08-05-2015, 10:20 AM
(08-05-2015, 10:04 AM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: P4P isn't a ranking that states a certain fighter could beat all others regardless of weight class. Its the fighter who performs the best over all the classes. You honestly think that Rousey could beat a Weidman, Dillishaw, or McGregor. Rousey has been dominating her division and is the biggest draw in MMA, so she deserves the P4P title. As trivial as the title is. You can not like her, but you cant deny that Ronda (with assistance from the UFC machine) is becoming the new face of the MMA sport. Hate it all you want but UFC drives the MMA sport, combat sports goes as UFC goes. The same way with profootball, baseball, and basketball, one major organization dictates the path of that sport. On an individual level I don't get all the hate for Ronda, it seems really petty if you ask me. I will throw my support behind any American fighter, especially ones who represented our country in the Olympics. Come to think of it I cant see a reason why to hate the UFC either, I mean this is a business that brings in millions of international dollars into the American economy monthly. Why would you hate that?
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.
