Excellent thread TS. Some more facts about Fedor:
- Out of his 36 career opponents, 21 of them were cans (I'm happy to list them if you like). That's 58% of his career spent fighting cans (I was exaggerating when I said 85%). When you spend the majority of your career fighting cans, you are not the GOAT. End of discussion.
- Nut-huggers like to say "Oh but he went over a decade undefeated!". This is a lie. He didn't go 10 years undefeated, and the top heavyweights today could easily replicate such an undefeated record if the large majority of their opponents were also so lacklustre.
- Nut-huggers also like to say "He always fought at a size disadvantage!". This is yet another lie. Out of his 36 opponents, Fedor was only at a size disadvantage to 13 of them. That leaves 23 opponents that he was equal in size to or actually had a size advantage over (happy to post these stats too).
- His best wins are Nog, Cro Cop, Arlovski and Sylvia. Anyone who thinks that list qualifies you as GOAT is straight up retarded.
- He has embarrassing losses on his record to people a supposed GOAT had no right losing to - getting mauled by Bigfoot and KO'd by 207lb Dan Henderson.
- He's making a mockery of his career now by fighting horribly unranked fighters and going to a pathetic organisation like Rizin after inferring that he wanted to fight in the UFC.
Anyone with half a brain is able to take these facts into consideration and arrive at the overly logical conclusion that Fedor isn't even in the running for GOAT. Was he a good heavyweight for his time? Most definitely. Would he be soundly defeated by any number of heavyweights or light heavyweights today? Also most definitely. Is he the GOAT? No, not even in the running. And anyone who believes otherwise is a complete moron.
