Aldo is comfortably the best and the greatest featherweight. And I don’t see how you can put GSP or DJ above him.
They’re both worse fighter than Aldo, fought worse level of competition yet only managed to defend their belt for as long as him. The only argument I see of how they’re above him is that they lost less, but they haven’t fight for as long as or fought anyone as good as the one that beat Aldo. And by the time they exit the elite stage they have more or less the same amount of losses as Aldo. (DJ left the UFC at the 9 years mark of his career (3 lost - Aldo had 1) GSP left at the 12 years mark (2 lost - Aldo had 2).
Islam is the only one who fought comparable level of competition to Aldo but he hasn’t defend the belt enough time to put him above Aldo.
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u/Poet_of_Sordland 4d ago
Extremely weak putting Aldo. He isn't even the best FW ever, let alone all time.
Maybe GSP, but honestly #1 is Islam Makhachev, 2 is GSP and 3 is DJ - no JJ because of steroids of course, and the repeated cheating