Aldo, McGregor, Weidman, Anderson, what do all these "greats" have in common.

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All were considered great fighters until they had to fight someone bigger than them and lost their advantage to win.

Aldo had a hard time making weight, then comes a better weight cutter in McGregor who knocked him out. Then McGregor had to fight someone that was actually longer than him and gets choked out. Anderson Silva spent his whole career dwarfing the middleweight division until Chris Weidman came along. Then came Luke Rochold who is even bigger than Weidman.

This is the Ultimate Fighting and Weight Cutting championship. You can give it to Silva who moved up weight class and won but he was only fighting journey men.
 
Stopped reading after you put conner in the same level as the others and called him "great" hell even weidman is a little iffy. Leprechaunnor does not have the same resume by a long shot.
 
dumbest thread ive seen all year.

anderson silva fought plenty of fighters bigger than him before weidman. size wasn't a factor at all in his losses there.

size also wasn't a factor for aldo vs mcgregor either.
 
Oh, I thought you were going to say "they are all men."

Because that's what I reckon they all have in common.
 
Anderson Silva was a world champion at 168lbs before he was a world champion at 185lbs.

He was not clearly not naturally bigger or heavier than guys like Sonnen or Okami or Franklin, and was noticeably smaller than Griffin and Bonnar.

Argument demolished. Next.
 
It's an interesting observation in my opinion dispite the comments You've received so far.
I'm trying to think of fighters that Anderson fought that were already bigger than him before Weidman.
When they get to that level in the game , size matters a lot. Especially if both fighters are high Caliber.the bigger guy has the clear advantage.
Gsp seems to be the flaw in your Argument ( I know you didn't mention him but he is a great) gsp was at one point considered big for the division but he's really not . He fought condit and diaz who are bigger than him and probably others and he beat them
 
Kelman said:
Anderson Silva was a world champion at 168lbs before he was a world champion at 185lbs.

He was not clearly not naturally bigger or heavier than guys like Sonnen or Okami or Franklin, and was noticeably smaller than Griffin and Bonnar.

Argument demolished. Next.
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He got caught using steroids.
 
Anderson fought some bigger guys before Weidman.
 
neither conor nor chris' "greatness" deserve to be in the same zip code as silva and aldo's. at least, not yet. not after coming off fresh losses. it took7 years before anyone beat andy; 10 for aldo.
 
Anderson fought at 168. Even in some of his title fights in the UFC he weighed in like 182. And he never looked sucked in or shredded at the weigh ins.
 
brainwash said:
All were considered great fighters until they had to fight someone bigger than them and lost their advantage to win.

Aldo had a hard time making weight, then comes a better weight cutter in McGregor who knocked him out. Then McGregor had to fight someone that was actually longer than him and gets choked out. Anderson Silva spent his whole career dwarfing the middleweight division until Chris Weidman came along. Then came Luke Rochold who is even bigger than Weidman.

This is the Ultimate Fighting and Weight Cutting championship. You can give it to Silva who moved up weight class and won but he was only fighting journey men.
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Wrong. Anderson Silva started his career at 167lb. He was smaller than virtually every MW he faced.
 
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