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This poll is legally binding: Where does Fedor rank?
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edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Bluedeanie posted:

Fedor was a top 10 heavyweight in the world in his prime. He was maybe even a top 5 heavyweight. I am highly doubtful he was ever the best in the world in the early 2000s and anyone who thinks he is the greatest of all time belongs in some sort of longterm mental health care facility after getting their rear end beat by Batman and/or Robin, or perhaps Batgirl depending on circumstances.

I mean, I guess it's not that different from many fighters that had a period of dominance in their division in their prime - he had a window where he was among the upper echelon and the sport eventually caught up to, and the surpassed him. It's a story as old as time, really.

It just so happens that he's also a lovely person surrounding himself with lovely people, and an example of the internet's inability to consider nuance, where everything is either shittiest lovely poo poo that ever got shat out onto creation by the god of poo poo, or the greatest great that ever greated in the history of greatness, birthed by the very greatest god of greatness itself with absolutely no middle ground.

edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Feb 18, 2023

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