Predict the Best Fighter in each weight classes in 2030

[JustOnce]

So, oh boy the year 2020 is coming to an end. Merry Christmas to everyone btw. A year flies by, and even a decade feels like it blew by fast.

So, I mean it feels like 2030 feels so far away, it's crazy, but take a look at what I thought the best fighters in each weight classes were back in 2020, or/and what the majority would have said, and how much change there was.

HW: Fedor
LHW: Shogun - Would lose to Jones in 2011
MW: Android
WW: GSP
LW: BJ - Edgar robbery ruined him for good, in 2010.
FW: Aldo - Maybe, FW was so shallow back then and he beat Faber so arguably.
BW: Not sure, BW was even shallower
FLW: I never thought we'd ever see FLW in the UFC. I doubt Dana ever did either, just like WMMA.

If you look at the list, even if you made a prediction based off on that, you wouldn't have been far off, I feel like. So, make your predictions for the best of all time in each weight classes in 2030.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

So, oh boy the year 2020 is coming to an end. Merry Christmas to everyone btw. A year flies by, and even a decade feels like it blew by fast.

So, I mean it feels like 2030 feels so far away, it's crazy, but take a look at what I thought the best fighters in each weight classes were back in 2020, or/and what the majority would have said, and how much change there was.

HW: Fedor
LHW: Shogun - Would lose to Jones in 2011
MW: Android
WW: GSP
LW: BJ - Edgar robbery ruined him for good, in 2010.
FW: Aldo - Maybe, FW was so shallow back then and he beat Faber so arguably.
BW: Not sure, BW was even shallower
FLW: I never thought we'd ever see FLW in the UFC. I doubt Dana ever did either, just like WMMA.

If you look at the list, even if you made a prediction based off on that, you wouldn't have been far off, I feel like. So, make your predictions for the best of all time in each weight classes in 2030.

Just like it was when you thought about this 10 years ago, we probably have no clue who they are yet.

 

[jfrito]

I hate stupid threads.

 

[andrejxvii]

none of the current "best fighters in the world" in each division will still be competing in 2030.

 

[mjfan23]

Horrible thread but Connor will still be the GOAT by then too and the first three division champ with KO wins in four different divisions (he gonna go up and KO Izzy too)

 

[mjfan23]

none of the current "best fighters in the world" in each division will still be competing in 2030.

They said the same thing ten years ago. Look at the HW division and LHW. Lol Glover is the best LHW on the planet and the champion is a 37 failed MW (Jan)

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

This young prospect will finally fulfill his potential, and be a two division champ and all time GOAT in 2030, at a seasoned age of 27. We just gotta have patience and witness MMA history unfold over the next ten years

 

[andrejxvii]

They said the same thing ten years ago. Look at the HW division and LHW. Lol Glover is the best LHW on the planet and the champion is a 37 failed MW (Jan)

Almost everything in this sentence is wrong.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

none of the current "best fighters in the world" in each division will still be competing in 2030.

Arlovski might prove u wrong

 

[DzNuttzOnYaChin]

UFC fighter X's kid vs. UFC fighter Y's kid

that will determine the best

 

[SKYNET]

so let's predict something that can't be quantified,10 years from now

 

[A.S. Deep]

UFC fighter X's kid vs. UFC fighter Y's kid

that will determine the best

Mir's daughter vs Lesnar's daughter at Women's 155 ten years from now.

This fight needs to be made lol.

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

2030 is too far away to possibly know. The entire roster and landscape of the sport will be different. You might as well have said 2050, or 2100.

 

[DzNuttzOnYaChin]

Mir's daughter vs Lesnar's daughter at Women's 155 ten years from now.

This fight needs to be made lol.

how old are they now ?


and why do you know this ... ol creepy sherdogger <Lmaoo>

 

[Deleted member 278323]

I'm going to play along, knowing I'll probably be wrong, because it is a damn difficult game.

HW: Cyril Gane. He is only 29, have yet to take any damage and 39 ain't an implausible peak for a heavyweight. Augusto Sakai is another option.

LHW: No obvious candidate, but Jimmy Crute is pretty good and still young, so I am going for that.

MW: Edmen Shabazyan - forget your recency-bias, dude is still only 23.

WW: I don't know if he should, or if he could, but if Sage Nothcutt gets back on the horse, he is still only 24 and has a wealth of experience. Too soon to rule him out (and it is a damn difficult game, so I'll give him a shot).

LW or WW: Khamzat will be 36 by then, which is getting up there for the division, but perfectly plausible, he'll be around. Fiziev might be around as well.

FW: Mads Burnell will be 36. If he reaches the top, young guns will be ready to take him down in 2030, but I'll put him on the list regardless.

BW: Petr Yan - he could be hanging in there as the wily old veteran at 36.

WFW: Maycee Barber - forget your recency-bias, she is still only 22.

Couldn't find obvious candidates in the remaining categories.

 

[dmwalking]

Horrible thread but Connor will still be the GOAT by then too and the first three division champ with KO wins in four different divisions (he gonna go up and KO Izzy too)

lmao nice one

 

[A.S. Deep]

how old are they now ?


and why do you know this ... ol creepy sherdogger <Lmaoo>

Lol there were threads just a few weeks ago about Mir's daughter's first fight. And Lesnar's daughter looks like a female Lesnar so it's perfect haha.

 

[Brock Sapp]

Most are probably in high school...dumb thread.

 

[mjfan23]

Almost everything in this sentence is wrong.

Almost everything in this sentence is wrong.

exaggerated to make a point (sorta like your display pic)? Yes intentionally
Wrong? Absolutely not. look up glovers and Jans rank, streak and age.

 

[chance mccoy]

There’s literally no way to know