For true fans of Fedor who’ve been following him since the Arona fight/World Sambo competition days, and have acknowledged him as one of the most complete MMA fighters of recent memory, would’ve found themselves with no reason to suspect otherwise. The arguement for the best p4p fighter between Silva, GSP and Fedor is a sound one. Sanctioning the thought of Silva defeating Fedor, is not and only represents inexcusable shallowness in one’s MMA knowledge.

Records aside, Emelianenko’s prominence as #1 is accredited to his incredibly well-rounded game. Obtaining a black belt level skillset in a specific form of martial arts is one thing, to compete at the olympic stage and blow the competition away for years is another. Fans who have not studied and actually trained in martial arts will blurt out sayings such as

“GSP’s wrestling will allow him to take down opponents with ease and keep them there…”
“Silva’s creative striking and bjj is unmatched…”
“Lesnar would dominate Fedor in the same fashion as vs Mir II.”

Empty words with no significant value – anyone can regurgitate what they see on tv or read somewhere. There are fans and then there are fans.

Now let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Look at Hendo. If you know anything about MMA and wrestling incorporated in today’s game, you would acknowledge him as a true “master” of grw. Let’s talk about Nogueira. One of the greatest BJJ fighters of all time, mentor to Silva. Two different styles, two different fighters. I hold Silva in the highest regard and will say with confidence that his talent is second to none in the middleweight and l. heavyweight divisions – I mean who chokes out Hendo anyway, seriously.

BUT.

Fedor, dominated Nogueira at his prime, at his own game. Fedor’s striking is the Mike Tyson and Pacquiao of MMA. Fedor’s submission defense and submission offense is unrivaled, as it has been illustrated so clearly time and time again. Oh, did I mention half of his wins are from submissions? Submissions executed on brutes such as Coleman, Hunt and Randleman? Let’s not forget about where the other half comes from – lighting quick, pin-point precision single blows followed by tremendous combinations. The way Fedor gets banged up by opponents much larger and kinetically stronger than him in the guard and then effortlessly flipping the script via picture perfect offense, is the very reason, the man is in a league of his own. His agility and unrecognized instantaneous striking power is attributed to his training – the man axes logs and ties car timing belts to trees and hyperextends them like they’re bubble gum. As for his stamina and ability to take a shot, like Fedor himself said, the only fighter that ever hit him hard and hit him good was Fujita – look at how that fight ended abruptly.

THE REASON this forum even exists is because Fedor’s level of talent does NOT exist anywhere else in MMA. Top dogs are only top dogs within their confined competition. I won’t even bother with describing how ridiculously embarrassed Silva would be in Fedor’s guard but if the man wants to take a well versed 205 lb down and ground’n'pound him, he’ll do exactly that regardless of how much he weighs himself. Seriously, I could go on for days about Fedor’s capabilities but… I don’t wasting time.

Any of the other top contenders for p4p immortality, are outmatched by Fedor in every aspect of the game. Bottom line, weight class is irrelevant when it comes to who’ll kick who’s ass. The only way a lesser fighter(in every way) can beat a better fighter is by getting lucky, for lack of a better word – Serra vs GSP? *cough*

Don’t get me wrong, Silva’s 2nd in my book and I am in awe of GSP as well. But Fedor is out of their league, even at the same weight. Lesnar on the other hand I wouldn’t easily dismiss a potential upset, but would give Fedor the edge handsdown at this point in their professional fighting careers.

MMA. One love.

you guys think hes good because he beat guys like Lindland who was ok(middleweight)

Coleman whos old as shit and not even good to start with.

Nogueria hes so bad they made him fight Couture whos way past his prime and the only real fighter hes fought is Dan Henderson who would shit on him right now

Kevin Randleman must i say say more with his 17-13 record

Sylvia was just tall and who cares about that

And Andrei Arlovski can beat any fighter thats big named.

Anderson Silva would tear him up

and these guys would agree
Forrest Griffin, Thales Leites, Patrick Cote, James Irvin, Dan Henderson, Rich Franklin, Nate Marquardt, Travis Lutter, Rich Franklin, Chris Leben