Fedor has a record of 31 matches with 29 wins, that’s a win percentage of 93%, so just do yourself a favor and learn math you complete moron Stratas.

BTW 93% > 85% (you jerkoff loser Stratas)

yes i agree with the above question posed:
who IS better based on opponents defeated and few losses

NOG has a great record record
if you factor in their current form that’s another thing.
if you factor in how they’d match up against fedor that’s another

arlovski look hot now,

barnett seems like a tough match for fedor,

brock is not top 5 and i dont think he could beat:
werdum, fedor, barnett,gonzaga,kongoof late,arlovski of late, a fit version of aleks and others:
but he has a good chance against fedor especially if he continues to improve – right now he’d get out striked, and subbed but wouls possibly be able to neo-hammer house toss around fedor for a while, he’s gas too – so hmm, unless he could finish fedor with side control; knees in rnd 1 – forget.

oh damn, maybe fedor is no. 1

Just FYI: I haven’t discussed P4P rankings (which are very subjective), I talked about HW rankings. And I still haven’t heard NAME of fighter, that should be ranked higher than Fedor in HW. Other thing is, that as a HW, could be described as a most dangerous on the planet, but that still doesn’t mean, that we are talking about P4P.

BTW: Interesting, and often overlooked fact is, that P4P king and spectacular fighter A. Silva is walking around 215 lb., cutting down to 185 and basically beats down opponents, who are always smaller. Fedor is around 230, majority of his fights is against larger opponents (yeah, Lindland is exception) and he also fought a lot of SHW’s.

Lindland is a game opponent indeed, for people in his own weight-division.

Mark Coleman was toyed by other HWs.

CroCop had the chance to go for the kill against Fedor and didn’t take it (granted, that’s his problem). After that fight, he kept getting exposed.

So, yeah…I’m with people who say Fedor has to face the top dawgs out there, before being able to figure among the top P4P fighter in the world today.

And about your list:
Tim Sylvia – very good scalp. TOP5 when he fought Fedor, now still TOP10. former UFC champ.
Hong Man Choi – very, very dangerous freakshow. I think about half of top HW’s would have great problems with him (if he shows up like against Fedor, not like with CroCop on this NYE)
Matt Lindland (MW) – game opponent
Mark Hunt – good opponent (great striker). former K-1 champ
Mark Coleman – very good opponent at that time, TOP10 then I think, former UFC champ.
Zuluzinho – freakshow
Mirko CroCop – very good opponent. Probably #2 then, at the absolute peak of his game. Fedor’s loss was his downfall.
Kohsaka – game opponent.

So, we have: 1 or two freakshows, 2-3 normal opponents and 3-4 TOP 10 guys.

He actually fights credible opponents more often, than he gets credit for, because people tends to look at his record with current POV, where CroCop, Coleman, Nog and others are looking like washed up old boys, but problem is, that Fedor defeated all of them when they still were great. You know. He was the champ. Contenders are on the top of their game. (superfights and freakshows aside…).

BTW: 86-15 is actually lot worse, than 28-1 (especially level of competetion taken into the account), so Dan Severn/Jeremy Horn argument is not really good one.

But as I said: Enough of my praise of Fedor. Who do YOU think is the best right now? (I hope you won’t use Couture or Nog, that would be pretty stupid), which basically lefts us with either Lesnar or Mir. Do you really want to say something like that? (I have pretty good opinion about both of them, especially Mir with his latest showing, but come on….)

Since 2005 these are the guys that Fedor has defeated;

Tim Sylvia
Hong-Man Choi
Matt Lindland
Mark Hunt
Mark Coleman
Zuluzinho
Mirko Cro Cop
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

Which fighter(s) in this group would you consider contributed to your assesment that Fedor is the best Heavyweight out there today?

And if we were to go by your train of thought that the win/loss record defines the best fighters out there, then wouldn’t you have to consider Dan Severn the best HW out there or of all time? He has an 86-15 record! And while Fedor has amassed an “incredibly impressive” 8-0 record since 2005, Severn has a 20-4 record…….and I doubt that Fedor could even get close to Severn’s MMA record.

It’s not how many fights you have, it’s who you fight that counts and Fedor hasn’t fought anyone credible in the last 4 years!

You still think he’s the best HW out there?

Of course, in majority of weightclasses, it is really about coming to UFC and proving yourself, but not in HW.

Back in the days, Pride had undoubtedly best HW division in the world and Nogueira was the undisputed king. Then Fedor came (thru Schilt and Herring) and conquered Nogueira to be the king. From that point, Fedor ruled the division and defeated all who came (Fujita, Goodridge, Coleman, Randleman, Nog again, Kohsaka, CroCop, Hunt, etc. etc…) most of that guys in their peaks.

And when you have Nog as a champ in UFC, it is quite clear, what the level is right now. After last week, we can speculate about Mir, maybe Couture, or Lesnar (which is basically a classical freakshow that Pride had a lot and should be noted, that Fedor already defeated 4 opponents that are somewhat bigger or heavyier or on par with Brock)

Fedor is, quite without a doubt greatest heavyweight ever and will be for a long, long time. Nobody is really in position to take on his record. Lesnar would need like 20 straight wins, to be just talked about in the same sentence.

How long Fedor will be TOP heavyweight right now (I guess he can make it for another year or two) is whole another question, but frankly: He is so far ahead, that even loss to Arlovski or another loss or two shouldn’t make that much of a difference. His record is basically 28:0 and 2 NC’s (or 1 loss, 1 NC, if you want it really official for that matter, it isn’t really that important or point here) That is, as far as I know second BEST record in all the martial arts. (Only BW champ Torress from WEC has like 34-1).

Fedor fights from year 2000. If you count fights from year 2000 for all the important fighters in HW division, you will found out, that Fedor fights a LOT more than Couture, Arlovski and has more fights than Barnett. Nog has like 2 fights more, also Sylvia has few more and just for information: Herring has a lot more. So, Fedor has been tested a lot and lot of great names were tested less.

Also, you can speculate on number of “good opponents” he faced, but truth is only two guys comparable by opponent faced are Couture (with a lot less fights and also a lot of stellar starpower in LHW division) and Nog.

If you sums it up, it is all very, very clear Dana is IMO very, very stupid when he says thing like that, because it lowers his credibility a lot and he cannot really gain anything by this. Also, for the record: Fedor in UFC right now is a nonsense (for Fedor). We’ll see after another year or two, but right now, he would be idiot to be there.

j/k

… about the not reading comments part, not the “kyfightfan” is an annoying toolbag” part.

viva la fedor!

The point is that there is a reason to be skeptical about Fedor because these were the people he was beating.

I still think Fedor is the best HW in the world, but that is because of his skill set and his ability to stay healthy.

Dana, you and your comments are a joke.