Whereas the MMA neighborhood thought it could have a conclusion to the P4P-best debate after Islam Makhachev’s UFC 302 triumph, the plot has solely thickened. Jon Jones dropped his ideas bluntly in a now-deleted tweet, making pundits and specialists go bonkers. Nevertheless, Chael Sonnen has discovered an ingenious technique to get to the tip of all this.
Drawing a comparability from the NBA and taking the instances of Michael Jordan and LeBron James as examples, Sonnen proved his level to his co-host, Daniel Cormier.
“Its the identical because the (Michael) Jordan vs Lebron (James), folks discuss six rings versus 5 as soon as upon a time. You’re evaluating resumes, I dont assume that’s the identical, I believe while you take a look at these numbers its a bit extra necessary only for instance, lets simply take Islam’s final 10 opponents, lets take (Jon) Jones’ final 10 opponents, let’s not take a look at who beat them, let’s take a look at who misplaced extra rounds and the rounds that they misplaced, what had been these guys ranked.”
MMA is a “Sport of inches, is what Sonnen primarily stated. As a substitute of trying on the numbers primarily based on the wins and losses, if one appears on the cumulative of rounds fought, that might give them a greater image and a side-by-side comparability of who the pound-for-pound greatest is.
Honest level!
Elaborarating his level, the veteran even used the case of Tony Ferguson and acknowledged the information that received him involved about his pal.
Chael Sonnen involved about Tony Ferguson
As a substitute of bouts as an entire, rounds misplaced and gained provides you a greater concept of a fighter’s efficiency. To show that, he mentions ‘El Cucuy’s’ case. He stated,
“Tony Ferguson who I’m very shut with however I wasn’t involved when folks stated he misplaced 5 in a row or six in a row however I used to be extra involved that he misplaced his final 27 rounds and no person spoke about that and for me that was much more alarming than or one thing that it is advisable to take a look at.”
Sure, he’s on a horrible dropping streak however what’s extra alarming is the way in which he’s dropping rounds as Sonnen would say. At the moment, ‘The Boogeyman’ is about to face Michael Chiesa at UFC Abu Dhabi, eyeing a turnaround, to get again the misplaced momentum.
The reality is, this debate won’t ever finish. We, within the combat enterprise, love our fantasy charts and that’s primarily what the P4P rankings are- a fantasy league!