cowboyronnie wrote:Susan wrote:Luque finished Chiesa, Woodley, Randy Brown and Niko Price and then lost to Wonderboy
Burns - W Dec Wonderboy, L (KO) Usman, W Dec Woodley, W KO Maia, W Dec Gunnar Nelson
They all beat Maia, Colby did it earliest and imo most impressively, they all beat Woodley's corpse and Burns got KTFO by Usman in the 2nd and Colby barely lost that second fight and the first one was really close.
He's got the second best most recent resume out of all of them imo.
He didn't barely lose the second Usman fight, it was totally convincing. And he got finished in the first one.
Literally the most impressive fights he has had have been his two losses to Usman. It's actually impressive that he only lost that badly.
I want to see him face a young lion, for once, before considering him some sort of DC (DC at LHW), who would have dominated his era if it weren't for that *one guy*. Colby is starting to get that shine, like he'd rule the division if it weren't for Usman like DC would have ruled LHW if it weren't for Jones. That's nonsense. DC beat Gus, AJ twice...no one doubted that he would run through every other LHW. It was just Jones. Colby doesn't have that. He's a pick 'em in multiple fights.
The entire division is weird.
-Woodley, Maia, Lawler and Wonderboy all fell off or are about to fully after really long reigns
-Till and Askren left
-RDA, Masvidal and Chiesa are all failed 155ers in some form or fashion so they don't have long resumes, and RDA left
-Barely any of Belal, Colby, Luque, Burns and Leon have faced each other
-Usman owns them all
-Chimaev is coming like a freight train
There's no *clear* #2 but IMO Colby is closest to claiming it, based on how he faced against Usman - but I also thought he looked slightly worse than expected against Jorge. I'd favor him against any of the top 5 guys but it's absolutely not like DC was in the period you're talking about.
We're arguing who's top between Shogun, Rampage, Machida and Rashad when in a few months, it won't matter. The division is about to change. The Wolf is coming.