James Irvin: The Spoiler?

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Posted by mikevolz

and could you please tell me who you have ranked in the top p4p list?

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Posted by mikevolz

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Posted by Figsak

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uhh?

since you do your research you should know that machida and anderson silva will probably never fight? considering how they are training partners and great friends? if silva permanently moves up to 205, machida will more than likely drop to 185.

ok bad match ups whatever. but i generally like to think that what happened about 3 and a half years ago, doesn't really apply to a fighter today, since a lot has changed since then. i mean by that logic we should be talking about how matt hughes is the best fighter on the planet right now, because of what he did in 2004. but whathave you. if you have 25 fights over the span of 8+ years, its fairly certain your going to have one bad fight, or two, or a few 'what the ****' moments. but if you want to go into his far past career, lets look at when he fought sakurai?

when he fought sakurai (someone i would consider a smart striker) sakurai was 20-0-2 with wins over trigg, uno, and azeredo.

he at the time was 5-1. with a loss to azeredo.

he won. he gave sakurai his first professional loss.


and could you please tell me who you have ranked in the top p4p list?

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Posted by Figsak

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Posted by mikevolz

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Posted by Figsak

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uhh?

since you do your research you should know that machida and anderson silva will probably never fight? considering how they are training partners and great friends? if silva permanently moves up to 205, machida will more than likely drop to 185.

ok bad match ups whatever. but i generally like to think that what happened about 3 and a half years ago, doesn't really apply to a fighter today, since a lot has changed since then. i mean by that logic we should be talking about how matt hughes is the best fighter on the planet right now, because of what he did in 2004. but whathave you. if you have 25 fights over the span of 8+ years, its fairly certain your going to have one bad fight, or two, or a few 'what the ****' moments. but if you want to go into his far past career, lets look at when he fought sakurai?

when he fought sakurai (someone i would consider a smart striker) sakurai was 20-0-2 with wins over trigg, uno, and azeredo.

he at the time was 5-1. with a loss to azeredo.

he won. he gave sakurai his first professional loss.


and could you please tell me who you have ranked in the top p4p list?

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I agree with you totally. I'm not arguing with anyone here I'm just voicing my opinion.

I used machida as a template as to they type of fighter that I THINK should give Silva problems.

And I already stated that I'm a little biased because of his poor performances in the past with Pride. I think Silva is good, he's definately gotten alot better and I'm ALMOST a fan, I just hear ppl talking about him being the best fighter p4p in the world ever and so forth and I have to vent about that.

You could look into my p4p rankings... I'll list them anyways.

1. Fedor
2. GSP
3. Silva
4. Penn
5. Rampage
6. Couture
7. Shogun
8. Faber
9. Gomi
10. Barnett

I rank individual weight classes based on records, the P4P ranking system I don't thin you can accurately use that system so I base my picks on who I think has the most natural skill and ability. I gave a few fighters so extra spots up for beating such solid competition, but as a base I used my view of their natural ability. I do have Silva ranked #1 in the LHW div. though.
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