Who's the P4P best fighter in the world?

atsch
Big Nog - in his prime, the 2nd greatest heavyweight ever in MMA
Crocop- in his prime at the time it was fedor-big nog-crocop were the top 3 heavyweights in the world
Arlovski- former ufc champ
Sylvia-former ufc champ
Coleman-past prime but still former ufc champ
Randleman-former ufc champ
Herring-fujita-ogawa-goodrich-hunt-lindland etc were solid heavyweights

 

What top guy had Herring ever beat ? Ogawa was medicore, Goodrich got ****ing wrecked in just about every someone tough fight he was involved in during his Pride days, Lindland is a 185 pounder who was never even a Champion, Hunt was a good kickboxer but never a good MMA fighter.

 

Fedor, any nooby naysayers look here, it'll answer all your oh-so-common lame arguments.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/54789-the-top-10-myths-about-fedor-emelianenko

 

I aint got no beef with Fedor but dont show some of his weaker wins to prove how great his resume is.

 

He can't fight champions all the time. GSP didn't fight the best every time. Heiron-pete spratt-jason miller-koscheck-parisyan etc etc. Those are good wins just like the herring-ogawa-goodrich etc

By the way Heath Herring had some good wins

Evan Tanner Rip
Tom Erikson
Mark Kerr
Igor Vovchanchyn
Gan Mcgee
Goodridge
Cheick Kongo

 

Just awhole lot beter.

 

What sets Fedor at the top of the heap to this day is his undefeated record and the fact that he wrecked both Nogueira and Crocop who were tearing through everyone they faced at the time. Nogueira was submitting everyone and Crocop was knocking them all out. Fedor dominated them both at their best.

The problem Fedor now faces is that the heavyweight guard is changing and rather than keep up with the pack and face the new tough hungry challengers to his throne - he is feasting on a diet of less than worthy contenders. We'll just have to wait and see how the MMA landscape unfolds over the next year or two with regards to how it affects Fedor's status.

 

Fedor is not only the best MMA fighter in the world but also the best Sambo fighter.... says it all really.

 

yup he beat big nog and crocop in their primes. The crocop and big nog now is no where near they were when fedor destroyed them. As far as fedor not fighting the best right now, i can't really blame him. He wanted to go fight in the ufc but dana white is too damn greedy. Remember when he wanted to fight couture when he was the champ but white would not allow him to fight for only one fight.

I still hope fedor could fight the overrated brock lesnar so dana white can STFU.

 

For the moment, it has to be Fedor. He is the man on the throne, and there is no reason to dislodge him yet. Silva hasn't beaten enough quality names in the past year or so to justify it.

However, if Fedor continues to struggle for big name, top drawer competition, and Silva continues his run against the likes of Belfort, Henderson, Marquhart etc, we could see a changing of the guard soon.

GSP 3rd, Penn 4th, Machida 5th IMO. We have all the right men wearing the belts just now.

 

The **** is Machida doin on everyones top list. I swear the guy got a free pass to top ranks way before he even did ****. He keeps getting his top p4p status even though he hasn't even defending his ****ing title yet. Unbelievable.
For the sake of all that is reasonable I hope Shogun takes his ****ing head off. In fact Shogun has beaten more quality opponents than Machida has.

 

this is it.

fedor easily by competition and unbeatable record. but also php doesn't take into account the triumphs of how you take those victorys. all the stories and legend that comes with the fighter.

gsp is a super athlete with formidable wins but do you see him as a legend like fedor/ali?

 

Fedor.

 

Fedor by far.....

He first defeated Big Nog in approximately his 14th fight and was not even considered the best heavyweight by many. Machida has basically the same amount of fights and he is being considered pound for pound material. Ummmm K!!!


On a seperate note: If Rogers somehow defeats Fedor, this would rival if not surpass the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team defeating the Soviets. Except I was happy the U.S. won.


Five years before Ovechkin was born.....