José Aldo

And because no other place had them and they, without argument, seemed to house the best, that was good enough for me.

And Aldo had two of them there.

So to me, Aldo has nine title defenses.

Volk has seven.

Now, you know me that the newer people, they don't necessarily have to match those records for us to entertain.

But here, you know, I don't know.

What do you think? Who's the greatest featherweight of all time? Do you agree that it's Volk? Just the featherweight of all time? I think at this point, yes.

Plus, he's got a win over Aldo.

But when it comes to people throwing, like, you're only as good as your last bro, like, man, people throw that shit out there super quick.

Like, Jan is good, but they're still, if he can hit up those numbers, like Volkanovski just did, to surpass Jose Aldo, then that just becomes different, Kamaru.

You know what I'm saying? That just becomes different, dude.

It's

He felt he could have definitely beat everybody.

So this whole conversation of the greatest of all time, greatest of all time, I think that is crazy.

Jose Aldo was a champion for so long.

He had went through so many people.

Yeah.

And just like another example of how Volkanovski is... not just sort of ahistorical in terms of, you know, who he is and what he's done, you know, coming back from a terrible loss to become the champion again and kind of, you know, the same way that Jose Aldo did before him.

But...

He's just an ahistorical fighter in the way he fights.

But you can...

And as long as he was mixing this up enough, it was keeping Jan extremely passive.

And this has been something which people have used against, like Jose Aldo.

but more to the point classically it's what Volkanovski did to Jose Aldo is that you just you are up against an extremely defensively crafty fighter and all you do is pile up low low risk or at least low damage but high volume and well mixed up strikes to just get a numerical lead on them And, yeah, I think Murab did a great job of keeping Jan defensive by just throwing a lot of mixed-up bullshit at him.

He's fought Benoit Saint-Denis, Jalen Turner, Drew Dober.

And back at featherweight, this is a guy who fought Jose Aldo.

He fought the Korean Zami, Brian Ortega, Calvin Cater.

And the last time out...

Is Alex Volkanovski the greatest featherweight in UFC history?

Yeah, I always thought that he was a while ago, but if there was any doubt, because the question was between really him and Jose Aldo.

And he proved it on Sunday because, again, he's beaten some of the greatest featherweights of all time, always called out the best.

He beat the likes of Max Holloway three times.

He's beaten Jose Aldo within that conversation.

Brian Ortega, yeah, Rodriguez.

So he made seven successful title defenses and everyone thought he was done.

He's one of those dudes.

He, know what i mean like like you said we're around the sport all the time we're around everybody but you still get a little star struck when chuck liddell is there you know what i mean they still get a little bit a little a little different than when he walks through certain guys that still carry that you know i remember like when uh like jose aldo would walk into a room or like shogun hua would walk into a room like even the fellow fighters kind of perk up and they're like

yes

look who it is right there chuck's one of those guys you know what i mean

No, he's special.

And I think a real argument that he is the greatest featherweight of all time.

It's funny because, like, I think of prime Jose Aldo.

Like, if we're taking, like, you know, we can pick an era, we can take a guy from a moment in time.

He's a two-time champ.

Obviously, the other one is Jose Aldo.

I think after this fight, you have to say he surpassed Jose.

I know Aldo was an absolute legend.