08-05-2015, 10:31 AM
(08-05-2015, 10:20 AM)djs7685 Wrote: I'm not so sure that you understand what P4P means.
P4P lists are talking purely of a fighters skillset regardless of weight class. It's a lot of hypotheticals, hence opinion, but at the end of the day there is NO WAY Ronda should be on a male P4P list. Women's? Absolutely! But they 100% need their own list. Are you going to put someone from the WNBA onto a P4P list (if there was one) of NBA players? I highly, highly doubt it.
P4P is saying that if Cain were to hypothetically weigh enough to cut to MW, would he beat Anderson Silva? If it seems like he would win that hypothetical situation, then you put him higher. I don't know where you got your made up definition of P4P, but it's been an MMA thing for decades and has meant the same thing throughout. Did you get your made up new definition from the UFC? If so, they didn't invent P4P, so I'd probably not look there for the real terminology meaning.
A 135 pound Cain would kill Ronda. A 135 pound GSP would destroy Ronda. A 135 pound Weidman would win however he wanted against Ronda. Hell, Dillashaw does fight at 135 and would potentially, literally murder Ronda in the cage.
I don't think pound for pound means what you think it means. There absolutely needs to be a separate category for WMMA if you're going to rank the fighters like that.
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.
