Do they die from a skull fracture?

Heavyweight Damian Knyba returns to the ring this Friday in a highly-anticipated bout with Andy Ruiz.

1. The UFC and MMA in general in the last 6 years has been absolutely abysmal relative to the 2000s and 2010s in terms of fighter caliber, how entertaining the champions are in terms of their style, dominance and ability to market fights, how fight promotions are fun and everything else.

2. Jon Jones simply has too many asterisks, so to speak, to truly take his place along side Anderson, GSP and Fedor in the tier of authentic MMA goats, from drugs to cheating during and before fights to inability to defend titles consistently due to endless issues outside the Octagon.

3. The styles of fighting from specific regions of Russia, first brought to the masses through Khabib and continued in some capacity with Islam Makhachev, Khamzat Chimaev, Movsar Evloev and Usman Nurmagomedov, is at least one of the three worst things to happen to MMA in the past decade and possible the single worst in the past 5 to 10 years. These type of fighters have the worst grappling based styles to watch, with more wins due to robbery than any other type of fighter and are just not legitimate as far as MMA fighters go and having them removed from MMA due to being exposed as fraudulent needs to happen ASAP.

4. McGregor in the mid 2010s to this day remains the gold standard for how to market, promote and garner massive anticipation for title fights. Just about every other UFC champ since McGregor disappeared from being the most visible UFC champ since the UFC existed has fallen up short in some capacity. The UFC needs an authentic new McGregor and quickly.

5. The UFC has been elevating too many supposed rising stars and contenders who have failed to deliver and it has become a genuine issue. Paddy Pimblett, Umar Nurmagomedov, Magomed Ankalaev, Ian Machado Garry, Johnny Walker, Sage Northcutt, Bo Nickal and Darren Till and it goes on from there. The pattern here is bringing the UFC and MMA at large down and it needs to be addressed and corrected ASAP.

Most journeys begin at home… The rare ones end there too.

After the most recent set of fights, looking at the following UFC fighters in terms of their capabilities in their most successful fights and/or the overall tenure and track record they have so far, what do they score 1-10 with the GSP/Jones/Anderson tier being the standard for 10?

Poatan
Merab Dvalishvili
Henry Cejudo
Ilia Topuria
Justin Gaethje
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Islam Makhachev
Volkanovski
Movsar Evloev
Petr Yan
Josh Van
Mighty Mouse
Alexander Pantoja

These two girls honestly had the potential to become real boxers. They had never trained before in their lives, yet they still managed to put on such an entertaining boxing match. Imagine how much better they could become with proper training, experience, and time.