Chandler gets koed 1st roundPlease, for the love of god, give us Gaethje/Chandler in a 5 round main event.
Carlos Diego Ferreira
Well, of course. They heard the loud reaction Tony got from the walkout and kept him high as possible. Also, Thiago Moises is ranked now just because of him being booked versus Islam? Peak UFC right there.From TSN, they post the updated rankings before they appear on the UFC website
https://www.tsn.ca/ufc/rankings
Everyone in their right mind knows Tony now gets beaten by all of the top 10 and likely all of the top 15.
It's like when they still had Woodley in the top 5 after he lost 15 consecutive rounds. Finally they knocked him off after his 4th loss to Luque.
Dariush being on a 7 fight win streak and having wins over 4 different ranked opponents justifies his spot ahead of Chandler who only beat Hooker! If RDA is #7 for barely beating Felder, then Dariush deserves at least 3-4 spots ahead. I agree about Gaethje, he should drop.
C: Oliveira
#1 Poirier
#2 Dariush
the rest
Everyone in their right mind knows Tony now gets beaten by all of the top 10 and likely all of the top 15.
It's like when they still had Woodley in the top 5 after he lost 15 consecutive rounds. Finally they knocked him off after his 4th loss to Luque.
Lee, Conor, and Felder going up is just...wow
They are still pretending like Tony is one of the top LWs
Go beat up Drew Dober.
LUL
THEY DID IT AGAIN
Islams opponent is now ranked.
Zero talk of this guy in the rankings but once he gets a fight with Islam he is ranked.
Drew Dober got a #15 rank and after the loss he was gone.
This isn't coincidence.
They trying to butter people out but saying look he is beating people in the top 15.
Its horseshit.
I think it's more than a bit inconsistent to have Gaethje retaining the 2nd overall position, but then somehow dropping Chandler down to 4th while Dariush elevates all the way to 3rd.
Seems wonky as fuck. Also why is Islam 10th behind Felder? Paul Felder is 1-2 in his last 3 and I'm pretty sure he should be 0-3 as Barboza was robbed. He lost to Perry at WW before that too, I guess that isn't LW but fuck the guy is arguably 0-4 in his last 4. Guess he beat Oliveira 3.5 years ago, sick.
Stop assuming everything has to do with Islam.
Drew was ranked #15 before his fight with Islam was even announced. Then he dropped to #16 when they ranked Chandler following his win over Hooker.
Like someone else said, Moises was ranked #15 then lost it when they put Cowboy at 15...now they removed Cowbog and Moises is back at 15.
"I think that's ridiculous" and then provides no reason why.I think it's silly to just disregard Chandler's entire existence outside of the UFC.
It's also not like Dariush has fought killers like you're kind of insinuating, he fought: Moises, Dober, Camacho, Klose, and Holtzman - prior to a split decision win over CDF, which is a ranked and solid win but not amazing, and then pretty much dominating a washed old Ferguson two days ago.
So I think it's more of a gray area here. I think Chandler is probably better than Dariush pretty clearly. I don't think Chandler almost finishing Oliveira and then getting caught and losing vs Dariush beating a completely washed Ferguson means that Beneil Dariush is better or should be ranked higher.
Why not put Dariush above Gaethje at that rate? Fuck it. I guess you did there lol, sorry but I think that's ridiculous. Also where are the "4 different ranked opponents"? Are we reaching back 5-6+ years ago to pull that one out of our ass?
Or are we counting 15th ranked Drew Dober who was not ranked at the time they fought probably, and honestly not sure who else. I'm not shitting on Dariush, it's just that it's very clear he has NOT done enough to be ranked 2nd or 3rd or even 4th. He just beat a geriatric Tony Ferguson who just got his ass beat twice in a row prior, but title contenders sure...but it was utter domination. We don't know how good Darush really is. He could lose to Kevin Lee or Gregor Gillispee, he could maybe beat Porier/McGregor who fucking knows.