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Originally Posted by Savior
For all of lesnars fights in the UFC he has fought people that were supposedly better than him. A lot of people thought putting lesnar against Herring was a bad idea, Herring was thought to be better. If Lesnar lost to herring he probably would have been gone.
If you are ranked #1 you should be striving to face #2....not #10
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As for your first point...
After Herring got embarassed by an undersized heavyweight by the name of Jake O'Brien most MMA writers thought Lesnar would win and if he didn't win he had no place in the UFC. But most of them thought Herring was a tailor made can for Brock.
As for your second point...
When you are number 1 you should strive to fight number 2 I totally agree with that statement. However lets be fair up until Mir/Nogueira in December of 2008 Nogueira was Number 2 so he couldn't exactly fight the Number 2 guy at the time. He also tried to fight Couture during the whole time, and during that time he was ranked #3 behind Fedor and Nogueira. Also Fedor fought Arlovski when he was ranked number 2. Then he tried to fight Josh Barnett who was also highly ranked at the time (not #2 but Top 5).
Your point is valid now however since Fedor and Werdum are now the only two fighters outside the UFC that are Top 5 heavyweights.