Sakuraba vs Renzo Gracie on UFC youtube channel

[CTsar]

They have been posting some of the classic PRIDE fights during quarantine.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

sak is prob the greatest fighter of all time

his knees gave out on him too early and he entered the scene late at 28 years old

[CTsar]

He could've had a GSP type run if he was younger and only fought guys in his weight class. Imagine if GSP fought Conan, Rampage, Vitor, Wanderlei, Randleman, Crocop, Minotouro. His prime wouldn't have lasted very long.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

GSP is probably naturally bigger than Sak too

GSP would never have beaten Rampage, Vitor or Randleman

that is why I consider Sak the greatest

basically a 160 lber beating the best of LHWs and some HWs

[CTsar]

Jack Slack published this a few days ago:

[EVILYOSHIDA]

^ pretty cool.

I wonder if the newer MMA fans even know Sakuraba

[EVILYOSHIDA]

how many fighters today will get videos of them made decades later?

[CTsar]

Mainly Jon Jones, but his legacy has been tainted by a bunch of shit. Current fighters don't have unique perks that you can break down decades later like Sak's kimura. They're built in an assembly line.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

the way I see it , if you've tested positive mult for the silly sauce your rep gets tainted.

Just like Wand's is tainted compared to Saku's, even though Saku got beat by wand 3x

I'm pretty sure Saku would've beaten a non-hoided Wand

[karasu]

a sporting man capable of transcending his weight-class to defeat larger opponents proves his mastery of martial art and qualifies him to be a contender for Greatest P4P nomination.


and those which were not fans during the time of Tape Trading.......it's like not having experienced the magic of Saturday Morning cartoons!

[THE_DEAN]

Lol at the announcers getting all confused and saying "what happened?" at the end of the Sak/Renzo fight.

It was like the most obvious kimura finish ever.

I'm not one to ever say any one fighter is the best of all time. But it would be hard to fault anybody for picking Sakuraba.

[EVILYOSHIDA]

i would say Sak is the greatest of all time and Fedor is the best of all time.