Prime Gomi - how would he fair against today's top lightweights?

[Chomsky Honk]

Prime Gomi - how would he fair against these top 4 lightweight fighters?

Khabib Nurmagomedov
Justin Gaethje
Tony Ferguson
Dustin Poirier

?????

 

[Buff]

Back then there were no FW or BW divisions, and he was still the best in the world at one point despite being very undersized.

Obviously all of the above smash him, but put him down a division or two and its an interesting question.

 

[JustOnce]

Prime Gomi - how would he fair against these top 4 lightweight fighters?

Khabib Nurmagomedov
Justin Gaethje
Tony Ferguson
Dustin Poirier

?????

Gomi besmirches Justin. Destroys Poirier. Might lose to Fergusson. Has a chance against Khabib.

 

[Mike]

Yeah all those dudes whoop his ass. Honestly gomi has always been overrated on here.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

i liked when Gomi used to wrestle.

 

[JKS]

Loses to all 4

 

[Sakurabaism]

Today's LW are too big for him. And for a fighter who likes to go head body head body, he''ll also be at a disadvantage when it comes to reach in a division that likes to head hunt. All his weakness could be negated if you bring the 2004 version of Gomi into 2017 and make him train in a good camp outside of Japan. I can see him win against Gaethje since both of them have the same reach even though Gaethje is taller than him, that would be an amazing fight.

 

[scottjoebob]

Gomi beats them all because he's my favorite .

 

[Minoki Ichihara]

Yeah all those dudes whoop his ass. Honestly gomi has always been overrated on here.

Guys don’t go 30-1 because they’re overrated

 

[TR1]

I would watch Gomi-Justin. I would watch it so hard.

 

[Mike]

Guys don’t go 30-1 because they’re overrated

What? Gomi was never ever 30-1. And he fought in an ancient and much less well rounded lw division

 

[horc00]

I would watch Gomi-Justin. I would watch it while hard.

Fixed.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Gomi is one of my absolute favourite fighters but anyone thinking that he could have beaten those four is crazy.

He has a punchers chance and that's it.

 

[Substance Abuse]

All older fighters from the past era suck.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

gaethje is just a sharper, faster version of gomi

 

[ExitLUPin]

Weight cutting is at an alltime high

These bigger LWs these days (Khabib, Tony, Dustin, Lee, Chiesa, Felder, Dober, Hooker etc) would be WWs back in Gomis era and many of them have or will fight at 170. Gomi was aroung 160lbs at most in the cage in his purime. These dudes clear 170 in the cage easily fighting @ LW

a better question is how Gomi would do @ FW

Khabib is a horrible matchup regardless of size/weight tho

 

[KID Yamamoto]

Idk but prime Gomi vs Justin is a fight I would pay 100 dollars for.

 

[crodor3]

All older fighters from the past era suck.

Ok Dana

 

[315MMAFighter]

I will say Prime Takanori beats Dustin. Just for the fk of it

 

[Substance Abuse]

Ok Dana

Suredawg told me so.