Who is the lightweight GOAT?

Who is the lightweight GOAT?


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BJ put that division on the map and opened the door to all the lighter divisions because he was so exciting and dominant. Held two belts also. The only detractor is the 3 Edgar losses but its still not enough to dethrone him as the GOAT of the division. Edgar was not a dominant champion or finisher or a draw and only held 1 belt.
 
Shinya Aoki, most top 10wins at lw. Also when comparing opponents who has bj beat that aoki wouldnt?(possibly some of the higher weight class fights and maybe sherk, but other than that aoki submits his way through diego, pulver, florian etc)

Feel free to call me a moron etc and point out Aoki has lost fights and got beat by a total nobody the last time he was in cage. Every candidate has losses at lw, and Aokis style pretty much guarantees that when he looses its spectacular.

Tobikan-Judan FTW
 
BJ also beat Edgar their first fight.
 
As of right now it's Bendo. BJ's three title defenses were against Kenny Florian, Diego fucking Sanchez and Sean Sherk.

Bendo's were against Frankie (Who he is 2-0 against and BJ is 0-2 vs), Nate, and Pre USADA Giblert on a 7 fight overall, 5 title defense winstreak. It's really not close

BJ is higher ranked in terms of overall GOAT fighter, taking the WW belt from Prime Hughes is undeniably massive. But this is about LW specifically and Bendo's dominance was against the new and improved WEC merged LW and that's a fact. His era of LW was stronger.
 
Pointing at Penn's 3 loses to Frankie is like only looking at Michael Jordan's last season in Washington and saying Jordon wasn't the greatest.
 
BJ and it's not even close.
 
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