Do dominant Champs make the division look bad?

Dreyga2000 said:
Is it just me or does it seem like every time a dominant champ reigns over a division. The division is quickly met with accusations that the division is bad.

All of sudden there is new life in 125 and 205 after DJ and Jones left. Hell a year or two after Joanna was dethroned SW has suddenly become the more interesting and deepest WMMA division.

Does the belt changing hands make the fighters in the division look more dangerous?
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do do do u stutter!
 
dildos said:
no bashing. all truth friend. just like how anderson is a steroid cheat.

and tbh anderson is lucky he got off easy only getting knocked out and getting his leg broken by weidman. imagine what the likes of the strikeforce guys romero, jacare, mousasi and rising ufc star whittaker would have done to him at that time. romero would have left anderson brain dead and a vegetable.
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Or yikes, even think of what Matt Serra would do to him?
 
Dude Incredible said:
First of all your name and AV are freaking sweet.
Second I love Robbie and he very well might be my favorite non-interim champ ever but I'm pretty sure his title fights vs Hendricks 2 was not a atg brawl nor was this (3 outta 5 aint bad tho):
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I definitely think MM, Jones, maybe even GSP gave off a perception that 1st place was so unattainable that you just watched to see how they would win and not if someone cashed in a punchers chance, unless you hated them, which many did and do. I think if you had such a mentality that they were unbeatable even other great fighters might just seem to the next chucklehead in line.
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First Hendricks fight was fun and the rematch had one of the best final rounds ever IMO. Aldo also doesn't get mentioned even though his dominance was intense at FW. Thanks btw I dig your AV too!
 
Of course.

They spoil us.

There's no reason Jan and Jon need to be talked about in the same sentence except they are both UFC 205 champs. Nothing else is similar.
 
Yep, but it is perception. When a champ makes the division look weak is when it really shows how great they are. By establishing themselves as king's of the division for an extended time,, It also makes for really intense title fights. For me MM, GSP, Silva, Jones, and Fedor have accomplished that. Khabib too but not quite as much because he didn't defend as much or as long as the others.
 


Hey, nice red belt, Drey. Grats.
 
Yep, that's the perception.

Look at Jones, Silva, GSP, Aldo, Demetrious... All champs for a very long time and there's idiots who say the divisions are weak because of it
 
And to answer the question, it doesn't. It's up to the other fighters/contenders to step their game up. Having a dominant champion imo simply means that that's the bar that's been set, and though it's a cliche, to be the man you got to beat the man. So they should work their ass off.
 
KID Yamamoto said:
First Hendricks fight was fun and the rematch had one of the best final rounds ever IMO. Aldo also doesn't get mentioned even though his dominance was intense at FW. Thanks btw I dig your AV too!
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True that, Robbie is a 5th round maniac. But iirc he took the entire 4th off and some periods of time earlier in the fight. And Hendricks didn't help matters by fence grinding.

The Aldo call is solid. A lot of his wins were great quality until then but when he crushed Frankie I was like, 'well Jose ain't going nowhere any time soon"
 
I think the opposite is true. When everyone is good, it makes the division seem weak because everyone can beat each other. They all suck. At least when you have a dominant champ, there is some mystique in the division
 
Khabib was a very dominant champion and everyone still agrees that LW is probably the most stacked division ever
 
TheSpider said:
To haters they do. Anderson Silva made the strong MW division look like amatuers during his record breaking title reign. The man was simply that good. Is normal.
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It can be both. Anderson Silva was good but the middleweight division during his era was, pun intended, middling and not super deep.
Tweak896 said:
Aldo at FW was never considered a strong or weak division.
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It will come down to taste, but FW was ridiculously deep post-WEC merger and during the end of Aldo's tenure there.
 
That's certainly the common perception, anyway. Any division with a dominant champion is "weak." Any division where the title changes hands every second fight is "stacked." I think women's divisions and men's heavyweight are the only ones exempt from those characterizations.
 
No, they are just that good. The three most dominant champs have been GSP, Jones and Silva and the three of them reigned in three of the best divisions of all time IMO.
 
This only counts if you are completley incapable of actually knowing what you are watching.
 
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