Classy fighters...

Rich got me to thinking about this... Seeing him again the other night just reinforced to me what a class act he is. I think he may be the classiest guy in MMA, even though the sport has many. Here's a quick list of my top-3...

Franklin
Fedor
Machida

Who are some other classy guys that know how to carry themselves before and after fights and to the public in general? There should be many adds considering there are as many (If not more) class guys as there are dicks in MMA...

I don't know much about him but I heard Nick Diaz is a class act

Minotauro
Randy Couture
Urijah Faber
Nate Marquardt
Joe Stevenson


When it comes to the fans, none have a classier approach than Wanderlei Silva

Wanderlei

Leben, Koscheck, Daley, Bisping

Seriously though, GSP is one of the more classy fighters.

I think Mac Danzig would be a great add after his post fight speech.

GSP is a borderline classy fighter.

Kenny Florian is a guy that should be listed, and I'm surprised hasnt been.

Bigs03 wrote:

Leben, Koscheck, Daley, Bisping

Don't forget Sonnen, King Mo, Junie Browning and Krazy Horse.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

Bigs03 wrote:

Leben, Koscheck, Daley, Bisping

Don't forget Sonnen, King Mo, Junie Browning and Krazy Horse.

Or Frank Mir, Brock Lesnar, Anderson Silva, or Dan Hardy.

NoRegret wrote:

GSP is a borderline classy fighter.

Kenny Florian is a guy that should be listed, and I'm surprised hasnt been.

What??? GSP is nothing but respectful to the fans and his opponents.

Jon Jones.

Bigs03 wrote:

NoRegret wrote:

GSP is a borderline classy fighter.

Kenny Florian is a guy that should be listed, and I'm surprised hasnt been.

What??? GSP is nothing but respectful to the fans and his opponents.

Oh, believe me, I am a huge GSP fan, but he is an asshole outside the ring to anyone he feels isnt in his league for the most part.

Cro Cop

Personally, class matters not to me when it comes to fighting. It's a nice compliment to a fighter's personality, but class doesn't get them very far in the cage. Maybe it's easier to root for a classy fighter, but I don't know. Personally I'm a fan of Koscheck, Leben, Mir, and other guys who aren't thought of as classy. Rich Franklin is boring IMO. He's a good fighter but I don't know, he's just missing something IMO.

Sooner u getting affected by the floods?

NoRegret wrote:

Bigs03 wrote:

NoRegret wrote:

GSP is a borderline classy fighter.

Kenny Florian is a guy that should be listed, and I'm surprised hasnt been.

What??? GSP is nothing but respectful to the fans and his opponents.

Oh, believe me, I am a huge GSP fan, but he is an asshole outside the ring to anyone he feels isnt in his league for the most part.

Hmm, I've never seen evidence of that. I suppose you have?

killerofchicken wrote:

Sooner u getting affected by the floods?

It just started raining about an hour ago. I hear OKC and Edmond is getting tore up though and having power outages. I hope Cu Bua is alright. He is probably much closer to the bad shit right now then I am.

Bigs03 wrote:

Personally, class matters not to me when it comes to fighting. It's a nice compliment to a fighter's personality, but class doesn't get them very far in the cage. Maybe it's easier to root for a classy fighter, but I don't know. Personally I'm a fan of Koscheck, Leben, Mir, and other guys who aren't thought of as classy. Rich Franklin is boring IMO. He's a good fighter but I don't know, he's just missing something IMO.

I like Koscheck and Mir, but Leben is horrible. His personality and his fighting are both just horrid IMO.

Rich Franklin is a great guy...I love the guy, he's one of my all time favorite fighters.

There are certain "not classy" fighters that I like, but it can only go to an extent and it all just depends on how they handle themselves in the cage...if a fighter leaves it all out in the cage most of his fights, I have no problem rooting for them.

The question wasnt who we like though lol its who we think are the classiest guys.

Bigs03 wrote:

NoRegret wrote:

Bigs03 wrote:

NoRegret wrote:

GSP is a borderline classy fighter.

Kenny Florian is a guy that should be listed, and I'm surprised hasnt been.

What??? GSP is nothing but respectful to the fans and his opponents.

Oh, believe me, I am a huge GSP fan, but he is an asshole outside the ring to anyone he feels isnt in his league for the most part.

Hmm, I've never seen evidence of that. I suppose you have?

Someone posted a thread on here like 6 months ago or so about how GSP was treating some of the lesser guys at his gym like shit. Now whether that was true or not, I dont know.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

Sooner u getting affected by the floods?

It just started raining about an hour ago. I hear OKC and Edmond is getting tore up though and having power outages. I hope Cu Bua is alright. He is probably much closer to the bad shit right now then I am.

This weather has been ridiculous! Iowa hasn't seen a day without rain in a week and a half, its raining right now and were preparing for floods again... wtf

NoRegret wrote:

Bigs03 wrote:

NoRegret wrote:

Bigs03 wrote:

NoRegret wrote:

GSP is a borderline classy fighter.

Kenny Florian is a guy that should be listed, and I'm surprised hasnt been.

What??? GSP is nothing but respectful to the fans and his opponents.

Oh, believe me, I am a huge GSP fan, but he is an asshole outside the ring to anyone he feels isnt in his league for the most part.

Hmm, I've never seen evidence of that. I suppose you have?

Someone posted a thread on here like 6 months ago or so about how GSP was treating some of the lesser guys at his gym like shit. Now whether that was true or not, I dont know.

Well we don't know the whole story either. Maybe those guys came in with a big head and GSP decided to put them in their place...who knows. I've seen nothing but respect from him.

Yeah, even if GSP was disrespectful I wouldnt care lol he's earned the right to be a dick if he wants to IMO.

Bigs03 wrote:

Personally, class matters not to me when it comes to fighting. It's a nice compliment to a fighter's personality, but class doesn't get them very far in the cage. Maybe it's easier to root for a classy fighter, but I don't know. Personally I'm a fan of Koscheck, Leben, Mir, and other guys who aren't thought of as classy. Rich Franklin is boring IMO. He's a good fighter but I don't know, he's just missing something IMO.

It's a hell of a lot easier to pull for a class act than it is a dick if you ask me. And even though it doesn't reflect on a fighters ability, you'd be hard pressed to find real big pricks in the top-5 of any division... Brock and Kos are the only ones I can think of. Rashad, Anderson, Sonnen and Aoki could be added, but I don't think any of them are complete dick heads...

I don't know about Marquardt. He seems like a nice guy and it was nice how he didn't go in for the kill against Maia, but the stuff he pulled against Leites and Almeida makes me think he's not the classiest of fighters.

Maia by the way is a very classy fighter. He has made it clear that he wants to win matches while performing as little damage as possible to an opponent.