All Time GOAT poll

I'm very much against Jon being in those conversations for exactly that reason, but you won't be able to get a majority to agree on any of the other candidates either.
 
Simple...you cant. PED in a level playing field is fine. But doing it against the rules is an immediate DQ from GOAT conversation. Can totally still be called a dangerous fighter, but thats surface level.
 
You can't.

If it's any consolation, your tears of embarrassment will be a source of amusement for lifetimes.

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rstringer said:
Honest question to Jones fans. I am done arguing with you guys and if in the face of all the evidence , if you still support your boy so be it .

But if sherdog is to represent a microcosm of the world wide MMA community, I believe it is safe to say that half of this community does not believe Jones to be goat due to PED usage.

Don't you all thing that you would at least need a majority of people to believe a fighter is goat before designating this label to him/her?

Doesn't it bother you at all that Jones does not have that support of the MMA community?
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Why would we care?
 
Even if you set aside the roids argument, he's still the biggest eye-poker in history.

I've never seen another fighter actively target the eyes as much as Jon did against rampage. And the fact that he did it to like 5 other guys back then too just seals the deal.

And that's not even considering his DQ vs Hamill for illegal elbows.

I mean what other top fighter has a DQ loss on their record?
 
rstringer said:
Honest question to Jones fans. I am done arguing with you guys and if in the face of all the evidence , if you still support your boy so be it .

But if sherdog is to represent a microcosm of the world wide MMA community, I believe it is safe to say that half of this community does not believe Jones to be goat due to PED usage.

Don't you all thing that you would at least need a majority of people to believe a fighter is goat before designating this label to him/her?

Doesn't it bother you at all that Jones does not have that support of the MMA community?
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he's the most talented and physically gifted fighter ever. However he got caught cheating and that screws up his his claim to goat'ness
 
i don’t think you can dispute that he’s used peds. the problem is so many fighters have used peds, and many had the fortune of fighting in a time when testing was more relaxed or otherwise easily circumvented. so if “cheating” was just part of the game everyone was playing, is it really cheating? or is his crime the fact that he got caught?

usada recently amended the rules for iv usage. for a few years it was considered “cheating,” then usada quietly amended its rules to allow it with a doctor’s supervision. so a few fighters popped under the old rule and were considered cheaters, but then cheating became legal, and who knows how many fighters “cheated” legally after that. it all seems very arbitrary.


at the end of the day, the only objective way we can judge whether a fight was fair is the fight itself. and based on the way jones performed, i just can’t chalk it up to peds. he’s simply a great fighter. he won his fights (aside from those controversial decisions) by being a better fighter. perhaps if we one find a way to concisely filter out cheaters, i’ll put an asterisk on his name. until then i consider him goat.
 
VenomCarnage said:
Issue we have is that if we are totally honest, almost all of the GOAT contenders were on PEDs.

Let’s just start throwing names around.

Jones
St. Pierre
Aldo
Silva
Dillashaw
Henderson
Shogun
Romero
Fedor
Makhachev
Barnett
Cro Cop
Overseen
Werdum
dos Santos
Adesanya
Usman

I’ve just named you about 20 names who are likely all in and around the top 50 fighters ever. All of these fighters have a lot of question marks around their ethics around PEDs. They either straight-up failed a test, or they had screaming signs of use.

If all those boys are ‘in doubt’, then it’s extremely hard to pretend that only Jones is in this boat.

We can’t start doing this ‘let’s give the GOAT award to the guy down in 8th place because he’s the only one who was clean’.
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What are guys like Shogun, GSP, Aldo, or Fedor doing on this list? What are their "screaming signs of abuse", exactly?

You can hate these fighters all you wants, but PEDs usage are serious accusations, and these guys never pissed hot while their competition kept failing test after test (Fedor's drug testing in Combat Sambo was notoriously strict for the time).

No one is denying that guys like Anderson Silva have been juiced to the gills since day one, which is why it's unfair to their clean opponent (unless you're going to claim that Roy Chonan, Daiju Takase, Nick Diaz, Luiz Azeredo and Daniel Cormier have screaming signs of PED abuse?)

UFC champion Forrest Griffin had this to say, back when Jon Jones and Anderson Silva were still sneakily shooting up steroids and claiming to be all natty:
“When it started, I had two problems with steroids. One, they’re illegal and I’m doing illegal drugs. And, two, you’re telling kids, fans, young people that watch the sport you have to do drugs to do this.
Well, that’s not true. The best guys don’t do drugs. Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Georges St. Pierre, these guys don’t use drugs, they’re naturally athletic. The best guys in any sport don’t use drugs. It’s the guys on the second tier trying to get to the first tier that use drugs.
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It's so sad that out of those 3, only one cared enough about the legitimacy of the sport to keep needles out of his asscheeks <{hughesimpress}>
The best don't do drugs


 
Yellowcrab said:
This is how delusional Sherdog is... no one cares about this forum but some members here think they are special.

There are literally videos with millions of views on Youtube saying that Jon Jones is the GOAT, but a thread that will probably make hundred of views at best here is supposed to be more relevant.



This is an old video, Jon Jones wasn't even the HW champ, yet still already considered as the GOAT.

Everyone thinks Jon Jones is the GOAT outside of some salty delusional members here.

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and yet here you are with over 2,000 posts. weird flex but ok
 
Because fuck what you nerds and haters think. Jones could slap every damn one of you and fuck al your dad's if he wanted to and you wouldn't do a damn thing about it.
 
They all are on it, calm down.
 
L0ki said:
It's like 30% that think he's GOAT.

100% agree he cheated.

No one doubts he hasn't pissed hot.
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This and 95% agree that the rest cheated, too. (5% are too naive)
Jones just cheated more than others.
 
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