Aldo has to be in the conversation. Even getting KO'd by McGregor doesn't change the fact he has a solid chin, great striking, stellar defensive wrestling, solid offensive wrestling, and a fantastic top game.
I kind of agree with this - and really it's not the principle of having to defend your belt. It's that having to beat a few people and work your way up in the division is meaningful. Going 1-1 before fighting for a title is meh. He could KO alvarez, but if you gave everyone a chance to move up...
Wait what... Think of what how DC played with Hendo like a child. Think of how jones arguably outwrestled DC, and if not it was at least close. Jones does whatever he wants to that dude, TRT or not.
This is actually extremely interesting. If I rewrote this list as where the champs grew up/trained. The majority would be from the USA. In fact, every American champ has a wrestling base and every non-American fighter has a non-wrestling base.
So my doubt is whether wrestling is the best or...
Sample bias mate.
Also - more interesting comparison may be mayweather event's deviation from avg ppvs of boxing events, compared with mcgregor's deviation from avg ppvs for mma events (bellator etc prob included too).
this is the part I thought reem might have been referring to. Stipe's hand bumped into alistair's a few times, but it was before the choke was in and def was not intended to be a tap.
Definitely think "more pound for pound skill" is debatable at best and absolutely false at worst..
What does Conor have on Nate? Striking? That's the debatable part.
Nate's light years ahead as a grappler.
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