Not only did Fedor juice but most of those fights in Pride were fixed. Quite a few former Pride fighters and associates have confirmed they fixed fights in Pride including Rampage, Heath Herring, Gary Goodridge,etcetc. Even Crocop's former manager admitted Pride fixed fights and set it up for Crocop and Fedor to fight each other. Hence why they had Crocop wash a fukking Mexican pro wrestler in a luchador mask and call it a legit MMA fight. Hence why they had Japanese pro wrestlers with 0 mma experience take on mma legends to pad their records.
While Fedor was the defending Pride champion he literally fought this guy
Yuji Nagata - Wikipedia a famous pro wrestler with 0 MMA experience only brought in to job to both Fedor and Crocop to set up their big money fight. It's the equivalent of UFC letting Miocic fight CM Punk just to pad Miocic's record. Anything related to Japanese MMA is a fukking joke and should not be counted towards any real MMA credibility or records. The whole thing was run as a big gambling den for the Yakuza and that's why it got shut down cause it was corrupt. Their fukking referees all wore ear pieces for fukk sake, you know the only other place that has refs with ear pieces? WWE.
Fedor has no place in GOAT talks, he juiced(not that it really matters, since all fighters juice) and he fought in fake ass fight fixing Pride. The second Pride folded and he had to fight in real sanctioned, commissioned, and drug tested fights, he got fukking rekt. shytty ass Moldonado kicked Fedor's ass, and Fedor had to use his handpicked ref and judges to bail him out and give him the fake decision on Russian soil.
Jones, DC, and Silva are the only ones in talks for the GOAT discussion. Come at me cacs.