Deciding on the top 10 fighters over an entire decade is an invitation for an open-ended debate.
Throw in a mandate from MMA Junkie managing editor Simon Samano that each person on the staff was free to set their own criteria on what qualifies as worthy of consideration for the decade’s best list, and a staff that pulls from a wide variety of ages stationed all around the globe, and you have plenty of leeway for a diverse variety of selections.
The end result was a vibrant list, one that demands more conversation. So we gathered MMA Junkie’s Las Vegas crew — MMA Junkie Radio personalities “Gorgeous” George and “Goze,” fight analyst Dan Tom, and lead reporter John Morgan — to debate the results of our top 10 fighters of the 2010s in a roundtable format.
In this segment, the guys talk about Georges St-Pierre. While he’s undeniably one of the greatest fighters of all time, he competed just seven times in the decade and only once since 2013. On the other hand, that one fight saw him win a second division title, when he went up to middleweight and defeated then-champion Michael Bisping at UFC 217. Was that enough to merit his No. 4 position?
Watch the video above to hear the gang talk about GSP. And to watch the full roundtable, check out the video below.
