- Hugged and Layed on top of Woodley (who lost all his next fights) for 5 rounds to earn the belt
- Went to a life and death war with Colby and barely managed to win at the last second, stoppage was questionable also.
- Got Journeyman Jorge on a short notice and hugged him for 5 rounds.
- Got LW reject Gllbert Bums who managed to drop him, but it was a decent win.
- Gave Journeyman Jorge another unearned free title shot just so he could pad his record with an extra defense, cool KO though
He's obviously a great fighter and possibly current P4P king, but people are trolling when they compare his reign to Khabib, right? He beat the elite of the elite and made it look effortless. All of Khabib's opponents where ranked in P4P list... Meanwhile Usman is fighting Journeymen.. Not his fault though, current WW is just sad.
We can go through his whole resume. Again, he's a hofer. I don't want to say he isn't but lets go through notable names.
RDA - Not his weight class. He got beat by Michael Chiesa. A former LW journeyman. Not his weightclass.
Demian Maia - 2 fight losing streak coming after challenging for the title. This is the same spot Woodley was in when facing Colby covington for a rematch. By then peopople knew he was on the decline. You can't lose 3 in a row and still be elite. He lost 2 heading into the fight with usman.
Tyron Woodley - Great win
Colby Covington - Good win. Colby is not all time elite.
Gilbert Burns - Good win, snapped his 6 or 7 win streak. But burns isn't an elite fighter. No one ever mistaken him for being one. Look at the quality of wins he got that secured him a title shot. Yesteryear fighters with Woodley coming off 1 loss to cap off the title shot. Woodley was only one fight removed from fighting usman. I'm not saying woodley was shot as a fighter then. I'm just saying he got that shot by beating maia and woodley alone.
Jorge Masvidal twice - Again, journeyman Jorge.
14-0. I mean, it's good. I'd like to have that resume if you told me I could be a fighter. I'd take it. 14-0 in the ufc. However, those are not impressive names. I'm sorry, not in the time Usman fought them.
I give 5-3 gaethje more cred than some of those names because he beat a p4p guy. Even if he caught him on the tail end. Khabib and Tony at one point in time were neck and neck. If Usman had a similar rival but someone beat that rival and usman beat the person who beat the rival, I'd rank that high for usman too but no one in that division is p4p except usman.