Is FW the most stacked division at the moment?

[DatSamboKid]

-Max Holloway
-Brian Ortega
-Jose Aldo
-Frankie Edgar
-Jeremy Stephens
-Chad Mendes
-Cub Swanson
-Josh Emmet
-Mirsad Bektic
-Ricardo Lamas
-Zabit Magomedsharipov
-Korean Zombie
-Renato Moicano
-Dohoo Choi
-Yair Rodriguez
-Alexander Volkanovski
-Darren Elkins

And the list goes on. Featherweight is arguably the best division in terms of talent.

Thoughts?

 

[dildos]

people will argue light weight, but i think right now the top 5 feather weight is the best of any division.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

145 and 155 are the cream of the crop... Cardio plus Knockout power... most fights are exciting.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

I definitely agree with you. I think bantamweight to lightweight is generally the deepest but if I had to pick a single division I'd go FW.

 

[Arm Barbarian]

145 and 155 are the cream of the crop... Cardio plus Knockout power... most fights are exciting.

BOTH divisions are nuckin Futz in terms of depth

 

[Flokk]

They're all fairly weak divisions.

Manlets are a bit underwhelming too.

 

[Klippy1991]

They should just merge it into a stacked 150 pound division

 

[GBJohn]

I think it's awfully tough to argue that another division is deeper.

 

[Donny Limps]

 

[Dozer .]

FW and LW easily contain the most well rounded fighters.

 

[Xavier]

-Max Holloway
-Brian Ortega
-Jose Aldo
-Frankie Edgar
-Jeremy Stephens
-Chad Mendes
-Cub Swanson
-Josh Emmet
-Mirsad Bektic
-Ricardo Lamas
-Zabit Magomedsharipov
-Korean Zombie
-Renato Moicano
-Dohoo Choi
-Yair Rodriguez
-Alexander Volkanovski
-Darren Elkins

And the list goes on. Featherweight is arguably the best division in terms of talent.

Thoughts?

You forgot Artem Lobov

But yes 145 is a hell of a division

Even outside the UFC you got beasts like Pitbull and Harrison running their divisions.

 

[smiles mma]

145,155,170,135,185,125,205,265 in that order imo. Each division is fairly close to the one above and could swap.

 

[RayA]

They should just merge it into a stacked 150 pound division

That is one of the most dogshit ideas I've heard in a long time.
If anything, you want to merge weak divisions together, not already stacked ones.

 

[ChumpyKiwi]

They're all fairly weak divisions.

Manlets are a bit underwhelming too.

 

[tenniswhiz]

-Max Holloway
-Brian Ortega
-Jose Aldo
-Frankie Edgar
-Jeremy Stephens
-Chad Mendes
-Cub Swanson
-Josh Emmet
-Mirsad Bektic
-Ricardo Lamas
-Zabit Magomedsharipov
-Korean Zombie
-Renato Moicano
-Dohoo Choi
-Yair Rodriguez
-Alexander Volkanovski
-Darren Elkins

And the list goes on. Featherweight is arguably the best division in terms of talent.

Thoughts?

I underestimated FW at one time and always thought LW was much better.

Then I saw Clay Guida, a contender at LW, drop to FW and struggle to be Top 10.
Ross Pearson, a feared LW, dropped to FW, where he was promptly spanked by Cub Swanson.
Miles Jury went 15-1 at LW, but then lost to Charles Oliveira and Chad Mendes.
Dustin Poirier wasn’t quite sniffing contender status at FW, but he could fight for the LW title within a year.
The great Dom Cruz fled the FW division early in his career, knowing that it was a dangerous place.
Large BW like TJ insist on trying to challenge the FLW champ instead of messing with a Top 5 FW.

FW is a great division.
It was more fun in that smaller WEC cage.

 

[Wicked_1]

145 and 155 are both stacked. I think 155 has the better foghters overall if u invluse conor as 155 which i doubt highly he fights at 145 again. There are more good fighters at 145, just the top 3 or 4 at 155 are better than the top 4 at 145. When zabit and alex gets a few more fights it may change but i think aldo, medez, cub, and edgar are all on the downside of thier career while at 155 they are all close to prime.

 

[Captain Tight]

145,155,170,135,185,125,205,265 in that order imo. Each division is fairly close to the one above and could swap.

You made quite a few errors there. It should be

155, 145, 170, 135, 185 , 265, 205, 125

 

[Gambit MMA]

135 is up there also

cruz, tj, cody, assuncao, moraes etc.

tough top 5

 

[Joseph_McBride]

145,155,170,135,185,125,205,265 in that order imo. Each division is fairly close to the one above and could swap.

265 > 205

Heavyweight has Lewis, Blaydes, Volkov, & Tuivasa all surging contenders. Plus the PsOS Stipe & Ngannou are still 1-2 wins away from the title.

205 is ugly, until we see Yoel & Rockhold officially move up and take the top 5 spots of Blachowicz & Glover. Id like to see Luke debut against Blachowicz & Yoel vs Latifi.

 

[AJ Garcia]

135 is up there also

cruz, tj, cody, assuncao, moraes etc.

tough top 5

What I came to post. Fw is a little more deep, but it’s hard to find a better top 5 that bw has outsidebof fw. Definitely have it ranked over ww.