Definitive 205 All-Time Ranking

[pankrat]

Evans is close imo …..Rumble beats them in a fight , but his 205 resume isn’t great imo…..Hendo rates higher overall then one weight class

I think to beat Alex, Davis, Glover, Bader and Nogueira the way Rumble did, apart from Manuwa or Branch, are better resume than Glover or Bader has.

Beating a top5 UFC LHW back in Rumble prime was more credited than doing it today - or than in Tito's time - because UFC doesnt dominate the top talent as used to do circa 2015 specially at LHW, which is arguably Bellator's best and the closest to the kind of competition Pride represented.

Its also not the same to kill guys as Rumble did than squeeze SDs.
Johnson is the most underrated figure in this thread.
Yeah, Evans is close

 

[r-harper-1]

I think to beat Alex, Davis, Glover, Bader and Nogueira the way Rumble did, apart from Manuwa or Branch, are better resume than Glover or Bader has.

Beating a top5 UFC LHW back in Rumble prime was more credited than doing it today - or than in Tito's time - because UFC doesnt dominate the top talent as used to do circa 2015 specially at LHW, which is arguably Bellator's best and the closest to the kind of competition Pride represented.

Its also not the same to kill guys as Rumble did than squeeze SDs.
Johnson is the most underrated figure in this thread.
Yeah, Evans is close

Rumble was great …..but when the going got tough he’d basically quit …..

 

[pankrat]

Rumble was great …..but when the going got tough he’d basically quit …..

Yeah...that's the meme but the reality is Rumble fought plenty of big guys in the elite including Arlovski at HW yet only Cormier made him quit.
Fighting in his natural weight classes, only Cormier

Rumble's run is clearly superior to that of Bader in BFC, or late Glover in UFC post-Jones

 

[r-harper-1]

Yeah...that's the meme but the reality is Rumble fought plenty of big guys in the elite including Arlovski at HW yet only Cormier made him quit.
Fighting in his natural weight classes, only Cormier

Rumble's run is clearly superior to that of Bader in BFC, or late Glover in UFC post-Jones

You’ve convinced me ….I’m on board

 

[Substance Abuse]

Wand out of the top10, let alone top15, with wins over Rampage x2, Henderson, Mezger, Arona, Sakuraba, Yoshida, Nakamura, Stann, Jardine (coming off a W over Liddell) or the same Kondo that Tito defended his tittle against is very, very hard to sell

Wand is top ten. Clearly.