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well it is and i was born end of 80'syou're like those old guys saying that led zepplin era is the only real music worth listening
70's Music is just another Level.
well it is and i was born end of 80'syou're like those old guys saying that led zepplin era is the only real music worth listening
Moose is the #1 mw in the worldbro, pride has been dead for over 10 years....yet
3 former pride fighters still in top 6 at HW
Looks like Gus is leaving the UFC....shogun on a 3 fight win streak, ranked top 5...clear #1 contender if he beats No time
Moose is the #1 MW in the world
Pride didn't fw WW
Gil beat Josh Thompson who beat the uncrowned 155 champ Nate Diaz
Pride still rules
Rory vs Lawler get emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmIm getting old, and maybe I am making the same error of people looking back on their past with colored lenses, but I feel like BEST fighters from PRIDE is still as good as the best fighters from UFC now.
Fedor vs Stipe - Fedor in his prime >>>> A guy who got finished by Struve
Shogun vs Cormier, Shogun before knee surgeries, GP 05 Shogun was something else
Hendo vs Whitaker >>> H- Bomb or decision Dan...
No WW
Gomi vs Khabib ---- Bushido Gomi 05' was also something else....ended up on the pound for pound best ranking on Sherdog with Fedor....very few fighters ever do...surely not Khabib yet...
Convince me
Obviously the game has evolved since the Pride days. However, during that era, as a whole, Pride fighters were clearly better than UFC fighters. Not even close. That doesn't mean that some top UFC fighters like Chuck or Randy couldn't have had succes in Pride though.
Chuck got beat easily by Rampage though. Fedor was definitely better than any UFC HW of that era too.No they weren't . Pride rules and matchups made certain fighters look better than they were. Tito's victory over Wandy was no fluke. Wandy's career would look different if he never went to Japan. Forest and Gonzaga should have killed the Pride superiority myth as far as Im concerned.
Im getting old, and maybe I am making the same error of people looking back on their past with colored lenses, but I feel like BEST fighters from PRIDE is still as good as the best fighters from UFC now.
Fedor vs Stipe - Fedor in his prime >>>> A guy who got finished by Struve
Shogun vs Cormier, Shogun before knee surgeries, GP 05 Shogun was something else
Hendo vs Whitaker >>> H- Bomb or decision Dan...
No WW
Gomi vs Khabib ---- Bushido Gomi 05' was also something else....ended up on the pound for pound best ranking on Sherdog with Fedor....very few fighters ever do...surely not Khabib yet...
Convince me
I think usada kos most of them before they even make it to the cageIm getting old, and maybe I am making the same error of people looking back on their past with colored lenses, but I feel like BEST fighters from PRIDE is still as good as the best fighters from UFC now.
Fedor vs Stipe - Fedor in his prime >>>> A guy who got finished by Struve
Shogun vs Cormier, Shogun before knee surgeries, GP 05 Shogun was something else
Hendo vs Whitaker >>> H- Bomb or decision Dan...
No WW
Gomi vs Khabib ---- Bushido Gomi 05' was also something else....ended up on the pound for pound best ranking on Sherdog with Fedor....very few fighters ever do...surely not Khabib yet...
Convince me
Damage is irrelevant. Isn't a scoring criteria and you don't really need it to win a MMA fight. DC would run through PRIDE LHWs. All of them.You are underestimating the difficulty of fighting in PRIDE in the early days of MMA. The rules, the brutality of it, and the "vitamins" some fighters were taking. DC is clearly a better fighter than Coleman, but has he ever even come close to inflicting the kind of damage done by Coleman's knees???
Not even close. That has to be taken into account.
DC is an amazing fighter(easily 1 of the all-time greats) and Im a huge fan, but it isn't a foregone conclusion that he would run through the PRIDE LHW's. Many people today, underestimate the skill level of fighters from that era, and overestimate the skills of current MMA fighters.
No, it's not a freak accident. That shit fucking happens, it's a AMATEUR mistake to try stop a takedown using your arm, you have to accept and prepare yourself for the takedown if it's there, just last week 2 fighters broke their arms doing that stupid move. You clearly don't know what you're talking about by comparing it to having your leg broken by someone checking your kicks, something totally different..It's a freak accident...just like Anderson Silva broke his leg against Weidman....or i guess amatuerish mistakes that just leads to broken bones out of 100000000000000000+
Coleman actually has a better double leg.
Coleman has a silver at world level, Cormier has bronze.
Some of the Pride champions would be competetive top 5 probably but there's no way any of them would win and defend a UFC belt against todays lineup. People who believe differently must be stupid, because they have been watching MMA for over a decade and still have no idea about the sport.
Sorry, old dumb guys. You're wrong.
The production of a PrideFC show > SEG, zuffa and WME UFC.
Ufc looks like a b level org with their production. Pride legit looked like the premier MMA organization. They made their fighters seem larger than life. It was so much better.