1st
He’s wrong!!

HES RIGHT ITS GSP

Id like to see him gain weight and fight Rampage. Obviously theres nothing left to prove at 185

I say he is wrong. GSP is not as mentally strong as Silva. His mental strength (Silva) is one of his strongest attributes.

He thinks it’s Franklin.

once he learns english maybe!!!

[quote comment=”339747″]HES RIGHT ITS GSP[/quote]

NONONONONONONONONO.

GSP is a great fighter, but he ain’t pound 4 pound the best.

I agree with him. As of right now he may or may not be, but if he bumps up, or cuts down and dominates like he is now, then I would say yes!

Okay, GSP got knocked out once, has since come back and won 2 fights against 2 top ten guys. (in dominant fashion).. but yea, he’s still mentally weak..

1.) GSP
2.) Anderson Silva

It really is betwen him and GSP. Had GSP not lost to Serra he would be considered a GOD. Arguably GSP has faced harder copetition than Silva.

Who knows who is the best P4P.. it’s a toss up imo.

anderson has neva bieng knokd out.
PERIOD
ander 1
bj penn 2

he wouldnt of said it unless he knew it was true.

IMO

1fedor (until he gets beaten)
2SILVA
3GSP
4BJ PENN (he keeps it up and he will be 1 in no time)

[quote comment=”339793″]anderson has neva bieng knokd out.
PERIOD
ander 1
bj penn 2[/quote]

WW division >>>>>>>> MW division.

BJ Penn’s definitely in the conversation, but I think GSP and Silva are the clear numbers 1 and 2.

I would personally say:

GSP
Silva
Penn
Fedor

Thats just his way of making sure that he works hard when he trains.

sorry guys, Matt Serra > all

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrofl

Does anyone know where I can get the Sanchez fight?

Screw p4p Anderson Silva would beat anyone…..He’s the best, lets hope he moves up or down weight classes, if possible and really prove his mettle and take himself to another level.

I think Silva is #1 right now, but tomorrow it could very easily change. BJ Penn, GSP, Fedor are all up there.

As for Silva’s next opponent, I think Paulo Filho should be next, that would be a great fight! Dana has mentioned having fights between UFC and WEC champs in the future, and now is the time. I really don’t care to see Okami fight Silva, and it looks like GSP is going to be at 170 for a little while longer.

Disagree all you want, but at 185 Filho is the most logical opponent (to me), he is no walk in the park. He has the ability to keep this fight on the ground, and I don’t see him being submitted by Silva.

That being said, Silva is a true tested champion and since his UFC debut I have become a big fan. I think he would take this one by knockout.

[quote comment=”339751″]He thinks it’s Franklin. :)[/quote]
LOL

the term pound for pound best is tossed around in boxing far to often what we can truely say is he is in a class by himself at 185 he may not be the same guy at 205 or 170 but until he comes close to loosing or looses he is the man in this weight division. he is also in an elite class in showing humility and respect and people like that usually dont blow there own horn they always say im still learning every day.

wow!! so you guys are so in love with silva that your going contradict something only he can judge himself. he is whatever he considers himself to be in my eys ill will respect that always.

silva has a point, ur not best p4p until you have fought every1 available and you retire. not the kind of running-away-retiring that randy does, but the legit i-have-no1-else-to-fight retiring.

[quote comment=”339751″]He thinks it’s Franklin. :)[/quote]

ROFL!!!

Shut up Anderson, you are the best P4P fighter in the world…

Silva > Fedor

[quote comment=”339829″]wow!! so you guys are so in love with silva that your going contradict something only he can judge himself. he is whatever he considers himself to be in my eys ill will respect that always.[/quote]

I call that being humble, Fedor is the same way. If he went around saying he was the best in the world, he would sound like Melvin Guillard.

It’s difficult to gauge. He is the more dominant fighter, and probibly the most fine tuned striker this world has ever seen, but he isn’t as well rounded as a guy like GSP or BJ Penn. I don’t put Penn in there with Silva or GSP beceause of his conditioning (until he proves me wrong). It’s hard for me to se GSP getting beat by anyone in any spot. Standing, on the ground, in the clinch, from a distance, or in the wrestling game. Silva I still feel can be taken down and pounded out or submitted. Maby not by anybody in the world @ middleweight now, but somebody, somewhere, sometime may be able to beat him. It is very difficult to figure who is really the best pound-for-pound, but if these two fought I’d have to give the edge to Silva. But in all fairness I have no idea.

[quote comment=”339747″]HES RIGHT ITS GSP[/quote]
LOL… Dude barely beat BJ and got BEATEN down by Serra… You really think he has shit on Silva.

GSP is great and dominating, but Silva is straight up lethal…

–I know u guys have all this hate towards fedor because he didnt sign a precious contract w UFC, but You guys really need to give him his dues. Go watch some of his past fights, especially if u like anderson silva! Hes just like him but bigger and stronger.
He can beat you with a punch, a kick or a submission! it will make you think twice about not ranking him the best. He unlike others is proven and has beaten the best! the UFCs best HW is noguera right now, and he not only beat him once, but multiple times! He might not be the best in many readers minds and those silly yahoo rankings (which btw i think that top 10 ranking is just a popularity contest IMO)but theres a reason why he is considered the best by the the opinions that truly matter, and thats the fighters opinions!

Anderson Silva is the Bruce Lee of MMA, think about it.

Maybe UFC should pull a Pride card and have a tournament where weight has no boundries. Make up a new title…Pound for Pound Champion.

As far as who is the best pound for pound…have to say Silva. Would be nice to see a GSP/Silva showdown.

[quote comment=”339895″][quote comment=”339747″]HES RIGHT ITS GSP[/quote]
LOL… Dude barely beat BJ and got BEATEN down by Serra… You really think he has shit on Silva.

GSP is great and dominating, but Silva is straight up lethal…[/quote]

You took the words straight out of my mouth.

GSP is great at beating wrestlers, and that’s where all of his big wins have come from, but he only won a split decision vs an unmotivated Penn and was KO’d by Serra.

Silva is the top P4P fighter in the sport right now, beating fighters of a variety of different styles, and doing so convincingly.

[quote comment=”339937″]–I know u guys have all this hate towards fedor because he didnt sign a precious contract w UFC, but You guys really need to give him his dues. Go watch some of his past fights, especially if u like anderson silva! Hes just like him but bigger and stronger.
He can beat you with a punch, a kick or a submission! it will make you think twice about not ranking him the best. He unlike others is proven and has beaten the best! the UFCs best HW is noguera right now, and he not only beat him once, but multiple times! He might not be the best in many readers minds and those silly yahoo rankings (which btw i think that top 10 ranking is just a popularity contest IMO)but theres a reason why he is considered the best by the the opinions that truly matter, and thats the fighters opinions![/quote]
How is Fedor proven. Sure he proved himself in the past but its been two and a half years since he beat a legit opponet (Cro Cop Augsut 05). Silva on the other hand has been facing top midddleweight contender every 3-5 months. You can’t consider yourself a top pound for pound if you decided you don’t want to fight anyone good anymore.

Fedor is still the best p4p in mma. I know he hasn’t fought the best competetion in mma lately but he’s still the best. Jordan took 2 and a half years off of basketball. Was he still not the best basketball player then?

yeah silva is automatic. no chance of mistake. it seems that he is the kind of fighter who will never be upset (i.e. serra and GSP) because of his out-of-this-world technique and focused yet easy going mindset

I agree silva is the best p4p because he’s proven it against top competition recently but Urijah Faber and fedor are right up there too.

I’m a huge GSP fans since his first fight with the UCC and i don’t think he is the best P4P for now… but he’s still young and he becomes better and better fight after fight.

Silva
GSP
Fedor
Penn

k gsp is not even a real champ, penn will barely beat sherk, silva is great, but fedor owns all

24 hrs ago I wouldn’t have said he was the #1 P4P in the world. But he just dominated Hendo. Rampage couldn’t finish him and Silva did.

I think Silva and Fedor are real close right now. I consider Fedor #2 just because he hasn’t faced a top 5 heavyweight in a few years (I blame this more on politics than Fedor). Thing with these two is that when the opportunity to finish is there they can take it like no one else in the sport can. Submission or KO, when that door is open, they walk right through.

I put GSP #3. Needs to prove Serra was a fluke.
BJ #4. Hasn’t beat a top 5 in awhile, but the skills are there.

i reckon BJ Penn is the best P4P.

when Silva makes a run for the 205 then and only then will we be able to gauge if he’s top P4P. i think Silva needs to perform well against bigger dudes first. the problem is that the LHW division is flatout STACKED with great fighters.

[quote comment=”339955″][quote comment=”339895″][quote comment=”339747″]HES RIGHT ITS GSP[/quote]
LOL… Dude barely beat BJ and got BEATEN down by Serra… You really think he has shit on Silva.

GSP is great and dominating, but Silva is straight up lethal…[/quote]

You took the words straight out of my mouth.[/quote]Agree! 100%!

[quote comment=”339747″]HES RIGHT ITS GSP[/quote]
Silva said post fight he may drop weight. So we will see if GSP truely is the better P$P fighter. Im not a big silva fan but he truely is in my mind the best P4P fighter out there. His standup is truely on a different level than anyone else in the UFC.

i m pretty sure hes being a bit humble but there are good fighters out there ,,hey i truly agree w the gent who said he should nt even shed go in at his actual weight 200 its only 5 lbs less then 205 ,u can be 5 lbs under ????cant u ?? i think he takes that belt too …or would that hurt danas cash cow somehow???ANDERSON …ITS TIME TO GO TO 205 …I DONT THINK U CAN LOSE 15 LBS TO GO TO 170???CAN U????

AFTER SEEN HIM IN THE CAGE WITH HENDERSON EVERYONE DOES. MAN EVEN RAMPAGE COULDNT DO IT I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY SILVAS PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gsp is not in silvas level silva will kill him he lost to matt serra who the hell his he i man he is a good fighter but gsp was supposed to run through him but didnt the fight i want to see is Rampage vs silva but the again Silva coms out on top i just dont see any one wining silva or andeson silva va wanderlei silva and the winer is anderson silva

I think Silva is the best pound for pound. I think GSP would have to beat Matt Serra and then defend his title a few times, maybe against Fitch and then someone else, before being the best pound for pound.

silva is great, but lets see how gsp does against serra and then we could say if he is the best or not. put a conditioned penn back at 185 and we have one of the best fights ever.want a wild card fighter for silva, cung le after his fight with frank shamrock, this kid has what it takes for some excitement in the ufc, not that there isnt any, just saying. filho is good but to short to fight silva, he’d get worked, great height for those wicked silva knees.

I think you could easily make a case for Urijah Favor being the best pound for pound fighter. It’s hard to put one over the other. They are both incredibly dominate. I think the difference with those two guys is they are “super athletes”. I think when you find people like this you could put them in almost any sport and they would excel.

[quote comment=”339778″]Okay, GSP got knocked out once, has since come back and won 2 fights against 2 top ten guys. (in dominant fashion).. but yea, he’s still mentally weak..

1.) GSP
2.) Anderson Silva[/quote]

Okay, Anderson has never been knocked out and since defended his title 4 straight times FINISHING ALL OF THEM IN DOMINANT FASHION (well if it wasn’t for lutter’s lazy ass not making weight). Anderson is also cleared out his division. There is NO one left for him to fight. GSP still has Serra, Fitch, and a rematch with Penn.

1. Silva
2. Penn
3. Fedor
4. GSP

Yushin Okami is the best, hell he already beat him in pride.

If GSP is the best pound for pound fighter thah he wouldn’t have lost to Serra.

Read the other opinions and heres my list for P4P. It will probably take a year or so for most of you guys to agree with me but id say once all the dust settles it looks like this in the MMA history books:
#1) BJ Penn
2)Anderson
3)Fedor
4)GSP
5)Leonard Garcia . . . LoL! Im funny! Loosen up . . . Top Four Stand though.

How is Fedor proven. Sure he proved himself in the past but its been two and a half years since he beat a legit opponet (Cro Cop Augsut 05). Silva on the other hand has been facing top midddleweight contender every 3-5 months. You can’t consider yourself a top pound for pound if you decided you don’t want to fight anyone good anymore.[/quote]

–Again, if you have to ask “how is fedor proven”, then you need to see some of his fights. What gives you the idea he doesnt want to “fight anyone good anymore”??? Have u already forgotten that all hes been wanting to do is make that randy fight happen! Up until he fought lindland, matt was being touted as one of the best pound for pound, but when fedor easily beats him, people start finding excuses that he was too small for fedor etc.
The problem is hes just simply running out of guys to prove himself against! what is he supposed to do, fight the UFC champ noguera YET AGAIN lol…

BTW…i wouldnt call a 6-0 record exceptionally well just yet! same goes on him beating franklin 2. Franklin almost lost to okami and he got destroyed my machida!–

[quote comment=”340210″]If GSP is the best pound for pound fighter thah he wouldn’t have lost to Serra.[/quote]

Yea, yea, keep pointing out the one fight he lost, but ignore ALL of the fights he won in dominant fashion. It’s not like his last 7 fights were against top 10 guys or anything…

when Silva makes a run for the 205 then and only then will we be able to gauge if he’s top P4P. i think Silva needs to perform well against bigger dudes first. the problem is that the LHW division is flatout STACKED with great fighters.[/quote]

–WELL SAID!

[quote comment=”339973″]Fedor is still the best p4p in mma. I know he hasn’t fought the best competetion in mma lately but he’s still the best. Jordan took 2 and a half years off of basketball. Was he still not the best basketball player then?[/quote]

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[quote comment=”339749″]I say he is wrong. GSP is not as mentally strong as Silva. His mental strength (Silva) is one of his strongest attributes.[/quote]

you are right, Silva is just one mentally strong dude and he seems to train harder for each fight

I wanted Hendo to win so they would bring Filho from WEC in to fight him…. Better match up but Silva man I was pretty impressed with his showing last nite, I have no question he might be the best pound for pound right now in this given time. Things change for example, Liddell was king until he got raped by rampage. Give it time.

Speaking of Liddell, I hope Silva goes to LHW and kicks his ass.

Honestly, who’s the say who is the best pound for pound? THERE IS NO REAL WAY TO TELL! Boxing is much easier to giva an opinion because it is one dimentional. But MMA? Too many variables and technique (striking, wrestling, BJJ, …).
Obviously, the TOP 4 P4P fighters in the world, IN NO SPECIFIC order:

The Last Emperor
GSP
The Prodigy
The Spider

Anyone Ranking them from 1st to last is basicly PURE OPINION! To all you Fedor haters out there who say he ain’t Top 4 P4P because of the lack of quality oponents or he’s “ducking” competition: GO READ WHAT OTHER FIGHTERS ARE SAYING PUBLICLY! NO ONE (including Barnett) WANTS TO FIGHT HIM!!! Right now, Randy is ONE OF the only fighters who is willing to at this moment. There are others, but not many.

[quote comment=”340248″]How is Fedor proven. Sure he proved himself in the past but its been two and a half years since he beat a legit opponet (Cro Cop Augsut 05). Silva on the other hand has been facing top midddleweight contender every 3-5 months. You can’t consider yourself a top pound for pound if you decided you don’t want to fight anyone good anymore.[/quote]

–Again, if you have to ask “how is fedor proven”, then you need to see some of his fights. What gives you the idea he doesnt want to “fight anyone good anymore”??? Have u already forgotten that all hes been wanting to do is make that randy fight happen! Up until he fought lindland, matt was being touted as one of the best pound for pound, but when fedor easily beats him, people start finding excuses that he was too small for fedor etc.
The problem is hes just simply running out of guys to prove himself against! what is he supposed to do, fight the UFC champ noguera YET AGAIN lol…

BTW…i wouldnt call a 6-0 record exceptionally well just yet! same goes on him beating franklin 2. Franklin almost lost to okami and he got destroyed my machida!–[/quote]

Not taking ANYTHING away from Silva, but Silva has been facing Top middleweights every 3 to 5 months?!?!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHA

Ok lets numerate them:
1) Leben, Top middleweight? HAHAHA
2) Franklin, I’ll gibe you this one, a great champion
3) Lutter, HAHAHAHAHHAHA What a joke
4) Marquart, SO-SO legitimate, definately not TOP
5) Franklin, Not top middleweight anymore, everyone knew coming in that he was gonna lose the fight BAD
6) Hendo, BIGGEST TEST SO FAR, and victorious, congrads to Silva, he deserved it.

So that’s 2 TOP middleweights out of 6 fights.

I dont’ think that andesron silva should drop weight… cuz the only person that would be a contender would be GSP… and it would be too much weight to cut for anderson he sits at 215 in his last article… and the WW division isn’t that stacked… its owned my hughes and GSP… Matt Sara just got lucky with that connect….. Fitch is good but he’s no were near GSP good…. fitch stand up is no where near as good as GSP or his wreslting…. Anderson silva should go to 205 after he beats okami…and even then i think he has a good chance to beat almost everyone in that division.. only threat is Rampage… everyon else silva will walk through… especially liddell

[quote comment=”340210″]If GSP is the best pound for pound fighter thah he wouldn’t have lost to Serra.[/quote]
Thats means you would argue me and my opinion of Penn being best P4P with “If Penn was the best P4Per he wouldnt have lost a decision at 205lbs to Lyotto Machida . . .” No one besides Penn out of the four contenders for this P4P title has even tried to change weight classes at all, ever. While Penn has faught in all of them.
155lbs-Current UFC Champion
170lbs-Former UFC Champion(And will be again with in 2 years)
185lbs- (2-0) (Beating An Undefeated Rodrigo Gracie In Penns First Fight at 185lbs & Renzo Gracie In 2006)
205lbs- (0-1) Losing To An Undefeated And Still Undefeated Lyotto Machida In A Decision. (Penn Thinks He Won This Fight And Still See’s It That Way) (REMATCH) . . . Someday.

Here’s my rankings:
1. Anderson Silva
2. Georges St. Pierre
3. Rampage Jackson
4. Fedor Emelianenko
5. Tiger Woods (Nine iron to the nutsack can finish a fight)

Danny Abbadi > Anderson Silva

I’d like to see Silva beat a few other big names before I say he’s the best pound for pound, only problem is there are none in MW.

definately nothing to prove at middleweight anymore. This guy is just lethal and finishes everyone the second an opening comes up. Great fight last night. If he was to drop to vs gsp i think st piere would be in big trouble. If he goes to LH there are many great challenges for him ie. iceman, tiago silva, W silva, Rampage. All of these would be main event fights. I can’t see the need to stay in MW anymore he has proven himself! If he captures LH belt in future definately best p4p. 4 belts and counting…

I think you have to say right now silva is the best pound for pound, there is no question marks over his ability in any area in my opinion, yeah theres the argument that hes vurnerable to ground and pound at times, but hes been on his back to hendo now and received very little damage!

He has previously finished fights from there. I do think Bj is next hes the most naturally complex fighter i have ever seen. GSP has a bit to prove for me yet, hes got shaky jaw and has to prove this isnt an issue.

Next fight for silva, step up to 205 and fight the ICEMAN in London!! how good would that be, it would be a stand up fight for sure and atleast then we would know how good his stand up really is!! I dont see him beating the likes of Liddell standing!!

What do you guys think??

Bring back Lindland, he is the only one left.

[quote comment=”340329″][quote comment=”340248″]How is Fedor proven. Sure he proved himself in the past but its been two and a half years since he beat a legit opponet (Cro Cop Augsut 05). Silva on the other hand has been facing top midddleweight contender every 3-5 months. You can’t consider yourself a top pound for pound if you decided you don’t want to fight anyone good anymore.[/quote]

–Again, if you have to ask “how is fedor proven”, then you need to see some of his fights. What gives you the idea he doesnt want to “fight anyone good anymore”??? Have u already forgotten that all hes been wanting to do is make that randy fight happen! Up until he fought lindland, matt was being touted as one of the best pound for pound, but when fedor easily beats him, people start finding excuses that he was too small for fedor etc.
The problem is hes just simply running out of guys to prove himself against! what is he supposed to do, fight the UFC champ noguera YET AGAIN lol…

BTW…i wouldnt call a 6-0 record exceptionally well just yet! same goes on him beating franklin 2. Franklin almost lost to okami and he got destroyed my machida!–[/quote]

Not taking ANYTHING away from Silva, but Silva has been facing Top middleweights every 3 to 5 months?!?!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHA

Ok lets numerate them:
1) Leben, Top middleweight? HAHAHA
2) Franklin, I’ll gibe you this one, a great champion
3) Lutter, HAHAHAHAHHAHA What a joke
4) Marquart, SO-SO legitimate, definately not TOP
5) Franklin, Not top middleweight anymore, everyone knew coming in that he was gonna lose the fight BAD
6) Hendo, BIGGEST TEST SO FAR, and victorious, congrads to Silva, he deserved it.

So that’s 2 TOP middleweights out of 6 fights.[/quote]

You laugh at the fight with Lutter, but think about this. Which fighter in your above list was able to put Silva in the most danger?

Answer: Lutter had Silva mounted and was raining down UN ANSWERED punches. Silva survived because he is a champion, but that fight was close to being stopped right there.

Henderson may have won the first round last Saturday, but he never had Silva in any serious danger, except for briefly getting side control.

Henderson did no better than anybody else on your list, so far Lutter was the greatest test.

Going out on a limb here however as good as Silva is I believe he is overrated at this time. We need to see more quality fights from Silva to really judge just how good a fighter he is. Silva is surely a well rounded MMA fighter however I would like to see him up against someone with the wrestling skills and gnd and pnd like GSPS or the well rounded BJ Penn. HE is great for the sport , a real class act and mentally tough but he has not fought the quality fighters in MMA as GSP,BJ Penn or Randy Couture has. His match with Hendo was a test as he clearly lost the first round. In my mind if Hendo sticks to taking him down and smothering him like the first round he wins this fight easily. Silva could not defend Hendos takedowns and looked helpless on the bottom accept blocking punches. Hendo decided to trade strikes and we all know what happens when fighters try that with Silva. I would also like to see what Silva’s cardio is like when taken to the distance. I do not think Silva could handle 5 rounds of take downs and gnd and pnd from a top MMA fighter as you have to have the ability to defend take downs. I keep mentioning the ground work because to truly be the best you have to have this in MMA today. there is no doubt that Silva is the best striker in MMA today however to say that he is the best pound for pound is a little premature. this is in no way meant to discredit Silva as we just need to see more top quality fighters against him. I could very well be wrong so lets see what happens in the future. My opinion comes from an athlete who has been around for over 30 years and not a fan. I am a fan of MMA and do agree with Silva’s statement.

Pound for pound? Possibly Silva right now. However, GSP is young and in a couple of years i don’t think we’ll be able to argue that he is the best pound for pound fighter in the world. Lets not forget also, the WW division is much deeper than the MW one.

Saying that Franklin is more of a champion than Hendo is totally inaccurate. Why Silva said this does not make sense unless he is just referring to UFC fighters as the top contenders. Fanklin is good however not in the same class as Hendo. Hendo is more well rounded and I would like to see them fight in the future. This is just my opinion and is not meant to discredit ACE.

Urijah Faber

I am a huge GSP fan, but in all fairness, he has yet to even successfully defend his welterweight title. This has to exclude him from the top spot on the Pound 4 pound list.

I say:
#1 would be Silva

#2 Fedor, he is the most unbeatable fighter, but Silva has proven himself against much better opponents in the past 2 years so he has to get the top spot.

#3 BJ Penn. In a recent Rampage interview they asked Rampage who the #1 P4P fighter in the sport was and he said, without a doubt its BJ Penn

#4: GSP, he hasnt proved it as a champion yet, because he has never won a title defense, but he has gone through the best of the welterweight division since joining the UFC back at UFC SuperNatural, where he dominated Karo in a decision win.

[quote comment=”339826″]the term pound for pound best is tossed around in boxing far to often what we can truely say is he is in a class by himself at 185 he may not be the same guy at 205 or 170 but until he comes close to loosing or looses he is the man in this weight division. he is also in an elite class in showing humility and respect and people like that usually dont blow there own horn they always say im still learning every day.[/quote]

i agree anderson silva is the best middle weight fighter in the world but, until he becomes champion in another weight class, which he might, i wouldnt consider him pound for pound.

GSP doesn’t have the edge that Silva has. His mind was somewhere else when he fought Serra, same as it was when he fought Hughes first time round.

Silva is THE dominating force in his weight class and the belt will be his until he decides to retire or move division.
He has beaten all the guys put in front of him and IMO he will beat Okami or Wanderlei if he does drop to 185.

[quote comment=”339748″]Id like to see him gain weight and fight Rampage. Obviously theres nothing left to prove at 185[/quote]

LINDLAND

1. Silva
2. GSP
3. BJ Penn
4. Fedor

(All 4 are well rounded in stand up and the ground game)

Silva has proven he’s one of the greatest. No doubt about it. It would be great to see him compete above or below his weight class, but beating Dan proves alot. After Okami, the only other person I can see is Lindland.

Rampage needs to avenge his losses against Wanderlei till I consider him up there. Yea, he may have beat Chuck, and Chuck beat Wanderlei, but still, he got straight beat down by Wanderlei twice. Needs to work on his ground game and be more well rounded.

GSP needs to win his title back and defend it a few times against, Karo, Fitch, and Penn to be considered where Silva is.

Fedor needs to fight Couture, Arlovski, or someone with some credibility instead of someone like Choi.

When I think of the best “pound for pound” fighter, I think of either someone that moves between wieght classes with great success, or, in most cases, by its literal meaning - POUND FOR POUND. That means that it can not be Fedor. Fedor wieghs like 235 pounds, about 20 of it being love handles, belly, and man boobs. He is wasting like 20 lbs of himself. On the other hand, Anderson Silva is a shredded 185 lbs. So, if you were to take Anderson Silva and turn him into a HW, he would end up looking like Kongo, no wasted wieght on his body. On the other hand, if Fedor was morphed into a MW, he would look like the fat kid in gym class that gets picked last in dodge ball.

Plus, it is very hard for a HW to prove that he’s the best pound for pound, because they can’t fight anyone bigger than themselves. However, a MW, can move up in weight and defeat larger fighters.

[quote comment=”341050″]Saying that Franklin is more of a champion than Hendo is totally inaccurate. Why Silva said this does not make sense unless he is just referring to UFC fighters as the top contenders. Fanklin is good however not in the same class as Hendo. Hendo is more well rounded and I would like to see them fight in the future. This is just my opinion and is not meant to discredit ACE.[/quote]

I have no idea why Anderson Silva made that statement, and it irritated me. What did Rich do in either of those fights to show anything? NOTHING. Dan Henderson won round 1 against Silva on 100 out of 100 scorecards. Even Momma Spider gave round 1 to Hendo. Rich Franklin has done nothing but get his nose and face rearranged by Silva.

I am hoping that Okami gets the title shot, but its not the main event of a PPV, hopefully there will be two titles on the line for that event (HIGHLY unlikely), or have a “Liddell/Shogun” type of match up on the card as well, meaning a non championship fight that is worthy of being a main event.

Then I am rooting for Franklin to beat Lutter, setting up a fight between Dan Henderson and Rich Franklin. I REALLY want to see Hendo lay the smack down on Franklin and shut Anderson Silva up. In the prefight interviews, did anyone else want to strangle Anderson Silva when he said something like “Hahaha, that’s impossible, hahaha” when he was told that Dan said that he’d beat him.

[quote comment=”341087″][quote comment=”339826″]the term pound for pound best is tossed around in boxing far to often what we can truely say is he is in a class by himself at 185 he may not be the same guy at 205 or 170 but until he comes close to loosing or looses he is the man in this weight division. he is also in an elite class in showing humility and respect and people like that usually dont blow there own horn they always say im still learning every day.[/quote]

i agree anderson silva is the best middle weight fighter in the world but, until he becomes champion in another weight class, which he might, i wouldnt consider him pound for pound.[/quote]

So in that case, who do you have as your top 3 pound for pound fighters? Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, and BJ Penn? Because those are the guys to hold belts in multiple weight classes.