Era of non-dominant champs

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With Khabib retiring it's starting to look like we have no dominant champs right now. Am I wrong? Adesanya seems closest but he had a close fight with Martin not that long ago and him fight with Yoel didn't prove his dominance by any means. I'm only looking at male divisions but who's dominant here?

Stipe - Clearly not, he's old and lost like 3 fights ago and Ngannou is looming

Blachowicz - Only champ because Jones left

Adesanya - Again he's the closest thing imo but only 2 title defenses so let's see him fight a few more times

Usman - He's kind of close but he's 33 at WW, that isn't good. He also only has 2 title defenses including a war with Covington. No way he makes it to 5 defense imo.

LW - Vacant

Volkanovski - He hasn't lost in years. He beat Max twice but I think he needs to fight a few more defenses before you can say he's dominant. I think he's just a bad match up for Max more than anything and he's 32 at FW so I can't see it lasting.

Yan - Only champ because Cejudo retired and he's coming back. Sterling is tough too.

Figueiredo - Didn't have to fight DJ or Cejudo to be flyweight champ. He's old for the division and lost to Formiga last year. He's fun but I don't see a dominant run.


Am I wrong? Are a lot more of these guys going to go on GSP, Aldo, Silva like runs?
 
Usman's safe style and incredible toughness will make him hard to beat, provided he stays in his lane.
 
I think Adesanya is the next dominant champ personally, feel he's going on an Anderson style run in 2 weight classes (maybe eventually 3), we shall see.
 
Style Bender , Usman and Fig could go down as greats / legends.... and Stipe is already considered the greatest HW in UFC History.
Stipe has less to do with a substantial duration of dominance and more to people haven't been able to defend in the past. I hate saying the bar is lower, because that takes away from what 3 defenses means in the HW division, but if 3 is the record, I can see how someone could be the greatest but not meet the criteria of dominant.
 
Calling people old at 32 as a reason they may not have multiple defences when Anderson won the belt at 31 and then had 11 defences.


Usman, Izzy and Fig will have at least 3 more defences each minimum.

Fair. I dont see fig as that type of guy and age matters more lower too. I dont really see Usman like that either but could be wrong. Izzy does check all the boxes though.
 
Ortega will beat volk and go on to be very dominant. He could also go up to lw and possibly get the strap there too if he wanted.
 
With Khabib retiring it's starting to look like we have no dominant champs right now. Am I wrong? Adesanya seems closest but he had a close fight with Martin not that long ago and him fight with Yoel didn't prove his dominance by any means. I'm only looking at male divisions but who's dominant here?

Stipe - Clearly not, he's old and lost like 3 fights ago and Ngannou is looming

Blachowicz - Only champ because Jones left

Adesanya - Again he's the closest thing imo but only 2 title defenses so let's see him fight a few more times

Usman - He's kind of close but he's 33 at WW, that isn't good. He also only has 2 title defenses including a war with Covington. No way he makes it to 5 defense imo.

LW - Vacant

Volkanovski - He hasn't lost in years. He beat Max twice but I think he needs to fight a few more defenses before you can say he's dominant. I think he's just a bad match up for Max more than anything and he's 32 at FW so I can't see it lasting.

Yan - Only champ because Cejudo retired and he's coming back. Sterling is tough too.

Figueiredo - Didn't have to fight DJ or Cejudo to be flyweight champ. He's old for the division and lost to Formiga last year. He's fun but I don't see a dominant run.


Am I wrong? Are a lot more of these guys going to go on GSP, Aldo, Silva like runs?
Yes you are wrong, for assuming all of them are old and that’s why they won’t last
 
Your thread was a complete waste of time when you started it by saying stipe isnt a dominant champion. You sound ridiculous.

He's not is he? How many title defenses does he have? How many consecutively?
 
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