And indika, can you please post a video to Fedor beating Barnett? No? Oh the fight hasnt occurred, yet you have already given fedor a W vs barnett? typical fedor fan statement, and exactly the reason i get angry at this stuff…Yes Mir beat Brock…a lot of good that did him seeing as though Brock has the hardware…And according to your logic, with Mir saying fedor would beat him, but kill brock…Fedor said in an interview he wasnt the best in the world…so i guess thats gospel now all the sudden and we dont need to include him in P4P discussion? As for him beating Barnett…I would take Fedor winning that fight…that being said, i would not put a w on his record until they raise his hand, because for all i know Barnett throws one punch and fluffs fedors pillow…nobody is going to know till they fight.

now on to the fight.

while fedor visually looked concerned, nervous, scared, worried w/e you want to call it, you never know what is going on in a fighters mind. people play hurt, and then strike. In my opinion, fedor seems to be the best mental fighter in mma today. He doesn’t panic, and he didn’t against arlovski’s quicker jabs. AA however, was not dominating anything. I did not see fedor go down, i did not see him hurt i saw him knock AA out.

Another “w” in fedor’s record, and to be honest, for those who discredit Fedor for fighting poor quality opponents, go on you tube and watch anderson silva get submitted, or GSP submitted, go and try and find fedor ever really losing a match. not going to happen. i am not saying fedor is the best (im canadian and a huge gsp fan) but the fact remains is that he is essentially unbeaten, while all others have lost.

And i have never been a fan of/understood the phrase “pound for pound”. GSP V Penn should have no bearing on p4p rankings because its not pound for pound, its GSPs weight class….P4P sounds to me like open weight competition…Royce Gracie in the early UFC was P4P best cause he beat guys who were outside his weightclass. Id take Brock or Fedor by murderdeathkill over GSP or Penn if that were the case…
Someone please briefly explain…

One of the reasons I don’t bet. My fighter sprains his ankle and loses the fight and I’m out a ridiculous amount of money.

Worthless opinions since I didn’t bet money:
Fedor has shown he is human before. He’s been rocked (once) been taken down and mounted, slammed, suplexed, beaten to the punch, and had subs thrown at him. But in this fight, just as in the others, he persevered. For Arlovski to have won, he would have needed to be more than bigger, stronger and faster. He needed an IRON chin, as well as superior grappling, submission and GNP defense. The fact that throwing one flying knee amounts to a “critical error” tells me a lot about how this fight probably would’ve gone had that knee never been thrown. I don’t like to deal with unknowns, but this doesn’t seem like that much of an unknown for some reason.

That was the truest statement ever made in the comments.

Re: the debate on Randy and Fedor, some other facts:

- Randy’s record: 16-9.
- Fedor’s 29-1.
– 20 out of the 29 wins were in ROUND ONE
– 2 more were submissions within 1:15 of round two.
– the remainder were all UNANIMOUS decisions.

Cheap opinions:
Fedor is clearly the best ever. However, without Arlovski’s critical error, KO by Fedor was not a foregone conclusion. Arlovski showed Fedor is “human” more than before. Imho, Arlovski was the first fighter Fedor has fought who was bigger, stronger AND faster. Every other opponent had only 2 out of the 3.

If that’s the way you really see things, I’d bet money that you have a tenuous grip on reality. No I wouldn’t, because I don’t gamble.

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Because I’m not a gambler, know absolutely nothing about betting, and have no desire to do so. Though if I were a degenerate gambler, I’d imagine that the Fedor fight was the closest to a sure thing you can get without fixing a fight.

Just curious, those who do bet on these events – How much money would it have taken to win $50,000 on Fedor?