Åsikterna är många när man diskuterar vem som varit den bästa fightern genom tiderna, och inom tungvikten dyker det titt som tätt upp namn som Fedor Emelianenko och Cain Velasquez. En som inte anser att det finns någon ”GOAT” (Greatest of all Time) inom tungvikten är Roy Nelson, som hade följande att säga via ”FOX Sports”:
I don’t think there’s actually a greatest heavyweight. I think with every heavyweight there’s a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters. Styles always make fights and everybody always has a number. Sometimes you have a bad day, sometimes you don’t.
The best example would be (Junior) Dos Santos and Cain Velasquez. The first time they fought, Cain got flattened. There’s another two times where Cain made up for it, learned from his mistakes, had a bad day. In our business when you have a chance to fight a guy twice — I’ll let you get one on me but the second time I guarantee I’m going to beat you.
Nelson ser även fram mot kommande mötet mot Mark Hunt, då han tycker om mentaliteten som många föredetta Pride-fighters har:
That was the best part of the PRIDE guys — they’d go out and entertain. They’d either get knocked out or knock somebody out, they were always trying to finish the fight. I think nowadays some of the decline in our sport is fighters trying to be fighter/athletes which are point fighters versus just being fighters. He is definitely a fighter. Anybody that was from the old PRIDE days is a fighter.
Roy kommer att möta Hunt den 20 september under helgens ”UFC: Fight Night 52”, en gala som äger rum i Japan.
