Since 2006 who has had better wins than Fedor? Not just one-off, but over-all. ie Who has compiled a better resume of wins?
nobody has and nobody will, look at Lesnar his second mma fight he was fighting Mir, Cain and Dos Santos will never get easy fights again. Fedor has a long resume with alot of quality fighters but it's also litered cans as well, that doesn't happen much these days especially in the UFC. His best wins were over Nog and CC my question is who do think his 3rd best win was?
GSP comes in the closest and spider silva. Wins over hughes 2x-bj penn 2x koscheck 2x -serra-fitch-alves-hardy..pretty impressive. franklin 2x-marquardt-lutter-henderson-irvin-leites-griffin-maia-sonnen-belfort pretty impressive
I was thinking HW, but as for quality GSP and Anderson have better quality. it's Tougher for a HW to go undefeated as long as Fedor did though
Forget the pre-2006 fedor. If he'd fought Mir, Couture and Cain would his ATG status have been increased?
Of course, but he didn't so it's a would have could have should have, but he took an easier road. where Anderson and GSP didn't cherrypick.
Are we talking about Fedor's post 2006 resume vs any other fighter since 2006 ? Fedor has a good but overated resume.
I see what you are saying. The Nogueira and Cro Cop wins are what makes Fedor great. Without them, his resume isn't any better than what Nogueira's or Cro Cops would be had the 3 not faced each other. Cro Cop has 3 wins over Barnett. Had Cro Cop never faced Nogueira and Fedor, we may be arguing him as the greatest ever.
It's a difficult question to answer. Coleman? Coleman was 40 years old, and had left the UFC on a 3 fight losing streak before ever going to Pride. Can you argue Herring over Coleman because of his age? Sylvia? Sylvia went the distance with Couture, but didn't win a minute of that fight. Randleman, Arlovski, Rogers...
Fedor's best wins probably look something like this: 1. Nog I 2. Nog III 3. Cro Cop 4. Arlovski 5. Sylvia 6. Herring 7. Randleman 8. Coleman 9. Rogers 10. Arona or Babalu