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I used that example because it stands in stark contrast to your use of that metric. At the time Ronda was fighting she was at the top. Her losses are what hurt her legacy. Had she simply fought Tate for a third time as was originally planned and then retired before losing she would be remembered far more fondly. But she went out on her shield and her legacy was tarnished as a result.you tried to use the nunes v ronda counter example and those two cases are no where near the same cases that the top male fighters have against each other.
I never said anywhere in this thread that because a fighter goes out on their shield that that’s the only criteria that should be used in GOAT cases. But you insinuated that that’s what I was saying with your counter example. Not a fair counter example at all.
I was strictly stating that going out on your shield should be an additional metric added to distinguish between the different goats that are in close consideration. This metric pushes certain top male MMA fighters higher in my GOAT books.
I get what you’re saying about considering information gained from that litmus test as simply additional criteria but my example is one of several I could make to demonstrate what a mixed bag those results produce, which means it just isn’t a reliable metric.