No solution offered other than AI will take care of it. lol
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Dana has given up on rankings
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I'd suggest judges are the problem, not the media rankings.
Alex was in complete control of that fight from beginning to end.
Although Pereira's style doesn't win the judges over like Rountree's.
Rountree is this big, muscle bounded guy and when he goes in to punch he runs forward/jumps in with 2 or 3 massively loopy punches that look like they do a lot of damage. And when Alex defends, he stays in the pocket and rolls and slips with punches, so a lot of Rountree's big punches look like they're landing but they are just grazing him and doing no damage. Meanwhile Pereira's punches and kicks have no wind up. aren't big motions but they do a lot of damage. A jab or calf kick landing from Pereira was doing way more damage than those big hay maker looking punches from Rountree.
IMO Pereira looked safer throughout that fight than any of his last few.
Alex was in complete control of that fight from beginning to end.
Although Pereira's style doesn't win the judges over like Rountree's.
Rountree is this big, muscle bounded guy and when he goes in to punch he runs forward/jumps in with 2 or 3 massively loopy punches that look like they do a lot of damage. And when Alex defends, he stays in the pocket and rolls and slips with punches, so a lot of Rountree's big punches look like they're landing but they are just grazing him and doing no damage. Meanwhile Pereira's punches and kicks have no wind up. aren't big motions but they do a lot of damage. A jab or calf kick landing from Pereira was doing way more damage than those big hay maker looking punches from Rountree.
IMO Pereira looked safer throughout that fight than any of his last few.
Winning rounds shouldn't effect a ranking, not by much anyways. He hasn't fought anyone in the top 5 other than the champion, which is bizarre that they hot shotted him into a title fight over Ankalaev.
But if you want to bump him up a few spots I'd have no issues with it. Jan hasn't fought in over a year and hasn't won a fight since 2022. Rakic's last win was three years ago. Jiri has been stopped twice by the champion and remains at one which always bothers me when the media does that.
Half these guys are holding onto their ranking spots simply because they've all beaten the shit out of UFC punching bags like Anthony Smith and Johnny Walker.
But if you want to bump him up a few spots I'd have no issues with it. Jan hasn't fought in over a year and hasn't won a fight since 2022. Rakic's last win was three years ago. Jiri has been stopped twice by the champion and remains at one which always bothers me when the media does that.
Half these guys are holding onto their ranking spots simply because they've all beaten the shit out of UFC punching bags like Anthony Smith and Johnny Walker.
Rankings are dumb, just give us the fights we want to see. Matt Serra had no right to fight GSP if following the rankings and shocked everyone.
I think the rankings were a fox or espn thing
They’re absolutely stupid because you have non fighters, writers ranking them, like gut boy ioleee and that other dopey ass mother fucking dumb dumb voting iirc
Pointless imo as they know fuck all