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laziness..Are you going to update the rivalries in your sig?
laziness..Are you going to update the rivalries in your sig?
Dominic reyes is the future champion. He is going to be better than jon jones too.
With DC moving up to fight Stipe, Jones on his yearly fuckup routine, and the only mildly promising contender in No Time losing convincingly to DC, what's left?
I just pulled these rankings from UFC.com
1 Alexander Gustafsson
2 Volkan Oezdemir
3 Glover Teixeira
4 Jimi Manuwa
5 Ilir Latifi
6 Ovince Saint Preux
7 Mauricio Rua
8 Misha Cirkunov
9 Corey Anderson
10 Patrick Cummins
11 Jan Blachowicz
12 Tyson Pedro
13 Gadzhimurad Antigulov
14 Gian Villante
15 Jordan Johnson *NR
Gus, Volkan, and maybe Glover are the only top guys left and there is next to no prospects coming over the horizon.
Is LHW doomed?
The division appears thin, but it isn't doomed...
A big part of the problem is a dominant champion. If we removed DC from the equation (and JJ continues to remove himself from it), most of the top 10 in the UFC could be champs, and the belt would turn over and over and over, like it did back in the mid 2000s starting at the end of Chuck's run until JJ got the belt...it was "exciting" because we didn't know who was going to win...there was a lot more parity, even though the level of fighting was lower. Even when JJ first got the belt, we could buy into the challenges even though he destroyed challenger after challenger, and his only close fight was against Gus.
If we removed DC from the equation, would we still call the division thin, or can we acknowledge that it seems thin because there is such a large disparity between the champ and the challengers?
With the div being so weak he might have a shot LOL.Fear not--Rashad Evans is coming back to revitalize it, and reclaim his belt.
But who?Talent is there, they just haven't built up their names.
Helax. Jon is coming back to restore order in the mess that is the light heavyweight division.
My guess is that he is going to hw
He won't want to cut down anymoreTwo belts.
Bader would be the 2-3 guy in the UFC and Davis would probably get back to the top 5.
Jones's dominance was the only interesting feature. DC is special, but he's not captivating in or out of the ring.