Are we too obsessed with suposed GOATS?

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It seems like 1 out of every 3 threads are about GOATS in this division or that division. Doesn't this mean that we don't appreciate fighters who aren't on the level of these "GOATS". Great fighters are overlooked when discussing "GOATS" and only the creme of the crop are chosen for praise. Not everyone is Jon Jones.
 
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Americans are pretty obsessed with it, in every sports
 
Never understood the need myself. The endless comparisons and threads attempting to discredit fighters is mind numbing.

I use those threads now as a good way to weed out the fucking idiots on this forum.
 
For a goat to exist, there must a huge gap between the "goat" and the rest, like, Ali was never goat, there's no goat in boxing, Michael Jordan was at basketball, his numbers speakes for itself, Tiger Woods was at golf, Aleksandr Karelin was at wrestling.
The only chance of MMA to have a goat is if Jones comes back, reclaim his LHW title and also wins the HW title.
 
Yes.
The HW goat is Fedor.
The LHW goat is Jones.
The MW goat is Anderson.
The WW goat is GSP.
The LW goat is BJ Penn.
The FW goat is Jose Aldo.

Deal with it.
 
MuyThaiElbows said:
Yes.
The HW goat is Fedor.
The LHW goat is Jones.
The MW goat is Anderson.
The WW goat is GSP.
The LW goat is BJ Penn.
The FW goat is Jose Aldo.

Deal with it.
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The greatest of all time.

Goes on to list 6 fighters. :icon_cry2
 
MMA fans are the worst, they tend to only like undefeated fighters or champs, and flavors of the month...but in their defense, it's one of the hardest sports to be a true fan of.

Most popular sports are team based, and if the team gets crushed or sucks season after season, they can blame certain players or coaches and say, well next season may be better when i am rooting for different people with the same team name.

In MMA, if one of your favorite fight starts slipping you have to literally watch them get beat down with little to no way to deflect the disappointment.

That's why soon as a fighter goes through a little bad luck, everyone jumps off the bandwagon. The same people will jump right back on if the fighter starts to win again.

It was great being a Wandy, Shogun, Fedor, BJ, Mach fan for a long time.... Then they started to lose and it was super hard to watch. This is what separated the fans from the bandwagon riders.
 
kenCs said:
The greatest of all time.

Goes on to list 6 fighters. :icon_cry2
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"Greatest of all time" in each division makes sense. Why would we compare who's better between Fedor/Aldo or Penn? They will never fight so how can we say who's better? That's why when talking about "goats" it should be about the weight class that fighter is in.
 
SleepyBoy said:
MMA fans are the worst, they tend to only like undefeated fighters or champs, and flavors of the month...but in their defense, it's one of the hardest sports to be a true fan of.

Most popular sports are team based, and if the team gets crushed or sucks season after season, they can blame certain players or coaches and say, well next season may be better when i am rooting for different people with the same team name.

In MMA, if one of your favorite fight starts slipping you have to literally watch them get beat down with little to no way to deflect the disappointment.

That's why soon as a fighter goes through a little bad luck, everyone jumps off the bandwagon. The same people will jump right back on if the fighter starts to win again.

It was great being a Wandy, Shogun, Fedor, BJ, Mach fan for a long time.... Then they started to lose and it was super hard to watch. This is what separated the fans from the bandwagon riders.
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I agree.

The Conor bandwagon might be the hardest fall to watch. So many people wouldn't know what to do with them selves.
 
MuyThaiElbows said:
"Greatest of all time" in each division makes sense. Why would we compare who's better between Fedor/Aldo or Penn? They will never fight so how can we say who's better? That's why when talking about "goats" it should be about the weight class that fighter is in.
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"GREATEST OF ALL TIME" - Implies that there is only one.
 
The more of your "favorite" fighters that are GOATS, the better you are as a person.

This is well known on Sherdog....






























































Which means nothing in the real world.
 
Entirely too often, for a sport that's relatively young.
 
MuyThaiElbows said:
Yes.
The HW goat is Fedor.
The LHW goat is Jones.
The MW goat is Anderson.
The WW goat is GSP.
The LW goat is BJ Penn.
The FW goat is Jose Aldo.

Deal with it.
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This! Mma fans are so short sighted and want to give that title to every new fighter to dethrone the champ
 
99% of sherdog has no idea that goat refers to a career and not a 2 fight win streak.
 
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