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Matt Hughes vs. BJ "The Prodigy" Penn

Randy "The Natural" Couture vs. Wanderlei "The Axe Murderer" Silva

Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell vs. Tito "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Ortiz

Royce Gracie vs. Fedor Emelianenko


I'll give it another week or so again before moving to the semi-finals. Let the voting begin...

This elite 8 is a joke but here it goes.

BJ
Randy
IceMan
Fedor

penn
silva
Chuck
Fedor

BJ
Vanderlei
Chuck
Fedor
Anson

Hughes
Wanderlei
Chuck
Fedor

Penn
Wandy
Chuck
Fedor

Penn (hardest pick by far, i only pick Penn bc he is about to beat GSP, and imo beat him the first time)
Wanderlei
not voting on the 3rd, b/c not sure how either are near the best ever
Fedor

nevermind, just checked your last thread. WTF is up with people voting BJ over Nog, and Chuck over Barnett?

*edit* read first thread again, this is going on best career's not who is the better fighter apparently, so this is how it would go.


Hughes (Nog should be here)
Wanderlei
neither (Barnett should be here)
Fedor

How can you possibly not consider Chuck near the top of the best ever list? He has beaten Tito twice, Randy twice (only person to ever KO Randy, and he did it twice), Jeremy Horn, Wanderlei Silva, Alistair Overeem, Babalu twice, Vitor Belfort, Maurilo Bustimante, Guy Metzger, Kevin Randleman (when he was still good), and Jeff Monson. That is a heck of a list. Not to mention all his losses have come to quality opponents.

You could certainly make a compelling case for Barnett to be in his spot, but Chuck is clearly one of the best ever.

because the only elite fighters he ever beat were Silva, Overeem, and I guess Randy if you consider him elite. Guy was at the end of his career with his weak chin when Chuck took him out. That fight was also much more competitive than it should have been if Chuck is really great. The rest are either significantly overrated just because they fought in the earlier days (Randleman, Busta, Vitor), over-the-hill in their fight (Horn), or just not that good like Monson and Babalu.

The Vitor fight isn't really an accomplishment for Chuck, he barely beat Vitor just like Tito barely beat Vitor.

he made his career killing grapplers who were afraid to get KO'd. His complacency to get the KO has ruined him as a fighter, and has taken away from what he really is, a wrestler. He is one of the best wrestlers in the LHW division and he never takes anyone down because he thinks his stupid looping punches will KO people.

BJ Penn
Silva
Chuck
Graycie (I'm not on the Fedor bandwagon for now!!)