Reminder: Still the Only Fighter to Hold Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Titles Simultaneously

Yeah he is overlooked cause of Jones in all time great mentionings. Def a strong top 10 all time candidate. Beat prime Rumble twice, Stipe, prime Gustafson. Ran trough some elite / top 10 LHWs and HWs effortlessly.
 
I truly believe DC is highly underated.

He swept the Strikeforce grandprix that Fedor was knocked out of in the first round

He strolled through HW never getting taken down or even losing a single round.

He never lost a round until he faced Jones at LHW.

I truly believe had he not left HW because of his incarcerated mexican mafia homie , hed be regarded as the best HW ever.
 
icemun said:
I truly believe DC is highly underated.

He swept the Strikeforce grandprix that Fedor was knocked out of in the first round

He strolled through HW never getting taken down or even losing a single round.

He never lost a round until he faced Jones at LHW.

I truly believe had he not left HW because of his incarcerated mexican mafia homie , hed be regarded as the best HW ever.
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It's all Cain's fault!
 
KAZSoliloquy said:
i think being a LHW who jumps up a weight class and KO's the best UFC HW of all time in less than one round counts for something.
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Yeah I tended to rate that performance highly too ha ha.

DC picked up the boxing game very quickly it seemed, don't know how much striking he'd done in his life but he had some decent hands from early on.
 
My original avatar was me squaring off with him in my uniform (DC in tuxedo) at Marine Corps Ball in Bay Area, just before his final fight in Strikeforce (One of my favorite pics). I told him he'd be Champ in UFC and he replied "That's the plan, my man". His hands were small and very soft. I was drunk as fuck and wanted to tell him, because people always say my hands are soft after a first handshake. I'm glad I didn't, because I'd probably have gotten dumped on my head on a hard wood floor🤣
 
markg171 said:
How'd the rest of that trilogy go buddy
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Won 3 out of 4 rounds before being stopped. Then past 40 went 5 rounds with Stipe? Nothing about that trilogy speaks negatively to DC or Stipe. DC was on his downslope towards the end of that trilogy. Stipe followed shortly after. Still was a great trilogy. And the fact he could compete with prime Stipe like that means he would've been fine with 95% of the HW division.
 
DC has fought a long list of really good fighters.

Remember that full power shot he took from Anthony Johnson?

The DC Jones rivalry was fun.



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Hymen Crusher said:
He was really good and he should have just been a hw from the time he came into the ufc. Obviously great run at 205 but he could have been the top hw in ufc history
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It was similar to Machida and Anderson Silva. They were training partners like Cormier and Cain. Machida didn't want to fight at MW when Anderson was there and Cormier didn't want to fight at HW for long when Cain was champ. I think Machida (at MW) and Cormier (at HW) could've had similar runs to Silva and Cain if they started at a younger age ....Cormier probably a longer run as Cain was very injury prone and ended his prime early.
 
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