The Pound-for-Pound #1 Pound-for-Pound Rankings

If Aldo dispatches of Manny, which he will, I will probably adjust my list accordingly :)

I don’t think the "X beats fighter Y, therefore should be higher" argument is necessarily a good one

isn’t that exactly what these rankings are?

to me=who has the best overall skillset and has proven it against the best competition in their weight class.

P4P has nothing to do with "If both fighters were the same size" who would win?

It’s called Pound for Pound for a reason.

I think the whole well if Aldo fought Brock Lesnar at the same weight class are for pure fantasy MMA games at best. While on the other hand I can clearly say if Nate or Nick Diaz put on some weight how would they do against heavier fighters with their pitter patter punches and bjj skills. Easy answer, they would do well because they have actually done it.

That’s the whole concept. This is fantastical. You might have missed the memo… If I’m to go off the remainder of that excerpt then you’d have me believe that outside of the top LHWs, HWs and A. Silva fighters like Jose Aldo putting on weight to fight at HW would lose and as such said “P4P rankings” would be farcical…

yeah . . . most of these p4p rankings are more about popularity and what have you done for more recently and how exciting was it. Let’s ignore how many of these guys are fighting in one weight class for x number of years.

Fedor gets one loss and he’s ranked under Aldo and Mauricio Rua? Rua who lost to Forrest Griffin and had a poor showing in his rematch against Mark Coleman? Ok, Fedor feels the same way.

and then let’s see how he looks on the leaderboards.

I like vicious, dynamic KO’s as much as anyone. Unfortunately, Aldo hasn’t yet proven it against someone who is built to negate his strengths.

since he fought off that kneebar from Griffin. That said, let’s look at his notable wins list:

Jim Miller
Tyson Griffin
Mark Bocek
Spencer Fisher
Hermes Franca
Sean Sherk
BJ Penn x2

To my eyes, we’ve got a 145lb fighter who has run as difficult of a gauntlet at LW as anyone over the same period, and won against everyone except Gray Maynard. Gray Maynard was just too big for him last time out, but I’m guessing Edgar’s newfound in-and-out sniping style will make up most of the ground he lost to Maynard the last time.

It would be one thing if we were talking about Maynard for P4P contention. There’s not a great argument simply because he outsizes most of his opponents. Edgar should be fighting in the WEC at 145 (where I do think he’d have a good chance to beat Aldo), but instead he’s fighting at 155 in the premier organization in the world.

But like I said, I’ve been a fan since he was whacking away on Griffin’s kidneys for trying to sub him with a kneebar.