Unlike a lot of other people tend to make weak statements about WHY their favorite will get the W, also they tend to look at only one aspect of the game.
Here's my case for Wanderlei over Chuck, hate it or love it.
1. Wanderlei has faced world class strikers where he was the smaller fighter, Mark Hunt pack an enormous amount of power and still couldn't finish Wanderlei standing up. That's a statement about Wanderleis chin. Remember that at the times this was a hughe upset, plus Mark wighed more than 90 lbs.
2. Mirko and Wanderlei fought, the rules prevented extensive ground work. This almoste made it a K-1 fight, still Wanderlei wasn't finished by CC. All of this was years ago, Wanderlei has improved greatly.
3. Wanderlei survived great grapplers such as Arona and Sakuraba, Arona proved a difficult test and was overlooked the first time IMO. The second fight was too soon IMO, has it been 6 months inbetween we would have seen another result. He knocked out Saku BAD all times they fought.
4. Wanderlei picked Quinton apart. Even though Quintons strength wasn't used a lot he didn't look impressive against Wanderlei. Yet he finished Chuck, I swear I even heard Chuck making strange pain sounds when Quinton was beating on him.
5. Wanderlei is a Muay Thai fighter, that's what Chute Boxe is, Value Tudo Muay Thai.
The elbows is nothing new to him, he's probably got MT coaches right now teaching him how to split skulls open standing. The stomps and downed kicks doesn't matter, it'll probably not go to the ground anyways.
I make a solid case.
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