Saturday, August 8, 2009

My top 5 P4P fighters

How do fighters make my list. Its really simple pound for pound means to me you can fight outside your division or you just destroy top level competition. If you can move up or down from your division its going to be ranked higher then someone just destroying their own division. So heres my list.

1.Anderson Silva
after UFC 101 you can't argue hes the best p4p fighter in the world. If he had fought Forrest earlier when he was the champ he would have been a double title holder. The performance he had put on this night was just insane he did not get hit and he just killed Griffin. He completely destroyed the middleweight division but the only thing I have to add to that is the division is not very deep.

2.George st. pierre
GSP has the best takedowns in MMA today, having the ability to take down your opponent at anytime is very impressive. With that as his main weapon in mma he has torn through everyone in the welterweight division. Its completely gone right now. He made his toughest opponents look like amatures IE Fitch and Alves.

He would be number 1 but he has yet to fight outside his weightclass unlike silva. FYI if he moved up and challenged Silva he will get destroyed I would bet a house on Silva if GSP ever dared togo challenge Silva at middleweight.

3.B.J. Penn
at 155 he is a monster. I knew against GSP he would get killed but I never in my mind said he is washed up or done in mma yes he got destroyed but you have to keep in mind BJ loves to fight he fought Machida! When Machida is a 205lbs and BJ was fat and weighed probably 190lbs and he got a decision loss. B.J. Penn has only one loss in his lightweight UFC and that was when wasn't as motivated as he is today.

4.Fedor emelianenko
hes number 1 or number 2 in everyone elses list. But does he really fight people different weightclasses? Nope not really. heavyweight is 205-265 and pretty much everyone weighs 230-240lbs. Fedor to me is the current best heavyweight fighter on the planet but does his performances really say wow this guy is unbeatable? He has had wars with Big nog and he himself got dealt a lot of damage. He has fought cro cop and took a lot of damage. The point im making is he has the most wins on my list but quality is worth more then quantity.

5.Lyoto Machida
Hes the most accurate striker in the UFC and barley takes any hits. Hes undefeated and hes fought top level competition. He would be ranked higher but hes only just started after 2 or 3 more wins I really do belive he will be in the top 2 or 3.

My list would be top 10 but I really dont think its neccessary. As these are the people that impress me the most.


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