UFCs current Champs are all better than every previous champion

[Tokoloko]

Light Heavyweight - Ankalaev is a dagestani monster. He uses his dagestani ball hugging techniques to defeat his opponents. Jones would be his toughest matchup.

Its so funny to me how u are glazing nuthugger which never finished anyone in top 5. He will be less fighting champion ever which will calculate every of his opponent 10x before he signs any contract. Ankalaev is biggest bum ever, nothing else.

Also tell me single time when Ankalaev was popular or even had fun fight....freaking never. Only Cutelaba fight was slightly popular due to BS stoppage. Then lets talk about fight with Volkan for example... Magomed "Bum" Ankalaev. Nothiiing else.

Oh i forgot he was also kinda popular when he tried to stall his way to title vs Jan and refs rather set this fight as draw to save LHW rather than having bum champ... - Probably most boring title fight ever.

 

[HHJ]

Ankalaev lost to Paul Craig. there is NO TIME in DC or Jon Jones careers where they'd lose to a pleb like Paul Craig.

You guys need to stop living in the past. You might as well call out Jones for losing to Hammil. It's almost the same thing ! A mistake was made, that was all.

 

[cburm]

Flyweight - Pantoja potentially would have a tough time against prime Cejudo, and prime Mighty Mouse, but other than that he beats everyone

Bantamweight - Merab cleared out his division, he beat pretty much everyone, and will continue to do so

Featherweight - Topuria is knocking heads off former champs left and right, he already beat all of the "goats" of featherweight in 1 year.

Lightweight - Islam destroys everyone, only has 1 loss earlier in his career. Only tough matchup is Khabib, but Islam is more skilled in everything not wrestling/grappling

Welterweight - Belal Muhammad had to fight everyone for a title shot, hes basically a clone of kamaru usman but with dagestani style, and hypertropia.

Middleweight - DDP already beat the modern goats of middleweight, and hes finishing almost everyone.

Light Heavyweight - Ankalaev is a dagestani monster. He uses his dagestani ball hugging techniques to defeat his opponents. Jones would be his toughest matchup.

Heavyweight - Jon Jones is the greatest mma fighter of all time regardless PED use, never lost except for a foul, beat 3 generations of champions, he would have a few tough matchups at heavyweight. Ngannou post Ciryl Gane is a nightmare for Jones, but pre Stipe 1 Ngannou would be a lot easier. Prime Cain Velasquez would be hard, basically a bigger stronger ballistic version of DC, and finally Aspinall, but he's not champ.

It's not that there so much better it's different styles and father time..

Anderson Silva still the best mw to ever do it
Gsp still the best ww to ever do it..

Jose Aldo still the best 145er

Mm still the best 125er..

You're comparing guys with very little defences ... And then you're discrediting their openants even though these guys fight all top 5 people some in multiple weight classes..

It's just all opinion but the facts say otherwise..

Illia vs max was a good fight I don't see him winning that again.. as max had the upper hand but those are 2 good strikers with different styles and max lacks power..

Volk has no reach.. and utilizes movement.. he got caught by a guy who can box..


DDP his style of fighting it doesn't last long.. and he hasn't been the champ for long..

Ank beat a one dimensional fighter who did nothing..and stylistically it was his fight to win..

I don't see ank beating jiri or jan

Islam is a win away from being the lw goat with 5 title defences so you got us all there the guy is the best lw to ever do it soon .

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Lol no glassjaws like Weidman and Rockhold won't do nothing to DDP

Weidman at this peak is one of the best MMA fighters we've ever seen, granted I'm specifically talking about pre-USADA Weidman, so I'll grant you that....but even post USADA Weidman was a tough matchup for Dricus. DDP has terrible TDD, and Weidman's top game was much higher level than Derek Brunson or any of these non grapplers that DDP has beaten....just a bad style matchup.

 

[theincognito]

I won't say all current champs are better than every previous champ, but a lot of the current champs are underrated.

Like, Belal had to win 15 UFC fights just to get to the title. Matt Hughes had 18 UFC wins in his whole career.

They go through the meat grinder nowadays in ways previous generations didn't have to and the cream rise to the top. Every current champion is an elite all-time great.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

You guys need to stop living in the past. You might as well call out Jones for losing to Hammil. It's almost the same thing ! A mistake was made, that was all.

i'm not living in the past, i'm just saying what i think with the evidence provided. Ankalaev is good, but he ain't as good as pico Jon or fatso DC. at least for me.

and i don't think it's the same, Jon lost because of his own eagerness to win and nothing Hammil did. Ankalaev literally lost for real vs a guy Bo Nickal just beat.

everybody has weaknesses, even DC and Jon, but Ankalaev's weakness is that he's dumb. and he lost to Craig because of stupidity, he DQ'd himself vs Walker because of stupidity. it is very hard to beat guys like DC and Jon Jones when your weakness is stupidity.

 

[TRYHARD 2001]

You misunderstood what I wrote. I never said that. Jan is great. He is 40 now so I don't know how he will be able to get back into the title contention against Mogamed (he wants to spoil the party for the rematch). My whole comment was around Rockhold.

But the way you said it seemed like you were treating a KO loss to a monster like Jan as something to be scoffed at and proof that Rockhold had a glass jaw. The Jan that slept Rockhold was Jan in his final form and the fact that he did that in no way diminishes what Luke did in his prime at MW. Blachowicz's time as a top contender is probably done (he's actually 42 now and hasn't fought in a year and a half), but it wouldn't shock me if he starches Ulberg next week; the guy's freakin' dangerous!

In any event, if Luke gets on top of Dricus, which he's more than capable of doing, he squashes him just like he did everyone else back in the day. Dricus is so much better than I thought he was when he debuted, and I've lost a lot of money betting against him, but Luke at his best would be a tough nut for him to crack.

 

[MMAFanCal]

In any event, if Luke gets on top of Dricus, which he's more than capable of doing, he squashes him just like he did everyone else back in the day. Dricus is so much better than I thought he was when he debuted, and I've lost a lot of money betting against him, but Luke at his best would be a tough nut for him to crack.

We can agree to disagree. Like I do in my previous predictions (Ilia and Mogamed), people are going to be surprised again by Dricus once he goes up against Khamzat. Everyone thinks Khamzat is going to run through Dricus and become the champion. I think differently. No one believed me when I said Ilia was going to dominate Holloway, but it happened. Same thing with Ankalaev. Just watch as I have a strong sense of where the Dricus vs Khamzat might go.

In all of the tape and body of work I have seen, I have never seen anything that special from Rockhold materialize in the ring. I have never even seen anyone talk about him. Let alone hold him to such a high level where he is held up against an elite UFC champion who has already defended his title against the best 3 people in the division successfully in a short while. Rockhold was good for his time, but time has moved on. Dricus is on a different level (in my opinion). Like I said above, he was a strikeforce champion who defended his title 2 times against nobodies. He then joined UFC and lost his very first fight against an over-the-hill Vitor who was way past his prime. In his prime,. Yoel Romero finished him. Dricus has beaten elite fighters like Whittaker and Adesanya, whom Yoel lost 3 times to. I know the Paulo Costa loss might be considered by an over-the-hill Rockhold, but still it is something that cannot be just ignored. Much like how everyone might talk about the Dricus lost early on to Soldic in the rematch. Add to the fact that Islam had a field day by Rockhold's own admission. Dricus is extremely good on the ground and underrated being a grappler/Judoka since age 5 and a black belt at 14. When he came to Toronto for the Strickland fight, Dricus was training in a gym where he had a friendly match against the most elite BJJ Russian black belt in Canada. Dricus submitted him in 3 minutes. Whittaker took Dricus down and Dricus just popped back up and Whittaker admitted he did not realize how strong Dricus was until he took him down. Add the bigger size, strength, power, relentless pressure and speed advantage of Dricus and his mindset of win-at-all-cost. I am quite confident, once all is said and done, Dricus will leave no stone unturned. At least, that is what he says he wants to do.

 

[BowserJr]

Flyweight - Pantoja potentially would have a tough time against prime Cejudo, and prime Mighty Mouse, but other than that he beats everyone

Bantamweight - Merab cleared out his division, he beat pretty much everyone, and will continue to do so

Featherweight - Topuria is knocking heads off former champs left and right, he already beat all of the "goats" of featherweight in 1 year.

Lightweight - Islam destroys everyone, only has 1 loss earlier in his career. Only tough matchup is Khabib, but Islam is more skilled in everything not wrestling/grappling

Welterweight - Belal Muhammad had to fight everyone for a title shot, hes basically a clone of kamaru usman but with dagestani style, and hypertropia.

Middleweight - DDP already beat the modern goats of middleweight, and hes finishing almost everyone.

Light Heavyweight - Ankalaev is a dagestani monster. He uses his dagestani ball hugging techniques to defeat his opponents. Jones would be his toughest matchup.

Heavyweight - Jon Jones is the greatest mma fighter of all time regardless PED use, never lost except for a foul, beat 3 generations of champions, he would have a few tough matchups at heavyweight. Ngannou post Ciryl Gane is a nightmare for Jones, but pre Stipe 1 Ngannou would be a lot easier. Prime Cain Velasquez would be hard, basically a bigger stronger ballistic version of DC, and finally Aspinall, but he's not champ.

Flyweight - Pantoja potentially would have a tough time against prime Cejudo, and prime Mighty Mouse, but other than that he beats everyone

Bantamweight - Merab cleared out his division, he beat pretty much everyone, and will continue to do so

Featherweight - Topuria is knocking heads off former champs left and right, he already beat all of the "goats" of featherweight in 1 year.

Lightweight - Islam destroys everyone, only has 1 loss earlier in his career. Only tough matchup is Khabib, but Islam is more skilled in everything not wrestling/grappling

Welterweight - Belal Muhammad had to fight everyone for a title shot, hes basically a clone of kamaru usman but with dagestani style, and hypertropia.

Middleweight - DDP already beat the modern goats of middleweight, and hes finishing almost everyone.

Light Heavyweight - Ankalaev is a dagestani monster. He uses his dagestani ball hugging techniques to defeat his opponents. Jones would be his toughest matchup.

Heavyweight - Jon Jones is the greatest mma fighter of all time regardless PED use, never lost except for a foul, beat 3 generations of champions, he would have a few tough matchups at heavyweight. Ngannou post Ciryl Gane is a nightmare for Jones, but pre Stipe 1 Ngannou would be a lot easier. Prime Cain Velasquez would be hard, basically a bigger stronger ballistic version of DC, and finally Aspinall, but he's not champ.

Pantoja loses to FJ and Henry easy. Probably loses to Uncle Creepy too

Merab loses to prime TJ and Cruz, gets KOed by neck tat. Likely loses to Asuncao and Barao too. He'd have to go to 125 and loses to DJ

Ilia would be a fun fight with Aldo and Frankie. Mendes would be a nightmare match as would size bully Conor

Islam would lose to Khabib and BJ and have trouble with Sherk and Frankie.. might even have trouble with RDA

Belal loses to GSP, Isman, Woodley, Hughes, Lawler, Rory, Shields, Maia. He'd have to go to LW and lose to BJ

DDP gets KOed by Silva like Forrest did. Gets KOed by Hendo. Gets subbed by Busta. Loses ddcision to Weidman. Probably would have trouble with Franklin, The Crow, 185 Wanderlei, Bisping, Marquardt, Okami. Probably even gets KOed by Leben and Lombard.

Ank loses to Rampage, Chuck, Shogun, DC, Rumble, Gus, JBJ, Arona, Machida, Rashad and maybe Tito.

Tom loses to Fedor, Nog, Werdum and probably Crocop. Barnett and Mir would be fun. Loses to DC. Ricco, AA and Tim would be fun too. Hed lose to Ubreem, Cain and JDS too.

UFC is trash right now.

 

[mangokush]

Next era of UFC champs

Already halfway there...

 

[El Panteron]

I don't even like the chances of Pantoja v. Johnson if they were to fight right now. Let alone the Johnson of 10 years ago.

 

[BoomCannon]

Khabib beats Islam.

 

[djacobox372]

STFU... the goats of the division mop the floor with the current stock.

 

[omawho402]

I'll give you Jones, Topuria and Islam, but the rest nah.

 

[MetaIIica]

Its so funny to me how u are glazing nuthugger which never finished anyone in top 5. He will be less fighting champion ever which will calculate every of his opponent 10x before he signs any contract. Ankalaev is biggest bum ever, nothing else.

Also tell me single time when Ankalaev was popular or even had fun fight....freaking never. Only Cutelaba fight was slightly popular due to BS stoppage. Then lets talk about fight with Volkan for example... Magomed "Bum" Ankalaev. Nothiiing else.

Oh i forgot he was also kinda popular when he tried to stall his way to title vs Jan and refs rather set this fight as draw to save LHW rather than having bum champ... - Probably most boring title fight ever.

i literally called him a nuthugger but you probably didnt read the entire thing

 

[MetaIIica]

STFU... the goats of the division mop the floor with the current stock.

A few of the current champs already knocked out the "goats" of their respective divisions, goofball.

 

[TRYHARD 2001]

Next era of UFC champs

Already halfway there...

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Alhamdullilah!!!

 

[MRT]

Flyweight - Pantoja potentially would have a tough time against prime Cejudo, and prime Mighty Mouse, but other than that he beats everyone

Bantamweight - Merab cleared out his division, he beat pretty much everyone, and will continue to do so

Featherweight - Topuria is knocking heads off former champs left and right, he already beat all of the "goats" of featherweight in 1 year.

Lightweight - Islam destroys everyone, only has 1 loss earlier in his career. Only tough matchup is Khabib, but Islam is more skilled in everything not wrestling/grappling

Welterweight - Belal Muhammad had to fight everyone for a title shot, hes basically a clone of kamaru usman but with dagestani style, and hypertropia.

Middleweight - DDP already beat the modern goats of middleweight, and hes finishing almost everyone.

Light Heavyweight - Ankalaev is a dagestani monster. He uses his dagestani ball hugging techniques to defeat his opponents. Jones would be his toughest matchup.

Heavyweight - Jon Jones is the greatest mma fighter of all time regardless PED use, never lost except for a foul, beat 3 generations of champions, he would have a few tough matchups at heavyweight. Ngannou post Ciryl Gane is a nightmare for Jones, but pre Stipe 1 Ngannou would be a lot easier. Prime Cain Velasquez would be hard, basically a bigger stronger ballistic version of DC, and finally Aspinall, but he's not champ.

I would rate DJ, GSP, Silva, and Jones (LHW) in their prime as better than the current champs...and of the four hypothetical matchups, IMHO the least competitive fight would be GSP-Belal (which is not to say it would not be competitive at all - I just think GSP is a clear step above, all things considered).

 

[Subline]

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