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I better be on that list you have there!
My list of Top 10 Influential Fighters in MMA in Order
- Royce Gracie (The Elvis Presley of MMA)
- FEDOR (The Greatest MMA fighter ever up to date)
- Randy Couture (The Peoples Hero of MMA, of of the greatest Champions ever)
- Matt Hughes (One of the longest Reigning Title Holders)
- Big Nog (One of the most dominating Champions of all time)
- Ken Shamrock (One of the innovators of MMA, one of the longest careers from start to finish)
- BJ Penn (The prodigy of MMA)
- Wanderlie Silva (One of the most dominating champions of all time, most killer instinct of any fighter) 9.. Rampage Jackson (The most personality and funniest fighters ever, a damn good fighter too!)
- Chuck Liddell (A lot of the reason that MMA is so main stream as it is today)
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How can Sakuraba not conceivably be on anyone's list of the most influential fighters ever.
And how the fuck have Rampage and BJ had so much "influence" upon the sport as a whole (more so than Dan Severn, Mark Coleman, Mo Smith, Igor Vov, Tito, even Rickson for building up vale tudo in Japan).
No, actually my list was unbelievably good. An afterthought though I would say I would take off Chuck Liddell in place of Sakuraba and maybe Rampage off in place of Dan Severn seeing Dan was the first MMAer to show the dominance a straight wrestler can have in MMA.
My list of Top 10 Influential Fighters in MMA in Order
1. Royce Gracie (The Elvis Presley of MMA)
FEDOR (The Greatest MMA fighter ever up to date)
Randy Couture (The Peoples Hero of MMA, of of the greatest Champions ever)
Matt Hughes (One of the longest Reigning Title Holders)
Big Nog (One of the most dominating Champions of all time)
Ken Shamrock (One of the innovators of MMA, one of the longest careers from start to finish)
BJ Penn (The prodigy of MMA)
Wanderlie Silva (One of the most dominating champions of all time, most killer instinct of any fighter)
Sakuraba (First fighter to make MMA turn a huge corner by beating the then though unbeatable Gracie Family)
10. Dan Severn (First fighter to show the dominanace a straight wrestler can have)
Dana White and the Fertittas , Bob Meyrowitz and The Gracies .
You would have to put Tito in there some where.
inFO is right , I forgot CRE !
- The Gracie name and its marketing 2. Takada and his marketing in Japan 3. Sakuraba 4. Dana 5. Ken SHamrock because of exposure with wrestling 6. Rich Franklin because of first free televised fight vs SHammy brought in the mainstream era of MMA. 7. Wandy .. recognizable symbol of PRide and International MMA 8. Randy and his ambassadorship 9. Bas . cross cultural appeal 10. Tie with TIto and Chuck. Tito being the old UFC pposterboy and Chuck being the new.
Greatest 100 of all time for MMA:
"1 Jens Pulver first lightweight champion.2 Matt Hughs do i need a reason. 3 Pat Miletich one of first cross trainers. 4. Matt Hume the wizard 5. Gene Lebell 6. Kyoshi Sakuraba First to defeat the gracies.7. Royce Gracie 1st ufc champion 8 Dan Severn only triple crown winner. 9 Ken Shamrock First superfight champion. 10. Nathan Marquadt 7x kop. 11 Bj Penn first american wc bb. 12 Dan Gable one of the greatest wrestlers and trainers of all time. 13 Maurice Smith 14 pedro rizzo 15 Randy Catour 16 Mark Coleman 17 that fedor guy 18 Tim Sylvia 19 tito orti88z 20 Chuck Liddle 21 bas rutten 22 vanderli silva 23 vitor belfort 24 ricardo arona 25 mario sperry 26 Josh barnett 27 don frye 28 dean lister 29 dave menne 30 evan tanner 31 rich franklin 32 anderson silva 33 frank shamrock 34 murillo boustamante 35 hayato machida 36 jeremy horn 37 carlos newton 38 Renzo gracie 39 rickson gracie 40 duane ludwig 41 yves edwards 42 royler gracie 43 lavern clark 44 george stpierre 45 diego sanchez 46 forest griffen 47 kevin randleman 48 shogun rua 49 guy mezger 50 amar suloev 51 farmer burns 52 marvin eastman 53 quinton jackson 54 ninja rua 55 hadieko yoshida 56 alistar overeem 57 travis fulton 58 yves edwards 59 tank abbott 60 ranato verhissimo 61 joe riggs 62 ebeneezer fontes braga 63 alan goes 64 paulo filho 65 peter arters 66 sean sherk 67 josh koscheck 68 shonie carter 69 nate quarry 70 mirko crocop 71 frank mir 72and that norguria guy 73 shaolin Riberio cause his name is shaolin 74 is cabbage correria 75 is bob sapp 76 andrei arvolski 77 Mark kerr78 pele landis 79 dan henderson 80don frye 81 genki sudo 82 din thomas 83 josh neer 84robbie lawler 85stephan bonnar 86 is chris Leban 87 ricco rodrigez88 is mark coleman 89 kevin randleman 90 elvis sonosic91mike tyson youngest champion of all time 92 cael Sanderson 93 Bruce Lee 94 don wilson 95 frank dux 96 marco ruas 97 bernard hopkins 98igor vovanchince 99david doddd 100john lewis there you guys go the best of the best"
-The legendary Mark Long
Most influential PEOPLE in mma
1 and 2 The fertita bros
3-Kirik Jenness
4-Calvin Ayre
5-Dana WHite
6-that Sherdog guy
7-Randy Couture
8-K1 Boss whatsisname
9-Bas Ruttan
10-probably some guy at xyience
Cecil Peoples IMO - I'm just sayin'
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If you don't have Monte Cox on there. You are a fucking idiot.
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i thought it was fighters
Says most influential characters/people.
I agree that Monte Cox would be on the list.
Patrick Swayze has to be in the top ten