Hot Takes

Pure jiu-jitsu is dead at the elite level. Wrestling wins belts, jiu-jitsu wins highlights.

Fans who boo wrestling don't understand what they're watching.

Stipe Miocic is the greatest heavyweight in UFC history. Nobody else defended that belt three times in a row.

Daniel Cormier was a better heavyweight than light heavyweight and nobody talks about it.

Conor McGregor's best version only lasted about two years, and those two years were better than most whole careers.

Josh Hokit getting a title shot at 4-0 in the UFC tells you everything about heavyweight depth.

Georges St-Pierre is the real GOAT. He avenged both of his losses and never lost a title fight after Serra.

The best fight on any card is usually the one nobody was talking about on fight week.

Rematches are overused. If you lost clearly, go win three fights before you get another shot.

The best era of the UFC was 2015 to 2019. Stars in every division and every pay-per-view mattered.

Khamzat Chimaev is the biggest what-if in the UFC. The talent was never the problem.

Flyweight is the most skilled division in the UFC and the least watched. The fans are wrong.

Merab beating Sean O'Malley twice proves pressure beats flash every single time.

Jon Jones should have fought Francis Ngannou. Everything else is excuses.

Fighters should be allowed to pick their own walkout music again. The atmosphere hasn't been the same.

Knees to a grounded opponent should be legal. The hand-on-the-mat game is the dumbest rule in the sport.

Leon Edwards' head kick on Kamaru Usman is the greatest comeback in a title fight ever.

Zhang Weili is the most complete women's fighter of this era. Striking, wrestling, cardio, all of it.

Alex Pereira is the most exciting fighter of this decade. Every fight is a coin flip that ends with someone asleep.

Tom Aspinall never lost that belt in the cage. Whatever the paperwork says, he's still the man to beat at heavyweight.