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HW is weaker today than it was during Mirko’s reign of terror in Pride.
Cain was touted as the best UFC HW ever a few years back, and he got wrecked by Werdum who couldn’t crack the top 5 in Pride.
Ngannou vs a mid tier HW in Hunt would be a tossup fight.
Where is your evidence of this supposed HW evolution?
Nice strawman.
Fact is of course it's easier to land things in earlier days of MMA because less people know how to properly defend. Nearly all of Mirko's headkick KOs are from the early days of his career. As his career progressed he got less of them despite still throwing headkicks. It's almost like people got better at defending headkicks or something.
There's a reason why you asked how come we don't see headkicks KOs as much these days as opposed to asking if headkicks themselves are less prevalent these days. They're obviously not, fighters throw them every fight. You literally cited Gaethje's most recent one completely unironically. Gaethje threw 3 headkicks that night and Poirier himself also threw 1. There were 4 headkicks from guys not at all particularly known for headkicks and 3x of them were correctly blocked before the 4th wasn't. And even then Poirier still managed to throw up a partial guard in the split second he had to realize one was coming.
Like golly gee, it's almost like fighters are better at not getting kicked in the fucking head these days or something.
Also I love the other complete irony of saying HW hasn't evolved after Derrick Lewis just won another fight by flying knee KO. Please show me which 265lb fighters were doing that back then.