Rafael Dos Anjos vs....

[The Beast Within]

i've never heard anything of this criticism of conor. almost all the top guys at FW kill themselves to make weight, including aldo. you're saying RDA should fight at WW because he potentially walks around at 190? wtf is you point other than a new thread to nuthug on conor.

i'm not nuthugging stop flaming bro

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

they both cut a lot of weight. but probably more people criticize Conor because he is always saying he cant beat anyone, if thats true then he should fight at middleweight .. which will be close to his walk around weight.

 

[Andzso]

fuck the weight! what matter is timing and precision!

 

[TheNorseMen]

Who cares, really. McGregor has already stated that he wanted to go directly to the LW divison upon entering the UFC, but Dana wanted him at FW first.


Also, clearly he is not ducking anything because he chose to fight the TOP LW currently in the world. So anyone who says he is ducking is obviously grasping at straws.

 

[ChickenNugget]

You do realize that the gap between FW and LW is 10 lbs and the gap between LW and WW is 15 lbs? As well as RDA is one of the shortest LW height-wise (there are some LWs who are 5'8", but very few) and doesn't have a 6'2" person reach.

People really should not talk in terms of absolute numbers in this case.
We should rather have a look at it in relative numbers. Relative to the maximum allowed weight of a certain weight class.
The gap between FW and LW is 10 lbs. Relative to the 155 lbs limit this leaves us with 10/155 which is 0.064516129.
The gap between LW and WW is 15 lbs. Relative to the 170 lbs limit this leaves gives 15/170 which is 0.088235294.
If we do this for all the weight classes we end up with

FlyW -> BW : 0.074074074
BW -> FW : 0.068965517
FW -> LW: 0.064516129
LW -> WW : 0.088235294
WW -> MW : 0.081081081
MW -> LHW: 0.097560976
LHW -> HW: 0.226415094

So, actually going from FW -> LW yields the least weight discrepancy when going up. LW -> WW yields the second most discrepancy (LHW -> HW is out of competition).

This is the exact reason why having a new weight class every 10 lbs is a pretty bad idea.
What should rather be done is fixing the gap-to-limit ratio to a certain number and determine the limits of new weight classes incrementally, starting from FlyW at 125 lbs.

 

[HelloJapan]

i do but if dos anjos walks at 190/195 like he said why no one criticizes him of "ducking" WW? he's bigger than Bendo

...oh now its 195 lol. He just keeps getting bigger and bigger. By the end of this thread RDA will be 210 between fights and ducking Jones. When Conor was doing his 'Machinist' expression and dwarfing Mendes RDA was beating dudes who have/do fight at 170: Diaz, Benson and Cowboy.

 

[BigDaddyBach]

Connor really hasn't got that much criticism for fighting at fw

Yo, it's not April 1st yet.