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He'd have way less money today
It's not meaningless, it's a decent thought exercise.
Penn dominated from 01-09. IWon the WW belt and in '03 was ranked #1 in the world at both LW and WW. He ended up being only the 2nd or 3rd best WW of the era (debatable) behind GSP, but he still crushed at LW.
But a lot of fans discount his entire career due to his accomplishments (lack thereof) after 2011.
Can he be a GOAT candidate for his accomplishments only from 2001-2009? Can fans separate that out from the second half of his career? Should they? All interesting questions in a (admittedly) ultimately stupid debate.
So ok then, I guess we shouldn't ignore how athletes in other sports peform when past their prime too right? Even if they break a ton of records they aren't the GOAT if they continue playing and start having bad results.
He takes his dick pills in private and never gets popped. Goat.
Silva was very good but fans seem to forget that this is a sport that evolves. Silva helped make the sport a lot more popular and drew in a lot more fighters. The fighters now are overall better than the fighters in Silva's day, especially as the talent from other parts of the world are brought in. The fighters from the Caucuses like Khabib, Khamzat, etc being an indication of things to come. They may not get as much name recognition but I think Silva's losing streak also coincided with the fact that the fighters overall were improving and leaving behind old timers behind.
Can you even imagine being that person? Yikes.Yeah, what a shame his dad didn't suddenly die at a young age.
The fuck?
Yeah people would be talking about how he's clearly the GOAT and there's no way he was ever on steroids.
Indeed, and it should be pretty obvious when you look at his record and see names like Rich Franklin, Nate Marquardt, Thales Leites, Patrick Cote, MW Demian Maia, Travis Lutter, and Yushin Omami. Not exactly elite by today's standards.
Hahaha love thisit would have been a good decision but then again hindsight is 2020 and 2020 has been shit so bad decision.
nobody was hyping weidman as some monster contenderHe'd be accused of ducking Weidman until the end of time.
Wow what a shitty shitty thing to say as well as a really dumb take on Khabibs circumstancesToo bad he didn't have a family member dying as an excuse to quit without defending his belt more. But he already defended more than three times..WAY more at that point.