- Joined
- Aug 9, 2013
- Messages
- 21,809
- Reaction score
- 11,722
These are the longest win streaks among GOAT candidates:
Fedor - 27 fight win streak, 21 finishes, 3 title defenses
Jones - 14 fight win streak, 9 finishes, 8 title defenses
Silva - 17 fight win streak, 15 finishes, 10 title defenses
GSP - 13 fight win streak, 9 title defenses, 4 finishes
Aldo - 18 fight win streak, 9 title defenses, 9 finishes
My rank is:
1. Silva (barely edged out Fedor via title defenses)
2. Fedor
3. Aldo
4. Jones
5. GSP
How would you rank these win streaks?
1 Jones
2 MM
3 GSP
4 Silva
5 Aldo
6 Fedor
MM should be included most defenses best competition over a long period of time, fans don't know the great guys he beat cause they didn't want to know. GSP fought tougher competition than AS IMO, but how everything ended for him kind of ruins it cause AS's division was weaker but he fought the strongest individuals either of them fought and he actually stuck around to lose. GSP bounced when he was ahead and he was 31, a baby age for a champion MMA fighter right after getting his ass kicked.
AS had the chirade of going up to 205 to get more winnable fights he'd get extra credit for, Jones will do the same at HW looks like, but Jones was harassed into doing that shit, he didn't seek out that strategy. His division though looks better with time IMO but it was a smaller division and he couldn't handle other large elite strikers. Think AS and GSP both got favorable matchups through their career and were vulnerable to elite striking, Jones and MM beat mostly everything.
Fedor win total is inflated cause Pride had tournaments and lots of non title bouts. Pride's HW division was superior but it was also top heavy the win streak was mostly against inferior dudes. Think Cro Cop could have beaten Fedor. Fedor also turned down a shit ton of money to face better competition in the UFC and when he fought in Strikeforce he lost to the best guys he faced, some of whom weren't natural HW's. Think Fedor's streak was based on the Pride system and if things were like that in the US you'd be comparing him with longer streaks than you are.