Fedor is BY FAR the Longest Reigning Consensus #1 Ranked HW

[kammfreudenstei]

I just wrote a paper for school on why Fedor is the GOAT of MMA. During the writing, I almost switched to GSP. It's tough to ignore a record like that, avenging the losses dominantly. He was in the thick of it..... no breaks for years and years, Matt Hughes/Karo Parisyan in 2004, all the way to Johny Hendricks in 2013, top 10s and 5s all . Honestly, now I'm pretty torn.

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

I just wrote a paper for school on why Fedor is the GOAT of MMA. During the writing, I almost switched to GSP. It's tough to ignore a record like that, avenging the losses dominantly. He was in the thick of it..... no breaks for years and years, Matt Hughes/Karo Parisyan in 2004, all the way to Johny Hendricks in 2013, top 10s and 5s all . Honestly, now I'm pretty torn.

Post it.

 

[TH1RTE3N]

The problem I have with this is...how many actual title defenses did he have lol. He had some great performances but it's always been a rather weak division. And unfortunately he rarely had the talent to showcase against until going to Affliction & Strikeforce.

 

[kammfreudenstei]

Post it.

It's boring, nothing all yall don't know. I just compared record, dominance, and skillset.

Edit: It's for non-fans and 3 pages single spaced and I don't even have a conclusion

 

[basedgodfedor]

Fedor is the GOAT

 

[Repsac]

how many title defenses did he have

He defended his "#1 heavyweight" title around 25 times.

 

[samoajoe]

Sounds nice till you see his level of comp. From 2006 on his only note worrhy wins were AA and Tim who had already started his fall from the top.

Most guys on top 7 years will have fought much stiffer comp then Fedor ended up fighting.

 

[Repsac]

How do you explain the average age of the TOP 5 HW's being 34.2? Are you saying none of those guys are in their primes? Same age Fedor was when he lost

Yea, they're not in their primes. No athlete is in their prime at 34.

 

[MMAEXP3RT]

Here's a list of some of the incredible opponents Fedor faced throughout his illustrious career:

Martin Lazarov

Levon Laglivava

Hiroya Takada

Tsuyohsi Kosaka

Mihail Apostolov

Kerry Schall

Ryushi Yanagisawa

Lee Hasdell

Chris Haseman

Egidijus Valavicius

Kazuyuki Fujita

Gary Goodridge

Yuji Nagata

Naoya Ogawa

Zulu

Hong Man Choi

Brett Rogers

Jeff Monson

Satoshi Ishii

Pedro Rizzo

Jaideep Singh

 

[HHJ]

The reason why people like Fedor the best,is not only did he finish much bigger guys for nearly a decade straight without losing,but he went RIGHT at them. Very aggressive style to stay in top for so long. No other hw has ever managed it and probably none ever will.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

He defended his "#1 heavyweight" title around 25 times.

I was looking for was 2

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

The problem I have with this is...how many actual title defenses did he have lol. He had some great performances but it's always been a rather weak division. And unfortunately he rarely had the talent to showcase against until going to Affliction & Strikeforce.

Quality of competition > "title defenses"

 

[Helden]

Fedor is GOAT

 

[Xtal]

These long reigns will almost certainly never happen again in combat sports. There is just so much competition now as opposed to back then. Once in a while we'll get dominant champs for a couple years, but nothing like what Fedor did.

 

[BreadnButter]

Fedor won't be topped for a long time.

 

[Dana_is_your_GOD]

Fedor has 7 top 5 wins

GSP has 17

coffeeandbeer knows, he made the GSP top 5 thread back in 2013 that I have archived

Fedor fought, GSP blanketed.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Fedor fought, GSP blanketed.

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[kenetics]

GSP also had a marketing campaign designed to prop fighters and no splintering of talent. He also was finished twice in his prime (in case you can't count) and wasn't able to finish.

Fedor is GOAT. GSP was a great fighter.

Plus none was scared to fight GSP in his prime, because of him blanketing everyone.

Fighters were scared of fedor in his prime period.

 

[Bill Laimbeer]

Wrong forum.

 

[LiveFreeorDie]

1993-10-14 Ken Shamrock WIN Kazuo Takahashi
1993-11-08 Ken Shamrock WIN Takaku Fuke
1993-11-12 Ken Shamrock WIN Patrick Smith
1993-11-12 Royce Gracie WIN Ken Shamrock
1993-11-12 Royce Gracie WIN Gerard Gordeau
1994-03-11 Royce Gracie WIN Minoki Ichihara
1994-03-11 Royce Gracie WIN Jason DeLucia
1994-03-11 Royce Gracie WIN Remco Pardoel
1994-03-11 Royce Gracie WIN Patrick Smith
1994-09-09 Royce Gracie WIN Kimo Leopoldo
1994-12-16 Royce Gracie WIN Ron van Clief
1994-12-16 Royce Gracie WIN Keith Hackney
1994-12-16 Royce Gracie WIN Dan Severn
1995-04-07 Royce Gracie DRAW Ken Shamrock Gracie went inactive
1996-05-16 Bas Rutten WIN Frank Shamrock Vacant title. Top contenders.
1996-06-25 Bas Rutten WIN Jason DeLucia
1996-09-07 Bas Rutten WIN Masakatsu Funaki
1996-10-08 Bas Rutten WIN Manabu Yamada
1997-03-22 Bas Rutten DRAW Osami Shibuya
1997-04-27 Bas Rutten WIN Kiuma Kunioku
1997-06-30 Bas Rutten WIN Takaku Fuke
1997-09-06 Bas Rutten WIN Osami Shibuya
1997-12-20 Bas Rutten WIN Keiichiro Yamamiya
1998-09-14 Bas Rutten WIN Kengo Watanabe
1999-01-08 Bas Rutten WIN Tsuyoshi Kosaka
1999-05-07 Bas Rutten WIN Kevin Randleman Rutten went inactive
2001-09-24 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Mark Coleman Vacant title. Top contenders.
2001-11-03 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Heath Herring
2002-02-24 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Enson Inoue
2002-08-08 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Sanae Kikuta
2002-08-28 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Bob Sapp
2002-11-24 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Semmy Schilt
2002-12-23 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira WIN Dan Henderson
2003-03-16 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
2003-04-05 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Egidijus Valavicius
2003-06-08 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Kazuyuki Fujita
2003-08-10 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Gary Goodridge
2003-12-31 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Yugi Nagata
2004-04-25 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Mark Coleman
2004-06-20 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Kevin Randleman
2004-08-15 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Naoya Ogawa
2004-08-15 Fedor Emelianenko NC Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
2004-12-31 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
2005-04-03 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Tsuyoshi Kosaka
2005-08-28 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Mirko Filipovic
2005-12-31 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Zuluzinho
2006-10-21 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Mark Coleman
2006-12-31 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Mark Hunt
2007-04-14 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Matt Lindland
2007-12-31 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Hong Man Choi
2008-07-19 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Tim Sylvia
2009-01-24 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Andrei Arlovski
2009-11-07 Fedor Emelianenko WIN Brett Rogers 18th defense
2010-06-26 Fabricio Werdum WIN Fedor Emelianenko
2011-06-18 Alistair Overeem WIN Fabricio Werdum
2011-12-30 Alistair Overeem WIN Brock Lesnar
2013-02-02 Antonio Silva WIN Alistair Overeem
2013-05-25 Cain Velasquez WIN Antonio Silva
2013-10-19 Cain Velasquez WIN Junior dos Santos
2015-06-13 Fabricio Werdum WIN Cain Velasquez
2016-05-14 Stipe Miocic WIN Fabricio Werdum


Yeah, Fedor is the man.