Omg are your
feelings hurt by a ranking that an MMA news outlet did 20 years ago??
Fioretti: “Fujita wasn’t ranked!”
BFoe: *provides ranking*
Fioretti: “B-b-but I don’t like it!”
Thems the breaks, bud.
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A lot of them have that potential. Good lord, Shamil Abdurakhimov was top 10 just a year ago. Tybura is still there I think. In Fedor’s day, orgs didn’t have official rankings, so top 10 meant top 10 in the world, not just top 10 in a given org. It can be tough to compare to today sometimes, and it’s getting harder with the way the UFC manipulates rankings.
@Fioretti always gets salty about this shit though. When we first started debating this, he wouldn’t acknowledge Hunt as a ranked opponent. Some TS used a FightMatrix ranking for Hunt and Fioretti screamed at a cloud about it. We finally dug up a contemporary ranking showing Hunt was ranked, but Fioretti was adamant that we count Hunt at #9 like that ranking said and not #8 like the TS had posted <45>
Likewise, he got salty about a Bloody Elbow Meta Ranking from Jan 2009 showing Arlovski at #2 before the Fedor fight…
We’ve debated this shit tons of times, and I’ve come to realize this is just how he processes grief. He’ll be ok.