys in the top 10 like Lewis and Ngannou that have only trained MMA like 4 or 5 years. It's obvious the division has become far more shallow and is full of a bunch of old and slow and brain damaged fighters or very green beginners

Don’t waste your breath.

That Redhawks guy has been trash talking Fedor here for years and offers very little in the way of an objective argument.

 

[markg171]

if that one was fixed, I guess they didnt tell Fedor. he almost killed GG in there.

That was how Pride fixed their fights though... they'd approach one fighter and tell them to lose in a certain fashion for more money, while the other has no idea anything is happening.

One fighter would legitimately be fighting, the other wouldn't.

 

[Typrune Goatley]

That was how Pride fixed their fights though... they'd approach one fighter and tell them to lose in a certain fashion for more money, while the other has no idea anything is happening.

One fighter would legitimately be fighting, the other wouldn't.

Like which fights did they do that?

Only fights that were fixed were in the 90's and were very insigificant fights that usually involved Takada.

UFC also had a few fixed fights in their early days as well.

 

[DaPunkMinowaMan]

Don't you ever put some overrated MMA fighter in the same sentence as the greatest. Ali was still a world champion at 35, while Fedor was getting beaten by WWs like seven years older than him. Ali looked great even at 40, for a 40 year old or even a 30 year old.

Fedor looks like exactly what he is. A 40 year old overrated fighter that can't even get past his fellow senior citizens. Don't talk to me about age little man. Fedor is the same age as practically everyone in the top 5 today.

Fedor has been exposed for what he is though, and everyone under the age of 50 that doesn't have stolen pride dvds from blockbuster knows it. The only reason Fedor dominated is because he was the original Ronda Rousey. That's all he is, a guy that fought in an undeveloped era against sub par talent (which still sub-par at HW even today), to which most of he still didn't even fight. Who knows if PEDs, or fight fixing was involved too in that criminal organization as well. What is certain though is as MMA evolved and Fedor faced better competition, his mediocre blitz you striking style was exposed for what it is.

Fedor is still a pioneer of the sport, and thus a legend. His contributions to MMA were vast, but a GOAT or even being consideration for, he is not. Anybody with a tiny sense of a brain instead of one filled with nostalgia and fandom knows this.

For sure, you are the Arsene of this website, though....

 

[Typrune Goatley]

Don't you ever put some overrated MMA fighter in the same sentence as the greatest. Ali was still a world champion at 35, while Fedor was getting beaten by WWs like seven years older than him. Ali looked great even at 40, for a 40 year old or even a 30 year old.

Fedor looks like exactly what he is. A 40 year old overrated fighter that can't even get past his fellow senior citizens. Don't talk to me about age little man. Fedor is the same age as practically everyone in the top 5 today.

Fedor has been exposed for what he is though, and everyone under the age of 50 that doesn't have stolen pride dvds from blockbuster knows it. The only reason Fedor dominated is because he was the original Ronda Rousey. That's all he is, a guy that fought in an undeveloped era against sub par talent (which still sub-par at HW even today), to which most of he still didn't even fight. Who knows if PEDs, or fight fixing was involved too in that criminal organization as well. What is certain though is as MMA evolved and Fedor faced better competition, his mediocre blitz you striking style was exposed for what it is.

Fedor is still a pioneer of the sport, and thus a legend. His contributions to MMA were vast, but a GOAT or even being consideration for, he is not. Anybody with a tiny sense of a brain instead of one filled with nostalgia and fandom knows this.

Fedor lost at age 33, 34 and 40.

Cain lost at 29 and 32 and doesn't even fight anymore...

Stipe lost at 30 and 32 and was dropped in his last fight. His decline may be coming...

GSP lost at age 25 and 27. He retired at 32 after Hendricks kicked his ass and has only come back to beat a 38 year old Bisping since then.

Conor lost at 20, 22 and 28. You know damn well Conor is NOT beating anyone decent at age 33. Conor has already been fighting for about 10 years. He technically should be about to start declining.


Pioneer? Subpar era? Are you stupid? The mid 2000s HW division was far deeper and far more talented than today's HW landscape. Today we have guys in the top 10 that have only trained martial arts for 4 years. There were more skilled and more well rounded heavyweights 12 years ago.

 

[myjohnson9]

I don't know if it is one of the biggest. It's not even one of Fedor's 10 best wins. Fedor has many bigger wins than that like:

Nog 2x
Cro Cop
Arlovski
Sylvia
Herring
Hunt
Coleman
Randleman
Fujita
Rogers


But it is a very underrated win. Gary was on a good run and was a very dangerous and very experienced HW with KO power in his hands and feet.

Fedor closed the distance on the bigger man and took the fight right to him immediately.

Fuck I miss pride. That was a good old fashion ass whoopin

 

[myjohnson9]

Why do you use mma math at the end of your blanket statement???

By that logic:

GSP>Bisping>Hendo>fedor

And lol at fighting quality fighters during 10 year stretch, he fought like 4 or 5 good fighters during that time. Nice try ole typrune!!

Bisping>Hendo? Lmao

 

[Ancient Warrior]

Fedor lost at age 33, 34 and 40.

Cain lost at 29 and 32 and doesn't even fight anymore...

Stipe lost at 30 and 32 and was dropped in his last fight. His decline may be coming...

GSP lost at age 25 and 27. He retired at 32 after Hendricks kicked his ass and has only come back to beat a 38 year old Bisping since then.

Conor lost at 20, 22 and 28. You know damn well Conor is NOT beating anyone decent at age 33. Conor has already been fighting for about 10 years. He technically should be about to start declining.


Pioneer? Subpar era? Are you stupid? The mid 2000s HW division was far deeper and far more talented than today's HW landscape. Today we have guys in the top 10 that have only trained martial arts for 4 years. There were more skilled and more well rounded heavyweights 12 years ago.

The big deal that today’s viewers don’t realize, is Fedor was really the first mma champion to win with any form of consistency. He won the title and controlled the division for years.

That was unheard of at the time. Sure, there were monsters that came and went, but none of them could consistently put out an overwhelming performance, regardless of whatever unique style they were presented with.