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    Out of the 4 GOATS, is Fedor the only one who deliberately engaged his opponents at their strengths?

    Actually no. In the ring only Fedor and Hunt succeded, mostly becuse Cro Cop was tired as dog from jet lag and no sleeping in Fedor fight, and had 14 bouts from august 2003 - august 2005, so he gassed after 5 minutes; and in Hunt fight Mirko had temperature and foot so injured that he had to...
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    Prime Fedor simply had a level of athleticism that is still unmatched in HW MMA

    BS, you are calling ranked fighters who had good status at those historic times as cans; it is like I declare Rothwell, Kongo, Browne, Bigfoot, Nelson... cans. They are worth exactlly the same as their counterparts who had simillar status 20 years ago, if we compare fighters from different times...
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    Prime Fedor simply had a level of athleticism that is still unmatched in HW MMA

    Nonsense. You could say that for basically all UFC champs, that they lack signature wins of their period. Who did Cain beat apart from JDS and Lesnar? Who did Francis beat apart from Stipe and Gagnae? Who did JDS beat apart from Cain, Mir, Stipe and Werdum? etc... Cro Cop with 3 wins vs...
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    Prime Fedor simply had a level of athleticism that is still unmatched in HW MMA

    https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/%E2%AD%90tck-star-rating-system-the-heavyweights%E2%AD%90.4106864/
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    Underrated mma win streak of 37-0-1

    What makes Igor's streak it even more impressive is that he had so many BJJ black belts in that streak: Adilson Lima, Castelo Branco, Edson Carvalho, Francisco Bueno, Carlos Baretto, Akira Shoji. It was at the time when Brazilian jiu jitsu was seen as dominant force in MMA, mystic skill which...
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    Underrated mma win streak of 37-0-1

    Igor was 11-1 in Pride at one point, it is really too bad that Pride did not have belts in 1990s. He deserved to be a champion of something. Vovchanchyn managed to achieve that no. #1 ranking in the world, but a big recognizable belt is missing in his career, like Pride Grand Prix or Pride or...
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    How long does it really take an elite striker to train to crossover and dominate the sport of MMA?

    Cro Cop beat World amateur boxing HW champion Sinan Samil Sam of Turkey in Acropolis Cup in Greece in 1997. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Tournaments/AcropolisCup1997.html Mirko Filipovic boxed against some of the world's best amateur boxers of that time representing Croatia on international...
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    Prime Fedor simply had a level of athleticism that is still unmatched in HW MMA

    When they fought in 2004 Coleman was the MMA Goat candidate, having won 2 UFC tournaments, UFC HW belt and Pride 2000 Grand Prix. You could literally not find anybody with better resume than Coleman.
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    Why Couldn't Fedor Beat Bader?

    Sure, if they fought at those historic times with no weight limit, and if they beat HWs like Severn, Shamrock, Conan Silvera, Kimo Leopoldo, like they did, then they are legit HWs when we look at those historic times. And should be considered as good wins for HWs at those historic times, because...
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    Why Couldn't Fedor Beat Bader?

    Henderson is also HW, he won Rings HW tournament beating Minotauro, Yvel, Sobral. So he has legit HW results. Anyone who accepts fight at HW, or fight with no weight limit is automatically a HW.
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    Wanderlei Silva and CroCops lack of success in the UFC?

    Next to big mileage and injuries, Cro Cop and Wanderlei are quintessential examples of ring fighters, and ring is essential for their fighting style and success. No wonder that the purest ring fighters did not do that good in the cage. The key thing was that the ring, due to it's closing to...
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    Watching Pride: Final Conflict 2005 makes me realize how far MMA has evolved

    Those are Heavyweights who manage to cutt weight in modern UFC system because they fight only once-twice per year and have months to cutt weight. In Pride they would have to fight 4-5 times per year in tournamets and on 2 weeks notice, and they would have not be able to cutt weight becaue one's...
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    Mirko Cro Cop Was 2-6 In the USA and UK

    The same can be said for JDS, Cain, Arlovski, Overeem... when they got beaten by new stars of younger generaton like Ngannou, Blaydes, Gagne, Rozenstruik; making them essential part of their resumes.
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    How would Prime Fedor do against the current UFC HW division?

    Herring entered Top 10 media rankings before Barnett (2000 MMA Writers, Stephen quadros), Herring had his title fight before Barnett, 2001 vs 2002. So it can stand that Herring was the first modern evolved fighter, both big and good everywhere. There were of cours fighters with complete...
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    How would Prime Fedor do against the current UFC HW division?

    Herring was definitley a great fighter in Fedor's time, beeing ranked Top 3, and recently fought for Pride belt. Porhaps the first true evolved fighter with complete skillset, who could outgrapple strikers like Tuivasa, Rozenstruik and outstrike grapplers like Spivac or Blaydes. Lesnsar fight is...
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    Cro Cop, after far more dominant/illustrious kickboxing career than Izzy,showed decline by 29 fights

    Cro Cop fought boxing Olympic medailists and world champions during his amateur boxing career: Siraghei Liakhovich, Alexei Lezin, Sinan Samil Sam, Alexis Rubalcaba, Paolo Vidoz. Mirko has victory over World amateur boxing champion Sinan Samil Sam in 1997. Filipovic represtented his country on...
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    UFC/Pride Heavyweight Champions with least-to-most Top 10 ranked wins at Heavyweight.

    Cro Cop has 9 Top 10 wins. https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/top-10-wins-of-mma-fighters-list.3383459/ Fightmatrix you are using was founded in 2008, it did not exist in Pride times, and it has wrong backwards calculations. Authentic rankings from those times for Cro Cop's ranked wins: Fujita...
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    How special was Mirko Cro Cop?

    Not worse, specially in the term of status, than Gonzaga, Browne, Carwin, Bigfoot who count as Top 5 wins for other greats. They are simply new generation fighters who had benefit of a lot more being available to them on the silver platter than to the older generation, they were given the...
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    How special was Mirko Cro Cop?

    Cro Cop does not lack Top5 wins in comparision with other greats. Fujita and Herring were Top 5, same as Aspinall or Pavlovich are now who do not have that extensive careers, or Tuivasa and Lewis were in 2021-2022. And how would you treat if Gagne did managed to beat Jones, or Blachowicz's win...
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    How special was Mirko Cro Cop?

    Bleacher report and Tapology did not exist as rankings in Pride years before 2007. No they were not doing it at the same time. They just did it overally speaking during Pride years which is period of 5+ years. There was never more than 3-5 at the same time. One or two would stop and then few...
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