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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2613537, member: 23910"]
Here's the thing.  Light heavyweight is a super-shallow division.  Dan Henderson, Shogun and Little Nog are all still ranked in the top 15 for crying out loud.  If Rampage actually gets cleared to fight again in the UFC you know he'll be in the rankings right away.

Hell, Rashad Evans is still ranked #4, even though he hasn't fought in forever and in the past three years his only wins have been over natural middleweights who should have retired (Sonnen, Hendo).  I don't argue that he's a good fighter and I'm looking forward to having him come back but seriously - if you take 18 months out of competition and you're still up top in the rankings, you're fighting in a pretty poor division.

Which brings us to Gus.  He beat a bunch of nobodies and has-beens, because that's what LHW is full of, to get his title shot.  He gets beat.  I think people give him way too much credit in the wake of the Jones fight for "coming close"... but I'm from the camp that think Jones prob won that fight 49-46.

After that he beats another can, then gets KTFO by Johnson, has a cry and thinks about quitting the sport altogether.

He's a very good striker with solid takedown defense.  But no real KO power (not in the way a guy like Rumble has it), not much of a ground game and he doesn't seem to be much of a game planner.  Put that skill set in a competitive division, like lightweight or welterweight, and I think he probably struggles to hang around the bottom half of the top 10.
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