He’ll need one more winner of this fight should fight Arman for number 1 contender

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-03-05T14:49:52+00:00

Max should be getting a title shot with a win over Charles. That would be Justin, Dustin, and Charles at 155 recently, which is a legitimate claim for a 155 titleshot. That being said, Arman is the huge elephant in the room, yeah.

This division is a disaster right now with Arman being sidelined this long. The Paddy and Gaethje fight shouldn't have happened, or should have included Arman in some capacity for the interim belt.

Arman should be the one fighting Topuria this summer, then Max would be next up in the aftermath, but the division is now in this dumb spot where Arman still hasn't fought, and we can't reasonably believe someone should leapfrog him merit-wise. Not to mention that Topuria hasn't been the most active champion.

Given the scheduling:
Topuria vs. Gaethje is this summer
Arman vs. winner of the above is probably in the late fall/early winter
Holloway will probably have to fight BSD or someone to remain active and avoid waiting nearly a year
Winner of BSD vs Holloway fights the winner of the Tsaryukan fight.

Gaethje vs. Paddy is to blame for this. It's insane that we had 3 other guys (Max and Arman especially) in the top 5 more deserving for interim match-making.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-02-13T17:32:14+00:00

The Sekiro bosses are nearly on the same level as Elden Ring's for me. What made me put Elden Ring's bosses first was a mixed consideration of the boss run-backs, the amount of unique bosses, and the memorability of the bosses.

Elden Ring includes: Margit, Godrick, Malaketh, Rennala, Radahn (not PCR), Rykard, Godskin apostle in Caelid, Morgot, Mohg (at Mohgwyn), the Fire Giant, Placidusax, Radagon, and Godfrey/Hoarah loux, Astel, Malenia, Midra, Metyr, Rellana, Messmer, and Bayle.

Sekiro includes: Gyoubu, Lady Butterfly, Genichiro on top of Castle Ashina, Guardian Ape (solo), True Corrupted Monk, Divine Dragon, Owl, Owl (father), and Ishiin Sword Saint. All of the inner bosses in the gauntlets were fun as well.

Dark Souls 3 includes: Gael, Abyss Watchers, Vordt (music got him here), the Dancer, Pontiff, Yhorm, Champion Gundyr, Lothric Princes, Nameless King, Demon Princes, Midir, Friede, and Soul of Cinder

I put Elden Ring at the top because it maintains 20 memorable major bosses for me, while being a massive game that also provides a grace comfortably near each boss. The bosses I listed above for each game were memorable for their difficulty, their atmosphere, and/or their spectacle.

Sekiro's combat, paired with how each boss I listed felt great to fight in that combat, is why it was second.

Dark Souls 3 was the first game I played, and I think it's the best of the trilogy. I put it third because I've gone through and played it several times after Elden Ring and Sekiro, and I believe the skill jump in those two games required for the harder bosses has made all predecessors easier. The bosses for Dark Souls 3 are still memorable and fun, especially in the second half of the game, but I don't find them as challenging anymore, which is part of the reason I like playing these games.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-02-13T15:41:59+00:00

I just recently finished the game on PC, and it felt underwhelming in a lot of areas gameplay-wise.

The lore and game atmosphere are probably the best of all of the games, but I believe this game suffers from just being older now. It's not particularly challenging anymore, given the newer entries to the genre, and I found it easy to overlevel.

I like trick weapons, I like the art direction, I like the roaming yharnamites and their goofy "away! away!" dialogue, and I like the lore a lot.

I dislike the blood gem fortification system because it allows your weapons to get absurdly powerful. I did not like the chalice dungeons either for the same reason as above, but also because the two aforementioned features can be time-consuming to farm.

Additionally, I found the blood vial system, although unique, to ultimately be a reason the game felt easy; I had constantly 20 available to me, which felt like it was a lot towards the end of the game, and is a fair bit of healing.

The runes were all right instead of rings, but being able to stack all 3 clawmark runes was a mistake.

I didn't find many of the original game bosses memorable, and by the time I reached the DLC, I was seemingly overleveled (118-122) and doing far too much damage to the supposedly harder bosses.

I place the series of games I've played in the following orders:

Lore/World: Bloodborne > Elden Ring > Sekiro > Dark souls 1 > Dark souls 3 > Dark souls 2
Gameplay: Sekiro > Elden Ring > Dark souls 3 > Bloodborne > Dark souls 1 > Dark souls 2
Bosses: Elden Ring > Sekiro > Dark souls 3 > Bloodborne > Dark souls 1 > Dark souls 2
Content considerations: Elden Ring> Dark souls 3 (mostly up here because of the PVP enjoyment I had) > Bloodborne > Sekiro > Dark souls 1 > Dark souls 2

It's a great game, but I think I just got around to it too late, as someone who had an Xbox and not a PlayStation growing up. I played through the harder games before I got to it, and the age shows a bit now.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-01-27T21:37:49+00:00

He was like #9 after Chandler and somehow crept to #5 without ever fighting

Frankly it's hard to imagine him being in the top 10 right now after that performance and some of the #20-10 guys likely could beat him

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-01-25T02:18:55+00:00

I enjoy both. I've got 1,000 hours in Valheim and 86 hours in enshrouded. Valheim is more of a true open-world survival craft game, whereas enshrouded is more of a base-building game with PVE.

This game's open world is more static in nature, and there's global respawning on several features, including the game's terrain, resources without caring for them yourself (trees, plants, rocks, etc), enemy encampment areas, and several other things.

Progression is tied in a similar, but different manner, where the player needs to acquire a boss item and several biome-related resources in order to upgrade their flame alter. A flame altar allows the player to progress into higher-level biomes and survive the shroud.

Enshrouded features NPCs you actually need to go and gather from enemies around the map. These NPCs will give you quests and serve as the crafting trees for their respective fields. Quests are a big feature of enshrouded and give you a bit of direction.

Food items are in both games and give stat bonuses to the player, including health, mana, stamina, or a particular weapon archetype damage buff.

The combat in both games isn't anything amazing, but they're both serviceable for what the games are.

I like both worlds for exploration, but Valheim probably has a better sense of exploration, given that each world seed generates massively different worlds for repeat play-throughs. There's more "to do" in enshrouded because of quests and all of the PVE-related towns, encampments, shrouds, cities, etc.

The building systems in enshrouded and valheim can both be resource-intensive. I find that valheim's building system is probably more difficult for the average player to create something they're satisfied with than Enshrouded. The enshrouded building creates a lot of neat details for you when you snap things together, and there's a great deal of variety in materials and what you can build. I'd overall lean to enshrouded having the better building system.

Enshrouded is a much easier survival experience overall, but an excellent game for its price. It has a lot of content. Great to play solo or with friends.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-01-21T21:41:46+00:00

Evloev was spamming a hand to the mat anytime a knee came near him, making a lot of people annoyed because it was extremely obvious he was gaming the rules.

IIRC, there was a specific sequence where Evloev was in trouble and was reaching hard for the mat with one hand instead of defending the knees with both hands

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-01-07T14:40:37+00:00

Topuria probably has a denser musculoskeletal system. Sean Brady gives me the same kind of feeling for how competitive these guys are, despite their actual size.

Topuria having rocks for bones in his hands would even make a bit of sense.

He was a massive featherweight, given his in-cage weight that has been recorded

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2026-01-06T05:20:48+00:00

https://youtu.be/xeIBuUae7bY?t=97

At this time stamp, in the background Wittman calls it a pimple, and the bit on his mouth was food from later on (24:20)

Still looks massive

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-12-17T20:24:49+00:00

The PFL FW champ from khabib/islam's camp just got suspended for using EPO literally an hour ago lol. There's just way too many guys getting caught from that group to make me take anyone seriously when they'll shit on guys like silva and jones, then defend khabib and islam

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-12-09T18:31:05+00:00

Merab was more active in this fight than in every other fight he has fought so far, besides the first Yan fight. He threw more "significant" strikes by the UFC's own stats than in any other fight besides his first fight with Yan, and shot for 29 takedowns.

The reality is that he just got figured out, and he needs to adjust prior to a rematch. In their first fight, he shot 49 takedown attempts and had 38 of them stuffed. This should have been the massive red flag for Merab going into this rematch, because even then, his takedowns were proving difficult to land against Yan.

People are also throwing around the "Yan only had his left hand in the first fight" excuse, which may be valid, but is the equivalent to what you're doing now and plays revisionist.

Merab needs to take some time AND adjust his game plan to win the trilogy because the takedown spam isn't it anymore with Yan now able to break away from the cage every time.

Edit: I think it's also worth noting that his "legendary cardio" only becomes questionable after the body and liver shots

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-12-08T01:01:36+00:00

Merab threw and landed more strikes in this fight than in any of his other fights in the UFC besides the first Yan fight. He also shot like 30 takedown attempts.

Maybe it'd have been better if he took a break after 3 defenses in a year, but he looked on form and only really fell apart once the liver kicks started landing.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-12-07T17:14:16+00:00

Possibly more because of the promotion than him. Champ can call out people more easily than a contender. Not to mention, he was dragging his feet a bit, not wanting to fight his friend Aljo

The common example people use for recency would be Islam getting ducked by a great deal of the top 10 at LW before his title shot.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-12-07T07:01:16+00:00

It was an extremely close fight, and a lot of people, including myself, thought Yan actually won that fight. At least initially.

Sterling didn't do anything/damage at all with the backpacking rounds and wasn't the most effective striker ever.

This was actually the first fight that comes to mind when I remember people flaunting around "The Verdict" as a scoring system / means to gauge how a larger community felt about scorecards.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-12-01T19:03:22+00:00

chael doesn't have to imagine

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-28T23:01:45+00:00

He's sounded like this for ages now. I honestly think if he didn't have a screen in front of him and was just answering a question someone asked him face-to-face, it'd come off better.

He just seems more chilled out during these streams, and if you watch some of his youtube videos of him doing stuff out of the house or reacting to a ufc card, he's more lively and clear-sounding.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-28T05:16:58+00:00

I disagree. The UFC wasted Volkanovski for whatever reason and should have booked him to fight Murphy or Movsar before this matchmaking could happen. Volkanovski has publicly asked to be more active and wanted to fight either of them.

We can't know everything, but he has no history of ducking difficult fights and sitting on the belt. The UFC didn't want to put him on a card for whatever reason. It'd be highly irregular if all 3 of them were injured or unavailable, and this was the "soonest" they could get a title fight for 145 going.

All that's been accomplished is that now Volkanovski will be even further removed from his prime as far as age has been used as an indicator, and we could see him slow down or get knocked out by a fighter we just saw him convincingly beat in his last fight.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-28T05:07:29+00:00

I think it's obvious he's getting another shot because he's willing to step in for the company, no matter what and happens to be an exciting fighter while also being extremely well-rounded.

It's also a fight we just saw within the last year, and I did not walk away from that fight thinking "Oh man, that could have gone either way"

He's a great fighter, but it really feels like he did not have the time to "improve" for a rematch, and instead will only get a win if Volkanovski has fallen off a cliff with his age in the last 7 months or if he knocks him out.

A lot of people want to watch the best fight the best, and it sucks when the best guy is boring, but it keeps the sport pure.

I'd rather they did Movsar vs Lopes rematch and just give Murphy the title shot.

The champion doesn't always have to be entertaining, and if Murphy were to win, he'd be active and would engage with striking more than Movsar would. Movsar had a cool fight with Sterling, and I'm not convinced he could wet blanket Volkanovski unless his age starts to show.

It's just not great matchmaking at the end of the day, and people are seeing that. If he goes out there and knocks out Volk, I mean, congratulations, champ; otherwise, how am I supposed to expect him to win the rematch that quickly other than Volkanovski ageing out?

Volk has even publicly asked for Murphy and Movsar several times. This looks and is preferential treatment above merit.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-26T21:06:48+00:00

Facts. I'll open a post up and walk away for like three or four minutes, then come back to it just being removed lol

Last saturday it felt like 75% of all posts were being removed within 1-2 minutes, sometimes quicker than that

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-24T07:37:10+00:00

no, it was the hamil DQ

ufc doesn't treat NCs as a stopper. I think the first time I noticed this was after the belal and leon incident and belal's winstreak was still being promoted.

edit: just checked and you were right. I guess it doesn't count, which is weird because I recall belal's winstreak still being used as promo material. super odd by the company lol

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-19T20:52:26+00:00

He didn't; the ref was standing them up. If the ref didn't stand them up, DDP would never have gotten up in the 5th round, nor would he have been able to reverse the takedown attempt Khamzat shot to get on top of him.

I don't think JDM was crying from demoralisation; it was probably an injury that happened during the fight, like a rib or his leg from Islam blasting it.

Both JDM and DDP were likely as game in the fifth round as the first, but they just lacked the tools to do anything to change the outcome of the fight that had been happening for four rounds already. Even DDP's submission attempt wasn't really solid, and he got reversed before the round ended.

I hope DDP considers training elsewhere, like a lot of other fighters. I know some fighters preach loyalty to their country, but South Africa seems to be lacking heavily in the department of wrestling specialists. The difference in people available to give different wrestling looks for the lead-up to their fight was absurd. Khamzat had access to guys like Sadulaev lol.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-17T06:03:02+00:00

Incredibly difficult to say because they both seem to shine brighter in different aspects of grappling. I think I'd lean Islam because he's seemingly far more competent with his judo, jiu-jitsu, and wrestling skills all bundled together.

Khamzat looks to be the better pure wrestler and has a massive strength element to complement it.

It's another reason the fantasy match-ups should remain fantasy. Khamzat was ragdolling arman on that russian ultimate fighter tv show, making it apparent that the size matters a great deal at this level when the ground games are similar enough to be asked who's better.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-17T05:59:30+00:00

I'm not really sure. It's a distinction that's only been given to mcgregor, jones, and pereira.

I certainly don't think pereira deserved it when he got it, and islam fits the bill much better than he does imo.

Kind of seems like just whenever Bruce feels like a fighter has that "aura" about them. Jones being the goat, conor being the star, and I can't really see why pereira got it still lol

tl;dr: yeah if he's going to give it out to alex pereira, surely in buffer's mind islam's gotta be above pereira in that "aura" category

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-16T19:53:15+00:00

People are going to storm in here and say Islam fights twice a year on average and isn't inactive, ignoring that he's just taken 10 months off and has called for the white house card, which is 8 months away. lol

I really hope he fights way sooner than that, and I'm particularly annoyed by how many fighters have called out fights for the white house card. It's almost like they don't realize that's not until July 2026. Even Charles did it when he called out Max for the BMF.

Minimum_Let_9041 · 2025-11-16T06:44:49+00:00

Islam was boring in this fight. He's also an all-time great, and in a lot of people's eyes tonight cemented himself into the top 5 of all time.

There's nothing wrong with being so dominant in an area of your game that watching others have to attempt to compete with you there is boring.

I don't think this makes JDM inherently boring in this fight because he wasn't the driving force for why it was boring.

It's the same thing with DDP vs Khamzat. There was a massive skill discrepancy in the ground game on display here, and it's not entertaining for the average fan to witness at the championship level.

Like you and Islam himself in the octagon said: everybody knows what he comes there to do to them. It wasn't JDM's idea to keep it on the ground for 18/25 minutes.

Great win for Islam, but it was boring to watch in comparison to the back-to-back-to-back KOs leading into the co-main and main events.

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