Media Tom Aspinall says he was watching cro cop and implies his level of skill and that time period doesn't compare to modern mma, timestamp is 17:59

[Sean Chowdhury]

 

[froggyluv]

Tommy 'tooMuchCockDisGuy" Aspinall

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

he's right. prime cro cop would demolish him.

 

[Subline]

Fedor and Cro Cop could never hang with the HW's of today... guys like Mick Parkin and Shamil Gaziev are on another level.

 

[Ara tech]

Cro Cop was a left handed southpaw with a powerful left kick. If he competed in modern era with the skill set he had in his prime he would most likely lose.

But I say but, if Cro Cop had fought in our modern era as a young man, he would had improved and adapted his skillset, and would do well in our era.

Old school fighters were tough, modern era males are a bit softer, if you gave old school fighters the knowledge and ressources of today, they would certainly outshine the modern fighers. If not the moden fighters would outshine them.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

This interview is gonna get some old timer Sherdoggers to start rooting for Jon Jones

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

Fedor and Cro Cop could never hang with the HW's of today... guys like Mick Parkin and Shamil Gaziev are on another level.

 

[MrBlackheart]

I’m imagine UFC HW champ in 2050 would say “I watch videos of Tom Aspinall the other day and I saw a few holes in his game”. The new replaces the old. It’s just a fact of life.

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Aspinall did say it was a UFC fight, and Crocop became increasingly basic as his career went on for some reason. If you watch his old K-1 fights he's a more dynamic striker.

 

[DiazSlap]

Another insufferable, clueless Brit.


Is normal.

 

[JustOnce]

I think he should shut the f up about it and respect the OGs.

This guy basic as fuck too, fast hands and decent striking and grappling at the end of the day. He forgets to mention the HWs are embarrassing right now and he just happen to be the best one in it.

Who's the best guy he beat anyways? Volkov? Sergei who lost to Volkov? Blaydes who got besmirched by Sergei?

F aspinall and War Crocop! PRIDE NEVER DIE!

 

[fries in the bag]

even tommy boy, the arguably #1 or #2 best fighter in the world, says modern mma is more competitive than back in the day.
are you saying you have more knowledge than the literal best heavyweight fighter in the world?

RIP sherdog, forum full of 40s-50s dad bods idolizing their heroes in the 90s and early 00s.


145: ilia > prime aldo
155: makhachev or khabib > anyone else, bj penn, frankie edgar, ben hendo, eddie alvarez
185: khamzat or dricus > prime silva
265: aspinall > prime cain / prime cro cop / prime whoever


the only divisions where the current modern champs are worse than the old guard is 170 and 205.

prime gsp and prime jones will likely never be equaled in terms of performances or skill in those divisions.

 

[Luthien]

Old Guard King that is still at the top of the game

 

[volcom5]

I think he should shut the f up about it and respect the OGs.

This guy basic as fuck too, fast hands and decent striking and grappling at the end of the day. He forgets to mention the HWs are embarrassing right now and he just happen to be the best one in it.

Who's the best guy he beat anyways? Volkov? Sergei who lost to Volkov? Blaydes who got besmirched by Sergei?

F aspinall and War Crocop! PRIDE NEVER DIE!

Cans don’t take headkicjs well don’t they.

 

[Luthien]

I can't wait for Jon to shut this gum flapping fool Diva Tom up

 

[drowned]

He's right, of course. That silly push-off move that Mirko constantly tried to pull would only result in him being taken down over and over today.

 

[Bakayoko]

Crocop was fighting by his own words weighin in at 103-104 kilos usually.Yeah,he would get tossed around by few HW's probably.Let prime crocop cut down to LHW from that weight like they do now and let him adjust from ring to octagon and he would probably be as succesful as Poatan.

 

[laleggenda27]

CroCop from 15 years ago was completely washed. He wasn't even top 15 at the time.

With a few exceptions, the HW division from 15 years ago was better and deeper than the current HW division. Matching up sherdog's March 2010 HW rankings vs their current rankings, I'd favor 2010 to win 9 or 10 of them.

1. Fedor (Aspinall)
2. Brock (Jones)
3. Mir (Francis)
4. Cain (Gane)
5. Big Nog (Volkov)
6. Brett Rogers (Pavlovich)
7. JDS (Blaydes)
8. Arlovski (Almeida)
9. Carwin (Spivac)
10. Werdum (Tybura)
11. Aleks (De Fries)
12. Gonzaga (Ferreira)
13. Overeem (Jairzinho)
14. Rothwell (Lewis)
15. Big Foot (Gotsov)

 

[joy2day]

Lol this is going against most sherdoggies narratives. He's supposed to be the good guy, the anti Jones. The guy who is supposed to wreck Jones and prove Jones was never any good in order to protect the Pride idols' legacies.

Now it slapped them in the face as the guy himself isn't impressed by Pride legends. You can't make this stuff up.

Ironically, it is the other way around. Tom wants to fight someone who IS from that old generation over a decade ago and is STILL able to be the LHW champ and second best HW fighter in Tom's era.

That makes it self-evident that he is wrong.