UFC HW 01-06
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I’m gonna go Barnett or Couture
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I think Andrei is the best out of that bunch.
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Pretty clearly Barnett had the best career of those guys, wins over Nog, Aleks, Randy, Semmy x 2, Hunt, etc
The UFC HW division in the earlier years of the 00's wasnt actually that bad, it was more by the middle of the decade it started to become thin outside of Arlovski, Sylvia and Randy losing guys like Barnett, Semmy and Rizzo to Japan plus Mir being sidelined though injury.
The UFC HW division in the earlier years of the 00's wasnt actually that bad, it was more by the middle of the decade it started to become thin outside of Arlovski, Sylvia and Randy losing guys like Barnett, Semmy and Rizzo to Japan plus Mir being sidelined though injury.
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Barnett, but he went to PRIDE. Mir was probably the best one after Barnett left, wish he'd have faced Barnett in that time frame. I could see Couture edging a win against Mir tho, hard to tell.
Arlovski is a weird one. Him losing to Timmy will always make me question how good he would have fared against the top fighters of that era. Timmy is somewhat underrated tho because of his looks.
Arlovski is a weird one. Him losing to Timmy will always make me question how good he would have fared against the top fighters of that era. Timmy is somewhat underrated tho because of his looks.
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I agree on Mir, he had one scary skillset that was beyond most HW's at the time.
I think it is hard to include Randy because he was really a LHW who sometimes showed up in HW with the right matchups.
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Personally I think Mir was always too flaky to ever be amoung the very best long term, the way he lost to Freeman before his injury for example.
Without the injury I would have picked Arlovski to beat Mir and indeed I would also have picked that Arlovski to pickup Mir's latter wins over a declined Nog and Lesnar.
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Nah this UFC fighter (Magomedov) worse. 3 fight win streak in UFC heavyweight. Failed drug test. Failed on return. Then tried to do a Jones third time but didn't hide as well and was life banned for refusing test https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2019...me-usada-ban-steroids-drug-testing-russia-mma
Damn I didn't know about the lifetime ban
What a shame, he has 0 KO power but the guy is really talented
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Although really I'm not sure how relevant it is to his career at that stage, quite likely he would have been back to fighting in Russia/eastern europe anyway.
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None of them defended the belt the 3 times like Stipe did
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I wasn't asking about this era
Since you brought it up most of the guys now are washed
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Im still so so salty about their fight not even hitting the mat.
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His a heavyweight so 34 should be prime (I admit towards the end of it, it is the age the decline isn't far away). However he was 29 in the UFC on a 3 fight win steak when the first positive came, at that point he certainly looked like he could make some noise and was a good age to make the run.
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Fuck. I dont know.
Mir submitting and tkoing nog is awesome, but not in that era.
Sylvias fat ass just used his reach and taught us all how boring that shit could be, while appearing awful.
Couture did limited great things, so it maybe him.
Rizzo and ricardo werent that active and andrei showed his chin for the first time against a dull sylvia, only to lead to a HORRIBLE 3rd fight.
Kind of a shitty time. In all honestly, it seemed liked the HW goat status was always up for grabs in ufc and looking back, they could be "can-y." Meanwhile, fedor was doing nutzy shit over in pride.
Mir submitting and tkoing nog is awesome, but not in that era.
Sylvias fat ass just used his reach and taught us all how boring that shit could be, while appearing awful.
Couture did limited great things, so it maybe him.
Rizzo and ricardo werent that active and andrei showed his chin for the first time against a dull sylvia, only to lead to a HORRIBLE 3rd fight.
Kind of a shitty time. In all honestly, it seemed liked the HW goat status was always up for grabs in ufc and looking back, they could be "can-y." Meanwhile, fedor was doing nutzy shit over in pride.
