Fedor is the GOAT, but he is right, it is time to retire now...

...the Fedor of a few years ago would've brutalized Bigfoot.

But at his age and with the wars and the damage he has suffered throughout his career, he isn't going to roll over superheavyweights the size of Bigfoot and Overeem now (apparently Silva was 285lbs by fight time?).

Considering all that Fedor has done for the sport, I don't think anyone really wants to see him get KTFO, like Big Nog did against Mir & Velasquez, and Crocop did against Mir.

It's time to retire, and enjoy his legacy as the greatest MMA fighter of all-time. :happy




PS: Congratulations to Bigfoot, he was excellent on the night, great performance.

 

Mate the world has moved on from this semi pro type of athletes.

The new generation of fighters are always going to be better.

 

It seems appropriate that the contribution of "the beaver" has indeed been the expected output from a hairy fanny, ie: pish.

 

Very interested in hearing why you thing the old guard like Fedor would be regarded as a “semi-pro”. Fedor actually started in combat sport at an early age going from top line Judo, and top line Sambo and into MMA. Some guys nowdays have been plucked from obscurity in terms of previous combat sports experience i.e. Brock Lesnar. Some have even been plucked from reality shows.

Fedor when he started he already had the full arsenal at his disposal, with top striking and submission game as well as the cardio to last the whole fight. Some of these so called “elite new breeds” look more amateurish than Fedor when he started. In my opinion it was very amateurish of Carwin to gas out in the first 4 minutes of round 1 (in a 5 round fight) and was very amateurish of Brock to run away from punches. Mental strength is also something that sets professionals from amateurs, even loosing we all saw the mental strength Fedor had after being peppered with those treasure chest sized hands of Bigfoot.

Finally many of the fighters still relevant today were there in the old days, the only difference is that they started off later. The main difference between Fedor and someone like Werdum or Overeem is really age. Age catches up with every fighter, it happened in the past, its happening to Fedor and will happen to these “new breeds”.

 

This so called evolution of MMA sickens me, this is pretty much the same garbage that happened in days gone by. People relied on weight over skill and experience, what you get is something like Brock and Carwin and Mir.

Prior to Fedor it was Igor battling against giants. I can assure you that this cycle will begin again when another dominant small guy steps up who can use his speed, timing, skill and experience.

Put it this way in the HW division the most dominant in the history of MMA has ALWAYS been the smaller guys. This is even happening in boxing where you get someone like PacMan who uses his skills, experience, speed, endurance and precision instead of relying on brute strength and size.

The reason why GIANTS aren’t dominating the sport of MMA and Boxing is because its far easier to eventually counter and learn how to fight against these giants.