I know bugger all about Fedor but GSP hasn't really dominated anyone like Silva has been doing. I think he will have to defend his title a few more times to be considered the best pound for pound. If Silva steps up and beats some actual contenders at 205 then hands down he would have to be the best.
Is Fedor that good??????
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Silva still has chinks in his armor, even his victory over lutter wasn't exactly dominant, in fact, he looked like he was taking a pounding for a bit on the ground.
GSP has done a great job, and has beat everyone in front of him. His two blemishes were Hughes and Serra. He crushed both in the rematches and made them look like they didn't belong in the same ring as him. IMHO, he had a harder run in the welterweight division than Silva had at middleweight. Silva fought Leben, franklin, hnederson, lutter, mardquardtr and henderson. Tough competition to be sure. However, GSP beat karo, hieron, strasser, miller, trigg, sherk, penn, hughes (twice), koscheck, serra and fitch. He's fought more and beaten better competition IMHO. However, the two are pretty close in my book. I think if Silva were to avenge his previous losses, then he'd be ranked above GSP.
Fedor took apart Tim Sylvia, the longest running UFC heavyweight champ in 36 seconds. He stood toe to toe with Sylvia, flattened him, then took his back and sank a rear naked choke. It took Randy Coutore 5 rounds to get a decision over an injured Sylvia.
He's armbarred mark coleman twice (the only other person to submit coleman legitimately is Nogueira), kevin randleman, Hong man choi (350lb giant). He played the guard game with Nogueira when Nog was the top heavyweight in the world (after armbarring Bob Sapp and dominating the Pride heavyweight division), he stayed in Nog's guard, avoided his submissions and pounded noguera for the entire fight. Nogueira received permanent damage to his eye from the broken bones in his face after that fight (which is why he takes so many punches and kicks now, he can't see them coming).
He stood toe to toe with Cro Cop when cro cop was still a terror, and won the stand up exchanges with him.
His one loss was a cut stoppage in a Rings tournament 8 years ago. He actually won the fight he was cut in, and contined into the next round. Kohsaka landed an unintentional illegal blow (elbow) that opened the cut Fedor got against Arona up worse, and was stopped. Since then, Fedor has fought 26 times without losing. I think he's been the smaller man in every single fight he's had with the exception of the catch weight bought with Matt Lindland (whom he armbarred, making him one of two people to submit lindland). A few of his opponents have outweighed him by over 100lbs.
He's impressive because his win column is a who's who of the heavyweight division. He's fought standing against some of the best strikers in MMA and gotten the better of them, and he's out grappled some of the best grapplers. His chin is ridiculous (randleman spiked him on his head with a hard slam, Fedor responded by armbarring him immediately) and he fights the same speed one minute into the fight as he does 15 minutes into the fight.
Technique, heart, cardio, power, speed and willing to fight anyone. The guy has it all right now.
