[Raoh God and Conqueror]

Fedor = Federer on grass

If mma guys fought as often as tennis players competed there'd be a lot more (off days) losses for the big guns.

[ERTboXer]

You cant compare mma to sports like golf, baseball football etc.
Mma is an incredibly physical demanding sport.
If you compare fedor to top sprinters etc etc sports where you get nowhere without perfect genetics (and arguably some extra medicaments in addition), there is still a long way to go for mma. When there is a talent pool of some million teenagers that wanna become fighters only the biggest talents will get through. Will probably happen in the future.

[Mick Bianchi]

Originally Posted by dkickboxer

I find it very hard to compare Fedor, in the relatively young and small sport of mma, to such greats as Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretzky, Micheal Jordan, or Joe Montana, who were all in much more well established sports drawing from much larger talent pools. Also, there really is not as much of a precedence set in mma compared to other sports. It seems like it would be more fair to compare Fedor to someone like Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig, but still not truly fair.

Good point.
Still, I disagree.
Simply because the guy's fighting smarts, overall technic , style are more than impressive.
10 or 20 years from now, this ain't gonna change.
Fedor will be "the" reference.

It's like Maradona in Soccer..
or today's maestro in tennis (federer)..
In terms of skills... He's in a league of his own.

Years from now, mma will probably have more "well rounded" fighters.
More guys like Penn, st Pierre etc.
But there are things you can't teach. what makes the difference between fedor and the rest is what goes inside his head.

We're lucky to see a guy like this in his prime.

[humungusmma]

Originally Posted by Lurifax

Sorry, but Roger Federer is waaaay more dominant and a far better athlete than Fedor. Federer is taking on several top 10 players each and every month - and he's beating them all (well Nadal sometimes being the exception). This year he has won Australian Open and Wimbledon and was a finalist at the French Open, all of them tournaments comparable to winning a mma hw grand prix - except the talent pool in tennis is much, much deeper.

Depends on how you define dominance. How many of his opponents have to be carried off the tennis court in a stretcher?

[dkickboxer]

I was just trying to say that it would be more accurate to compare Fedor to the record setters in their respective sports like maybe a Joe Namath, or Babe Ruth, or Gordie Howe. The record setters, not the players who demolished those records. You have to remeber how long comparitively mma has been around. It is still in its infancy compared to baseball, football, hockey, hockey, etc.

[dkickboxer]

btw he aint no Wayne Gretzky, but then again Gretz was and is the best hockey player ever.

[Doomer]

Originally Posted by Lurifax

well Nadal sometimes being the exception.

Not sometimes, almost always, since it's 6-2 for Nadal against Federer.

Fedor is in top class.

[chamchamtrigger]

Fedor could beat Michael Jordan in basketball.

[BrianJr31]

Originally Posted by Bongzilla

it's very hard to compare MMA to Footbal, Basketball or other Team Games...

it might be a good idea to compare his dominance of MMA to other athletes' dominance of single player sports such as Tennis, Golf, Boxing etc.

just to answer the threadstarter i would say he could be a bill russel in MMA at its early years.

Well put.

[Lurifax]

Originally Posted by Doomer

Not sometimes, almost always, since it's 6-2 for Nadal against Federer.

Fedor is in top class.

Out of the 6 victories to Nadal, I think 4 of them have been on clay. So you can't just say that Nadal almost always beats Federer. On clay, sure. But anyway, the point is, that Federer is a far better and more dominant athlete than Fedor -the competition in tennis is so much harder than in mma, and Federer is still winning almost all Grand Slams and major tournaments (except on clay).