Who in your opinion is the ebst fighter in mixed martial arts?

Question

If anybody says fedor they can get the hell out of here.He's a fake.I know allot about MMA and been a fan of it since it first started and fedor shouldnt even be on the pound for pound list because he keeps avoiding the big fights and is fighting in the low leagues.But this is just my opinion your free to think what you want,if you think fedor then please enlighten me as to why he's the best as i cant see any reason other than he keeps beating the has been's.

Now for anderson silva,lyoto machida and George st pierre.GSP is really good i like him allot and have since he first appeared in ufc,i dont really like anderson silva that much,i did at first but i feel like he's not being tested enough and he's not as invincible as people think he is.

In my opinion lyoto machida is the best in the world right now,he's another fighter that i liked as soon as i saw him in the ufc and i just knew he was going to be a champ in the UFC,he's also undefeated and before he even signed with the ufc he was beating quality apponents like rich franklin and bj penn when they were hungry for success.

Give me your opinions and if your going to answer please make it an intelligent one and give your reasons why you think your fave fighter is the best.Thanks

Answer 1

Lyoto Machida, Georges St Pierre and Miguel Torres



These fighters are at the top of the MMA game right now and it's going to be hard to find people that can beat them.



Lyoto Machida's use of Shotokan Karate to make himself an elusive target is second to none and he also has crisp striking abilities, which were shown against Rashad Evans. Also he is undefeated.



GSP is an outstanding wrestler and BJJ practioner, also has good hand and foot work. Look at GSP vs BJ Penn 2 for an example.



Miguel Torres is a BJJ black belt and has crisp striking abilities, look at his last fight for proof. He also has a record of 37-1 which is also disputed to be 49-1 as he started fighting before records were kept on a database.

Answer 2

You are not going to like my answer. This I know.

You are a band wagon MMA fan.



How can you not think Fedor is one of the greatest?



The UFC has some good fighters, sure. As well as Strikeforce, and M-1 and K-1. But you never have seen those other organizations events.



The UFC has a bogus weight class that allows fighters to dehydrate themselves 24 hours before a fight, and come in on fight day 20 pounds over the weight limit. M-1, K-1 and even Strikeforce don't allow this weight manipulation. The UFC paid money to Yahoo to help get into the mainstream. I remember back in the 90's with those PPV's with Dan Svern, and Tank Abott . Those were some great PPV's.



The UFC is competing with the WWE, not other MMA organizations.



GSP used an illegal substance and should have been DQ'd period.

Ignorance is not bliss. And the UFC should have fined Nurse for his stupidy.



Bobby Southfork from Strikeforce is a great fighter. And would still be champ if not for that head butt, and medical stoppage because of the bleeding from the cut above his eye.



Arvlenski , the former UFC champ, and recently KO victim of Fedor, was just KO'd by Brett Rogers (10-0). That was ranked what 4th by mmajunkie. hahaha



Lyoto Machida is a very good fighter. But come on Tito, Rashaad Evans hyped. Lets see Lyoto match up with Henderson,



Fedor is the best MMA fighter. Why? His skill. The UFC wants to manipulate Fedor, and not allow Fedor to fight in M1 or any other organziation that Fedor wants to fight in like Sambo competitions. That is why, Fedor did not sign with the UFC.

(The UFC made all of its fighters sign away there names, and did not get paid for the TV UFC Game) How do you like that?

Fedor is a smart man.



Fedor is patient, has great KO power, and unbelievable submission ability from the bottom or the top.



IF the UFC was serious about being the best organization in the world, the UFC would co-promote events like WBC, WBA, IBF in boxing.

Like the AFL, and NFL in football.



And not hold these stupid TUF realtiy show contests where idiots piss on eachothers bedding. But they would go world wide, co-eventing other MMA organizations.



Fedor is the best.

Answer 3

Best fighter in the UFC? Probably GSP, Anderson Silva or Lyoto Machida. My own personal pick would be GSP.



Best fighter in MMA? I'm sorry but it's quite obviously Fedor Emelianenko. You say he hasn't fought the best, yet he dominated Pride while it was at its best, and just because he's not in the UFC now, it doesn't mean he's not competing with the best.



Tim Sylvia had a title shot in the UFC. He lost a hard fought fight there and then went on to get submitted by Fedor after 36 seconds in his next match.



He's beaten some of MMA's finest, including Arlovski, Coleman, Cro Cop, Nogueira and Randleman. And the scary thing is that most of these were in the first round of the fight.



Put him up against Lesnar or Mir and I bet you any amount of money that Fedor would come out on top.

Answer 4

I would say Fedor, however i also like machida because of his more defensive/evasive approach.



Fedor is counted as the best as he has beaten many former ufc champs, he was king in pride and you can say hes fighting in the lower leagues but that just says to me you are a ufc fanboy.



Fedor still has some competition outside the ufc left, he beat arlovski good fighter. he needs to beat barnett but then it is undoubtable who is the best heavyweight in mma.





Look at his record. Look at the people he has beaten, some are in the ufc NOW.



Pride was top draw in the day and he ruled, Hell pride was less strict about rules, stamping a downed opponent.





Seriously at the moment the heavyweight in ufc is a joke.



Brock lesnar had only 4 or 5 fights he should not have got a title shot with less than 10 fights, mir beat him, mir should have had the title shot.



When dana cares more about marketing and hype than he does about quality that's when divisions get ruined.



I mean surely brock can not have been the number 1 contender for the championship when mir beat him. this is hypocrisy.





Ohh and if you watch Fedors fights you will see he is one of the best mma fighters around. He is dominant.



He will probably end up in the ufc after he has exhausted all other competition. so you may get to see hiim prove his title of last emperor.



Dude the ufc contract pays peanuts compared to what affliction pays him, If you can't even do enough research on your own to find that out you fail at life.





He is a national hero in russia so the sambo tournaments are a big deal, he may not be no 1 in sambo anymore but he still feels the need to participate, if your american you should under stand national pride.



And when he fought in pride he was beating fighters in their prime, hell he still fights fighters in their prime.



Arlovski prime barnett(when he gets beat) prime.



Hell in an interview frank mir even said he rated Fedor as a top heavyweight.



If you stop hanging off Dana whites balls you may see some of this.



Ohh and i like Machida because he doesn't get hit, however if youi've never been hit before how well are you going to take it.

His chin has never been tested, it may only take one clean shot to put him out, so don't be talking about him as if he's the messiah.



Machida plays his own game and wins.



Do you want to know why i consider Fedor the best?



Because he beats his opponents at their game, if their a top striker he out strikes them, if thier top submissions he submits them.



Dancing to your own ryhthm is great and all but dancing to anothers and winning is hwat sepperates legends from greats!

Answer 5

Fedor.



Whether you like it or not he is still p4p best on earth. Machida is a great fighter, but he is not even best p4p in the UFC, i would say GSP is.



You seem like a real UFC nuthugger, and beleive anything they tell you. If you need proof of Fedors greatness just check out any MMA website besides UFC.com. I bet you 90% of their ranking have him as number 1.



Hell, ask the fighters. Numerous UFC fighters have come out and said Fedor is number 1. Mir has called him number 1. I even recall GSP on "Inside MMA" calling Fedor number 1

Answer 6

The best MMA fighter in the world, without a doubt is Georges St. Pierre. He is dominant in every aspect of the fight game. He out wrestles the best wrestlers, out strikes top strikers, and has a sick submission game as well. GSP's athleticism and work ethic put him above and beyond everybody else in my books. GSP has faced only the best competition in his weight class, and will soon have cleaned it out, as Anderson Silva did at MW. I believe we will soon see GSP move up to fight Anderson, and believe me when I say that he has a better chance of winning than most, if not all the MWs in the UFC do.



Fedor is a fantastic fighter, and the fact that he hasn't faced top level competition recently doesn't mean he doesn't belong on the p4p list. It just means he probably shouldn't be at the stop. The fact is that he only has 1 loss on his record, and it was due to a cut, and the Dr. stopped the fight. He has beaten a who's who of top MMA fighters in his career, and is without a doubt the best heavyweight in the world, and one of the most well rounded fighters too.



All that being said, I vote for GSP....hands down...

Answer 7

Fedor, 30-1, fights for Affliction because (like it's been told in the MMA section of Yahoo ten times) Whites contract stipulations are very "he owns your ***" and Fedor wants to compete in the occasional Sambo tournament,

He's beaten 3 of the current top ten heavyweights, more than any other fighter. (bloodyelbow.com rankings-easily the most in depth and thorough)

You CANNOT be a long time fan of MMA if you say he's avoided big fights-name one, You should know that he dominated the Pride heavyweight division for years, and don't insult every real MMA fan here by saying they weren't a top organization, He beat Noguiera 2 times,-future hall of famer, beat Cro Cop in his prime when he was probably the top 2 or 3 heavyweight, Babalu, Coleman 2 times-former UFC champ, Goodridge, Arona, Randleman, Sylvia-former UFC champ-in 06 Arlovski former UFC champ-07, Now fighting Barnett who would be a top five heavyweight guy if in UFC-he's 24-4, He destroys opponents, please don't say any UFC heavyweight has a better resume, no one does, who Couture? certainly not Mir-he has beaten Sylvia and Lesnar,



You're right about Silva-way too low level of competition, You gotta fight top ranked guys to be p4p champ, and not lose to scrubs.

Could argue GSP, He's beaten every top welterweight there has been.Machida is also a good answer but give him at least one title defense before calling him the best.



LOL-Silva won't beat Griffin, Forrest is bigger, fought guys with ten times more power Rampage, And doesn't tire, He will be Silvas best opponent by miles.

The Silva argument makes no sense?to you maybe, I just listed Fedors good opponents, And he IS fighting top competition, Barnett is ranked ABOVE all UFC heavyweights, so you can stop with that, I'll list Andersons Silvas quality opponents, Franklin, and a 38 year old Henderson, there, thats it, his last two "Championship" fights- He didn't finish Cote-#18 or Leites #9, C'mon, you wanna talk great middleweights? Then Silvas the man, But for p4p purposes, He's not in the running, Penn (who I hate-and got his ### kicked by GSP no matter what small irrelevant amount of excess Vaseline might have been on his back) is more deserving, GSP-he's beaten Hughes twice (future hall of famer whether you like him or not) Penn twice, Fitch-ranked #1 when they fought, and he destroyed him, Serra was the champ (lucky punch but still-the champ) when they fought 2nd time, he crushed him also, he's only fought the top welterweights-Like Alves coming up, Thats how you become the p4p king I think. Machida also is above Silva-He's fought Undefeated Thiago Silva (a bit over ranked in my opinion) beat the champ-easily, beat Tito-former champ, beat Penn (Why the hell was he fighting light heavyweights anyway??) beat the (Must be awesome if Silva beat him)-Rich Franklin, No disrespect Benji (You know what you're talking about) but Hendersons best days are behind him, Although talk about fighting top guys, No one can top him in that, He's fought, Rampage, Noguiera, Babalu, Wanderlei, Renzo Gracie, Arona, Belfort, Silva, Franklin, and now Bisping-tell me who's fought a better list of guys than that??

And the silly rezoning you give for Sambo-Obviously you know nothing about Fedors history with that also, He's like the 9 time world champ, If you think it's only a couple tournaments he's gonna miss-THEN WHY does control freak-Ego maniac Dana white care????? They could both be done easily, which all comes back to your first question-Why isn't he in the UFC? There you go, Dana is a controlling nut job who has to be in control of a fighters life-even away from MMA fights-sounds like someone was neglected as a child.



Sarah-you had me till "Fedor s not fought top fighters" I just listed them, If you don't think beating Noguiera 2x and three other former champs isn't quality then what is? and one of GSP's losses was to Matt munchkin Serra-NOT a great fighter 9-6 record?? not great.

Answer 8

Not sure what you're talking about. Jon Fitch could win a "most ripped guy" contest ahead of Palvik. Unless you're talking about some of the heavyweights like Gonzaga or Sylvia, who both look kinda soft. Then again, so do many boxing heavyweights. And for those talking about the number of rounds... Your average boxer doesn't go twelve rounds. Those are for the big dogs of the sport. The average boxer does four to eight, three-minute rounds. Compare that with three to five, five-minute rounds. A rookie MMA fighter actually is more active (15 minutes) than a rookie boxer (12 minutes). There is a difference in the cardio training, yes, but here it is: Avg. boxing workout: 15 min. jumping rope 3X3 rounds speed bag 3X3 rounds heavy bag 3X3 rounds focus mitts Sparring Avg. MMA workout: Morning: 15 min. jumping rope 3X3 rounds banana bag 3X3 rounds Thai pads Sparring Evening: 15 min. bodyweight exercises warmup 30 min. grappling technique training grappling sparring kettlebell workout MMA not only incorporates the cardio of boxing, but also the weight-training of wrestling. Because that's what MMA is: striking and grappling.

Answer 9

Just like there isn't a "best" guitarist, there is no "best" fighter. There are many great fighters. I'd say the top ones are GSP, Machita, Anderson Silva, Fedor, and Florian. Not an any order.

Answer 10

its gotta be anderson silva and then lyoto machida both are undefeated in the octagon and silva has only 4 losses and machida is undefeated and i leave gsp off because now i wonder how long he has been greasing i'm almost ready to put an asterik on his wins but thats a whole other story but i believe if machida runs through shogun and then rampage and if silva run through griffin and one more contender at 185 lbs probably nate quarry dana white could not resist setting up a mega fight silva v. machida just one more thing guys don't abandon anderson silva he is still a great fighter you said it yourself he is not being tested he can't help it if the guys in the 185lbs division are so afraid of him that they pull guard as soon as micheal buffer leaves the octagon i think you will see the old spider because griffin is going to come foward he might die in the process but you'll see the old anderson silva

Answer 11

I 100% agree with you, i think Machida is the top mma fighter right now, but not far behind him is GSP. Machida is undefeated,has fought many top contenders and has demolished them all,plus u cant hit the damn dude. GSP has only 2 losses to 2 great fighters and has returned to beat them both, he also is unstoppable but im nervous with his upcoming fight for ufc 100. As for Fedor, your right again, he hasnt fought any real great fighters, yes he beat up that 9 foot china man but who the hell is he, he cooked my beef lo mein last night come on!!

Answer 12

GSP is THE most complete figher in MMA right now. He's the prototype, a finished product who can go from standing, to wrestling, to submission grappling and back again with ease. And now he has killer instinct to go with his talent. I'd love to see a catchweight fight between GSP and A. Sliva before the year is out.

Answer 13

After seeing Mike Brown vs. Uriah Faber II last week on WEC, I'd have to say those guys would definitely be in the running. I don't know if you like the lighter divisions or not, but that fight was very exciting. I'd pick Mike Brown.

Answer 14

Fedor

Answer 15

Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee