Fedor vs Arona in PRIDE is a completely different fight. In RINGS, there was no ground strikes to the head, you could only hit to the body or grapple if you were on the ground. Simply attempting submissions, regardless of how unlikely they were, was prioritized in the scoring.
Do you have an explanation as to how he manages to evade USADA all the years?
The PEDs argument comes mostly from the GSP fanbase, a bunch of purists with idealists views about the worldBones popped so he's not the GOAT? That's nonsense.
Jon Jones is the best fighter of the 2010s, and he's in the conversation with Fedor (the GOAT of the 2000s) for the best fighter ever.
Bones popped for PEDs 9 years after his first MMA fight and in the meantime defended the LHW belt 8 times and destroyed some huge names like Bader, Shogun, Rampage, Machida, Belfort, etc.
Just because somebody popped for PEDs in one match can not be an argument to discriminated their amazing achievements.
Anybody watching Bones in the early 2010s clearly remembers the sheer violence this guy did with his wrestling & GNP.
These are facts.
He's good at it?
So every muscular guy is on roids but is good at hiding it. I see
BS, Hendricks also was robbed against him, GSP fanboys are the worst, completely irrational
The only reason people ever gave a shit about Hendricks was because he knocked out Fitch.
Lol, you guys only like GSP because of the nice guy persona and forget how much of a decision machine he was, pathetic. Be a man
I don’t think that’s fair to say about Hendricks. He also sparked out Kampmann that way, and went into the GSP fight on a 6-fight win streak that included Fitch, Kampmann, Koscheck, and Condit. That’s a pretty solid run.
Oh it was a good run i agree wholeheartedly. Maybe I've always been a bit of a Hendricks hater because he sparked my boy Kampmann who I thought was an exciting striker in a wrestler dominant division.
I’m not really a Hendricks fan either lol. He just seemed so douchey. But whether it was USADA or some other thing, he sure seemed to fall off a cliff. Hendricks at his best was a very tough fighter though.
I think it was the IV ban. Hendricks had a terrible diet and self control self admittedly.
That’s a good point about the IV ban, you could very well be right.
I'm convinced. The IV ban went into effect October of 2015. Hendricks had only one fight at WW making weight after where he looked slow and drained against Wonderboy and got a foot up his ass. Misses weight against Gastelum (imagine being thr guy that misses weight the one time Kelvin makes it) and Magny, goes up to MW, misses weight in his second MW fight. He went from holding a divisional title to being utterly incapable of making not only that divisions weight, but only a 66% rate (admittedly low sample size) of making weight for the division above only two years later. There were cope excuses that he "never mentally recovered" from being robbed against GSP even though he won the title in his next fight lol.
Costa is one of the most tested fighters in the UFC.
Have we forgotten about Grease-gate? We have evidence that GSP is a cheater too. Goes into a fight against BJ lathered up like he's about to star in a porn flick so BJ couldn't grab him.
