One of the GOATs of MMA, Demetrious Johnson , believes pound-for-pound rankings boil down to the total skillset a particular fighter possesses. Pound-for-pound debates can quickly get convoluted because everyone has slightly different criteria to shake out the hypothetical rankings.
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Why Demetrious Johnson ranks Islam Makhachev as MMA’s pound-for-pound best – MMA Junkie