The Rocky Marciano Of MMA

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: countryboy444
Date: July 16, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

Will we ever see a dominant fighter like the Rock go 49-0. Imagine a beast with Lesnar's freakish strength, Silva's striking, Hughes' dominant wrestling and GNP, and Gracie's Bjj. Wow! Scary.
If someone will Lebron James' talent started training for MMA at like 6 years old, I could see it happening.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: JonnyF
Date: July 17, 2010 at 12:23 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

No. Fedor is the closest the sport will ever see.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: cobra_punch
Date: July 17, 2010 at 12:26 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

Someone with the skill of Jon Jones and the Luck of Frankie Edgar.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Left_Hook_Row
Date: July 17, 2010 at 12:48 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

JonnyF said:
No. Fedor is the closest the sport will ever see.
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Man, i hate that so much. When people say 'There will never be another guy like Jordan, Woods, Unitas, or Fedor. How do you know?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Portillo
Date: July 17, 2010 at 12:56 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

We need someone like Lisa Lionheart.
With the wisdom of Gertrude Stein, the wit of Cathy Guisewite, the tenacity of Nina Totenberg, the common sense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the down-to-earth good looks of Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: thething123
Date: July 17, 2010 at 01:13 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

yup fedor is the closest thing we have had so far

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Left_Hook_Row
Date: July 17, 2010 at 01:14 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

rampage1234 said:
yup fedor is the closest thing we have had so far
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Yeah So far. But not ever.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: TheLethalLefty
Date: July 17, 2010 at 01:33 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

GSP is 20-2 and he is only 29 years old. Considering how dominant he has been, I don't think its any reach to say that he could come close to having a record like Fedor's. I doubt he will win his next 12 fights, but he still can rack up tons of wins.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ResoluteProtector
Date: July 17, 2010 at 01:40 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

"If you build it, they will come."

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Sedulous
Date: July 17, 2010 at 01:59 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

The sport is way young. In 20-50 years people will look back and not only determine that Fedor would never be able to compete with the MMAist of today but there will be a few guys who turn out to be as dominant or more dominant than Fedor.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Hitman21
Date: July 17, 2010 at 02:08 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

yeah sport is young....we dont know what the future has...so I say yes we will

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: nlynch
Date: July 17, 2010 at 02:28 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

i've called fedor the rocky marciano of mma for a long time. :roll:

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Fjodorz
Date: July 17, 2010 at 02:33 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

JonnyF said:
No. Fedor is the closest the sport will ever see.
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He lost his fourth or fifth match already, Machida and Evans and Carwin made it out much further, so they would equal to be better than Fedor easily, they might finish their careers with only 1 loss, and they all lost to championship matches, where the opponent was the second best at that day, so there is no comparison.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: smartigan
Date: July 17, 2010 at 05:52 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

Fedor is the closest thing to Rocky we'l see for a long time

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: darcebandit
Date: July 17, 2010 at 08:34 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

We will never have one and I am very happy about it, our sport is too exciting and dangerous to have guys go on runs like that I think.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: cxcelica
Date: July 17, 2010 at 09:18 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

darcebandit said:
We will never have one and I am very happy about it, our sport is too exciting and dangerous to have guys go on runs like that I think.
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I disagree. I think it would be great for the sport to have a dominant run like that. As long as he was fighting the best out there, I think it would be tremendously exciting to watch it.
I guess boxing has Mayweather, who is the closest thing to Rocky Marciano.
The main difference though between MMA and Boxing is that you don't have the guady records in MMA. In MMA if you put together a 4-5 winning streak you are quickly picked up by a large organization and fighting some of the best out there. Whereas in boxing fighters spend alot of time beating lesser opponents, which result in a large win-loss record. Turn on any boxing card whether it beat Friday Night Fights or a PPV and you are likely to see guys you probably never even heard of sporting 26-2 records or 16-0 records. The way the fighters work up the ranks is completely different in each sport.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: darcebandit
Date: July 17, 2010 at 09:43 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/the-rocky-marciano-of-mma.27999/

cxcelica said:
darcebandit said:
We will never have one and I am very happy about it, our sport is too exciting and dangerous to have guys go on runs like that I think.
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I disagree. I think it would be great for the sport to have a dominant run like that. As long as he was fighting the best out there, I think it would be tremendously exciting to watch it.
I guess boxing has Mayweather, who is the closest thing to Rocky Marciano.
The main difference though between MMA and Boxing is that you don't have the guady records in MMA. In MMA if you put together a 4-5 winning streak you are quickly picked up by a large organization and fighting some of the best out there. Whereas in boxing fighters spend alot of time beating lesser opponents, which result in a large win-loss record. Turn on any boxing card whether it beat Friday Night Fights or a PPV and you are likely to see guys you probably never even heard of sporting 26-2 records or 16-0 records. The way the fighters work up the ranks is completely different in each sport.
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I doubt anyone will ever be 40-0 in mma against top competition, too much competition and upsets in MMA for that to happen. Look at the way MMA works, you defend your belt impressively 3 or 4 times and people call for you to move up in weight class, Lets say you do that and then win that belt and defend it impressively, then they will call for you to fight at an even higher weight class. Reason Fedor mounted such a big win streak is because he was fighting in so called super fights against Hong Man Choi and Matt Lindland and Mark Coleman and Mark Hunt and Brett Rogers and Tim Sylvia. If he wanted to be tested he should have dropped to 205 and see how he fares, I think he would be put into some very competitive fights very quickly and would not be surprised if he lost, I'd like to have seen him fight wanderlei or henderson or shogun in pride