The UFC will forever have a stain in it's name for never having Fedor fight in it. No matter the smear campaign that Dana and the Fertitas unleashed on Fedor, all true MMA fans know who the GOAT is. And it is too bad for Dana that all his best P4P fighters(Anderson, GSP, BJ Penn) regard Fedor as the GOAT and are humbled by him.
I have been watching MMA since Royce won UFC 1 back in 1993 and I have watched thousands of MMA fights since then, and Fedor is the only fighter who made my jaw drop in astonishment. That second fight with Big Nog when Fedor put on a ground clinic by escaping multiple submission attemps by Nog while at the same time ground-and-pounding Nog's head into the canvas will forever represent the pinnacle of MMA skills. We have never seen anything like it. To quote Anderson Silva, Fedor in his prime reached the highest skill ceiling of any fighter ever...
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