ONE Fight Night 1: Moraes vs. Johnson 2

God damn! DJ and Lee both getting revenge in the same day, you love to see it. I should’ve had faith in him lmao.


Also Kadestam the true bald Viking 

DJ wouldn’t be a six foot tall lightweight, he’d be a 5”7 one. He’s one of the shortest fighters in history, if he were at lightweight he’d definitely have a shorter stockier build like an Arman Tsarukyan. Regardless Jones is NOT the goat. He’s 26-1 and that one loss is to Dominick Reyes. Plus he’s a steroid head junkie PED abuser who couldn’t convincingly beat a 1 legged middleweight and LOST to a guy who would lose his next 2 fights. 

I think skill is obviously more prevalent in the lower weight classes, but tbh I think once you get to a certain point it stops mattering. Like once you get past welterweight I think a majority of the fighters become really skilled. Sure flyweight is the smallest weight class, they have the least power and physical attributes so skill is present in almost every fighter, but tbh the most skilled flyweight and the most skilled bantamweight or lightweight (and maybe featherweight) all pretty much equal to me. Like is there anything DJ can do that Yan, Volkanovski, or Gamrot/Fiziev can’t do? He’s faster but also less powerful, that’s literally it. And it’s not like every single person at flyweight is a master of martial arts, there’s a bunch that really aren’t that technical or good just like in other weight classes.

In the higher weight classes there’s only a few people with actual master tier skills. Jones, Silva, GSP, etc (and even then they’re arguably less skilled than DJ or Yan, but that’s debatable for some of them). Once you get to lightweight I feel like there’s a huge amount of people with those skills. Sure flyweight has more of them, but it’s not like 90% of flyweights have god tier skills and only 10% of featherweights do. The disparity between them isnt nearly that large as it is with the big boys all the way down to welterweights, and like I said: When it comes to actual skill I feel they’re pretty even. It’s just that there’s more of those people in the smallest weight classes. But it’s not like being tiny automatically makes you one of the greatest fighters ever. If Guram were shrunk down he’d smash ranked people like Tim Elliot 

* Edited at 08.27.2022, 8:25 AM ET *