GOAT talk - High Level Strikers, High Level Grapplers, Anderson, & Fedor

Anderson - High-level Strikers

Vitor Belfort
- Professional Boxing 1-0
- One of the top MMA-strikers of all time - 16 KO's - 70% KO percentage
- UFC LHW Champion


Fedor - High-level Strikers

Semmy Schilt
- 5X K-1 World GP Champion
- 2X Daido Juku (Kudo) OW Champion
Mirko Filipović
- 2X K-1 GP Runner Up
- 2006 PRIDE World OW GP Champion
- 2012 K-1 World HW GP Champion
Mark Hunt
- K-1 HW GP Champion
Andrei Arlovski 
- UFC HW Champion Interim UFC HW Champion
- Silver Medal World Sambo Championships
Pedro Rizzo
- 3x #1 Contender Fighting for UFC HW Championship
- World Vale Tudo SF Champion
Lee Hasdell
- WKA British SMW Kickboxing Champion
- BIKMA British LHW Thai Boxing Champion
- K-1 fighter


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Anderson - High-level Grapplers

Jeremy Horn 
- 60 MMA sumission wins
Carlos Newton
- Canadian Jiu-Jitsu Champion (3 times) (including Open Weight Champion)
- Canadian Pankration Champion (2 times)
- UFC Welterweight Championship (One time)
- UFC 17 Middleweight Tournament Runner Up
Travis Lutter
- Purple Belt 3rd place Heavyweight BJJ World Championships
- Purple Belt 3rd place Heavyweight Pan-American Games
Dan Henderson
- 2X US Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling Team Member
- Pan American Greco-Roman Wresling Champion
Demian Maia
- ADCC Champion
- 2X CBJJ World Champion
- CBJJ Brazilian Champion
Chael Sonnen
- NCAA Division I Wrestling All-American
- Silver Medal 2000 Greco-Roman World University Championships
Vitor Belfort
- ADCC World Championship 3rd place
- UFC LHW Champion
Yushin Okami 
- (no wrestling or submission grappling pedigree - only 4 submissions, not sure he should be on this list???)
Chris Weidman 
- NCAA Division I Wrestling All-American
- No elite-level/world-class wrestling (international or Olympic wrestling)


Fedor -  High-level Grapplers

Ricardo Arona 
- 2X ADCC Champion (a record undefeated 13-0 not a single point ever scored against him)
Renato Sobral
- Brazilian Nation Freestyle Wrestling Champion 
Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
- PRIDE HW Champion
- UFC Interim HW Champion
- Quarter Finalist ADCC World Championships
- 3rd Place CBJJ World Championships
Kazuyuki Fujita
- 6th Place FILA World Freestyle Wrestling Championships
- Japan National Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion
- Japanese Olympic team Alternate
Yuji Nagata
- Japan National Greco-Roman Wrestling Team
- Asian Greco-Roman Champioships 5th & 4th -
- 21st Place FILA World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships
Mark Coleman
- Olympice Freestyle Wrestling - 7th Place
- 2nd Place FILA World Free-Style Wrestling Championships
- 3X Pan American Freestyle Wrestling Champion
- Div I NCAA Freestyle Wrestling Champion
- PRIDE OW GP Champion
- UFC HW Champion
- 2X UFC HW Tournament Champion
Kevin Randleman
- 2X NCAA Div I Wrestling Champion
- UFC HW Champion
Naoya Ogawa
- Olympic Judo Silver Meadalist
- 4X World Judo Champion, Asian Champion
Matt Lindland
- Olympic Silver Medalist Greco-Roman Wrestling
Fabrício Werdum
- 2X ADCC Champion
- 4X IBJJF World Champion
Dan Henderson
- 2X US Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling Team Member
- Pan American Greco-Roman Wresling Champion
Jeff Monson
- 2X ADCC Champion
- 3X FILA World Grappling Champion
- IBJJF World Champion
- Pan American JJ Champion
Satoshi Ishii
- Olympic Judo Gold Medalist
- World Jr Champion
- Asian Jr Champion

You forgot to add "Michael Jordan of grappling " under Lutters name.

In just his MMA fights, Fedor has fought more accomplished strikers and grapplers than Anderson.

In terms of grappling, the high calibre people that Fedor fought in Judo and Sambo would make Anderson's head spin.

monaroCountry wrote:In just his MMA fights, Fedor has fought more accomplished strikers and grapplers than Anderson.

In terms of grappling, the high calibre people that Fedor fought in Judo and Sambo would make Anderson's head spin.

Truth, A lot of people forget he was undefeated in Combat Sambo for 6 years during his 10 year MMA spree. Fedor was a multisport champion, something the UFC would never risk allowing their fighters to do.

AudaxSmoke wrote:

Truth, A lot of people forget he was undefeated in Combat Sambo for 6 years during his 10 year MMA spree. Fedor was a multisport champion, something the UFC would never risk allowing their fighters to do.

Its another reason why I marvel at his achievements.

Fighters get old, slow down, and get battle worn.

Imagine if you combined all of Fedor's battles (MMA, Judo, Sambo, and Combat Sambo) to Anderson's. Fedor would maybe have 3-5 times more fights. This has to be very tiring on the body.