Greetings MMA posters, this is the This content is protected in a series of threads I'll make on this forum, basically ripping off the excellent Classic Forum boxing poster Boxed Ears, who has a series in the Classic called 'Very Good Or Great', where he asks regulars whether they consider some fighters to merit the description 'great' fighters, or whether they are merely 'very good'. MMA Volume 1 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=335373 MMA Volume 2 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=335558 MMA Volume 3 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=335875 MMA Volume 4 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=336732 MMA Volume 5 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=336748 MMA Volume 6 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=336832 MMA Volume 7 was This content is protected , see thread: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=337416 The choice this time is Takanori Gomi. Some relevant info about Gomi: - Gomi has won 2 titles in his career, the Shooto Welterweight Championship and This content is protected . He defended both titles once each. Gomi won the Pride title by This content is protected - Gomi has lost 7 times. In his prime, he was outpointed by This content is protected , then submitted by This content is protected and This content is protected . Later in his career, he suffered two losses in the Sengoku organization to This content is protected and This content is protected , then two losses in the UFC to This content is protected and This content is protected . - The most important factor is of course resume, the guys Gomi has beaten. Make your assessment of this list: This content is protected - Pride, 2005 - This content is protected This content is protected - Pride, 2004 - This content is protected This content is protected - Sengoku, 2008 - This content is protected This content is protected - UFC, 2010 - This content is protected - Pride, 2006 - This content is protected This content is protected - Other factors to consider: His record is This content is protected , with This content is protected , 12 knockouts and 6 submissions, against This content is protected and 2 decisions. I look forward to your verdicts and explanations, and hope to continue this series shortly :bbb
Love Gomi exciting as hell, would also add Kawajiri to his good wins he was a cracking fighter. As exciting and as great as I think Gomi is he doesn't have the depth on the record to be a great.
Very good. He lost when he faced that generation's great LW and it wasn't even close. He has some good wins but he lost badly to the best competition he faced.
Gotta be a great. No longer, but in his prime he was the best Lightweight in the biz, and ran through the division's best fighters like a freight train. As an aside, he's the only one I've voted great thus far outside of Tito. Not that I think Tito was legitimately one of the best fighters to do it, but his accomplishments put him up there.
He's kinda like the Matt Hughes of the lightweight division. He will beat above average guys but not top level fighters.
What the **** are you talking about? Matt Hughes beat Georges St Pierre and BJ Penn. On what planet are those two elite ATGs not "top level fighters"??
For a short period he was great, Pride's lightweight division was stacked beside Shaolin they had all the top guys and Gomi was top dog.
