No one has ever questioned the talent pool of Welterweight and Featherweight.

[ScarfaceJr]

Aldo is the youngest world champion in MMA history at 23 years, 2 months old.

9 title defenses, 18 fight win streak, 10 years undefeated in a stacked division.

the sad thing is, Zuffa barely even acknowledges any of this.

 

[MMAcolyte]

Why are you ignoring LW?

The 2 best divisions in MMA are easily LW and FW.

(Even 135 is heating up now)

There are simply billions more average sized men in the world so the talent pools at FW and LW are always going to be the largest and get the most elite of elite talents (because of those large talent pools)

This is the reason why 125 and LHW/HW are the absolute worst and most shallow divisions in MMA.

1. There arent that many men who are THAT SMALL (125)

2. And there aren't that many men who get that big (LHW/HW)

And an even tinier percentage of men that big even become cordinated or exceptionally skilled etc


Anyway, you are trying to use this thread to prove that Aldo is a GOAT

Well, what about Conor who beat both Aldo AND Holloway, AND who won the LW belt (the other best division in MMA)

This thread only proves how much of a real under rated GOAT Conor is

FW and LW are the 2 best divisions in MMA history and Conor is champ of both

Everyone "claims" Aldo and Holloway are the #1 and #2 FW GOATS...yet Conor who beat them both (the only one to do so) gets ignored. It's criminally sickening how under rated and under appreciated Conor is. Your thread only proves how Conor is A GOAT.

Btw, as for WW, WW is really hard to judge or pin point.

WW isn't as deep as I once thought. Thats why LWs are able to go up to WW and clean house

LW is vastly superior

But someone like Gsp was exceptional and is the TRUE GOAT

Gsp and Conor are the only true GOATS in my mind

And Conor is the undisputed GOAT of modern drug tested MMA. Conor is the only GOAT candidate who's best wins happened under USADA testing

Wish I could give this comment 15 likes. Way too fucking unbiased and logical for the mouth-breathers that populate this forum though

 

[RichardN7]

People always question the talent depth of divisions like Flyweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight, that's why GSP and Aldo are the undisputed no. 1 and no. 2 GOATS, they dominated stacked divisions.

135-170 are the best, with 185 close behind in terms of competitiveness. HW and FLW are the worst.

 

[HIMBOB]

There wasn't one silly what's the A level men's straweight league? Before UFC added 125 what was A level league for that? Do better yourself.

The UFC had alot of LW guys who could easily make FW and reck the b-level compitition there. Don't get me wrong Aldo was a great champion but his title was legit till he joined the big league.



Faber and Brown looked good in WEC b-level in the ufc they racked up loss after loss, again FW was shallow till you add UFC lightweights cutting.

Who are these UFC lws that smashed up fw?

 

[HIMBOB]

Flyweight would be a stacked division under normal circumstances. Divisions suddenly become depleted when a dominant GOAT holds the belt though. GSP vs Hardy, Silva vs Cote/Leites, Jones vs Belfort/Sonnen, etc.

Flyweight Top 10 if fighters hadn’t left the division to avoid DJ:

DJ
Benavidez
Cejudo
Dodson
Horiguchi
Bagautinov
McCall
Borg
Pettis
Formiga

Pretty solid IMO.

Looks like a pretty good list.

 

[sustantum]

WW division is a bunch of duckers right now. Atleast at HW the top guys are fighting each other.

 

[emax]

When it comes to HW and to some extent LHW, clearly it has to be considered the issue of elite athletes going into other sports. Now, I'm NOT saying that this means all or even most NFL guys could cross over into MMA and have a prayer of contending with the current megastars. Many of them would not be able to handle the demands that a sport which mixes wrestling and boxing - often considered by far two of the most physically demanding sports in existence at the highest levels - along with Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. That said, many guys who have the attributes needed to be HW or LHW MMA stars, including extensive elite wrestling and/or boxing backgrounds, will often find they can make a drastically better living in football and be far more financially secure once they inevitably reach the stage where they can't physically compete.

For MMA fighters in the MW class on down, this is much less of an issue. The average weight of most NFL players, sans wide recievers and defensive backs, is in the 220 to 250 lbs range, with much higher weights for linemen. So guys who can cut to 185 lbs or lower without amputating limbs have much less options as football players and basketball players as well since most likely they won't have the height requirements for that either. And making large paydays in boxing isn't realistic either unless they've been training to be top level boxers since their grade school years. When you're that size, there just aren't as many arenas you can enter where you can get millions of fans around the country and around the globe looking to see you perform if you weren't conditioned from a very early age specifically to be a champion boxer. For the LW division on down, it's especially true. If you have Michael Jordan/Wayne Gretsky/Pele/Jerry Rice levels of athleticism when it comes to combat sports and the size of Nate Diaz or McGregor, MMA has become the premier place for non boxers to show their abilities.

 

[Kleinschuster]

Why are you ignoring LW?

Gsp and Conor are the only true GOATS in my mind

And Conor is the undisputed GOAT of modern drug tested MMA. Conor is the only GOAT candidate who's best wins happened under USADA testing

I don't agree with Conor. He has one win at LW against a fighter that had two loses there, two split decisions and one KO. If Conor had defended the belt at least twice against Khabib and Tony I'd call him GOAT. This way he just cherrypicked and run with it.

 

[Dozer .]

the sad thing is, Zuffa barely even acknowledges any of this.

Agreed. All because he wasn’t that big of a draw. The UFC is a joke

 

[Cowboy Cerroliveira]

okay sorry, hominick GnP his ass for better part of the 5th round. And this 'retard' would make you eat them words kiddo

Shut the fuck up. Either you didn't watch the fight, or you're retarded, maybe both. That never happened.

Easy...easy.

It happened in like the last...10 seconds of round 5. This is coming from a diehard Aldo fan. Aldo was reportedly sick as a dog during that fight as well, which is why he started to gas bad.

 

[chinarice]

WW is a lot more questionable in 2018 than when Georges was champ..

Very telling when 3 LWs are able to move up and crack the top10 in the Woodley era.

None of those guys even thought twice about moving up during the GSP era because they knew the dominant wrestlers like Kos, Fitch and GSP would most likely embarrass them.