He WAS the legend, he IS the legend.
I will agree I didn’t get onboard with some of the early fights because Lutter, Mardquart and Leites were all kind of bleh as opponents overall, but he made Forrest look like a fucking regional nobody one fight after being the 205 champ, put juiced to
The tits Franklin through the blender twice, kicked Vitor’s face smooth clean off before Vitor went down to the test levels of a small woman, Killed Hendo.
Stylebender is out here getting beat up in his home town by a guy who has zero big wins, and trading losses with another one dimensional kickboxer who knocked his head off in K1.
He’s probably right under Rich Franklin in the ufc middleweight all time list.
Umm… Anderson fooled around with everyone. This was his “bait”.
If anything, he turned it up because Weidman wasn’t taking the bait and paid dearly because of it. Anderson was a counter striker, not unlike Izzy, and when his opponents didn’t give him openings not much would happen. We saw Anderson in stinkers because of this (e.g. Silva vs Maia) and we just saw what happened to Izzy when someone comes to fight but is defensively sound and not overcommiting in any way.
Yes, Anderson was older, but yes, Chris did take him out in unprecedented fashion. Just because you don’t like it, you can’t just take the win away from him.