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I think when you get to 2009 the rankings start to become a bit more iffy because you do have guys like Randy, Nog, Crocop, Sylvia etc who are past their best by that point and people like JDS and Cain are on the way up but you look at the overall quality of the top 10-15 at that point and I think its VERY clearly better than today.Just looking at Sherdogs top 10 from July 2009, it includes 46 year old LHW Randy, Nog who may as well have been 46 by then, Tim the sloth who had just been knocked out in under 10 seconds by a 48 year old boxer, and Brett Rogers. With 5'9 39 year old barely mobile with zero striking ability Jeff Monson on the shortlist. If you stretched it out to a full top 20 at that point you'd have guys like Pat Barry, Antoni Hardonk, Mike Russow, Todd Duffee and shit on the list.
The kind of guys who were top 20 at best back in the day are now often top 10 and have been for quite a few years.