Top 5 European Fighters of All Time

[CoffeeAndBeer]

1. Fedor - Greatest of all time, at least among the holy trinity (GSP, Anderson, Fedor)
2. Bas - Pioneer of the sport, true Legend
3. Mirko - Perhaps the best MMA fighter to crossover from Kickboxing
4. Igor - Heavy hitter who dominated in his time
5. Arlovski - Multiple-generational great

Overeem
Schilt
Joachim
Gustafsson
Conor

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

1. Fedor

Then you got Cro Cop, Arlovski, and then you can round it out with either Bas, Igor, Overeem, Mousasi, Sergei.

Iran is Asia. Mousasi is Iranian-born.

 

[JustOnce]

Did you just put Bas over Crocop

 

[Ace of Spades]

1. Fedor
2. Cro Cop
3. Bas
4. McGregor
5. Bisping

 

[yookfarb]

Hard to argue with OP except for Bas...

 

[ironfist05]

1. Fedor
2. Cro Cop
3. Bas
4. Hansen
5. Kampmann
6. McGregor
7. Arlovski
8. Gus
9. Reem
10. Mousasi
five more that could be on here (no order): Bisping, Schilt, Karo, Igor, Hardy

 

[junkie]

1:Fedor
2:Crocop
3:Oleg Taktarov
4:Arlovski
5:Bas

 

[ironfist05]

also, Hansen is a must have in the top 5, his LW resume is top notch

 

[meatballhat]

1. Fedor
2. Mirko
3. Bas
4. Arlovski
I can't believe I'm actually putting this name here but
5. Bisping

If Conors career trajectory continues on the same upward path he will overtake Bisping...hell he's probably already there if he beats Aldo.

 

[pretzelguard]

Too early to be saying Mcgregor at number 1?

 

[cambo78]

Jon Jones
Jon Jones
Jon Jones
Jon Jones
Jon Jones

His name is European

 

[Graniteeyed]

I have to leave Bas out cause old school Pancrase rules were so incredibly different to any iteration of actual MMA, even including Pride.

Fedor, Arlovksi, CC and Overeem are just easy. #5 becomes way harder.

 

[JKS]

1. Fedor

Then you got Cro Cop, Arlovski, and then you can round it out with either Bas, Igor, Overeem, Mousasi, Sergei.

 

[vkram]

McGregor
Nelson
Holohan
Lobov
Daly

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

1. Fedor - GOAT
2. Igor - king of Europe mma in the 90s
3. Crocop - best heavyweight striker
4. Ubereem- seemed unstoppable for quite a long period
5. Bas

 

[sampuncher]

1. Fedor
2. Mirko
3. Oleg
4. Bas
5. Overeem
6. Conor
7. Arlovski
8. Bisping
9. JJ
10. Gustafsson

 

[Drake]

I am totally fine with that list.

 

[Woliwo]

You could argue about if Russia is a European or not, otherwise nice list.

 

[JosephDredd]

1. Fedor - Greatest of all time, at least among the holy trinity (GSP, Anderson, Fedor)
2. Bas - Pioneer of the sport, true Legend
3. Mirko - Perhaps the best MMA fighter to crossover from Kickboxing
4. Igor - Heavy hitter who dominated in his time
5. Arlovski - Multiple-generational great

Overeem
Schilt
Joachim
Gustafsson
Conor

There's a Sambo guy who's basically a European version of Jose Landis-Jons that I would consider putting on the list instead of Bas, but I'm embarrassed to say I can't remember his name.

 

[Guile]

Reem is for sure top 5.

 

[Doughbelly]

Bas is one of, if not THE most overrated champs from the early era of UFCs.

 

[barehanded]

1. Fedor
2. Mirko
3. Arlovski
4. Bas
5. Reem

HM: Schilt, Igor, Gus, Conor

 

[clayj]

You could argue about if Russia is a European or not, otherwise nice list.

Exactly.. in a thread a bit ago people were die hard saying Dagestan is in Europe.

 

[barehanded]

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

Updated:

1. Fedor
2. Bas
3. Mirko
4. Arlovski
5. Overeem
6. Igor
7. Conor
8. Joachim
9. Bisping
10. Schilt
11. Kharitonov
12. Gustafsson
13. Mamed
14. Kongo
15. Aleks

Manuwa, Paul Daley, Saffiedine, Gunnar, Shlemenko, Dan Hardy, Paddy Holohan

Fast Climbers:
Liam McGreay
Michael Page

Gender-for-Gender:
*8. Marloes
9. Joachim
*10. Joanna
11. Bisping

Honorary European GOATs:
Karl Gotch
Billy Riley

 

[Doughbelly]

Updated:

1. Fedor
2. Bas
3. Mirko
4. Arlovski
5. Overeem

That's all jacked up.

Bas doesn't deserve to be nearly so high. We all love Bas, but lets be real.

How many full MMA/NHB rules did Bas actually win? 2-3? All of those Pancrase fights were open hand strikes, with rope escapes and moon boots.

1. Fedor
2. Mirko
3. Overeem
4. Arlovkski
5. Bas

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

Bas doesn't deserve to be nearly so high. We all love Bas, but lets be real.

How many full MMA/NHB rules did Bas actually win? 2-3? All of those Pancrase fights were open hand strikes, with rope escapes and moon boots.

...

Yeah, so what. THAT was the origins of our sport. Guess what, at some point in Football (tackle) the Forward Pass was illegal, a Field Goal was worth more points than a Touchdown. In Basketball there was no 3-Pointer, in international rules you can Goal-Tend. In Baseball entire groups of human being were restricted from participating.

Pancrase was MMA, just likely different rules that Unified Rules.