John McCarthy Rips Cormier for his Comments on Fedor

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‘You’re sounding like you’re being a homer for the UFC’

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John McCarthy has ripped Daniel Cormier over his comments about Fedor Emelianenko.

The former UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champion, Cormier, recently said on his YouTube channel that he thought had Emelianenko signed with the UFC, he would’ve been average at best. Those comments took many by surprise, including John McCarthy, who proceeded to rip ‘DC’ for for his controversial take.
“Look, DC is making a huge mistake saying Fedor would have been average,” McCarthy said on the Weighing In Podcast (via Sportskeeda). “People said that DC was going to be average too, he wasn’t average and Fedor wouldn’t have been average. He was right when he said Fedor would have come in and he would have wrecked Brock Lesnar. He would have wrecked him. Wouldn’t even have been close.”

Although Cormier thought Emelianenko would’ve only beat Lesnar, John McCarthy disagrees. Instead, he thinks the Russian MMA legend and arguably one of the greatest heavyweights of all time would’ve had tremendous success in the UFC.

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McCarthy also believes Daniel Cormier is only saying that as he has a UFC bias and is a homer towards the Las Vegas-based promotion.

“Out of 10 fights against UFC champions, heavyweight champions, he was 8-1-1. Yeah, that’s a guy who’s gonna do average [in the UFC]. Stop. You’re just sounding like you’re being a homer for the UFC when there’s no reason for it. You got to give due where due is deserved… He’s fought twice as much as you, dude, and take a look at his record… That will never be average,” McCarthy added.

Of course, during his prime, Fedor Emelianenko beat the likes of Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, Mark Coleman, Kevin Randleman, Mirko Cro Cop, Mark Hunt, Tim Sylvia, and Andrei Arlovski. As McCarthy says, he had success against former UFC champs, so it does seem likely the Russian would’ve been alright in the promotion.

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Does anyone care what John McCarthy says? He is a homer for any organization not UFC

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Theodore Emelianenko!

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I mean, he is a pioneer of the sport. His opinion definitely carries weight.

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We are all Fedor.

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It depends what time period he means… If he came over when he was mid 30s then ya probably would have won some lost some.

But ya in his prime he would have beat everyone, might have lost a fight in there, might not have though.

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His bias is well known

I’ve heard him say heaps of positive shit , since leaving the UFC about the ufc.
Not sure why your being a dick.
He was an excellent referee despite what some know all’s that know fuck all might think and arguably the most knowledgeable person about mma in the sports history. He’s definitely on the short list.
If his opinion doesn’t carry weight for you then there’s something wrong with you.
Not saying you have to agree with him but his opinion should still count for a lot.

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DC is overrated as a HW. 4-2 and he only fought four different people, Roy Nelson, Frank Mir, Derrick Lewis and Stipe.

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Prime Fedor still wrecks the current crop of UFC heavies.

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The guy Fedor destroyed on Saturday is 2-1 vs current top ten UFC HWs and the loss was a split decision and most members of the media said he won that fight vs Volkov.

That is what 45 year old Fedor was able to do.

Fedor is the GOAT.

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Same DC who used to swing from Rondas nuts?
“Ronda is DECADES ahead of her division… 20 years. Itll be 20 years before women who have had a lifetime of training catch up to where Ronda is at right now. 20 years”

3 months later…THREE…Holly Holm absolutely DESTROYED Ronda! Made her look like an amateur. We won’t even mention what Amanda did to her!

So…uh, forgive me if I don’t take DCs word on judging who would have beat who 10-15 years ago when he couldn’t accurately assess what he was seeing in real time with those UFC tinted glasses on.

Anyone who watches prime Fedor…up until late 09-10 and calls that average… either has no idea what they’re watching/ purposely trolling or is doing exactly what BJM said… being a UFC homer/fanboi.

Hard to believe we’re still having this ridiculous conversation all these years later.

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Daniel Cormier would destroy any version of Fedor :man_shrugging:t3:

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Lol I didn’t see this before

Lol how fucking clueless can you be to think fedor would struggle with cheick fucking kongo.

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That’s Kathy bates dawg