“The Strikeforce heavyweight division is really phenomenal right now,” Barnett told MMAWeekly Radio recently. “I guess one way to look at it would be look at me, Fedor, Alistair, Bigfoot, Arlovski, and Werdum, and look at our records and stack them up. If you count all the wins that we have under our belts that far surpasses the top five guys in the UFC’s amount of fights even.

“Granted, just because you don’t have a lot of fights that doesn’t mean you’re not a great fighter, but I definitely think we’ve got a big edge with that kind of veteran, international talent.”

The UFC has rebuilt its heavyweight division over the last few years, and besides Lesnar, young talented fighters like Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos have made waves of late. Tack on to that list fighters like Shane Carwin, Frank Mir, and Roy Nelson, and the world’s biggest MMA promotion has plenty heavyweight talent to go around.

Barnett believes his addition helps push Strikeforce ahead of the UFC, and that experience and time spent in the cage will play a large part in why people are going to pay attention to what they’re doing.

“With that kind of time spent in the ring and the cage, we’ve fought under all kinds of different rules, we’ve been in all kinds of different wars, and I think it’s going to pay off when the people tune in to go and watch us fight,” Barnett said.

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