Never had a boring fight that I can remember. Those were the days.
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I just threw it out there, I’ve never made a list but he’d be up there
Fedor
Cro Cop
Big Nog
Werdum
Barnett
Couture
Cain
Overeem
Sylvia
Arlovski
Mir
That’s off the top of my head and I’m unable to think of anyone else right now without checking records
I have no idea what order you’d put those guys in outside of Fedor but you also have guys like Stipe, JDS DC, Francis, etc… who were all UFC champs, I guess you’d have to put most of them ahead of Mir. I was thinking skill wise but I don’t think he fought enough to keep up resume wise
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I wonder how a prime Tim Sylvia would do in today’s hvwt division?
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I think people either don’t know or underestimate the amount of damage his crash caused.
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This is hilarious, his kids also believed his brain-damaged bullshit
That’s why it was so terrifying, short range arm punches were giving frank whiplash!
Its funny I rooted against him every fight and now I miss that handsome bastard.
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Time to end this suffering
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Oldie
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Seems like dirty boxing is dead now. Hook uppercut was so pretty and devasting to watch.
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It’s really weird imo to put your dad’s health issues out there like that. Between her and her mom it appears they have a couple nutcases in the Mir family.
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I watched a video not long ago on the heavyweight division and how he was the first plodding sprawl and brawler and how he could still run shit.
If he had speed 100 percent he could
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I remember the Carwin stoppage being bad. Mir took 4 or 5 hard hooks while being face down when Shane had back mount. Pretty sure Mir was out after the first one or two
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That’s a good list.
I wasn’t necessarily disagreeing, just clarifying what you meant.
I’d have to think about it for a while.
I’ve never really tried to rank a top 10 HW list.
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Should be expected when you get into the strawberry stealing business.
I think it was largely matchup based.
Mir had problems with powerful/aggressive fighters who could force his back to the cage.
He’s better out in space, where he wants to end up in transition on the ground, and his opponent might give him something to capitalize on.
He was a brilliant submission finisher, if not really the best all around grappler.
He also developed pretty good “technical brawling” later in his career.
But vs guys who were powerful and aggressive from the clinch, he was apt to be exposed.
Guys like Barnett and Fedor were always going to beat him.
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Barnett trained Freeman to beat his brakes in right?
Indeed
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Barnett was so good.
It’s too bad his prime was kind of derailed by failed tests.
Big strong guy. Solid everywhere. Could be vicious from the clinch.
I think he gets a little underrated.
And he had no business losing to Rothwell.
I bet he’d like to have that one back.