MMA Live Episode Twelve

Jul 31, 2008 6:18 PM John Chandler

From ESPN, here’s this week’s installment of MMA Live with Jon Anik, Franklin McNeil, and special guest Frank Mir as usual analyst Kenny Florian is off preparing for his upcoming lightweight bout against Roger Huerta at UFC 87: Seek and Destroy next weekend.

Media • ESPN • Frank Mir

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1. toodiesel
Aug 1, 2008 12:55 PM

let me preface this by saying I’m a wuss and don’t fight:

I think Frank, usually a very cerebral and spot on commentator, missed some points about Fedor in the p4p rankings.

Fedor, like Frank, fights in the freakshow division of combative sports, heavyweight, where in the US there’s *only* a 60 lb discrepancy, but there’s gnerally no limit internationally, where Fedor’s fought the bulk of his career. He’s hitting guys that sometimes outweigh him by more than 35 lbs and the consensus from these fighters is, most of whom have been known to take a punch, is that they don’t can’t handle power from Fedor as they would normally from other fights.

You’d think that would translate, or become even more pronounced if you shrunk him to 155 lbs - a division that limits its fighters by about 10 lbs (155 lbs, with a 145 lb in existence).

With fighters like GSP, and Anderson Silva, they’ve fought primarily guys in their weight division only, so there’s no mass of evidence for their p4p greatness.

This is also, among others, of why I think BJ Penn or Fedor should be the argument, not Fedor or Anderson Silva.