Fuucking ufc and there flavor of the month bandwagon jumpers. Right now it's Jones atleast until he losses then it will be someone else. Pathetic. Anderson is and will remain the true goat for a long time. Shiit atleast boxing is consisted with there all time lists.
Fedor is the GOAT right now, but Jones could surpass him if he comes back and looks as good as he did pre-USADA. Jones is still undefeated, and Anderson was beaten twice by the same guy, who's proven to be overrated himself.
The Greatest fighter of all time easily is the guy with the best record Anderson "The Spider" Silva. 34-8-0, 1 NC. ... Georges "Rush" St. Pierre. 25-2-0. ... Jon "Bones" Jones. 22-1-0. ... "The Last Emperor" Fedor Emelianenko. 36-4-0, 1 NC. ... José Aldo "Junior" 26-3-0. ... Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell. 21-8-0. ... "The Prodigy" BJ Penn. 16-11-2. ... Randy "The Natural" Couture. 19-11-0
Using that logic, Travis Fulton and Jeremy Horn would be impossible to catch by anyone in the UFC at the moment.
On Sherdog, Mighty Mouse was the GOAT when he beat Wilson Reis some months ago. Since he's been ducking TJ for a week or so, he's not anymore.
So the best guy BY FAR is Julio Cesar Neves? OK, whatevz u say http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Julio-Cesar-Neves-Jr-85818
I think there are many ways to frame the GOAT convo as there are so many variables....like Andy;s whole career is hot and cold but he is like Cro Cop, in the sense that when he was functioning on ALL cylinders and in the flow, he was just jaw dropping to watch. Then, you have guys like GSP who have been really consistent but lack the jaw dropping awesomeness that other fighters have at time. We must take into that some fighters may have like a kind of bi-polar, like any other type of artists, who can produce just amazing work and then on other days not such great work. To me, the Cro Cop that won the Pride GP or even the one from the second round of Rizin that was warmed up, is just on a different level and could KO any man that ever lived....unfortunately with Cro Cop or even like a Cerrone or Overeem, they can just be head cases on other nights and cant get going. Also PED's: I dont think anyone would deny that Ubereem would be the favorite over Randy Couture and even the most prime Fedor (or even Jones), yet we dont put Overeem in any GOAT discussions. I would honestly even favor TRTitor over the best Andy, even tho we dont think Vitor is better than Andy on the whole. Fighting is just weird and is more dependant on a wide litany of issues more so than any other sport. P4P talks are almost as pointless as GOAT talks but for my money, FEdor has got to be the GOAT: fought the best in his day, was consistent, was clean (atleast never failed a test) and fought at the highest weight classes while being a smaller man.
It's true. He had a run comparable in length and did so against tougher opposition. Not to mention that he's much more well rounded than Andy.
