You are either intentionally skipping the keyword or deliberately doing so. Perhaps you have jumped in without having seen my original post in this thread or my many replies.
Stipe at age 33 fought in Consecutive fights: Hunt, Arlovski, Wedrum, Overeem, JDS & Francis. All KO/TKO wins except for a 5 round domination over Frank.
At 33 Fedor fought Werdum, Bigfoot & MW Dan Henderson. That was the first time he fought a string of top ranked HWs consecutively and Hendo was even a HW. He never did that in RINGS which was run by his own team wasn't it?
His Pride HW run to the title was Schilt, Herring & Big Nog. Then 4 fights against middling guys and then 40 year old Coleman, Randelman. Throw in a Japanese guy and then a NC with Nog and a rematch with Nog. Then a Can, Cro cop, Zulu (Can with a cool name) then 42 year old Coleman.
I can keep going but I need to move on with my life. Fedor never fought at the highest level CONSECUTIVELY. He always had favourable matchmaking and or a bunch of cans added to his calendar. You can't actually ignore that he fought a lot of Cans. He also never fought consecutively against top level completion. Show me a consecutive string equal to what Stipe did.
Stipe fought in 7 years:
Hunt, Arlovski, Werdum, Overeem, JDS 2x, Ngannou 2x, Cormier 3x
Fedor fought in 7 years:
Schilt, Herring, Nogueira 3x, Coleman (1 loss removed from beeing champion), Randleman (beat top ranked CC), Cro Cop, Hunt, Sylvia, Arlovski
If you look at it like that, then Fedor fought the same amount of "consecutive" quallity opponents as Stipe. But those are all fight that Stipe fought.
Fighting top opponent once a year, and then fighting next year is not "CONSECUTIVELY".
While Stipe was sitting on his ass, resting and waiting for next "consecutive" opponent next year, Fedor was fighting. He fought additional
solid & dangerous opponents like
Fujita (Top 10), Goodridge, Koshaka who previously beat him, Rogers (Top 10), Ogawa (Top 15), Linland...
where he almost got KO'd, and got injured. He fought some cans like Nagata, Valavicius, but at HW lot of unforseen things can happen, he fought giants with huge size advantage like Zuluzinho and Choi, who were undefeated and eager to utilize their advantage, and you actually had to step into the ring and prove with your skin that their size advantage does not count.
It is harder to fight quality oppontes in the same or greater frequency, with solid medium and weaker opponents added inbetween, like Fedor and Pride guys did, which carry more danger and risk of beeing caught and beaten, or getting injuries which can cost you a defeat later. If Stipe fought additional 5-6 Struves in that run, he could have easily lost more fights, or lose the fights he won, due to wear, burnout and injuries.