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Pfl's champ ranked 10th is hilarious
Highly doubt itSounds about right.
The real question... Will the UFC remove Jones from #1 for being inactive for 12 months...
And tybura tooSpivak is a solid win too.
FTFYAs it should be. Aspinall has destroyed 4 of the top 10 in 8 minutes combined. Is also the only HW with a belt that is actually willing to defend against all comers.
Jones is 1-0 in the weightclass against a guy he basically handpicked. And will only fight one other guy who he has also handpicked because he's old and essentially retired. *And still stands a decent chance at beating Jon*
He's in the UFC rankings because they want to pretend Jones is fighting a top contender. All other rankings have removed him because he hasn't fought in over 3 yearsHave I missed something? Stipe is not mentioned in the HW rankings?
Surprised. Usually HW champ gets #1.
Francis is still the lineal champ. Jones' belt is largely meaningless.
He is a 1-0 HW who won a vacant belt. That anyone would be 'surprised' he isn't ranked number 1 is only a testament to the UFC's ability to manipulate narratives in an MMA media space it controls.
There is nothing at all surprising about it if you actually think about it rationally.
Well, Jones belt is actually very meaningful, he's the HW champ regardless how he won it. Francis is meaningless at this point and not even worth bringing up, he's not eve in the rankings. He hasn't fougth mma in over two years now.
But history, like I said, the champ is always #1 and that even went for guys 1-0. That's why I was surprised to see Sherdog put Tom #1. I like Tom at #1.
He is the champ as determined by one promotion and was crowned as such despite only being 1-0 at HW. He did not beat a champion, he just beat another random fighter. There is nothing that logically makes him 'the champ' of HW MMA.
That status still belongs to the lineal HW champ, who is the lineal champ of not only the UFC belt, but Pride and Strikeforce too, the 3 major historical HW promotions. Yes, Francis is inactive, but so is Jones.
The belts have no actual meaning - we give them meaning dependent on how much a promotion is able to convince us that they mean something.
Clearly in this case, more people are seeing through the smoke and mirrors and aren't buying a 1-0 HW who won a vacant belt as some sort of undisputed champ. It is very disputed. Even by his own promotion which created an interim belt.