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It feels like Fedor's competition has been shat on since the beginning of the time, though PRIDE and Strikeforce had a clearly better heavyweight division, especially PRIDE, and in spite of the fact that Fedor has number of top ten wins that's comparable to GSP.
Now, there was a thread about Babalu showing the symptoms of CTE and all, but clearly the posterboy for something like that in MMA, in my opinion, is Gary. One vicious dude, but he didn't really have the grappling to be able to contend, and really was thrown to the wolves in the kickboxing as well, being very few choice fighter to have fought the best competition in their absolute primes in both, in MMA fighting Coleman, Igor, Fedor and Noguiera in their absolute primes, and Aerts, Hunt, Lebanner, Sefo, Bonjasky, and the list goes on.
On the other hand, there seems to be a lot of hoopla about Daniel Cormier, even some claiming him to be the best pound for pound fighter in the world, when he got his sonned by Jon Jones twice like he owes him that Poppeye money. No one is claiming that Rich is better than Anderson, and how less ridiculous would it be to say Daniel Cormier is, you tell me. It's simply insane thing to say , but anything goes on Sherdog I suppose.
Fedor's name have been shat on and thrown through the mud with people holding virtual pitchfork and torch about how he faced a shit competition, when he didn't. Daniel Cormier wants to fight 40 + year old guy whose last win was a decade ago, and no one was outraged, saying he 'deserved' the fight. Before that, he fought someone like Derrick Lewis, who landed the hail mary of all hail maries, only topped by something like Zombie and that Rodriguez guy KO, who absolutely looked like shit in his previous fight, but then everyone was okay and happy, oh it happens in UFC, what a wonderful fight, not to mention that Lewis was injured I believe.
Goodridge was a vicious mofo though his grappling was limited and took a lot of unnecessary damage. Goodridge in 2003 was 7-1 leading into Fedor fight, with his only loss against Nogueira. After Fedor loss, Goodridge would go on a 6-1 run while only losing to prime Herring, before hitting that 8 fight losing streak which shouldn't have happened. So Goodridge was 13-3 for 7 years in MMA, while fighting Fedor in the very middle of it, only losing to top 2 heavyweights possibly of all time, and Herring ex-top 10 heavyweight back then. Goodridge is 6'3, just as tall as Derrick Lewis, 240 pounds, and though he is in a lot of highlights getting smashed, but he was a dangerous dude. He just took so much damage, and so little ground game.
It's a pity that someone like Derrick Lewis is fighting for the title and getting paid a lot of money. And someone like Goodridge is having CTEs and probably got paid peanuts. What's just as fucked up is Fedor got shat on all the time for fighting supposedly cans, though he fought top 10 competitions that was comparable to GSP's or Silva's but everyone was cool Daniel Cormier fighting Derrick Lewis and potentially fighting 40+ year old prowrestler with less than 10 MMA fights whose win was a decade ago.
By the way, Goodridge in 2003 went to a draw against PRIME 29 year old hunt in k-1.
Derrick Lewis in 2017 got finished by 43 year old Hunt in UFC.
But Zuffa Cool-aids are so delicious, and someone like Gary never gets the credit he deserves.
He should. He definitely wasn't less of a warrior or a fighter than many who gets 'called' into that so called 'Hall of Fame' thing, probably more so of one. Unfortunate that he never got the respect he deserved and probably never will, but that's how life goes in this world I guess.
Now, there was a thread about Babalu showing the symptoms of CTE and all, but clearly the posterboy for something like that in MMA, in my opinion, is Gary. One vicious dude, but he didn't really have the grappling to be able to contend, and really was thrown to the wolves in the kickboxing as well, being very few choice fighter to have fought the best competition in their absolute primes in both, in MMA fighting Coleman, Igor, Fedor and Noguiera in their absolute primes, and Aerts, Hunt, Lebanner, Sefo, Bonjasky, and the list goes on.
On the other hand, there seems to be a lot of hoopla about Daniel Cormier, even some claiming him to be the best pound for pound fighter in the world, when he got his sonned by Jon Jones twice like he owes him that Poppeye money. No one is claiming that Rich is better than Anderson, and how less ridiculous would it be to say Daniel Cormier is, you tell me. It's simply insane thing to say , but anything goes on Sherdog I suppose.
Fedor's name have been shat on and thrown through the mud with people holding virtual pitchfork and torch about how he faced a shit competition, when he didn't. Daniel Cormier wants to fight 40 + year old guy whose last win was a decade ago, and no one was outraged, saying he 'deserved' the fight. Before that, he fought someone like Derrick Lewis, who landed the hail mary of all hail maries, only topped by something like Zombie and that Rodriguez guy KO, who absolutely looked like shit in his previous fight, but then everyone was okay and happy, oh it happens in UFC, what a wonderful fight, not to mention that Lewis was injured I believe.
Goodridge was a vicious mofo though his grappling was limited and took a lot of unnecessary damage. Goodridge in 2003 was 7-1 leading into Fedor fight, with his only loss against Nogueira. After Fedor loss, Goodridge would go on a 6-1 run while only losing to prime Herring, before hitting that 8 fight losing streak which shouldn't have happened. So Goodridge was 13-3 for 7 years in MMA, while fighting Fedor in the very middle of it, only losing to top 2 heavyweights possibly of all time, and Herring ex-top 10 heavyweight back then. Goodridge is 6'3, just as tall as Derrick Lewis, 240 pounds, and though he is in a lot of highlights getting smashed, but he was a dangerous dude. He just took so much damage, and so little ground game.
It's a pity that someone like Derrick Lewis is fighting for the title and getting paid a lot of money. And someone like Goodridge is having CTEs and probably got paid peanuts. What's just as fucked up is Fedor got shat on all the time for fighting supposedly cans, though he fought top 10 competitions that was comparable to GSP's or Silva's but everyone was cool Daniel Cormier fighting Derrick Lewis and potentially fighting 40+ year old prowrestler with less than 10 MMA fights whose win was a decade ago.
By the way, Goodridge in 2003 went to a draw against PRIME 29 year old hunt in k-1.
Derrick Lewis in 2017 got finished by 43 year old Hunt in UFC.
But Zuffa Cool-aids are so delicious, and someone like Gary never gets the credit he deserves.
He should. He definitely wasn't less of a warrior or a fighter than many who gets 'called' into that so called 'Hall of Fame' thing, probably more so of one. Unfortunate that he never got the respect he deserved and probably never will, but that's how life goes in this world I guess.
