Who's the #2 greatest MMA fighters for each weight class?

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

My choices:

Heavyweight - Stipe Miocic
Light Heavyweight - Chuck Liddell
Middleweight - Israel Adesanya
Welterweight - Kamaru Usman
Lightweight - B.J Penn
Featherweight - Alexander Volkanovski
Bantamweight - T.J Dillashaw
Flyweight - Deiveson Figueiredo

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Usman? He isn't even above Hughes... and some already have Leon ahead of him too...

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Heavyweight -maybe Cain or JDS
Light heavyweight - DC head to head, maybe Shogun for accomplishments
Middleweight - Izzy
Welterweight -Matt Hughes
Lightweight - BJ Penn. I think Islam will surpass him
FW - Volk
Don't really follow the midget divisions, all i know is MM is number 1 GOAT midget

 

[knock_you_out]

Fedor is the 2nd GOAT.
GSP is the GOAT.

 

[rear naked ankle pick]

GSP is the GOAT.

Said no one ever

 

[orca]

lol theres no way that the competition of fedor was better than stipes

if u made an 8 man tournament of the best fighters that fedor beat
vs the version of the fighters that stipe beat
no way the likes of nog and cro cop would survive

btw prime 32 year old fedor started declining where there are drug test involved
then started winning in a less competitive org with no drug test
then started losing again against ufc rejects

you can actually check the pattern on his resume lmao

 

[WokeWarrior]

Ill do you one better ill do number 2 and 3

Francis Heavyweight - Cain DC
Jones Light Heavyweight - DC Anthony Rumble Johnson
Anderson Middleweight - Israel Adesanya [ Yoel if he was younger]
GSP Welterweight - Kamaru Usman Tyron woodley
Khabib Lightweight - B.J Penn Frankie edgar
Aldo Featherweight - Alexander Volkanovski, Connor
Dominick cruz Bantamweight - Aljamain T.J Dillashaw
Mighty Mouse Flyweight - Henry ???

 

[orca]

Ill do you one better ill do number 2 and 3

Francis Heavyweight - Cain DC
Jones Light Heavyweight - DC Anthony Rumble Johnson
Anderson Middleweight - Israel Adesanya [ Yoel if he was younger]
GSP Welterweight - Kamaru Usman Tyron woodley
Khabib Lightweight - B.J Penn Frankie edgar
Aldo Featherweight - Alexander Volkanovski, Connor
Dominick cruz Bantamweight - Aljamain T.J Dillashaw
Mighty Mouse Flyweight - Henry ???

how can you posibbly put francis as the best HW?
do u even seriously believe that hes better than prime cain.dc jds and many more?

i mean can you tell me wich fighter he beat that isnt a 40 year old should be retired fighters?

in his prime he lost like a baby to stipe and blackbeast

i mean all his ko's came from 40 year olds
the only thing that he has is his power
i can literally mention 30 HW's right now that has 1 punch ko power like him

 

[Barteh]

Matt Hughes is closer to GSP than anybody else is to him.

What insult am I supposed to use for these idiots? TUF noobs? Conor era noobs? Powerslap noobs?

 

[Reach4theSky]

Usman? He isn't even above Hughes..

Why is no one ever impressed by Matt's performance?

 

[metal7555]

lol theres no way that the competition of fedor was better than stipes

if u made an 8 man tournament of the best fighters that fedor beat
vs the version of the fighters that stipe beat
no way the likes of nog and cro cop would survive

btw prime 32 year old fedor started declining where there are drug test involved
then started winning in a less competitive org with no drug test
then started losing again against ufc rejects

you can actually check the pattern on his resume lmao

Normally i keep my ass outta these theoretical threads, but when you have the other GOAT candidates repeatedly over the years saying "Fedor was GOAT" -- on video -- I guess it isn't worth anything...


Opions be like assholes so a short list
HW #2 is Stipe
LHW #2 is Shogun/DC -- Pick a PRIDE run from hell or literally DC falling short to just JONES
MW#2 IZZy
WW... etc... #2 Hughes/Usman, pick yer recency bias or nostalgia
"" #2 Olives or if yer a psycho, BJ based on NOSTRALIA
"" #2 Is either Aldo or Volk interchangble at #1
"" #2 don't even wanna touch it lol, just wish cruz had been a healthy dude
does it matter who is number 2 after mighty mouse?

etc etc

 

[Pingu]

lol theres no way that the competition of fedor was better than stipes

if u made an 8 man tournament of the best fighters that fedor beat
vs the version of the fighters that stipe beat
no way the likes of nog and cro cop would survive

btw prime 32 year old fedor started declining where there are drug test involved
then started winning in a less competitive org with no drug test
then started losing again against ufc rejects

you can actually check the pattern on his resume lmao

I dont know man, I think its weirder that people pretend that hw fighters reach their prime at 38 or whatever. Fedors physical decline, and he relied a lot on his speed and reflexes in his prime, started going down when you would expect then to. All it takes is being 1/10 of a second slower.

 

[RonDante]

Ill do you one better ill do number 2 and 3

Francis Heavyweight - Cain DC
Jones Light Heavyweight - DC Anthony Rumble Johnson
Anderson Middleweight - Israel Adesanya [ Yoel if he was younger]
GSP Welterweight - Kamaru Usman Tyron woodley
Khabib Lightweight - B.J Penn Frankie edgar
Aldo Featherweight - Alexander Volkanovski, Connor
Dominick cruz Bantamweight - Aljamain T.J Dillashaw
Mighty Mouse Flyweight - Henry ???

I know you only put francis becuase youre black but do you ever stop and think “I can’t justify this to myself”?

 

[RonDante]

how can you posibbly put francis as the best HW?
do u even seriously believe that hes better than prime cain.dc jds and many more?

i mean can you tell me wich fighter he beat that isnt a 40 year old should be retired fighters?

in his prime he lost like a baby to stipe and blackbeast

i mean all his ko's came from 40 year olds
the only thing that he has is his power
i can literally mention 30 HW's right now that has 1 punch ko power like him

He shoehorns as many black fighters as he can into his top ten all time, the woke in his name only means racist cause he makes fun of dricus’ for kissing his coach too

 

[chaos_36]

Number TWO for each weight class:

Heavyweight: Cain
Lightheavyweight: DC
Middleweight: Adesanya
Welterweight: Usman
Lightweight: Bendo
Featherweight: Aldo
Bantamweight: Dillashaw
Flyweight: Cejudo

 

[JKS]

I would say

Stipe
Shogun
Izzy
Usman
Olivera
Aldo
TJ
Fig

 

[blewgums]

GSP is the Welterweight GOAT.

End of discussion

 

[Typrune Goatley]

HW - Nog
LHW - Shogun or Wand
MW - Hendo
WW - Hughes
LW - Khabib
FW - Volk
BW - Dillashaw
FLW - Cejudo

 

[Relentless chase]

My choices:

Heavyweight - Stipe Miocic
Light Heavyweight - Chuck Liddell
Middleweight - Israel Adesanya
Welterweight - Kamaru Usman
Lightweight - B.J Penn
Featherweight - Alexander Volkanovski
Bantamweight - T.J Dillashaw
Flyweight - Deiveson Figueiredo

Outside of The True GOAT’s of these Divisions, I would say:

HW: Stipe (has the accolades)

LHW: Chuck or Prime Shogun

MW: Franklin or Izzy

WW: Hughes, no doubt

LW: Khabib (behind BJ)

FTW: Volk (Holloway has a killer resume, but doesn’t have the Title Defenses)

BW: Dillashaw, easily

FW: Cejudo..? That’s tough!

 

[DelanoRunnymede]

Heavyweight: Stipe
Light heavyweight: DC
Middleweight: Adesanya
Welterweight: Usman (didn’t see enough of Hughes but understand why he is probably above Usman)
Lightweight: I missed the prime of the division so can’t make an educated guess.
Featherweight: Volkanovski
Bantamweight: Cruz
Flyweight: Cejudo