Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171103170512/@comment-99.248.3.222-20171108124306

@nyanimations

Well at least you admit half his run was against bums but are you saying he is the GOAT or not? What you did for the sport does not make my criteria for greatest fighter of all time. If I thougth two fighter were equal in the octagon then perhaps I would consider that. You can argue that GSP also took the sport to new heights espcecially in Canada where a good percentage of PPV buys still come from......per capita we buy more UFC PPV's then anyone in the world and thats big part due to GSP who actually won athelete of the year up here, a type of mainstream permeation yet to be seen in the U.S........the Forrest-Bonnar fight did more for mainstream exposure than anything in the early days.

Like I noted, I enjoy both the all-round style AND I enjoy specialists. Cody was more a wrestler in his earlier days but he relies on his strongest weapon as you noted. He has not truly integrated into MMA wrestling like GSP, DJ, Jones, TJ .........wrestling is still the strongest base and when an athletic wreslter can learn to be a true legit stiker they make the bext fighter IMO. Cody is not at that MMA-wrstling level and I fell TJ would have exposed that had he tried. Had he been working on that hybrid style from the get-go i.e. developed wrestling more into his overall game maybe he would be better but its hard to say, maybe we are seeing the bes Cody can be, I do believe TJ is a much more cerebral fighter and you almost have to be to be successful in today's MMA. And Maia, what a story IMO, a real throwback to the early days (and I am old enough that I watched UFC 1 when it happened lol) a prime example of specialist as you said but again what is his kryptonite, - wrestlers. You have to become at least good enough to prevent wrestling but he is about as good as you can get in the UFC with one style, the UFC tried real hard to get him a belt lol.......

LMAO re: El Cucuy, I will try not to say it too loud........did you see that vidoe of him and Werdum? Too funny guy is a character.......

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