Frank Mir: "Fedor is Top 5 Heavyweight of all time in a boxing ring."

[TRT Champion]

Mir said that Fedor is Top 5 of all time in a ring, and this makes me wonder who the other Top 5 ring Heavyweights are... because Fedor destroyed everybody else in a ring.
If there are better ring Heavyweights than Fedor, I would love to learn who they are, Frank.
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[Crash Lance]

Mir said that Fedor is Top 5 of all time in a ring, and this makes me wonder who the other Top 5 ring Heavyweights are... because Fedor destroyed everybody else in a ring.
If there are better ring Heavyweights than Fedor, I would love to learn who they are, Frank.
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"Hell, I think they were talking about me retiring when I was 28. You know? Like I can't imagine now being 38, what they're going to say." - Frank Mir at 5:15 of the video.

Both Frank Mir and I remember that there were many individuals who thought that he should retire many years ago (ever since the year 2007 or maybe even BEFORE 2007).

Jake Rossen (and Sherdog) wrote an article called "Nine Who Need To Hang Up The Gloves."

The article is dated March 13, 2007.

http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Nine-Who-Need-to-Hang-Up-the-Gloves-6975

Jake Rossen: It's both strange and sad that a 26-year-old athlete could make a laundry list of decomposing athletes, but that's what a motorcycle accident will do for you.

Mir was a kinetic heavyweight in 2004, a burly grappler who could move like a lightweight. His forearm-crunching submission over Tim Sylvia was water cooler talk for months afterward. But following his wipeout and subsequent rehab on a bum leg, Mir has appeared to be only a shadow of his former self.

Against Márcio Cruz, he was pounded out. Against Brandon Vera, knocked out. Rumors circulated that Mir knew his limitations, but wanted to eek out a few more paychecks before calling it quits.

That's a shaky motivation for a hobbled fighter. Even at 100 percent, it's a dangerous game. When you're operating on fumes, eventually you're going to find yourself in some real trouble.

 

[Yari]

Never forget.

 

[TRT Champion]

Never forget.

Yeah, Mir likes his kangaroo meat tainted with roids. Lol.

Anyway, this thread is about those mystical Top 5 ring Heavyweights of all time and why is Fedor not Top 1.

 

[chiefwiggum]

Frank Mir never moved like a lightweigh as the article implies. . Athleticism was never a strong suit. Wes sims was as graceful and coordinated as mir was. That’s not a compliment.

 

[skylolow]

I think he is just saying top 5 to say it. Frank is a pretty intelligent guy in the fight game and I highly doubt Frank believe there is 4 HW's above Fedor.

 

[Toad Frogan]

Frank Mir is extremely jealous of Fedor. He always has been.

 

[errol ansen]

Weird comment, obviously Fedor is top 5 if not #1?

Also, is this fight 5 rounds or 3?

 

[PancraseForever]

He meant top 5 if you only look at his ring fights.

 

[Noraaq]

Fuck Mir, blatant cheat. Hes been gaming the UFC testing system his whole career until USADA, its no surprise he passes Bellator testing.

 

[Toad Frogan]

He meant top 5 if you only look at his ring fights.

Which is the point of contention. In the ring, who could possibly be better?

 

[Mixfight]

this is why its always great to see mir get punched into concussed state.

 

[Baba Ghanoush]

With all due respect, MMA fighters are mostly garbage in a boxing setting. Fedor and Mir would both get killed by even the most remote journeyman in a boxing ring.

 

[smithnwssn]

Mir knows Fedor is the best ever. Overeem and Mir both said in the past the Fedor was the best ever and now they've changed their opinion. I think it has a lot to do with them wanting the fans to never know the best HW ever was because they you could bring up their names in the mix. Also, they may really feel that way like a lot of fans, so that would be ignorant IMO no different when Anderson, Aldo, BJ, Wand, and Chuck started losing and fans through them under the bus. It's very common in this sport. I think it's a little bit of both with Mir and Overeem with why their opinion has changed about Fedor. Judging someone after 10 years of fighting at the top level is dumb when you're talking about how great they were.

 

[wildchild88]

Mir has never been athletic or particularly fast, his reflexes have never been that quick either.

That's why he's aged better as a fighter.

Fedor needed those fine tuned natural gifts to make his style work.

Frank refuses to admit that Fedor has deteriorated significantly, anyone can see that this is definitely the case.

Fedor had already left his prime when he beat Arlovski and Sylvia..

The Fedor that beat Cro Cop completely dusts any version of Frank Mir.

Sorry to say but Fedor loses tomorrow.