Top Fighter by era

[tenniswhiz]

LOL at Ken Shamrock being on there.

His fight with Royce was a draw. His fight with Oleg Taktarov was a draw.
He split fights with Dan Severn.
He fought in 3 UFC tournaments, never won any of them, and never appeared in the finals of any of them.

He cried "Petey, my heart" and gave up against Fujita in Pride.
He lost to Don Frye in Pride.

He lost 291 straight fights against Tito Ortiz.

He got flash KO'd by Sakuraba. Saku probably smoked a couple cigs and drank a quart of sake before that fight.

If you fought in the UFC during that era, and never won a tournament, then you're not an all-time great.

 

[maksy]

2000-2006:Fedor
2006-2011: Anderson
2011-Present: Jones

 

[PRIDExxFC]

Pancrase and UFC touney
Funaki, Ken Shamrock, Royce Gracie
Pre Zuffa Era
Bas, Frank Shamrock, Igor
Zuffa Era and Early PRIDE
TUF era
Fedor, Wandy
Nog, Hughes, Wandy, Liddell
PRIDE buy out era
Shogun, Fedor
Fox era
GSP, Jones

 

[Sakurabas Ear]

GSP owns 2010 to present TS, Jones nearly lost his belt (and probably should have). GSP has been getting clear cut UD's for years, and he's got more defenses that are almost completely against guys who aren't a weightclass below him.

 

[canadialand]

1993: Royce Gracie
1994: Royce Gracie
1995: Dan Servern
1996: Mark Coleman
1997: Mark Kerr
1998: Frank Shamrock
1999: Bas Rutten
2000: Randy Couture/igor vovchanchyn
2001: Tito Ortiz
2002: Matt Hughes
2003: Wanderlei Silva
2004: Fedor Emelianenko
2005: Chuck Liddell
2006: Fedor Emelianenko
2007: Fedor Emelianenko
2008: GSP
2009: Anderson Silva
2010: Anderson Silva
2011: Jon Jones
2012: Jon Jones
2013: Jon Jones

 

[bigearv14]

Machida Era: Lyoto Machida
Shogun Era: Shogun Rua
Anderson Era: Chael Sonnen

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

ummmmm, not sure about the eras, but there are some guys who i thought were defintely, if only briefly, the best fighters in the world:

Royce
Coleman
Kerr
Rutten
Wanderlei
Nogueira
Fedor
Shogun
GSP
Anderson
Jones
either Cain or JDS, we'll see, both head and shoulders above the rest of HWT, and perhaps HWT alltime

I wholeheartedly agree

 

[Quadrillion]

1993-Present
1. Anderson Silva

This must have slipped your mind...

 

[wilddeuces]

'93 to present = Dan Severn

 

[donfryeismyhero]

1993-94 UFC 1-4
Royce Gracie & Ken Shamrock

1995-1999 UFC 5-23, PRIDE 1-8
Mark Coleman & Frank Shamrock

2000-2004 UFC 24-50, PRIDE 9-Shockwave 2004
Fedor Emelianenko & Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

2005-2009 UFC 51-107, PRIDE 29-34

Fedor Emelianenko & Anderson Silva

2010-present UFC 108-165
Anderson Silva & Jon Jones

 

[gspieler]

Phil Baroni.

 

[TheComebackKid]

1993: Royce Gracie
1994: Royce Gracie
1995: Dan Servern
1996: Mark Coleman
1997: Mark Kerr
1998: Frank Shamrock
1999: Bas Rutten
2000: Randy Couture/igor vovchanchyn
2001: Tito Ortiz
2002: Matt Hughes
2003: Wanderlei Silva
2004: Fedor Emelianenko
2005: Chuck Liddell
2006: Fedor Emelianenko
2007: Fedor Emelianenko
2008: GSP
2009: Anderson Silva
2010: Anderson Silva
2011: Jon Jones
2012: Jon Jones
2013: Jon Jones

Fedor fought Lindland and Choi in 2007...

 

[Hanoi Rox]

Lyoto Machida May 2009 - Oct 2009

I Lol'd!

 

[3v3ryth1ng**]

Pre Bj Penn-Royce

Classical Bj Penn- BJ Penn

Post Bj Penn-Anderson Silva

Neo Bj Penn-BJ Penn

I don't think BJ Penn has ever been regarded as the "the best" of an era, even when he was LW champion.

 

[3v3ryth1ng**]

Lyoto Machida May 2009 - Oct 2009

It's hard to understand in retrospect, but when he became champion, he'd never lost a round. He sure looked unstoppable at that point. Sucks that it turned around so quickly.

 

[Karate Werewolf]

00-00
Chuck Norris

 

[Nelly]

It's hard to understand in retrospect, but when he became champion, he'd never lost a round. He sure looked unstoppable at that point. Sucks that it turned around so quickly.

Not only did he not lose a round he was almost untouched and he completely out landed everyone in terms of significant strikes.

 

[Alpinestar]

I'd squeeze in Tito Ortiz and Kazushi Sakuraba somewhere on the list.

 

[SharkBoy]

Royce, Igor, Fedor, Anderson, Jones. Honorable mention to Wand, Shogun, Nog, Penn, GSP, and Cain/Cigano.

Baddest man on the planet flow is Tank, Ken S, Fedor, Cain/Cigano

I agree but nog was baddest man pre fedor

 

[JudontknowMMA]

1993-Present
1. Anderson Silva

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