UFC Fight Night 142: Junior dos Santos vs. Tai Tuivasa & Maurício Rua vs. Tyson Pedro RBR

I'll favor most of the top-15 in the LHW division against post-2011 Shogun. First complete humiliation when he fought Jones, and then he lost a war against Hendo. Haven't been the same since.

From his recordlist i could imagine prime Shogun was from 04-09 or something like that. I didn't follow the sport back in the pride-days.

 

For what it's worth, I still think even this version of Shogun would give the current Sam Alvey that work. He would chase that man down just like Little Nog did!

It's the entire practice of feeding vastly faded greats to up-and-comers -- and people acting like it actually means anything when the young lion wins -- that I don't like. I still think UFC will try and feed Little Nog to Smith at some point.

 

Smith is likely past that stage right now. But if he fights Jones, Gus or even Reyes he prob gets a reality check, and might look for another way past-prime HOF to build a winning streak.

 

I don't rate the post Pride Rua that highly at all,apart from a couple of fights in the UFC he just never was able to get to that level again seemingly always carrying some kind of injury, never being able to string any more then 2 wins together

 

Sure I agree totally and it's that bad that this shell of what was Rua would have likely been fighting for a title if he had beaten Smith in his last fight.