What are some boomer MMA takes that you would still defend as true?

[TheTickG]

"Shertards with join dates after 2004 can't make threads".

FTFY

 

[Iroh]

Face The Pain should return.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

Most of you are TUF noobs.

Says the 2006 join date when TUF started in 2005!

I had watched UFC sporadically before TUF started but TUF got me hooked.

 

[kellier]

I can see Fedor subbing Francis tbh.

Armbar round 1

 

[d2s]

Pettis would have tooled Aldo for the title at 145
Holloway would have beaten Khabib at UFC 223

 

[mjfan23]

You got them all wrong

Fedor would have Zulu’d or Timmeh’d Francis

Matt Hughes after a country breakfast would have slammed Usman

prime LW Bj Penn would beat Fedor in an open weight GP

 

[KungFuCow]

idk I get the feeling francis doesnt like getting hit and his ground game is pretty weak compared to fedor. I'm not saying prime fedor would steam roll him but he hung with crocop and out grappled randleman. I feel like fancis would have only really had a "punchers chance" and I cant really see him being able to stop prime fedor from getting him to the ground.

I believe Lesnar would have beaten Fedor. I think Couture probably could have. I dont want to say that Pride was overrated but it was sketchy and had a lot of favorable matchups. I do think at the time, tho, Fedor was the best HW on the planet but I think he carried that mantle a lot longer than he should have.

 

[KungFuCow]

You got them all wrong

Fedor would have Zulu’d or Timmeh’d Francis

Matt Hughes after a country breakfast would have slammed Usman

prime LW Bj Penn would beat Fedor in an open weight GP

I dont see why you think Hughes would beat Usman. I hate Usman but I dont see any way he loses that fight.

 

[mjfan23]

I dont see why you think Hughes would beat Usman. I hate Usman but I dont see any way he loses that fight.

Yet you see lw penn beating Fedor lol

 

[jooohnmatrix]

Prime Fedor would have had Francis’s back and choked him out within the first round. Only heavyweight I think would have beaten him in his prime was Cain.

 

[Bob Sagat]

prime fedor
prime bj

That PRIDE fc was the epitome of sports combat entertainment.

fucking this

also kevin randleman is still, to this day, the greatest athletic specimen to exist in mixed martial arts

 

[eiyuu]

Rickson by armbar

 

[Elvis.]

Sakuraba vs Rickson is the biggest fight that never happened

 

[Superman Elbow]

I believe Lesnar would have beaten Fedor. I think Couture probably could have. I dont want to say that Pride was overrated but it was sketchy and had a lot of favorable matchups. I do think at the time, tho, Fedor was the best HW on the planet but I think he carried that mantle a lot longer than he should have.

Brock didnt bring anything to the table that Randalman didnt bring also brock reacted horribly to getting hit, fedor would have made him panic. Plus brocks only game was to wrestle, fedor would have subbed him.

 

[mkt]

Shogun with healthy knees was the best fighter at 205.

Nope. Prime Jones eats him alive still. He could've had fully functioning titanium knees and Jones would've destroyed him when they fought.

 

[Ozze]

Anything Pride related was better than UFC. The fights, the fighters, the production, the music, and so on.

 

[MMonk]

Nope. Prime Jones eats him alive still. He could've had fully functioning titanium knees and Jones would've destroyed him when they fought.

How about that Hess and Belfort rematch?

I still remember him promising to KTFO Vitor faster than Vitor did him.

I strated watching MMA and reading Sherdog in 2004 , unlike most ya TUF noobs

 

[MMonk]

And yes, Fedor in his prime would go through UFC HW div like a hot knife through butter.

 

[AfroBanana]

Most of you are TUF noobs.

Came here to post this. I get a chuckle anytime I see this because TUF noobs are like middle aged now and that was nearly 20 years ago. Literally new generations of fans have emerged since.

 

[KungFuCow]

Brock didnt bring anything to the table that Randalman didnt bring also brock reacted horribly to getting hit, fedor would have made him panic. Plus brocks only game was to wrestle, fedor would have subbed him.

Respect to Randleman but he did not have the wrestling chops Brock does. Also, while Brock doesnt like to get hit, he's been in there with some hard puchers.

In a ring, maybe Fedor. In a cage, he gets Donkey Kong'd against the cage like Frank Mir.

None of the Pride guys that came to the UFC did real well. That oughta tell you something.