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I appreciate the effort but your stats are false.
Top heavyweight fight from 2004, both fighters 225 pounds.
Nogueira was ranked all those years, but was around 225 pounds all is Pride career, never over 240 like you wrote.
The top 4 heavyweights of the last decade, Fedor, Nogueria, Couture and Crocop were around 220 pounds, today 220 pounds heavyweights don't exist, this is a fact.
As usual Pride nerds on the rescue.
2 times heavyweight champ Frank Mir said that mma indeed has evolved, so let's accept it and move on.
For their first fight of 2004, the one that ended in a no contest, Nogueira weighed in at 240lbs and Fedor weighed in at 236lbs. (Tapology) But, yes, in their 3rd fight(the last of 2004) Nogueira weighed-in at 227lbs while Fedor weigh-in at 233lbs.
Also, your statement about Nog never weighing over 225lbs in Pride is also innaccurate. Other then the one I just linked you to, he weighed-in over 230lbs many times. He has also weighed in at 240+lbs multiple time. He weighed 240lbs at Pride 31, 245lbs at Pride Critical Countdown Absolute, and 242lbs at Pride Final Conflict Absolute.(Tapology)
Pride also did not do weigh-ins every fight, so it is impossible to know what the fighters weighed everytime. But given that Nogueira's UFC weigh-ins(I know it's after his physical decline) ranged from 230 to 246lbs and that most HWs(that don't cut) can fluctuate anywhere from 5 to 20lbs between fights, it is very possible that Nogueira fluctuated between 225lbs and 245lbs through out his entire career.
Also, if you take their recorded measurements and average all their career weigh-in results, Nogueira is virtually the same size as Werdum.
NOGUEIRA:
Height = 6'3"
Reach = 77"
Average Career Weigh-ins = 238lbs
WERDUM:
Height = 6'4"
Reach = 77"
Average Career Weigh-ins = 240lbs
So, Nogueira would fit in with Werdum as a mid-sized HW today.
I like Frank Mir. I just watched the last UFC Countdown and Mark Hunt, when asked about the Lewis fight, said something along the lines of, "These new HW guys today, they're not willing to put in the work and when it comes down to the deep end, they're not willing to go there." Point is, people say a lot shit. Doesn't mean it true.