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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3333627, member: 23910"]
TBH I'm kind of on the fence with the "dual championship fraud" thing.  No he hasn't defended the title since he won it.  But on the flipside he only won it in December last year.  Other champions have held titles for much longer than that without being active.  So I can see both sides.

As for him being named the number one P4P fighter in the sport... it [i]might[/i] happen, but I don't necessarily think it's deserved (and the UFC rankings are largely nonsense anyway).  He's obviously very, very good.  But is he as dominant or as adaptable as, say, Mighty Mouse or Cormier?  Let alone someone like Jon Jones?  Jedrzejczyk?  I don't think so.

And that's not a knock on the guy - in fact, I think the fact there's a real chance he could lose pretty much any given match he takes is a [b]huge[/b] part of his appeal.  A McGregor fight is truly exciting, in part, because you don't really know what the hell is going to happen once the cage door closes.

Compare that to someone like Mighty Mouse (who I'm also a huge fan of).  Pretty much every time he fights he goes in as a huge favourite.  He's got great skills in pretty much every area of the game and it's beautiful to watch him work.  But there's usually very little question going in over whether he'll win, and that makes his fights only a fraction as exciting as McGregor's.

Long story short I think McGregor is very possibly the most exciting fighter in the game today.  But I don't think he's the #1 P4P fighter (though he's very likely in the top 5, top 10 at worst).
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