Former Strikeforce champion Josh Thomson explained why he considers the 135 lb (61.23 kg) weight class to be the strongest in the world of MMA at the moment.
“I was impressed with Song Yadong’s last fight,” Thomson said on the Weighing In podcast. – The guy is 23 years old, he has a knockout power that is not characteristic of fighters of this weight. He has speed, power, a very promising guy. In general, if you look, 135 pounds is now the strongest category in the world. Not even in the UFC, but just in the world. By a wide margin. And she’ll be like that for another couple of years.“.
The current UFC bantamweight champion is Aljamain Sterling, and Petr Yan is interim. In Bellator, the belt in this category is held by Sergio Pettis.
“There is no other weight where there are so many top fighters now. I think we can count about 30 people. Petr Yan, Magomed Magomedov, Raufeon Stots, Aljo, Merab Dvalishvili, Sergio Pettis, Corey Sandhagen, all these top guys from the UFC and so on. This happens when at a certain stage something converges and one weight breaks away from the others. I remember when the WEC and Strikeforce merged with the UFC – lightweight became, in my opinion, the strongest in MMA. Now it’s the easiest category, it’s just top on top”Thomson said.
