Naaaaaah.
I mean, listen, Jonny Bones is my favourite fighter to watch and has been for a long, long time now, but let's be honest, nobody with any credibility considered LHW the most competitive division by the time Rua was champ.
Don't you remember how they gave him a title shot off a pitiful 2-win streak in the first place? And how one of those wins was a shithouse performance against a 798 year-old mostly retired Coleman? It was really only hype-swallowing casuals who bought all that bollocks about LHW being the deepest division at the time when the division was regularly awarding title shots to guys with win streaks of 2 or less. LHW
was the deepest in terms of
celebrity sure, but not in terms of talent. Go back and read the OP where it's clearly explained why FW, LW and WW have always been naturally significantly deeper talent pools even though they didn't get the same hype.
Meanwhile, Aldo once did what Bones did. Climbed to 8,000 feet without falling. But then Aldo climbed higher. Aldo went to 9,000 and then pushed for 10,000. He achieved something my main man Jonny Bones has not yet achieved. Aldo only fell once he went to heights Jonny Bones has not yet reached, and unless you're some participation trophy soccer mom you don't give credit for not failing at things you haven't even attempted.
It's that simple.
For fans who know how this game really works my man Jonny Bones has work to do to reach the top.
And now is his time.