Quote Originally Posted by VanChilds
I'm not discounting Wand's legacy at all...great fighter and one of the best LHW's ever, but lets be honest he spent a good part of his career being fed japanese cans in Pride. If Mauricio can clean out the UFC LHW div and maybe move and fight a HW I think he can have a bigger legacy. I don't really hold the Mirko loss against Wand b/c Silva is not a legit HW and it showed when he tried to trade with Crocop. That being said the onesided beat down from Vitor, controversial decision loss to Tito(these guys aren't in the same league), loss against Arona, and KO by Henderson to me show a very talented fighter but with some real flaws. I think Shogun is a better all around fighter and has the opportunity to out shine his chute boxe partner
I totally disagree with your thinking. He lost those fights but he has beaten Henderson before,like you said,the Tito fight was contraversial(Im watching it tonight) and ok,he lost to Arona(again,he beat Arona afterwards). So he beat most of the guys he lost to and sure he has cans,but he has also beaten Sakuraba,Dan,Rampage times2,Yoshida,Mezger and he beat, Hunt too(anyone who can score a fight knows he did) etc.

Shogun is better all around but I find it hard to hold ANY of Wanderlei's losses against him because he beat the opponent either before or after and he got KTFO by a HW. (except the Belfort loss but that was AGES ago)