DC in your all time rankings ?

[No Skill Gap]

You nailed that list of names. A few months ago I collated various P4P rankings and DC was a tie with Aldo.

I just a suggest DC and Khabib will both be lower in 10 years time, assuming no one else is added (Usman, etc). After recency bias wears off. Just an opinion. Cheers.

Here is how that collection of rankings went btw:

#1 GSP (by a wide margin)
#2 Jones (by a wide margin)
#3 A Silva (by a wide margin)
#4 was a virtual 3-way tie (Khabib, DJ, Fedor)
#7 was a virtual 2-way tie (Aldo, DC)
#9 was a virtual 6-way tie (Stipe, Couture, Hughes, Conor, Cruz, Penn)
#15 was a virtual 2-way tie (Hendo, Holloway)​

I think some guys are underrated, arguably, all-time but it's logical. For example Hendo. He never won a UFC belt, and he lost the Shields in SF for the 185 title there. He has the Pride GPs, but DC has a Strikeforce (psuedo-Pride really...) HW GP on top of two divisional belts in the UFC. Only second fiddle to Jon Jones, and only ever losing to Jones/Stipe basically...or literally.

Agree that there is recency bias...but maybe not. For example, what if Derrick Lewis beats Ngannou next? Then DC's complete and utter ragdoll domination of Lewis looks even better, and that win looks much better than it currently does for legacy purposes.

But yeah there's always going to be guys like Cruz now who's probably underrated. Like Faber who's not even listed but has an argument to be on that list there.

I think Couture is overrated as well personally, he kind of gets special treatment vs other guys like say Faber or Franklin or your Tito-Liddell-Rampage-Wand types

 

[Kvothe_the_kingkiller]

I think some guys are underrated, arguably, all-time but it's logical. For example Hendo. He never won a UFC belt, and he lost the Shields in SF for the 185 title there. He has the Pride GPs, but DC has a Strikeforce (psuedo-Pride really...) HW GP on top of two divisional belts in the UFC. Only second fiddle to Jon Jones, and only ever losing to Jones/Stipe basically...or literally.

Agree that there is recency bias...but maybe not. For example, what if Derrick Lewis beats Ngannou next? Then DC's complete and utter ragdoll domination of Lewis looks even better, and that win looks much better than it currently does for legacy purposes.

But yeah there's always going to be guys like Cruz now who's probably underrated. Like Faber who's not even listed but has an argument to be on that list there.

I think Couture is overrated as well personally, he kind of gets special treatment vs other guys like say Faber or Franklin or your Tito-Liddell-Rampage-Wand types

I think my collated list is pretty solid. Everyone is going to have a small nitpick (for me DC too high, for you Couture too high, I absolutely disagree with #1 GSP, etc, etc), but by and large, I think 90% of fans will agree with 90% of the list. Which is all you can hope for with something like this.

And that's just the power of collective wisdom.

 

[Kafirov]

I have him between 11-15

 

[ikite103]

DC was a light Heavyweight and Heavyweight champ in the UFC and Strikeforce champ so yeah one of the best ever clearly in the top 10 probably in the top 5 hard to say are we talking skill accomplishments or doing the most with the least? Dude is short and chubby and beat monsters

 

[DjolexMTL]

1st off, you didn't mention his 2 Ws over Rumble who was other 6-0 at LHW with flawless victories over Davis, Bader, Gust, & Glover.

But to answer the question, top 8-12. Could have been top 5 if he took the Stipe rematch instead of opting for Lewis.

It would have been Stipe's 3rd fight in 10 months, after the damage vs Ngannou & the KO vs DC just 4 months earlier. DC would have KO'd him again & rode off into the sunset, with his only loss being against serial PED abuser Juice Jones.

I will say tho, if Lewis can beat Ngannou again, & then defend vs Stipe, that would enhance DC's resume a little bit more.

If Lewis beats Ngannou and defends against Stipe I'm becoming a full time stripper