How would a prime Tim Sylvia fair in the modern HW landscape?

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Who do you think he beats?

Champion : Daniel Cormier
1 Stipe Miocic
2 Derrick Lewis
3 Curtis Blaydes
4 Francis Ngannou
5 Alexander Volkov
6 Alistair Overeem
7 Junior Dos Santos
8 Mark Hunt
9 Marcin Tybura
10 Tai Tuivasa
11 Aleksei Oleinik
12 Andrei Arlovski
13 Stefan Struve
14 Shamil Abdurakhimov
15 Justin Willis
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I think he loses to Stipe but KOs everyone else

Way too tall for Cormier, DC would be punching vertically upwards while Tim would knee/uppercut his head into the 5th row.

DC might actually kill Timmy
 
maybe he could beat Justin Willis ,
everyone else from that list would stop Tim.
 
He had a jab and could stick to a gameplan so he'd still be floating in that 10-15 range in today's division.
 
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TOP 5 beats the shit outta Timmeh
 
His most difficult fights on that list would be DC, Blaydes and Hunt but i think he has a good chance beating everyone else.
 
With USADA around Sylvia gets rekt against any top 5 middleweight and 90% of LHWs, probably only has a lucky punch chance in HW.
 
Tim is one of the worst and weakest champ in ufc history. He would be lucky to crack top 8
 
Aside from that one KO over Arlovski Sylvia never really beat a legit HW.

He had a jab and could stick to a gameplan though so he'd still be floating in that 10-15 range in today's division.
He also beat prime Ricco, young Ben Rothwell, Assuerio Silva, Mike Whitehead 2x, Cabbage, Gan McGee, Tra Telligman, Jeff Monson, and others

The head kick KO over Tra was scary. Many thought Tra was dead.

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I think Timmeh competes with any HW on the roster today. Not because he was special, though I think his legacy is underappreciated. It's just that today's HW roster sucks ass. Not bashing, but it is what it is.
 
Is that the guy who a 50 year old Ray Mercer knocked out in one punch?
 

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