Cro Cop was a 1 shot KO fighter with no footwork? Huh?
HW has not evolved at all, infact, it’s much worse now than it was years ago.
You’re stupid if you think that todays current crop of HW’s is more skilled than
Fedor
BigNog
Cro Cop
Randy
AA
Barnett
Sergei
Werdum
Aleksander
Herring
Coleman
Sylvia
Ricco
Rizzo
Randleman
^ that was HW’s about 15 years ago. You’re telling me today’s HW division is better than that?
Cain and Stipe, both amazing, JDS, amazing, Werdum is better now than he was years ago skill wise for sure (he was much quicker back in the day obv), props to Alistair for remaining relevant for this long, even Arlovski.
But, you have 2-4 AMAZING fighters and then a HUGE drop off with the rest.
In yesteryear, there was way more depth. And please don’t give me the bs about how MMA has evolved, because guys from yesteryear knew how to strike and grapple with the best of em.
If you want to see what the HW division was all about a decade+ ago, I suggest you go watch Big Nog vs Sergei Kharitonov from the 04 Pride HW GP.
Or Big Nog vs Barnett 1 (or 2) from 06.