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the same draft kings add 5 times in less than 10 minutes, ufc must be hurting for advertising partners.
I think both DC and Ngannou proved to little. Great fightere, but far from hw goats. DC tok the easy route and used hus amazing weight cutting ability to fight smaller guys to avoid the top HWs for a long time. Ngannou might be a top 10 later if he keeps on winning, but he has some holes.Bigfoot wasnever scary. TET or not. DC and Cain obliterated him abd Reem was pounding him til gassing
Mir, SEMMY (???) and Sylvia...
No DC or Francis
Randy is like 16-8 for his career
Fedor was only ever takendown by stronger guys largelly. At LHW he would of been as strong roughly. Could Cormier get him down no doubt but to keep the Judo Sambo elite down? No way and Cormier striking is vastly inferior.
Curious about your orders
1. Stipe- Most title defenses, two time champ, beat the best opposition
2. Fedor- Undefeated for almost a decade, against the top heavies at the time
3. Cain- two time champ, utterly mauled everyone he beat
4. Big Nog- beat a who's who, and remained competitive for years
5. Cro Cop- Smashed everyone in his early days not named Fedor or Nog (ok, and Kev)
6. Werdum- Beat the best guys (Cain, Fedor) but was inconsistent
7. Ngannou- Smashy
8. Cormier- Amazing fighter. Beat Stipe. Didn't have enough high quality opposition wins to be top 5
9, JDS- Probably the most historical early run, great champ
10. Couture- 3 time champ, didn't face the toughest opposition, but they were the toughest at that time
Honorables to Coleman, Overeem and Sylvia
Curious about your orders
1. Stipe- Most title defenses, two time champ, beat the best opposition
2. Fedor- Undefeated for almost a decade, against the top heavies at the time
3. Cain- two time champ, utterly mauled everyone he beat
4. Big Nog- beat a who's who, and remained competitive for years
5. Cro Cop- Smashed everyone in his early days not named Fedor or Nog (ok, and Kev)
6. Werdum- Beat the best guys (Cain, Fedor) but was inconsistent
7. Ngannou- Smashy
8. Cormier- Amazing fighter. Beat Stipe. Didn't have enough high quality opposition wins to be top 5
9, JDS- Probably the most historical early run, great champ
10. Couture- 3 time champ, didn't face the toughest opposition, but they were the toughest at that time
Honorables to Coleman, Overeem and Sylvia
One of my Unpopular MMA Opinions is: however significant Overeem’s Strikeforce and DREAM titles are, Fedor’s WAMMA title should be viewed as at least equivalent.
Fedor had, in one continuous unbeaten streak:
Stipe had (all UFC, obviously)
- Title win over Nog (PRIDE)
- Defense over Nog (PRIDE)
- Defense over Mirko (PRIDE)
- Defense over Hunt (PRIDE)
- Title win over Sylvia (WAMMA)
- Defense over Arlovski (WAMMA)
- Defense over Rogers (WAMMA)
*defeated by DC
- Title win over Werdum
- Defense over Overeem
- Defense over JDS
- Defense over Ngannou
The WAMMA belt is not as prestigious as the PRIDE or UFC belts obviously, but I think Fedor won & defended against better competition overall (relative to where the opponents were in their careers), he has more overall title fight wins and more overall defenses, in one continuous unbeaten streak.
- Title win over DC
- Defense against DC
Fedor > Stipe
Timmy always deserves an honorable mention. He achieved the most with the least amount of skill. What was he good at? His wrestling was poor, his striking was average, etc.I mean that interim title win was over Big Nog tho lol.
Other than Arlovski and Rodriguez, Sylvia had very little in the way of meaningful wins.
Talks about disqualifying the greatest ever cause he fought in doping friendly countries. Then nominates juice man Randy couture to list? Lol okFedor won 0 titles outside doping free countries...Arona won that fight and the middleweight Hendo defeated the russian.
He is out of top 10.
My top 5 :
1) Cormier with two titles in two different weights classes.
2) Velasquez
3) Miocic
4) Couture, a champion over 40...
5) Werdum
I think both DC and Ngannou proved to little. Great fightere, but far from hw goats. DC tok the easy route and used hus amazing weight cutting ability to fight smaller guys to avoid the top HWs for a long time. Ngannou might be a top 10 later if he keeps on winning, but he has some holes.
Semmy is amazing. If the money was in mma, and he kept on fighting, he would have been top 5 Goat. Without the upper weight limit, prime Semmy would have been champ in todays division.
Semmy is the grestest striker to ever live, and like with Cain, the potential was great.Wow
Semmy never beat a quality HW
I'm fascinated by your post.
DC won and defended the HW title.
Semmy is the grestest striker to ever live, and like with Cain, the potential was great.
DC was very impressive that a guy that old, that had a physique of a dart player could compete in mma. He was Fun to Watch, and always went out in full speed, but to be honest, him beating Stipe was pretty much like Serra beat GSP..
After watching a lot of Nogs fights.
1. He was a good submission grappler
2. His power was weak for a HW
3. Good chin
4. Striking was good but not top tier
Good one.No Mir?