Fabio Maldonado: King-Maker

[manboy<3]

Why do you dislike fighters with shredded physiques? It's not hard to think of some who are better fighters than Maldonado.

I don't hate them in fact I like watching ripped dudes fight, I just think that attaining that kind of body is not really the best use of your time if you are a fighter.

 

[TheBiggestLittleTinyMan]

Fabio Maldonado is cool as hell, I remember signed Maiquel Falcao and wondering why they didn't just sign the guy that beat him twice - Fabio Maldonado - then about two months later or something, the UFC actually did.

His UFC debut was actually in England, where he beat up James McSweeney, his boxing overcoming McSweeney's kickboxing. His body work was immense, and I was a fan from that day forward.

But retrospectively, while Fabio wasn't a 'great' fighter, his résumé is something else when you look at who he's fought - this guy has taken on a string of world champions and elite contenders, often before they achieved their greatest feats - The Kingmaker of MMA.

World Champions:

Stipe Miocic
Glover Teixeira
Fedor Emelianenko
Rampage Jackson

And behind that are a ton of big name contenders and ranked fighters:

Jiri Prochazka
Sergei Kharitonov
Nikita Krylov
Corey Anderson

Even Mikhail Mokhnatkin is a beast, and he fought that Russian guy with the weird record, Ivan Shtyrkov.

Maldonado seems like a Sherdog-kinda fighter, no? Any love here for the Brazilian and all the names he fought? It's like a who's who of light heavyweight and heavyweight monsters.

Fedor scraped by Malbobabo a while before he really made it and achieved his greatest feat, taking out the previously undefeated champion Chael P Sonnen.

 

[felmmando]

That ref could have stopped the fight and not many would have thought it was a bad stoppage. If it was in any other country it would have been. I say this as a Fedor fan

Unfortunately, almost stopping your opponent can't outweigh much of what happens past that point. It's not hard to think of fighters who have come close in fights they lost.

 

[milonofcroton]

That ref could have stopped the fight and not many would have thought it was a bad stoppage. If it was in any other country it would have been. I say this as a Fedor fan

Well, if a bad stoppage is rendering someone unable to continue while he is very well able to continue and might possibly even win the contest... isn't Fedor being able to continue and even winning the other rounds proof that it would have been a bad stoppage?
Ref did a really good job in letting it go, actually.

 

[eighterumg5]

Unfortunately, almost stopping your opponent can't outweigh much of what happens past that point. It's not hard to think of fighters who have come close in fights they lost.

Well, if a bad stoppage is rendering someone unable to continue while he is very well able to continue and might possibly even win the contest... isn't Fedor being able to continue and even winning the other rounds proof that it would have been a bad stoppage?
Ref did a really good job in letting it go, actually.

That's fair