1 Fedor Emelianenko 2 Josh Barnett 3 Frank Mir 4 Brock Lesnar 5 Andrei Arlovski 6 Randy Couture 7 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 8 Shane Carwin 9 Tim Sylvia 10 Aleksander Emelianenko
If we're using the common opponents as a measuring stick - shouldn't Arlovski be way down below Silvia - the man who twice defeated him?
It's pretty well know that Aleksander Emelianenko has Hepatitis and as such he will never again fight another top fighter. I would replace him with Junior dos Santos.
Look at what Overeem did last year in MMA (Kick boxing Doesn't count). Beat Tae Hyun Lee - Record 1 - 2 Beat Mark Hunt - Record 5 - 5 No Contest Crocop Beat Goodridge - over the hill, on 4 fight losing streak Now dos Santos Beat Geronimo 10 - 7 Beat Werdum 11 - 4 - 1 Beat Struve 16 - 3
Struve is ****. Geroniwho? As far as I'm concerned Werdum was a lucky win until he beats someone that is of that level again. Much like Paulo Thiago. Overeem - OK Lee, i have no idea who he is, but Mark Hunt is a very tough man to beat, better than any on Santos' resume except Werdum. He was beating the **** out of CroCop till it was stopped and ok Goodridge is over the hill but he is still a good competitor IMO. And if you go slightly further back he beat Buentello for the Strikeforce belt. Santos is on that list because of one punch, that's it.