Calling Conor McGregor the 4th Best Lightweight in the world would be a generous assessment.

[Thanatos2]

At this point Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee would all beat Conor so bad that he'd wake up Scottish.

As far as Top 10 rankings, Conor, with a 2-1 record at lightweight, including 1 fight that was basically a draw, ranking him number 9 or 10 would be a generous ranking.

Khabib
Tony
Lee
Alvarez
Poirer
Barboza
Iaquinta
Felder

all should be ranked higher than Conor.

Conor's best bet at this point is a modified rules fight against Floyd somewhere outside of America.

Conor hasn't been surrounding himself with Glory recently, but 2 of the guys you put above him currently have dominant losses to him.

With the possible exception of Khabib, I'd put money on McGregor beating everyone on that list, no problem. Especially Alvarez and Porier, considering Mcgregor has already wrecked both of them.

 

[Nightgunner05]

Tony has fought a few months ago, lol. So your argument doesn't make any sense.
And by the way, Khabib wasn't ranked at #2 in 2016 before he came back.

Your whole point about Conor not being ranked is that he hasn't fought in 500 day. By the time Tony comes back it will be well over a year since he last fought, unless you expect him to make a miraculous recovery and fight in the next few months.

And yes Khabib was ranked #2 a month before he made his comeback against Darrell Horcher. Check out the link.
https://www.mmamania.com/2016/3/7/1...mbles-down-pound-for-pound-loss-nate-diaz-mma

 

[SOAzmayesh]

Conor hasn't been surrounding himself with Glory recently, but 2 of the guys you put above him currently have dominant losses to him.

With the possible exception of Khabib, I'd put money on McGregor beating everyone on that list, no problem. Especially Alvarez and Porier, considering Mcgregor has already wrecked both of them.

just dont waste your time, people ignore how badly alverez was wasted, make excuses for wins and immediately bring up a fight at ww.

 

[VVarhead]

And yes Khabib was ranked #2 a month before he made his comeback against Darrell Horcher. Check out the link.
https://www.mmamania.com/2016/3/7/1...mbles-down-pound-for-pound-loss-nate-diaz-mma

That's ridiculous, then. He certainly didn't deserve that ranking in 2016 before and even after the Horcher fight.
But that still doesn't make Conor being ranked at #1 less stupid.

And Conor was perfectly healthy in all those 500+ days that he stayed absent and refused to defend his title - Tony is injured. you can't be so oblivious as to not recognize the vast difference in those scenarios.

 

[Nightgunner05]

That's ridiculous, then. He certainly didn't deserve that ranking in 2016 before and even after the Horcher fight.
But that still doesn't make Conor being ranked at #1 less stupid.

And Conor was perfectly healthy in all those 500+ days that he stayed absent and refused to defend his title - Tony is injured. you can't be so oblivious as to not recognize the vast difference in those scenarios.

I agree with you. The way the ufc does it's rankings are arbitrary, there should definitely be a better way. Either way though I would have Conor as a solid #3 behind Tony and Lee.

I get there is a difference, but no one gets taken out of the rankings unless they retire or switch companies, so I don't see why Conor should.

 

[Loiosh]

LOL Conor is the lineal LW champion because he actually beat the champ who held the belt. Khabib won by beating a Top 15 opponent. He is by definition a paper champ until he beats Conor or Tony.

Also Conor starched and embarrassed Alvarez to the point of humiliation. Nobody has done to Alvarez what Conor did to him and Alvarez is the guy who beat Poirer and Gaethje and yet your ranking him, Iaquinta, Poirier, etc. over Conor? And you call us delusional lmao.

Keep hating, though. You will learn soon enough.

{<Mcgoat}

When Conor was stripped, his line ended. He isn't the lineal champion of anything. If you win a belt and refuse to defend it, you don't get to be champion forever.

 

[Rdude92]

LOL Conor is the lineal LW champion because he actually beat the champ who held the belt. Khabib won by beating a Top 15 opponent. He is by definition a paper champ until he beats Conor or Tony.

Also Conor starched and embarrassed Alvarez to the point of humiliation. Nobody has done to Alvarez what Conor did to him and Alvarez is the guy who beat Poirer and Gaethje and yet your ranking him, Iaquinta, Poirier, etc. over Conor? And you call us delusional lmao.

Keep hating, though. You will learn soon enough.

{<Mcgoat}

Lol your only a champ when you defended your belt. And Conor is not one. He just a belt winner, not a champion. As for khabib, lets wait until his title defense

 

[Rdude92]

This thread is proof that people shouldn't do drugs. There's no other explanation for some of you saying that Conor should be below Alvarez and Dustin. Either that or some of you hate a man you've never met so much, that you would let it mess with your judgment, but that would be pretty sad.

Darling, we're having a discussion over his legitimacy in the LW division, not the FW division. So to be a legit top 10 LW fighter, you have to display top notch performances against top 10 contenders. And Conor is only a mere 2-1 in the LW division .

 

[notori0us1]

Lol your only a champ when you defended your belt. And Conor is not one. He just a belt winner, not a champion. As for khabib, lets wait until his title defense

No you're a champion when you beat the champion for the belt. That's literally the definition of what a champion is.

Darling, we're having a discussion over his legitimacy in the LW division, not the FW division. So to be a legit top 10 LW fighter, you have to display top notch performances against top 10 contenders. And Conor is only a mere 2-1 in the LW division .

He's 1-0 at LW. Both the Diaz fights were at WW.

 

[Rdude92]

No you're a champion when you beat the champion for the belt. That's literally the definition of what a champion is.


He's 1-0 at LW. Both the Diaz fights were at WW.

lol your right..he's a mere 1-0. Nuff said

 

[Franc Mittelo]

At this point Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson and Kevin Lee would all beat Conor so bad that he'd wake up Scottish.

As far as Top 10 rankings, Conor, with a 2-1 record at lightweight, including 1 fight that was basically a draw, ranking him number 9 or 10 would be a generous ranking.

Khabib
Tony
Lee
Alvarez
Poirer
Barboza
Iaquinta
Felder

all should be ranked higher than Conor.

Conor's best bet at this point is a modified rules fight against Floyd somewhere outside of America.

Conor embarrassed Alvarez. Made him look like the 3-1 in the UFC fighter he was.

 

[Nightgunner05]

Darling, we're having a discussion over his legitimacy in the LW division, not the FW division. So to be a legit top 10 LW fighter, you have to display top notch performances against top 10 contenders. And Conor is only a mere 2-1 in the LW division .

Lol yes I'm sure legitimacy is your top priority.

Were you outraged when Justin Gaethje was ranked in the top 5 after his first fight in the ufc? Or how about when Dos Anjos was ranked 10th after beating Tarek fricking Saffiedine at WW?

 

[Khabib Fan]

That non-ranked Featherweight who recently fought Zabit would devour Conor's soul.

 

[91 seconds]

Yeah he's 3, 4 or 5 imo. Just depends on what top 10 it is.

 

[Rovert]

He's been inactive for so long, I don't know what his skill level is now.

There is the real question , this is a huge layoff .

 

[Milan]

Why are we even still talking about this guy? Even after 500+ days of ducking people can't shut up about McNuggets, unreal. The lot of you are gay for Conman.

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

4 ?

 

[Kirin]

Only he first swooped in to fight RDA when he looked invincible so your analogy is just plain wrong. He may or may not be the best lightweight but to suggest he cherry picked his champion like GSP is clearly retarded.

Cherry picked? So RDA who looked invincible at LW was cherry picked?

You haters are literally trying to re-write history lmao

When canner was going to face dos anjos, rda was looking "invincible"; the eagle beat dos anjos from pillar to post for three rounds, but he has no good wins at lw.

 

[IsNormal]

Can't you take at least *some* status points with you from previous weight classes?

GSP wasn't considered nothing but a 0-0 MW fighter when he faced Bisping
RDA wasn't just seen as any 0-0 fighter at his WW debut.

It doesn't seem reasonable to disregard everything Conor did at FW, it should at least count for something. If nothing else - in terms of championship experience. (Despite not having defended the belt, having had two title fights is better than one)

 

[IsNormal]

Felder

Seems hard to rank someone without any top10 wins higher than someone with two top10 wins, including a title fight win.

You could argue Felder has more LW experience - but on the other hand, he's never had a 5 round fight (correct me if I'm wrong), so with 2 title fights Conor just has that much more experience...even if we discount one of them for being at FW.

I guess it boils down to a discussion of whether we should value many wins over lower ranked opponents higher than a few wins over high ranked opponents.
In some cases I do think people over value high level wins, and should value consistency more. But Felder isn't one of those guys who looks unbeatable fighting lower level guys, he's 5-3 in his last 8.