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I don’t know if i necessarily agree with that. Arlovski was going through a huge resurgence at that point. He had effectively changed his style up. Both scenarios when losing to stipe and fedor, he went on long losing streaks. I personally believe arlovski was at the exact same point in his career as when he fought fedor. The experience he had at the stipe fight I think helped propel his prime. He always had a weak chin, but his defense was so much better compared to the Silvia fights or the fedor fights. To me there’s no difference anyways.There definitely a difference in how off prime they were I'd agree but Arlovski at that point was along way off the fighter Fedor beat in 2009 and I think Hunt was worse than the version he beat in 2006 as well gassing inside of a round.
The difference as well would be Mir and Rampage would never likely be mentioned as significant parts of Fedor's legacy, the fighters I mentioned are significant parts of Stipes legacy.
The mark hunt right is really tough to have to. When he fought fedor, also coming off a loss like when he fought stipe. And he had no ground game to speak of. He never really did. So while yes his accolades in k1 were fresher, in mma he got exposed bad. And it’s tough to say if he ever really got better on the ground. Doesn’t seem like it, but you would hope so. But, the one thing that puts the fedor fight higher is that he had never been knocked out. Against stipe, he was coming off the knee tko from Werdum. But he was fresher coming off bigger wins, and still had some big wins afterwards.
In all said and done. I’d put the arlovski and hunt wins at the same level for both stipe and fedor.