Who is your top 5 HWs currently overall in MMA?

[Takes Two To Tango]

1. Jon Jones
2. Francis Ngannou
3. Tom Aspinall
4. Ciryl Gane
5. Alexander Volkov

 

[Poirierfan]

1. Tom Aspinall
2. Francis Ngannou
3. Anatoly Malykhin
4. Jon Jones
5. Renan Ferreira

 

[Luthien]

1: Jon Jones
2: Bones Jones
3: Jones Bones
4: Johnny Bones
5: Jonathan Dwight Jones

 

[Simple Southerner]

I'd be lying if I named a top 5

 

[Unheralded Truth]

1. Francis Ngannou
2. Tom Aspinall
3. Anatoly Malykhin
4. Jon Jones
5. Oleg Popov

 

[Poirierfan]

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1: Jon Jones
2: Bones Jones
3: Jones Bones
4: Johnny Bones
5: Jonathan Dwight Jones

This guy has more of a claim at being the UFC undisputed champ than Jones, and he's not even in the UFC.

 

[Reach4theSky]

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This guy has a better claim at being the UFC undisputed champ than Jones, and he's not even in the UFC. View attachment 1060535

Needs more belts..

 

[SerbianSteel]

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This guy has a better claim at being the UFC undisputed champ than Jones, and he's not even in the UFC. View attachment 1060535

Did he beat some ex UFC champ?

 

[yodog]

1. Jon Jones
2. Francis Ngannou
3. Tom Aspinall
4. Ciryl Gane
5. Alexander Volkov

It's hard to even consider JJ a heavyweight as he's had 1 fight in the division and is not active. The UFC heavyweight division is extremely weak because they don't pay fighters. If we include JJ:

Aspinall
JJ
Ngannou
Volkov
Pavlovich / Blaydes

and without:

Aspinall
Ngannou
Volkov
Pav
Blaydes

 

[Poirierfan]

Did he beat some ex UFC champ?

No, that's the point though, Jon didn't beat a UFC HW champ either.

 

[SerbianSteel]

It's hard to even consider JJ a heavyweight as he's had 1 fight in the division and is not active. The UFC heavyweight division is extremely weak because they don't pay fighters. If we include JJ:

Aspinall
JJ
Ngannou
Volkov
Pavlovich / Blaydes

and without:

Aspinall
Ngannou
Volkov
Pav
Blaydes

I think Volkov had a good stylistic matchup against Pavlovich and still loses to most top fighters, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

 

[Hdfi]

Aspinall
Ngannou
Volkov
Pavlovich
Blaydes

 

[michi972]

1. Tom Aspinall
2. Francis Ngannou
3. Anatoly Malykhin
4. Jon Jones
5. Renan Ferreira

Wtf is with that Ferreira hype, he got tapped by ancient Werdum inside one round, but referee didn't see that and he followed with gno once Werdum released the choke. Other than that win over lhw Bader who was like 40 wtf? He wouldn't be top 5 in the UFC.

 

[Poirierfan]

Wtf is with that Ferreira hype, he got tapped by ancient Werdum inside one round, but referee didn't see that and he followed with gno once Werdum released the choke. Other than that win over lhw Bader who was like 40 wtf? He wouldn't be top 5 in the UFC.

He's violent on the feet, extremely fast for a huge guy. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, fighters get better. If he shored up his ground game then he's a legit threat. Aspinall also got tapped out before, but he seems unstoppable now. Don't be surprised if Ferreira KO's Francis, his 1- 2 is deceptively fast.

 

[orca]

1.stipe has wins over francis nganou and DC the last two HW champions
2.jon jones in terms of overall skill no one comes close
3.tom aspinal.biggest win is blaydes
4.
5.

 

[marvinparsons]

1. Tom Aspinall

JJ has one fight at HW, Stipe hasn't fought in eons.

Volkov, Gane, Pavlovich, Blaydes to round out the top 5.

I think the remaining HWs after Aspinall are in a situation where there's no clear cut guy that beats the others. It would all be matchup dependent.

Nobody is well rounded enough to be dominant except Aspinall. I miss guys like Barnett, Werdum, Reem, Cain, that were multi-faceted. Even Roy Nelson had more skills than current big fatties like Tuivasa/C Barnett.

Volkov loses to Gane, Gane loses to Almeida, Blaydes beats Almeida etc.

And it's HW so everyone is one punch from getting KOd by a bum.

 

[Superzorro]

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This guy has more of a claim at being the UFC undisputed champ than Jones, and he's not even in the UFC. View attachment 1060535

Being undefeated means nothing if you haven’t fought any names. To me, he’s too small for heavyweight.

 

[Hdfi]

1.stipe has wins over francis nganou and DC the last two HW champions
2.jon jones in terms of overall skill no one comes close
3.tom aspinal.biggest win is blaydes
4.
5.

Stipe hasn't fought in over 3 years and was KTFO'd by Ngannou in his last fight.

 

[Subline]

1. Ngannou
2. Aspinall
3. Jones
4. Ciryl Gane
5. Blaydes

Not sure what to make of Stipe right now but he could maybe be 4/5. Jailton could easily be at 4/5 too if he made some improvements, would submit Gane as is anyway though.

 

[michi972]

He's violent on the feet, extremely fast for a huge guy. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, fighters get better. If he shored up his ground game then he's a legit threat. Aspinall also got tapped out before, but he seems unstoppable now. Don't be surprised if Ferreira KO's Francis, his 1- 2 is deceptively fast.

I get the benefit of the doubt, but most people jump on the train just because he's a "big scary brazilian"