I believe it...though i'd be more interested in who BJ Penn thought was the best fighter he ever fought...rather than a guy who didn't fight a whole lot of great fighters.
It's was awesome, but he picked the wrong ref to go all nuts with, big Dan only stops a fight when someone dies... If he'd have just gone for the KO instead of screaming "yeah" and slapping him, who knows what might have happened. MM wouldn't have got a TS for at least a year after when he did and Cruz might have never fucked up his knees.
Nothing against Ian, I'm actually a fan, but he's been living off of this one moment (which is sped up in the .gif btw) for 4 years now. Demetrious has gone 10-0 since then and Ian has gone 2-3. I understand injuries have derailed him quite a bit but he hasn't been consistent in the cage either.
It's was awesome, but he picked the wrong ref to go all nuts with, big Dan only stops a fight when someone dies... If he'd have just gone for the KO instead of screaming "yeah" and slapping him, who knows what might have happened. MM wouldn't have got a TS for at least a year after when he did and Cruz might have never fucked up his knees.
What screwed him was the scorecard mishap. There was supposed to be a sudden death round iirc and MM had nothing left.
Yeh out of all the judging related fuck ups, that's probably the biggest one of all time. Pretty sure there's never been a sudden death round before or since either. And it was for a title shot. Or the title I can't remember which now.
Prince would probably still be alive and milk would be $1 less a gallon.
OK the Cruz thing was random, but DJ would have had to string a couple of wins together, and that would have taken at least a year... You have to imagine he'd still be champ eventually but the hyperbole p4p goat talk that follows him now wouldn't be near the same.
Great memory on that sudden death round though... I'd forgotten that was supposed to happen.