How does the best fighter ever look like this

I don't think either of those guys were top 10 fighters, unless they were literally #10 at one point

this

fedor was a great heavyweight but you can't ignore the fact he fought nip pro wrestlers and other cans for most of his career with only a handful of meaningful fights

and then he came to Strikeforce, faced real competition, and started getting his shit pushed in

speaking of strikeforce when he got his shit pushed in, he fought then-strikeforce, and now (retired) ufc fighter dan henderson

guess what happened? Fedor got knocked out in round 1

Apl the jealous haters in the thread. He trains harder than all of you. He works on skill and speed amd explosiveness. More muscle isnt going to win him fights

Quark
Buckwheat
All kinds of seeds
All cheap as fuck
Slavworld is a strength paradise

Not adding a squat joke because it's getting old.

Funny how no one was able to beat him until he started getting old....

...after fighting for 9 years and amassing a 31-1 record, while sweeping through the best heavyweights in the world at the time in Pride in his prime.

Fuck off with this shit.

Because he's white

Best HEAVYWEIGHT.

There are AT LEAST two fighters who have surpassed him in other weight classes.

He was untouched until his mid-30s.

Around 2/3 of his fights were against legit competition, several of which went on to compete in the UFC, some even becoming UFC champs.

Only when he got old did he start to suck. Just like, y'know, EVERY SINGLE ATHLETE IN THE HISTORY OF EVERY SINGLE SPORT EVER.

You faggots are essentially UFC nuthuggers who can't accept that legit top tier fighters can exist outside of that organization.

>"skill"

jon bones jones is the legit greatest fighter ever

check his legs

this, if fedor stopped being a fatty and dropped to LHW or even MW he'd be relevant again imo, he walks around at a very fat 235 or so

He was 34 when he went to Strikeforce.

Before that he was beating Nogueria, Cro Cop, Tim Sylvia, etc

Because fighting is mostly technique and mentality
Strength obviously adds on that, but most great fighters are borderline insane

Imagone if he went on "trt" like Vitor did.

He could lean down to Connor McGregors weight class.

Greatest eye poker maybe.

Fuck him. His bullshit would have gotten him kicked out in oc UFC

>His bullshit would have gotten him kicked out in oc UFC
fuck no they'd have given him a massive payrise

No, even in the beginning, eye poking was illegal.

Stupid nigger should have been banned from the sport.

Granted, what got him a dq was some dumb shit, same with Silva.

Fedor, unlike the majority of MMA fighters both past and present, probably didn't take BBing drugs - test, tren, mast etc etc. My guess is he was taking athletic orals during his career - TBOL, very likely as it's popular all over Russia, and halo.

Coupled with him being 5'11 and having to bulk up to fight at heavyweight, this would explain why he looked 'puffy' fighting. Also his % of bodyfat is well within the beneficial athletic range. 'Cut' doesn't equal athletic.

>How does the best fighter ever look like this
Because fighting isn't about athleticism.

Noguiera and Cro Cop are his only two great wins, and between these fights and other relevant fights with lesser HWs like coleman and hunt he was fighting total cans

convenient that his age becomes a factor (as early as 34) at the same time he starts fighting in a different talent pool with drug testing present

this

Go watch your fucking cartoons you manbaby.
>2017 talking shit behind your computer screen
>watches anime

>fighting isn't about athleticism

Well...........
You really went full fucking retard with that statement.

Overeem was fighting before Fedor and is still fighting top competition despite taking more fights and more damage in his career

Fedor is just someone who didn't evolve with the game and who had a nice wins coupled with a bunch of total cans in between.

fedor emelianenko, anderson silva, bas rutten in that order; the greatest mma fighters. fedor had no losses throughout almost his whole career, he fought the toughest mofos and Pride was way more jampacked than UFC. ufc is a joke compared to pride, its mostly a money grab (floyd and mcgregor) the biggest shit talkerd get paid the most, its a ruse. fedor fought crocop, randleman, noguiera and others, and like other anons have said some of these guys went into ufc as the biggest and baddest like mark hunt. he is the best figjter and those who state otherwise merely follow opinions of others, never have seen his skill, are MMA hipsters or just trolls. He didnt do ufc because Dana "the fag" white wouldnt let him participate in sambo competitions and do ufc.

people with great technique but aren't natural athletes can beat people with great athleticism

most champs are athletic and technically sound, but there are people like Demian Maia and Mark Hunt who are just so much better at some of their technical aspects of the game they shit on their opponents regardless of how big, strong or athletic they are

The statement 'fighting isn't about athleticism' infers that athleticism is irrelevant.
Mark Hunt has ridiculous knockout power and an excellent chin, two physical attributes which have complimented his technique.
Demian Maia without a doubt has fantastic grappling strength, i.e. grip strength etc.
Athleticism AND technique are both very important in fighting, one so more than the other.
Take someone without the lower bounds of athleticism to implement their technique and they are useless.
Equally it would be extremely difficult to find an elite fighter who while they may not be as athletic as their competition still would not be far more athletically talented than most of the amateur population in their chosen sport.

FYI dude if you split ur opinion piece up into bite size chunks then people will be more likely read it.

I literally stopped reading after your first sentence cause of the wall of text.

Just sayin...

reddit spacing
>the post

This fucking autistic

you dont even lift. leave my board