What does a grappling match with 3-time ADCC champion Ricardo Arona have to do with Francis Ngannou?
In this era heavy weight are 250 pounds fit monster that could kill you with a slap, that's what happening.
Nobody is going to take down and magically submit Miocic, Velasquez, Werdum, Overeem, Ngannou, this isn't the fantasy world.
i dont think Ngannau is a easy fight for anyone but Fedor certainly had the skillset and speed and power to have his way with him.
Not to mention Heath Herring came to the UFC in 2007, far past his best days of 2001 and 2002, and was able to beat this "great UFC fighter" Cheick Kongo in 2008.
Kongo is most famous for his war with Barry, dropping Cain multiple times, and kneeing Mirko in the balls 100 times.
Fujita was a national champion wrestler with an iron chin, extremely powerful and nonstop motor. He was never an easy fight.
It ended up being an extremely entertaining fight.
Not if he were to faceI'm sure we will have more than 4 gifs of Ngannou losing by the time he reaches his 40th fight.
Oh wow, so if MMA news says so it must be true, and he's wasn't a total can either. Pathetic.And you know MMA history and who was in top 10 at what point in time?
Fedor - Fujita fight was on June 8, 2003.
MMA News:
May 4, 2003
1. Emelianenko Fedor
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Josh Barnett
4. Tim Sylvia
5. Heath Herring
6. Ricco Rodriguez
7. Wesley Correira
8. Gan McGee
9. Frank Mir
10. Kazuyuki Fujita
https://web.archive.org/web/20030601122330/http://www.mmanews.com:80/rankings/index.shtml
Fedor was a -1100 favourite, Rampage raced out of his backstage medicals in his own words so he could watch an ass kicking, and the commentators literally joked at the touch of gloves that that was the only punch Fujita would land all night.
Just stop with the revisionist history. It was a complete joke of a fight and everybody was treating it as such.
It was a joke of a fight and literally everybody at the time treated it as such. I already proved that. Stop trying to rewrite history just because Fedor had a harder time than expected.
The Pride commentators weren't exactly known for looking up to pro wrestlers though bar Sakuraba and Fujita was also an outsider who hadn't fought in Pride since 2001.
The reality is I'd say that Fujita was a credible opponent but not one of the very top HW's of the era.
Fedor was a -1100 favourite. It wasn’t just the commentators expecting a slaughter.
rofl... imagine the uproar if Stipe fought a Fujita today.The reality is I'd say that Fujita was a credible opponent
A combination of Fedor's status and again a certain underestimation of Fujita I would say.
By comparison GSP was a -1300 favourite over Matt Serra yet still lost although I do think a somewhat similar situation with Serra being a bit underrated because we'd not seen much of his latter career power standing.
Both Fedor and GSP should have been big favourites but not to that degree if the bookies/fans had a better view of their opponents.
A gimmie fight to me is something like Fedor fighting Nagata, Fujita like Serra is I think a game opponent capable of an upset. If you fight such fighters often one or two of them having inspired/lucky moments becomes more likely.
rofl... imagine the uproar if Stipe fought a Fujita today.
Serra was also a joke of a fight. The opponent doing better than expected doesn’t suddenly change that.
lol please dude, just stop.Fujita today though would I think likely be a top 10 HW, Goodridge probably as well.
lol please dude, just stop.