Now keep in mind, in order to evaluate the level of competition a fighter has faced, we can only judge them by their ranking at the time of the fight.

And that includes a two-year layoff following the end of Pride FC, which was completely out of his control.

Lots of people bash opponents like Pavel Nastula, Hidehiko Yoshida, and Mark Hunt, but these are true veterans of the fight game. True legends of their respective disciplines. As much as you people want to deny it, Nastula and Hunt in particular were some of the best newcomers that MMA has ever seen. In their first few fights, they fought more talent than most fighters ever see in their career. And both performed admirably, even if they lost. People who shit on these types of opponents simply dont have proper respect or knowledge of the game.

Perhaps I should head back to BloodyElbow where people still appreciate a differing of opinions. People need to understand that these kinds of arguments is what serve to pull in traffic to blogs such as these. If I’m going to be flamed for giving out my opinions, I have no problem going somewhere more civil. The Sherdog mentality has truly taken over here at FightOpinion.

Thanks to Gaijin for being civil and contributing to the discussion. I hope you get your account of at BE.

“There was a two year stretch that made many doubt if he [Fedor] was the top heavyweight in the world.”

Yeah, and those were people like you. And you were wrong! People like me didn’t doubt that he was the top HW in the world, and we were right. How is this you defending yourself? It should be you accepting that you have bad judgement.

Best XPW memory was at some party at the Viper room in Hollywood I saw New Jack punch a guy with the hand he was holding a beer mug with…like the beer mug was a pair of brass knuckles.

“This is insane. Barnett refused the Fedor fight in 2006 because he fought a total of SEVEN TIMES that year, including two fights against Nog and one against CroCop.”

Not to nitpick, but they wanted him to fight Fedor on NYE…Barnett took the 2nd Nog fight instead.

FightOpinion = Sherdog

This is just depressing.

I’ll check back sometime in 2009 and hopefully by then, sad jokes like kelvin, jr and cyph will have migrated their comments over to the forum where they’re more well suited.

Zach, keep up the good work, and the daily posts are awesome as always.

Peace out.

“Affliction is the XPW of MMA”

XPW was around longer than Affliction ever will be. And Lizzy Borden was much better looking than Tom Atencio!