Who are they going to put higher than him?

Randy? As Rick pointed out, Randy couldn’t finish Tim (something that both Nog and Fedor showed is clearly possible).

Nog? After Fedor beat him 3 times and he spent 10 minutes getting pounded on by Bit Timmy before he caught that guillotine, I don’t think so.

Fedor’s #1 ranking is solid. There is no challenger to it in the heavyweight world, certainly not after this stoppage.

I don’t really care if Rick and Marc are the same guy or not, tHEy happen to be right about Fedor.

(Editor: No bashing through comments, please)

Fedor has more power than Randy. He has better recovery than Randy. He has better takedowns and better submissions than Randy. Randy Couture is a great fighter, but he knows that this is the toughest matchup in the world for him (that’s part of why he wants it). Any objective statistical and technical analysis should favor Fedor.

Unless you picked Serra beating Georges St. Pierre, Gonzaga beating CroCop and Aurelio beating Gomi, you’re just another person trying to figure the damn thing out.

The Minnesota feed had the Twins game, so we did not get the Affliction fights.

Thank you Sherlock Holmes.
Marc is my buddy and traing partner. Next time he will use his onwn IP address… OOOh, we must be bad guys…

It won’t have anything to do with Couture, as I think some personal feelings towards Randy often cloud people’s judgements about him.

It’ll simply and clearly outline all the reasons and ways Fedor has still yet to be prove that he’s best ever, let alone the current #1 HW fighter. (Which in my eyes is right now a 3 way stagnant tie between Fedor, Randy, and Nog.)

If you look on pretty much every MMA news and editorial site, not a single one has anything questioning Fedor, which is were my overhype tag comes from.

I intend to point out some very legitmate, although not very well liked issues.

And no matter if you disagree or not, I hope to at the very least open up some minds on the subject and ultimately on questioning one’s own personal assesments versus those of the mass press, which is a huge epidemic in today’s world at large and not just in the Mixed Martial Arts community.

In Pride, Fedor would give some fighters a chance and he would toy with some fighters a little bit, but he didn’t do that with Tim Sylvia. In the words of Rampage Jackson Fedor “whooped that ASS!”

BTW. Amy Robinson, Randy Couture has a wife and you have no chance with him!!!
HAHAHAHAH!!!

I do have Judo, boxing and some BJJ experience. Amy, you said “Really, I think I could probably finish Sylvia with a rear naked choke if I could jump high enough and reach to his neck” hahaa Bullshit…

You’re going to get some much deserved criticism when you talk that BS! Who are you? Why don’t I see you on any of the fight cards??? You should fight some tough guys that are in your weight class LOL!!

HEY, IF IT’S NOT HARD TO CHOKE OUT SYLVIA AND IF AMY ROBINSON CAN CHOKE OUT TIM SYLVIA, THEN WHY DIDN’T COUTURE DO IT TOO???? RANDY IS TALLER THAN FEDOR and he had the opportunity to choke out Sylvia!!

In all seriousness, it’s not hype! I have been an observer and a fan of mma for many years and yes I did see the Randy/Sylvia fight in UFC. Yes, I’ve seen many of Couture’s and Emelianenko’s old fights. I’m a fan of both fighters.

Now, you have begun to give Randy excuses for his performance in the Sylvia fight…ie, Randy is a much older fighter and Fedor is a bigger fighter. BTW you’re either WRONG or EXAGGERATING about the weight difference too:Fedor is only about 10 to 15 pounds heavier than Randy (when in fighting condition). Also, 10 to 15 pounds of weight does not matter as much as skill. In addition, older fighters have more experience and that gives Randy an edge over many fighters when it comes to experience. Randy is great, but he’s not the first “older” fighter to be successful. ie George Foreman (boxing). I agree with you on the stamina though…Randy was breathing very heavily during the Sylvia fight and it was not easy for him.
Don’t forget, SYLVIA was not very healthy for his fight against Randy in the UFC. But, a win is a win and Randy deserves the win against Sylvia.

YOU CAN NOT MAKE EXCUSES. Maybe your excuses for Randy proves that you’re NOT sure that Randy would win against Fedor.

Btw. Alot of those previous fights that you mentioned in the past, I was correct in predicting the winner too! ie Rampage vs Liddell, Penn vs Hughes.

Hey Amy are you cute???? If you are cute, then xoxoxox

Personally I think James Irvin is a real 205lbs competitor. Just like Anderson Silva said himself, “James just got caught, anybody can get caught, I can get caught.” The dude is really humble. The fight was really anticlimatic. We didn’t even get to see Irvin land one punch.

Although Anderson states that his responsibility is to defend the 185 belt, I do think there will be another fight at 205 because if he does beat Cote, (Okami is out with a re-broken left hand), the only main event caliber fights will be against a LHW. I expect to see Silva versus a top LHW at the end of the year or definitely in 2009, and a title defense in the fall.

I still think Fedor would take Randy. Randy has said that if the fight does not happen he will be content with his MMA accomplishments. Whether the fight happens soon, it really doesn’t matter because both fighters record and legacy does all the talking. And for that matter Tim’s record speaks for Tim Sylvia, people can interpret that anyway they want. 26-6.