I wondered if he would have been the champ in ufc without Cruz. I didn't have the energy to watch more fights and do a more in depth analysis of Frankie in UFC 135. Barao was a beast and i would have loved to see it.
You watch a million fights on the topic too huh? I watched every relevant fight from each time period for each fight and gave my best thoughts. Don't show up next week.
I am very familiar with WEC and I don't see how Faber or MTB would have any chance against Edgar who had just beat Sherk and Prime Penn. Edgar really doesn't have any weaknesses considering his wrestling advantage and you are really underestimating Sherk's takedown abilities if you think Faber is anywhere near the threat he is. Anyways, agree to disagree... ignoring you to prevent further time wasted
When i post these long threads i know what is coming. Still gonna make them every now and again.
This is an imagining of them fighting at that time. Faber was champ when frankie had like 4 fights. Not prime vs prime man....
Dude you don’t have to be a dick this is a conversation if you want to ignore me go ahead I mean I’m not the one claiming a fighter has no weaknesses lol and I said nothing about sherks wrestling, i am very familiar with his wrestling look at his fight with Hughes, I said he was slow compared to 135 and 145 which he is.
Says he knows WEC, thinks Frankie was champ at the same time as Fabers WEC reign. Don't recognize him as a poster but I think you aren't missing out on much if he ignores you.
Yoel's MMA Prime and athletic prime are not the same thing. If you say Fedor's prime was around age 27-29? So at that same age Yoel was in the olympics and winning world championships etc. DC is the same. Started MMA late but athletically his prime was spent wrestling.
Their age is pretty irrelevant here. Yoel Romero is 41 and Fedor is 42. Think they both entered their fighting prime at the same time?
Faber had 40 professional fights going into the Edgar fight. Edgar had 24 in roughly the same amount of time.
It’s obviously not a certainty but I’ll just agree to disagree. I don’t think Faber at his peak loses to the best version of Edgar, not at 135 or 145. He had more power, arguably better wrestling—or at least close enough to negate it, and was the better athlete.
Faber via right hand and guillotine.
If Cruz falls out of title contention I would love to see it at FW or even a 140 catchweight as a Co Main on a PPV or a Main on a TV card.
Gifted? LOL Are you still the last of the BJ nut huggers? Frankie proved very conclusively that he is 1 Million times the fighter BJ ever was. He destroyed him 2 more times but that decision was a gift that turned a nobody into a legend? GTFO
AHHHHAHAHAHA Bj beat that dude senseless in the first fight.
If it helps you sleep at night I think we can all agree to let you keep up the delusion.
For sure. Was a lot of fun watching all the fights to try and imagine how it would have gone though. Wouldnt have ever wanted Frankie to be a career BW.
