Is Fedor legacy more of a myth?

[MPD-Psycho]

Both. His legacy is real but a hundred years from now people will debate if he ever existed.

 

[SamboPunch]

GOAT

 

[icemun]

Notoriously pillow fisted Henderson.

Dan was a monster
No doubt

He was knocking out MWs left and right as you demonstrated

 

[Simple Southerner]

Nonsense. He's the

 

[volcom5]

It is indeed. Just imagine all those 20+ differences at HW.....then go back to your logic. lol

You need better material.

Aside from Schilt, BigFoot, Sylvia, Mir, Hunt and Mitrione. Sure Zulu and Choi were big also but the skill & exp gap was quite large.

Fedors best wins like Arlovski, Noguiera & CroCop were separated by under 10lbs with Fedor being heavier than Noguiera and Cro Cop, while Arlovski was 7lbs heavier than Fedor.

 

[YSB]

I don't blame people for thinking of it as mythical because of the aura Fedor projected. But no, he really was an ATG as the kids say. You don't dream up wins over Cro Cop, Coleman, Randleman, Nogueira and Sobral.

 

[C0NCH3TO]

lmao…. Fedor could have easily said goodbye to mma with a 31-0 record. Would have been the unquestionable goat. Jones couldn’t get the big “30”, neither Gsp…. nor Habib. They left before the inevitable would happen. Fedor had the balls and bad judgment to overstay and damage his record. All the other dudes I listed would have suffered the same fate had they stayed fighting.

 

[WOLVERINEKILLS]

Most of those rankings are entirely irrelevant to my post or even support what I said (the Brett Rogers rankings, if accurate, are the only thing that contradict what I said). Again, post like these just makes you look like a fanatic of some sort.

It's like you saw some small slight at Fedor and have to over compensate by trying to imply that he beat great fighters. No one said otherwise.

If accurate which it’s not. Sorta fun to see you get passive after such a silly post to begin with

 

[Greyscale]

lmao…. Fedor could have easily said goodbye to mma with a 31-0 record. Would have been the unquestionable goat. Jones couldn’t get the big “30”, neither Gsp…. nor Habib. They left before the inevitable would happen. Fedor had the balls and bad judgment to overstay and damage his record. All the other dudes I listed would have suffered the same fate had they stayed fighting.

He just failed miserably at everything else in his life so risking last brain cells is one option he had left.

 

[mma fighter]

It was a fun enough, albeit overrated fight while standing--more swanging and not-quite-banging than speed and solid technique (Cro Cop landed all of eight significant strikes at distance!)--but most of it was on the ground and really highlighted the limitations of both Cro Cop and Fedor. On the ground, Cro Cop defended not to get finished and made no effort to get up, while Fedor kept using the same small handful of entries and attacks that Cro Cop was successfully defending over and over again. That makes some sense for Fedor, who was clearly winning and safe so long as Cro Cop was on his back, but watching the fight for the first time after hearing so much over the years about how it was one of the best fights ever, it was extremely disappointing to see Fedor not even try to finish a definitely finishable fight. And, of course, Cro Cop's complete inability to even try to get off his back really emphasized how much he was a kickboxer rather than an MMA fighter.

About a 7-to-7.5/10 fight, which is a good fight but nowhere near the 9/5+/10 that Fedor and Pride nostalgia addicts make it out to be. If you were watching Pride at the time and following the streak, all hyped up about how Fedor was fighting the most dangerous striker he'd ever faced, I can see how watching the fight would have felt like an all-time great MMA fan experience, but without all that it's just a good but distinctly flawed fight.

That is the problem... you weren't there when it happened. When it happened, those were the two baddest men on the planet. Going back and trying to compare it to modern fights, is stupid. Fedor is not a myth. If you were there then you would know.

 

[MitMcl]

lmao…. Fedor could have easily said goodbye to mma with a 31-0 record. Would have been the unquestionable goat. Jones couldn’t get the big “30”, neither Gsp…. nor Habib. They left before the inevitable would happen. Fedor had the balls and bad judgment to overstay and damage his record. All the other dudes I listed would have suffered the same fate had they stayed fighting.

I’m not a fan of Jones, but he obviously could have easily gotten to 30-0 had he fought a few cans in-between the insane level of competition he was fighting. This is of course assuming we are ignoring both men’s “losses”.