Devil_666
Super Freak
100% agreed, the UFC means nothing to his Legacy. Plus Brock only has 5 fights so I guess he's a noob just like Rogers. So why should Fedor fight Brock.
I've explained this like 1000 times yet you still can't grasp it. I'll try again. The UFC is the biggest MMA company in the world. Not just North America. The WORLD. Most top 10 fighters per weight division, only title belts with any history, the biggest amount of MMA talent in a single organization. It's the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. of MMA. Anyone who disputes that is delusional. Fedor needs to fight in the UFC. Period. Doesn't matter who in the UFC HW division he fights. That's irrelevant.
Earl "The Goat" Manigault is considered a great Basketball player. But his name will never be mentioned along side of Jordan, Kobe, etc. because he never played in the NBA.
The reason people dispute that Fedor is #1 P4P fighter in the world and the reason people dispute how great he is, is because he flat out refuses to fight for the biggest MMA company in the world. He's content to fight for smaller orgs which have lesser fighters.
Bret Rogers was ranked #6 at HW because of his win over Arlovski. Ok, fine. Now the problem is, Fedor's next two potential match-ups in Strikeforce will be against unranked opponents. Werdum and Overeem are not ranked top 10 HW's.
That's the legacy of Fedor.
Fighting cans, non HW's and unranked opponents. If Fedor would've joined the UFC, he could've fought the #2 HW and UFC champ Brock Lesnar. Or the #4 HW Frank Mir. Or even a rematch with the #5 HW Big Nog. And beyond that, #8 - 10 in Junior Dos Santos, Cain Velasquez and Shane Carwin.
Plus more up and coming HW's who might move into the top 10. But no, instead Fedor went to Strikeforce to fight a guy who's ranked higher than the guy who actually holds that company's HW title.
I love it when people say stupid ish like "There's plenty of HW's outside the UFC for Fedor to fight". Yeah.. and almost ALL of them are unranked. So who cares!?
Meanwhile GSP and A.Silva continue to decimate their divisions and fight top 10 opponents back to back to back and in A.Silva's case even going up a weight division to fight top 10 opponents (Griffin still ranked #5 at LHW). GSP's last 6 opponents were 5 Top 5 WW's (Koscheck, Hughes, Serra, Fitch and Alves) and B.J. Penn was ranked #1 in the LW division + the LW Champ.
Show me a single instance in Fedor's entire career where he's fought that many top 5 opponents. Show me a single instance in his career where he's fought as many top 10 opponents in a row as both GSP and Anderson Silva are doing now. You can't. Because he never has and he never will. Fedor has never cleaned out his division either like GSP and Anderson.
So put him on a pedestal and worship him. And keep saying he's the best ever. Meanwhile he won't be fighting again until mid-to late next year and even then he'll be fighting an unranked HW. Whoopie!!!