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Originally Posted by Assani Fisher
whats everyone's top 10 P4P right now? I got:
1. Cain
2. Weidman
3. Jones
4. Aldo
5. D Johnson
6. Pettis
7. Cormier
8. Hendricks
9. Barao
10. A Silva
next 5: JDS, Vitor, Ronda, Faber, Gustafsson
1. Jones
2. Aldo
3. Cain
4. Mighty Mouse
5. Weidman
6. Barao
7. JDS
8. Hendricks
9. Pettis
10. Ronda, because I have doubts about how to judge her level of competition so I'm just token-ing her into the 10 spot.
Mine differs from yours for the following reasons - Jones and Aldo are the only two champions who have clearly and without a shred of doubt proved they are the kings of their division. Every other division has at least some question involved except for Jones and Aldo being nigh-unbeatable.
Cain is a clear #3 for me. There are questions (his loss to JDS, the presence of Cormier who he won't be fighting) but they are extremely minor ones. He's the best HW in the world and mostly he just doesn't have the lengthy run of championship defenses quite like the first two guys do.
5 of the next 6 guys fall into a 'new champions' group. MM, Pettis, Weidman, Barao and Hendricks are all 'new champions' to me (i'm considering Hendricks to have won the GSP fight). They're young and relatively untested
as champions. They don't deserve to be above any of the top 3 who have established themselves as dominant in their divisions. Each has some level of questions, imo.
MM - Is his style really that dominant? Benavidez nearly beat him the first time. Of course, with the knockout recently that's a much smaller question now, which is why he's at #4.
Weidman - two great wins over the GOAT, but both a little bit 'fluky'. He performed well in both fights and deserved the wins, and we can't deny that. At the same time, we still have to be suspicious - there were strange circumstances in both. We still don't definitively know if he's the best MW in a spiderless world. vitor or chael or machida could potentially beat him tomorrow. Who knows?
Barao - Only a few title defenses, but he's not lost in 32 fights.
Hendricks - has a habit of going into very close decisions. He should have won the GSP fight, but against GSP, Story, Pierce and Koscheck he's had very close fights.
Pettis - Young and great, but not a huge resume yet. As with Weidman, we don't conclusively know that he's the best LW in the world yet.
I also threw JDS into the #7 spot because I feel he's the best second banana in the world right now. He's very, very clearly the second best HW in the world and I don't think that will change any time soon.
Ronda comes in at #10 for the reason listed above.