Honestly, bantamweight division now is on the same level as lightweight or welterweight

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Not less.

Top 10 are pretty much all killers. All have great striking, effective wrestling and BJJ - defensive one, and some have great offensive one too.
Pretty much all have great movement, all of them are fast obviously.

Rarely a dull fight - everyone likes to trade. Even Assuncao, he simply does it in such a robotic way that it's not too exciting. But he also has it all.

There is also a great bunch of killers in top 25: Petr Yan is pizdetz, Dodson should never be underestimated, Rob Font is skilled. New blood is coming too.

Even outside of UFC - Bellator champ Caldwell is definitely not a king of excitement, but his wrestling is top notch, and BJJ highly underestimated.

Funny thing now: THEY ALL can stall fights like Woodley and Wonderboy know well how to do.
But they don't.


Now compare that to LW and WW - and I think a comparison would be fair.
 
Bantamweight is on the same level as bantamweight?

Bold claim. Bold, bold claim indeed.

(In before thread title edit)
 
Rum said:
Bantamweight is on the same level as bantamweight?

Bold claim. Bold, bold claim indeed.

(In before thread title edit)
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Corrected. Thanks!
 
as WELTERWEIGHT? A dumpster fire of a division in the UFC??

Bantamweight is the best division going right now, i'm glad it's getting recognized.

I'm also glad that Dillashaw has been locked with Garbrandt for 2 years and now wants to further make the division a slog by avoiding Moraes to fight Cruz.
 
Fullmount Triangle said:
as WELTERWEIGHT? A dumpster fire of a division in the UFC??

Bantamweight is the best division going right now, i'm glad it's getting recognized.

I'm also glad that Dillashaw has been locked with Garbrandt for 2 years and now wants to further make the division a slog by avoiding Moraes to fight Cruz.
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Hmmm...didn't think that way about WW.

So what are your top 3 divisions? Lightweight, bantamweight and...?
 
AimedWithV said:
The dieded guy is more skilled than most of the top 5 in onther divisions.
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Not really. Aldo, Holloway, Conor, Khabib, Tyron, Colby, Weidman, Rockhold, Gastelum, Bobby Knuckles, etc would all smash him
 
PoundMeToo said:
Not really. Aldo, Holloway, Conor, Khabib, Tyron, Colby, Weidman, Rockhold, Gastelum, Bobby Knuckles, etc would all smash him
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Well you brought top 2 from each division. And a very solid guys.
Still, I believe that Cody is more skilled than, for example, Rockhold and Colby. Stylistically, a MW version of Garbrandt against Whittaker would be interesting too.
 
Featherweight and Lightweight are the two best divisions.
Bantamweight is third, though.
 
And it's been for a long time. I actually think WW is now in a weird position, where most contenders are out of title talks, and the three people involved in title contention are two boring fighters and a reincident weight misses. Featherweight is way more interesting and middleweight is unclogging and will develop greatly at 230
 
Featherweight and Lightweight are the most beast-rich divisions. Bantamweight is 3rd. WW is frequently highly entertaining but shallow enough that several fairly one-dimensional fighters have ended up in the Top 5 in the last few years.

As far as 145 goes, don't be fooled by the way Stephens was taken out by Aldo. Stephens was looking great in that fight until Aldo - still one of the P4P best on the planet - worked out what he needed to do to turn the tables. I like Till and Colby but 2018 Stephens is a smarter, more well-rounded fighter than both of them. He'd be Top 3 easily in any division outside 135/145/155. Unfortunately he's in the same division as legit elite talent like Holloway, Aldo, Ortega, Edgar ...

Hell, Cub Swanson would be Top 3 in any division outside 135, 145 and 155, and that dude's on a 3-loss skid at FW.
 
AimedWithV said:
Not less.

Top 10 are pretty much all killers. All have great striking, effective wrestling and BJJ - defensive one, and some have great offensive one too.
Pretty much all have great movement, all of them are fast obviously.

Rarely a dull fight - everyone likes to trade. Even Assuncao, he simply does it in such a robotic way that it's not too exciting. But he also has it all.

There is also a great bunch of killers in top 25: Petr Yan is pizdetz, Dodson should never be underestimated, Rob Font is skilled. New blood is coming too.

Even outside of UFC - Bellator champ Caldwell is definitely not a king of excitement, but his wrestling is top notch, and BJJ highly underestimated.

Funny thing now: THEY ALL can stall fights like Woodley and Wonderboy know well how to do.
But they don't.


Now compare that to LW and WW - and I think a comparison would be fair.
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LW/FW/BW are the 3 best divisions in the UFC.
 
AimedWithV said:
Not less.

Top 10 are pretty much all killers. All have great striking, effective wrestling and BJJ - defensive one, and some have great offensive one too.
Pretty much all have great movement, all of them are fast obviously.

Rarely a dull fight - everyone likes to trade. Even Assuncao, he simply does it in such a robotic way that it's not too exciting. But he also has it all.

There is also a great bunch of killers in top 25: Petr Yan is pizdetz, Dodson should never be underestimated, Rob Font is skilled. New blood is coming too.

Even outside of UFC - Bellator champ Caldwell is definitely not a king of excitement, but his wrestling is top notch, and BJJ highly underestimated.

Funny thing now: THEY ALL can stall fights like Woodley and Wonderboy know well how to do.
But they don't.


Now compare that to LW and WW - and I think a comparison would be fair.
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LW/FW/BW are the 3 best divisions in the UFC.
 
an argument can be made that BW is the deepest division in the ufc
 
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