Man, I don't care if Fedor lost at Bellator 214, he's still the greatest heavyweight MMA fighter of all time.
He's professional record is 38-6-1. His record SHOULD be 38-5-1-1, because one of his "losses" should have been a no-contest. His December 2000 fight against Tsuyoshi Kohsaka ended via doctor stoppage ater just 17 seconds when Fedor was opened up by Kohsaka's elbow. Elbow strikes were illegal, and it was less than half way into the first round, so it CLEARLY should have been ruled a no-contest. But since it was a tournament that had to see a winner advance to the next round, they improperly scored it as a loss for Emelianenko.
He put together an insane win streak of 16 fights, followed up by another win streak of 11 fights.
Just look at his list of victims:
Andrei Arlovski
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira [TWICE]
Brett Rogers
Chael Sonnen
Frank Mir
Gary Goodridge
Heath Herring
Hong-Man Choi
Jeff Monson
Kazuyuki Fujita
Kevin Randleman
Mark Coleman [TWICE]
Matt Lindland
Mark Hunt
Mirko Filipovic
Pedro Rizzo
Renato Sobral
Ricardo Arona
Semmy Schilt
Tim Sylvia
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