08-05-2015, 10:38 AM
(08-05-2015, 10:31 AM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: Well since there is only two weight classes in UFC, its kind of hard to separate between males and females. Most people should know that this list is basically a selling point, no one really thinks that Anderson Silva would actually put on 20lbs and fight Cain, or vice versa. Its just a way for the UFC to say " Hey this is our horse at the moment, this is who is bringing in the money." P4P lists can mean anything in any of the sports that use weight classes, winning streaks, title defenses, and quality of matches probably all go into determining this person.
Of course Werdum isn't cutting his legs off to fight Aldo, but that's where the hypotheticals come into an actual P4P list. Would Aldo's skillset be able to hang with Werdum if they weighed the exact same amount? I don't think so personally, but I'm sure there can be arguments for both sides and a good debate could come of it.
There's no real good argument that Ronda belongs with the top dogs of the P4P rankings. There isn't a parallel universe where she has the skillset to beat average male fighters at BW already, let alone the current P4P greats.
Ronda belongs in the same rankings as male MMA fighters in the same sense that Lisa Leslie deserved to be on the list of best basketball players when she was a star in the WNBA.
Isn't Ronda being one of, possibly THE best women's fighter enough for her huge supporters? Why does she need to be on a P4P list to make some happy? She doesn't belong.
