Fedor Emelianenko would have beat them all…

Chael Sonnen talks Fedor Emelianenko on this episode of Beyond the Fight.

[livefree]

Kevin Randleman suplexing Fedor to the depths of hell and somehow Fedor acted like that never happened and turns around and submits Kevin 30 seconds after was inhuman.

[stevenmarkoll]

Fedor beat three K-1 World Champions (Cro Cop, Semmy Schilt, Hunt)
Fedor beat two ADCC World Champions (Jeff Monson & Ricardo Arona)
Fedor beat two Judo World Champions (Satoshi Ishii & Naoya Ogawa)
Fedor beat eight UFC champions (Nog, Randleman, Coleman, Arlovski, Sylvia, Rampage, Rizzo, Mir)

Of those UFC champions, he beat two of them twice.


Fedor has proved that he can stand in front of either the best kickboxers of all time, the best grapplers of all time, and the best MMA fighters of all time and he will still beat them.

He is simply the greatest ever.

[jaybirdful]

I’ve always considered Fedor the most amazing heavyweight I’ve ever seen.
It’s hard when the new era MMA fans don’t know what it was like to watch his cold emotionless demeanor as he dismantled every kind of fighter you can imagine ! Thanks Unc Chael

[heneri]

What sets Fedor apart from other GOATs is that Fedor is/was willing to fight his opponents where they were the strongest -> standup fight with Mirko, fighting in the guard with Big Nog etc. This might not be the wisest thing to do but for sure it’s much more entertaining than playing it safe and strategically.

Win or lose…I can’t think of any boring Fedor fight. Fedor always had the aim of finishing his opponents.

[dazitmane]

Fedor jumping into Big Nog's guard and bouncing his head like a basketball was the most gangsta thing I've ever seen in MMA.

[johnhenderson]

Thank you Chael for appreciating Fedor’s greatness

[Vorgaloth]

Fedor MMA facts:
1. 47 pro fights with a 40-6-1 record.
2. Holds the 2nd best win streak in all of MMA, 27 but would be 31 or 32-0 if you take away the DSQ from the stupid stoppage from a cut.
3. Defeated 7 UFC champions 9 times, 4 K1 Champions, 2 silver, 1 gold Olympic medalists and 2 ADCC champions.
4. 29 victories in the first round.
5. 15 wins under 2 minutes and 5 wins under 1 minute.
6. 16 Knockouts / 15 Subs.
7. Rings Champ, Pride HW & Grand Prix Champ, WAMMA Champ.

If you have Fight Pass, go watch Fedor's run in Pride and you'll understand exactly why he's so admired among fighters and fans. People who don't know criticize that he fought cans. He fought SOME cans but he beat the fuckin' piss out of them like you'd expect him to. He also fought and beat the very best of his era in their prime as Pride had the best HW roster from 2000-2006. 2009-2011 he dealt with some injuries, family issues and I think fighters just caught up to him, but everyone goes through that at some point. Never had a boring fight. Always humble in victory and defeat. The HW GOAT.

[grasucat]

Fedor is indisputably the GOAT - he was very undersized in the heaviest and most dangerous weight class; he knocked around 30 people out cold, was undefeated in his prime for close to 10 years; and now at age 45 still can fight competitively with top 10 ranked heavyweights.

[iotaeta-pi]

In his prime, Fedor out-struck CroCop and out-grappled Big Nog while they were at their best. 'Nuff said.

[kearneydillon]

Fedor was straight up savage. From Kevin Randleman suplexing him on his head yet submitting him 30 secs later, to almost getting dropped by the monster Brett Rogers and coming back to finish him. He was NEVER EVER truly out of it in his first 30+ fights. G.O.A.T of every division. Every promotion.

[jaysharp]

And Fedor dominated at a time with far less rules. You could soccer kick, head stomp, knee downed opponents to the head. It's when he came over to Strikeforce with the new rules when he lost the 3 straight fights. . But now he's won 9 of his last 11. He learned how to fight with stricter rules. but he dominated at a time with very few rules. much more difficult

[tjazz]

Fedor in his prime would smoke any human being no matter.

[azrael]

Chael is so humble to not consider himself the GOAT.

[theconservativechristian]

Crocop was a machine but Fedor was the terminator!

[yaushaeomessias]

PRIDE was different as there was the Grand Prix, Bushido events and non-title fights (like the rematch against Kohsaka).

He fought Nogueira 3x and beat Nogueira when he was the #1 P4P fighter in the world and now is in the hall of fame, Cro Cop in his prime (#2 HW in the World), Mark Coleman (UFC Hall of Famer), Randleman (UFC Hall of Famer, Fedor almost got killed with the suplex), Heath Herring (top five at that moment), Semmy Schilt (Top 10 at that moment), Mark Hunt (Top 10 or 5 at that moment [had recently beaten Cro Cop]), Arona and Babalu in Rings (Arona beat Wanderlei in his prime when Wanderlei was #1 in the world and is a 3 time ADCC champion, and Babalu fought twice for the UFC LHW belt and was Strikeforce LHW champion), Tim Sylvia (UFC champion, top 5 HW when he fought Fedor), Arlovski (UFC champion, top 2 HW when he fought Fedor), recently beat Mir (UFC champion). Fedor cleaned the top PRIDE and UFC HW division of his era.

[frba]

To anyone question Fedor: name a fighter who has over 40 or even 30 fights without double digit losses. Or a hit list of Hall of Famers like his.

[BronchitisMan]

Remember the time Chael almost choked the life out of Fedor? Then he remembered the last wish of a dying kid with cancer that he wanted to see a somerault live on TV so Chael did that. Fedor breathed a sigh of relief.
Good guy Chael.

[yuriboyka]

Not only that Fedor's first loss was due to a cut, but that cut wasn't from a punch, it was from a part of the glove that grazed him. In addition, it was Fedor's second fight of the night, so his skin was already damaged.

[midnyte_tv]

Remember Fedor never had wasted movement/strikes. Everything he did was either to finish or to set up a finish.

[macleod]

I've long since considered Fedor as the GOAT. Dude was superhuman in his prime.