Junior Dos Santos' big wins

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Cain Velasquez
Fabricio Werdum
Stipe Miocic
Cro Cop
Shane Carwin
Mark Hunt
Gabriel Gonzaga
Frank Mir
Gilbert Yvel (not a great win but JDS stood with him like a man and put him down like a sack of shit)
But based on his wins he is one of the best heavyweights ever.

EDIT - People also forget he beat a PRIME Stipe after those Cain beatings.
 
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JDS has one of the best runs to the title ever and even after the Cain beatings he managed to get several top 10 wins and some in dominant fashion. I personally have him ranked higher than Cain if looking at an overall career point of view (Cain likely would have had a better one if he didn't get injured so much) and probably still have him in my top 5 HW of all time or at the least in the top 7-8
 
Most exciting HW run in the past decade plus. Most he these guys he didn't just beat, but absolutely destroyed.
 
Biggest win was upgrading his wife :cool:
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lol @ Yvel not a great win. The guy has 34 wins from strikes (100% finishing rate) and JDS put him down in 1 round. It's not like he went out and blanketed him like Barnett did which proved nothing.

On topic though, I consider JDS the #3 HW of all time after Fedor and Werdum. His streak to the title exceeds anything Minotauro/Stipe/Cain did IMO and his late career losses when he was punchy don't impact his overall legacy for me.

Cain obviously had the potential to be great and had decisive wins over JDS but his career was cut far too short by injuries and his overall accomplishments pale in comparison to JDS.

Stipe's resume is wildly overrated IMHO and people who call him the HW GOAT are completely falling victim to the UFC hype machine. He is the definition of a good but not great fighter who competed at a very convenient time when the division was a dinosaur museum.

I highly doubt he would have had a fraction of the success in a different era and really, his performances were usually pretty pedestrian as well. He shares many of the same wins as JDS (years later) and his performances against them were far less impressive. People can hold whatever opinion they want but for me, Stipe was just never that impressive
 
FreddieRoachsVoice said:
lol @ Yvel not a great win. The guy has 34 wins from strikes (100% finishing rate) and JDS put him down in 1 round. It's not like he went out and blanketed him like Barnett did which proved nothing.
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The best performances of Yvel's career were a couple of decision losses to middleweights and getting kicked in the nuts by Wanderlei Silva. If your argument comes down to "beating Gilbert Yvel was a great win" then you really need to look for a better argument.
 
Top 5 HW runs on his way to title. Maybe even #1.

Before he fell of he was top 5 goat HWs.

True heavyweight great. The 2 Cain losses started a decline which later turned into an apsolute slide.


He had the most intimidating boxing at HW in the 40 year history of this sport.
He used to snipe everyone with big KO shots.
 
JBJ was here said:
The best performances of Yvel's career were a couple of decision losses to middleweights and getting kicked in the nuts by Wanderlei Silva. If your argument comes down to "beating Gilbert Yvel was a great win" then you really need to look for a better argument.
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I see your reading comprehension is a 0/10 considering I only mentioned Yvel once in passing and he in no way is a make or break on JDS' resume. I was simply vouching for a fighter who is lesser known/underrated by casuals such as yourself
 
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