Considering all the Combat Sports, tell me your 5 favorite fighters:

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  1. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing

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    To me, in order:

    1-Éder Jofre
    2-Joe Louis
    3-Victor Galindez
    4-Wanderlei Silva
    5-Don Frye (I watched his fight with Takayama recently and you have to love this guy :lol:)

    I always forget someone, I love too many fighters....others: Peter Aerts, Samart Payakaroon, Royce Gracie, Mike Tyson......
     
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  2. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    1. JMM
    2. Morales
    3. Fedor
     
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    SugarShane_24 ESB good-looking member Full Member

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    It would be difficult for a true fight fan to narrow down the list but here's mine:

    1. Pacquiao
    2. Espinosa
    3. Mosley
    2. Liddell
    3. Masato
     
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  4. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Tyson
    Sugar Shane
    Ali
    Fedor
    Melvin Manhoef
     
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  5. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing

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    Masato and Manhoef are great shouts, I love those two too.....
    Funnily enough Fedor never thrilled me, he is the goat and everything, but I would put numerous fighters before him in a list like that, don´t exatcly the reason tbh......

    Couture and Minotauro are my favorites too, I think their fight is probably my favorite in recent years in MMA, I love that fight so much !
     
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  6. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Watch Fedors fights with Big Nog, listen to Bas and Quadros do the commentary and then come back and tell me you're not a fan....
     
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  7. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing

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    Oh, I watched those fights, not with Bas and Quadros though....
    I obviously like the fights, especially the first one, but not exactly Fedor, I guess is because I love Minotauro and is quite sad to see Fedor beating him. I appreciate Fedor´s skills, but I put many others as my favorites before....
    Call me crazy but I prefer to watch Couture fights than Fedor fights.....
     
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  8. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    I can't think of a single Couture fight that was more exciting than watching Kevin Randleman pile drive Fedor.
     
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  9. BUMPY KNUCKLES

    BUMPY KNUCKLES Guest

    **** it I can't decide!
     
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  10. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing

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    Well, Couture beating Vitor, twice, was pretty exciting to me, since I´m not a fan of Belfort and disliked him much more some years ago when I watched those fights......
    I think it has more to do with the emotions his fights brought to me, like I said, Minotauro vs Couture is one of my favorite fights.....
    Couture vs Napão (Gonzaga) is also one of my favorite fights ever, weirdly....
     
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  11. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Completely agree with that. As at the time there was no way anyone could have expected Gonzaga to loose in such a humiliating fashion to Couture, bearing in mind Gonzaga tooled Cro Cop not too long before.. Definitely one of the best wins of his career.
     
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    1. Samart Payakaroon
    2. Matthew Saad Muhammad
    3. Roy Jones Jr
    4. Nick Diaz
    5. Fedor Emilianenko

    EDIT: Changed mine, **** it, Nick Diaz is making it in and goes ahead of Fedor.
     
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    Painful list to make by the way. Sadly, my favourite MMA guys missed out by a hair.
     
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  14. the_bigunit

    the_bigunit Well-Known Member Full Member

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    1a. Saul Alvarez
    1b. Cain Velasquez
    1c. Michael McDonald

    I don't even wanna mention anymore because they'll definitely be huge ommissions.

    I will say, in an openweight fantasy tournament; Aleksandr Karelin walks away the champion, 10 out of 10 times.
     
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  15. Peter__1987

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    1/ Muhammad Ali
    2/ Mike Tyson
    3/ Anderson Silva
    4/ Nick Diaz
    5/ Lennox Lewis
     
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