Fedor... Best MMA Fighter of All Time?

[Mulletsoldier]

if i could take your woods/nicklaus analogy in a different direction for a second. for example Bonds/Ruth. Obviously if Bonds went back in time to the Babes day he would kick the **** out of the Babe. But the Babe is still generally classifiied as the greatest of all time because he was so far ahead of the competition. name another 10 other players from the Ruth era. Because you cant do that doesn't mean they sucked. The babe was just that much better. now if you can apply that to Hughes. he was so far ahead of everybody else that during his time period nobody else meant ****. He beat the competition. which is what fedor, silva and GSP are doing now. However i will most definetely change my opinion on this matter probably within a few years but up until this point in time, i think in the very short history of mma, that Hughes has been the best. once these guys like fedor, silva and GSP get their records up their and their careers lenghten i will certainly change my stance.

at any rate, i believe your analysis of fedor being the best of all time will turn out to be true. i guess, i will agree to kinda disagree.

Well, obviously that analogy is somewhat of a stretch. With Woods/Nicklaus and Hughes/Fedor, the generational gap was much less. The other issue is that baseball is too variable to compare - as is Football - due to the positional nature of the sport. With a Babe/Bonds comparison, you are not merely comparing hitting prowess, but necessarily the pitching power, and fielding ability of every other team. Golf is somewhat more direct as while the technology has changed, it is still direct competition between yourself and a course, with an added variable of competitors.

Like CEMO said, Fedor and Hughes fought in the exact same era, and Hughes was exposed as a one-trick pony. He was utterly and completely dismantled by GSP twice, BJ beat him once, and was destroying him for the second time before breaking a rib.

 

[robdog]

If Dana wants to keep giving anderson the p4p he should make a catch fight of 220 happen for anderson and fedor(I'm sure he could get down to 220 if he tried) and all would be revealed.

Have you seen all the discussion about this topic lately on other sites? I cant believe so many people believe that Silva could beat Fedor. Its ridiculous. That fight would be a beatdown.

 

[jas123]

BJ beat him once, and was destroying him for the second time before breaking a rib.

Destroying him? Or falling into his trap. :head: Hughes is way up there but not the GOAT and I am a Hughes fan.

 

[CryingEmo]

If Dana wants to keep giving anderson the p4p he should make a catch fight of 220 happen for anderson and fedor(I'm sure he could get down to 220 if he tried) and all would be revealed.

Nah he's just going to make Silva fight Patrick Cote, and the probably Leben or Okami, while Fedor fights Arlovski and Barnett.