What this post skips out on is that Fedor got iced 3 times in a row at a very young HW age and outside of Nog,Cop, AA and if you're being nice big Tim who imo was on his downturn by this point, the names on his resume other than those 4 are quite lackluster.
Dumb post. Plenty of Fedor's contemporary fighters aged out in a similar time frame to when he did.
Cain and JDS were basically done as top guys right after they turned 30 lol.
Brock ran away from the sport in his early 30s with barely any fights.
All 3 with FAR less fight mileage than Fedor.
UFC HW Champs:
Rizzo: Never had a top win after 2005/06. Done by age 33.
Ricco: Done fighting at top level in 2003. Hung on for a few years losing to anyone relevant. Totally done by age ~33.
Mir: Last time he was at all relevant and had top wins was in 2012. 33 years of age.
Randleman: Last top win at age 32.
Arlovski: Left the UFC and got brutally "exposed". Done as a top guy by 2011 at age ~31.
Sylvia: Done as a top guy after 2008, at age 32.
Bork: Last win at age 33.
JDS: Basically done as a top guy by age 31, in 2015. Clearly washed by 2017, at age 33. Hobbled on vs mostly irrelevant guys after.
Cain: Done after 2013, at age 31. Hardly fought after period.
Wow, look @ all these UFC champs who somehow either washed out, started "sucking", or clearly were past it in their early 30s!
To be fair, you could do quite the same for a number of contemporary PRIDE champs.
HW MMA has failed to attract enough new, young talent since the 2000s, and this became very evident post 2010 as the average age of the division started creeping up. Hint, that is not a sign it got better.
Fedor "critics" being sub 80 IQ- nothing new.
