Rank them according their absolute best

[NZB2323]

CPT, your tournament has 43 wins and 47 loses. Did you mean to have Big Nog at 7-2?

[CPT]

CPT, your tournament has 43 wins and 47 loses. Did you mean to have Big Nog at 7-2?

I'll have to double check. There's a chance I gave both guys losses in some of the closer fights.

[CPT]

CPT, your tournament has 43 wins and 47 loses. Did you mean to have Big Nog at 7-2?

You're right. I'm not sure how you figured out it was supposed to be Big Nog at 7-2 though.

I had him beating Lesnar (prime Nog would have taken whatever Brock dished out and found a sub) and JDS (tougher call, but the master/student thing going on, and prime Nog was just impossible to put away...could play out as a come from behind sub, a la CroCop)

[Gregoire]

CPT, your tournament has 43 wins and 47 loses. Did you mean to have Big Nog at 7-2?

You're right. I'm not sure how you figured out it was supposed to be Big Nog at 7-2 though.

I had him beating Lesnar (prime Nog would have taken whatever Brock dished out and found a sub) and JDS (tougher call, but the master/student thing going on, and prime Nog was just impossible to put away...could play out as a come from behind sub, a la CroCop)

Could you include Cormier into the matrix? His record will be?

[CPT]

I'm a little uncomfortable making this statement, because he's still relatively unproven compared to most guys on this list (though dominant wins over Barnett, Mir, Nelson, Big Foot are not a bad start), but I kind of think he'd beat everyone, with Cain and Fedor obviously being really tough fights. Prime Nog would be a tough test as well, but I think he'd win the standup.

The thing is, I think he has either a striking or wrestling advantage over every guy on the list, and in some cases both. Having the wrestling advantage will let him wrestle the strikers and box with the grapplers, so it's hard to pick against him.

Again though, I'm not quite ready to proclaim Daniel Cormier is the best HW of all time (not greatest/most accomplished), but when I look at it this way, I guess that's what I'm doing.

[Gregoire]

My top peaks HW:

Velasquez
Fedor
Cormier
JDS
BigNog
CroCop
Overeem
Barnett