Media ESPN’s Pound for Pound rankings are garbage

[Corrado Soprano]

No non-UFC fighter in the top 10 is crazy. Jon Jones is also the obvious #1.

Sherdog has a much better list.

 

[rear naked ankle pick]

I feel like i can get on p4p list if i win few street fights in cineplexx parking lot

 

[Wreckless]

Imagine still looking at P4P lists in 2023.

 

[Corrado Soprano]

Imagine still looking at P4P lists in 2023.

No need to imagine, we literally just did.

 

[svmr_db]

P4P is based off more than one recent fight, that's why O'Malley didn't skyrocket up to the top 5.

Jones isn't the "obvious" #1 P4P, you're confusing it with the GOAT argument. He's got 1 great heavyweight win sure but since 2019 his LHW wins were lackluster. If you start reaching back to pre-2017 fights you've lost the plot on what P4P is.

Go look at what Volkanovski is doing to the top contenders in his division in recent years. Think Jones does that to all the top HWs right now? I don't.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

I feel like i can get on p4p list if i win few street fights in cineplexx parking lot

Be careful. It goes the fuck down at the cine. Also, already a fan of your shtick, even moreso after bringing up the cine.

 

[DelanoRunnymede]

P4P is based off more than one recent fight, that's why O'Malley didn't skyrocket up to the top 5.

Jones isn't the "obvious" #1 P4P, you're confusing it with the GOAT argument. He's got 1 great heavyweight win sure but since 2019 his LHW wins were lackluster. If you start reaching back to pre-2017 fights you've lost the plot on what P4P is.

Go look at what Volkanovski is doing to the top contenders in his division in recent years. Think Jones does that to all the top HWs right now? I don't.

Nailed it. It’s the current p4p list, not all time p4p list and I think people forget that.

 

[swarrrm]

Jones isn't obviously #1. He's had one decisive win in 4 years in the worst division in MMA.

 

[GrantB13]

P4P is just a recent/current champs list.

 

[ForeverYoung]

Who else honestly would even belong on there not named Francis Ngannou? Vadim Nemkov who was getting destroyed by Corey Anderson? No way in hell.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Volk at #1 is a good choice. After that it's a clusterfuck, as expected from a P4P list.

 

[dominion]

No non-UFC fighter in the top 10 is crazy. Jon Jones is also the obvious #1.

Which non UFC fighter can hold a candle to any of those?

 

[LoveMyMMA]

Top 5 is accurate.

 

[phillystyleswag]

It doesn’t seem that bad to me. Maybe Usman is a little high considering double loses?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Sherdogs Rankings >>>>>

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/sherdog’s-pound-for-pound-top-10-rankings.4304234/

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

No non-UFC fighter in the top 10 is crazy. Jon Jones is also the obvious #1.

That is a good list

 

[RockyLockridge]

how i'd do it

Jones
Volk
Izzy
Islam
Leon
Pantoja
O'malley
Usman
Charles
Sterling

 

[Captain_Dammitt]

Islam should probably be number one considering he's the only fighter to beat two champions of two different weight classes back to back. I know, I know, Volk went up to him and all that but still beating two champions in a row has to count for something. Not sure why everyone keeps putting Volk above Islam. Just because he performed well against Islam doesn't mean he's a better p4p fighter than him in my opinion. Islam's domination over Oliveira is more impressive than anything Volk did. Well, maybe excluding his third win over Max but then again he prepared for Max three times in a row. I can't help but feel like Islam vs Volk 2 would go very differently.

Volk and Izzy are both 1-1 in their last two for whatever that is worth.

Leon beating Usman twice and riding a, what 14 fight win streak at this point, is pretty impressive.

 

[pick999]

Crazy all these years and jon is still rated in top 3

 

[ryun253]

Imagine being #1 P4P after a loss