Prime Cain vs Prime Cro Cop in pride

UltimateGround
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this poll is wild. cain absolutely smashes him. prime cain might beat everyone ever.

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i think the unpredictable mix of striking and wrestling plus pressure cain used to beat jds would work on cro

ps: i forgot this happened

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Being KOed by wrestlers and TUF guys

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Everyone was juiced in the UFC at that time.

Are we conveniently forgetting how people changed after no more TRT exemption? After USADA?

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Yea and no. Cro really fell of more than Mino and Fedor. Cro looked like shit when he fought in the UFC, and that wasn’t that far off from him winning the OWGP

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Is being a wrestler some kind of indictment on punching power now?

Guarantee Randleman hits hard as fuck, especially if he catches you flush because of the takedown threat.

Throwing around the term “glass jaw” is silly.

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i theorize that when pride guys came to ufc they got off steroids alltogether, not realizing ufc fighters are still roiding, but beating the tests

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Knee surgery will do that to a guy known for being super explosive kicker

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Somebody said that on a podcast, I think it was a fighter, but can’t remember who

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JDS might be my favorite ever UFC heavyweight. Crocop was old at that point though.

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JDS doesnt get enough credit either. He was terrifying in his early UFC run.

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Than Kevin Randleman? Based on what, his one more title defense? Which wouldn’t exist if the Bas fight was judged the way most think it should have been?

You could argue he has a more modern skill set but I don’t think you could argue he was more accomplished.

For Kevin’s entire UFC career (albeit a little shorter than Cain’s) he never fought a single person who wasn’t a title contender, and all had won a UFC title except for Rizzo and Babalu. His losses were a highly suspicious decision to Bas, and Randy and Chuck.

I know we’re comparing different eras here, but much more accomplished, Cain was not. Kevin had more bad losses late but Kevin also fought consistently for 15 years versus Cain’s 10 year career

Edit: didn’t realize it was a zombie thread I was resurrecting. Just saw it in the recommendations from another thread. My bad for the bump

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Lol

I saw it pop up and assumed it was a new thread and we were expanding on the Cro Cop theme.

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My brain was so on the cro cop and Randleman theme from the other thread that when I saw this comment I genuinely forgot I had left that thread and started reading another

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