Where is that comparison even coming from ?
nobody NOBODY knows how good or ( not) this guy is yet.
At first , I was rooting for this guy to lose ( for the over the top hype from your typical mma , flavor of the month fan). I now hope he turns out to be the goods cause the UFC is desperate to get real top talent.
There is a thread about Rory going around. This speaks volumes of the UFC & MMA. Rory has regressed as a fighter since the height of his UFC days but if he should return , hed be favored to beat ( even Lawler AGAIN at this point) everyone outside champ, Colby and WB. Hed be favored to beat Masvidal ( nothing big but favored ) and hed probably land in top 5. Think about that.
I'd call a Usman- Lima a dead PK em fight. ..and I'd put money on Douglas.
Middleweight division has Israel on his own island and probably a welterweight who strategically moved up and became champ as a distant #2.
Look at the heavier divisions .
After SFORCE came and those guys either got older, got popped, regressed or left for greener pastures ( moose), that was the height of mma. It's been on a decline since
The UFC 2021 is like the WEC where the lighter divisions have the depth of talent.