payneNglory1 Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:20 pm
There is no doubt from anybody that Fedor earned his No 1 spot,the problem is,its just hard to justify how he can maintain it while fighting the standard of fighters he's been fighting for so long now,while the next probably 6 ranked fighters below him have all been fighting each other or at least fighting competition as good or better than the ones Fedors been fighting.
It's not as if you can blame Fedor,after all he is still trying to fight the best that is outside the UFC.He tried to fight Barnett,he beat 2 former UFC champs back 2 back(which looks good but we all know that those twos careers where at all time lows at the time)and he is looking to fight Werdum and Overeem.So I think Fedor No1 spot is still deserved and wins over Werdum,Overeem and maybe Barnett if they can get that back on will see him No 1 for a while yet,but thats only 3 fights and they can all be argued that they are all lower ranked and weaker fighters than the UFC's top guys.
You have to beat the man to be the man works both ways,all the top UFC guy's have called Fedor out at one time or another and to stay the man it should be up to you to fight the best possible competition out there,prove you are the best.Fedor has had ample opportunity to fight them now,but because of M1 milking their cash cow,they look for the highest bidder instead of letting there prize asset fight and maintain the fact that he is the best fighter on the planet.
Just think if M1 and Fedor had just joined the UFC like the Majority of the best Pride fighters did when Pride finished instead of his Bodog,Affliction or what ever other failed M1 venture they've had him on.I think Fedor would of dominated still and had a long successful reign as champion against Randy,Arlovski,Timmeh etc but in the last few years the Heavyweight fighter has changed so much,the huge guys that were all seen as freakshows before are now top atheletes with insane power and we haven't seen Fedor fight one of these guys yet,unless you count Rogers,who in my opinion is not proven as a top 10 fighter yet but he didn't do to bad against fedor,infact he did quite abit better than alot of fedors past opponents and thats what makes me want to see what guys like Lesner and Carwin can do with Fedor.