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Playing off of another TS thread on the front page, does it feel like alot of fighters taking belts these days seem either very beatable, or you only see really a 1 or 2 defense run in them?
When I was younger, the champs seemed like these untouchable world beaters like who the hell can even challenge this guy? GSP was invincible forever. I never thought I'd see Anderson lose. BJ at lightweight was a fucking savage for years. Khabib needs no words. Who saw anybody beating Jose? Jon vacated his title, but he cleared like three generations of LHW. Cain and Brock both seemed like the true heavyweight kings. Brock more so maybe less due to merit and more the way he steamrolled the guys he did fight.
Guys like Bisping, Jan, Eddie, even Robbie Lawler, Olivera, and dare I say Izzy... we'd seen those first 5 lose a ton of fights before they took the belt. Izzy seems to have a pretty clear blueprint on beating him. Obviously competition has gotten tougher, guys are more well rounded and fighters like Olivera have improved leaps and bounds. But if competition got so much tougher, what were guys like Eddie doing as champion anyway? Are we going through growing pains, or backwards?
When I was younger, the champs seemed like these untouchable world beaters like who the hell can even challenge this guy? GSP was invincible forever. I never thought I'd see Anderson lose. BJ at lightweight was a fucking savage for years. Khabib needs no words. Who saw anybody beating Jose? Jon vacated his title, but he cleared like three generations of LHW. Cain and Brock both seemed like the true heavyweight kings. Brock more so maybe less due to merit and more the way he steamrolled the guys he did fight.
Guys like Bisping, Jan, Eddie, even Robbie Lawler, Olivera, and dare I say Izzy... we'd seen those first 5 lose a ton of fights before they took the belt. Izzy seems to have a pretty clear blueprint on beating him. Obviously competition has gotten tougher, guys are more well rounded and fighters like Olivera have improved leaps and bounds. But if competition got so much tougher, what were guys like Eddie doing as champion anyway? Are we going through growing pains, or backwards?