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Technically speaking by definition of the word "Gatekeeper", the champions are actually the gatekeepers.
You mean something like this ?
Technically speaking by definition of the word "Gatekeeper", the champions are actually the gatekeepers.
No, they are not. Gatekeepers are fighters you need to beat to get into title contention. Former champions (say, current Aldo at FW) and #1 contender (say, Wonderboy at WW) can become gatekeepers, but certainly not current champions.
Those guys arent gatekeepers though. They are the second best fighters in their division.
A good example of a gatekeeper would be Bisping prior to getting gifted a title shot and winning. He was generally considered a mid to lower top 10 guy who was not quite good enough to fight for a belt and several fighters got title shots off of beating him.
Well I actually said they may eventually become, not that they currently are necessarily.
However, for Wonderboy I would say he is almost a textbook gatekeeper at the moment seen that 1) despite being highly ranked is very far from a title shot (1-3 in his last four fights) and lost twice to the current champ, and 2) at least one guy (Till) got a TS off of beating him.
Lmao not even close. For starters Wonderboy is 8-2-1, not 1-3. He lost to Woodley once, not twice. Secondly, both those loses are debatable, especially the last fight which most people think he won. He's nowhere near a gatekeeper.