If Gomi can’t beat BJ then that means BJ is better, ipso facto Gomi is not the best LW ever.

Saying he’s even in the top 3 ever is a stretch

His style wouldn’t match up well against GNP guys. I give the nod to MAynard, Diego, BJ, Griffen. And he would probably lose 50% of fights to Kenny Flo, Huerta and that big LW ummmmm…..Gleison Thibau or however you spell it. Guys in Japan all seem small and weak when they get in the cage against an American Wrestler. Not all just most of them.

Resume people. He has the most win over top 10 LWs. No one else has done what he has at LW. BJ easily could have but instead he chose to spend years dicking around at WW, MW and LHW. So much like Hughes is the greatest WW (until a couple more gsp title defenses), gomi stands as the greatest LW ever.

NNR look who he has fought recently and who he has fought in the past. They are by no means top 10 LWs.

I do respect Gomi’s resume and legacy but in the same sense I respects Wand’s…as much as I loved Pride, Gomi’s record was inflated due to fighting no-names…every time he fought a named fighter ie. Hanson, BJ, Marcus A, he lost. I respect his string of wins and talent but he wasn’t fighting top named talent back then. Its not really his fault though, the LW pool is much better now than it was then

HEY where is that long tattoo that that runs down his chest?? How old is this picture?

I don’t know why Dana doesn’t give guys like Gomi, Hendo, Tito, etc 1-2 fight deals with ammendments to the tune of “if you win both, you’ll get more money”

sounds like Gomi is the one thats hard to deal with

i’m sure he DOES offer those type of deals, it’s the fighters who won’t accept. they want gauranteeed money, win OR lose. as a matter of fact i would bet on it. the fedor deal was similar to this. gomi wants bj/ main event type money. that’s what he means by “hard to deal with”. dana wont kiss his ass like japanese promoters have for years. gomi is not any kind of a draw in the states and is/was overrated for far too long.

favorite fight ever was diaz beating him…I can watch that over and over.

I’m with you. I went absolutely insane when he pulled that gogo off. What a transition that was. Right after Gomi begging the ref to stop the fight cuz of Diaz cut. What a coward he was that night, and he got choked for it.

is jsut funny because bj already beat him and gomi hasnt gotten any better then he was and bj is a way better fighter then the last time he beat him

i want some of what NNR is smokin.

Top 10 LWs beaten by Gomi (at the time when they fought)

Aurelio
Pulver
Kawajiri
Ishida
Sakurai
Azeredo (i would say more top 15 for him)
Sato

Top 10 LWs beaten by BJ (at the time they fought)
Gomi
Sherk
Florian
Uno
(I wanna say Din too but not sure coz i think that was after uno beat him up)

Anyways, BJ needs a few more LWs under his belt then the legacy is all his. Just sayin folks. You gotta go through the motion, you can’t just be handed these “titles” becuase you have the potential to do it.

Marcus Aurelio was not a top 10 LW
Rumina Sato is a natural 145 or less
Jens Pulver was on the decline
Sakurai and Kawajiri were quality opponents.

Beating Matt Hughes one weight class above while Hughes was in his prime > whatever Takanori Gomi accomplished.

Bring Takanori Gomi to the UFC so the Gomi nutt huggers can finally stfu.

NNR is completely right as usual! Gomi will probably never beat BJ Penn….but if mma ended today, without a doubt, Gomi would go down in history as the greatest lightweight of all time. His resume at lightweight DWARFS that of anyone else including BJ. Does BJ even have a total of 10 fights at Lw?

It will take a serious UFC bias, or uneducated blogger to not agree that Gomi has the best resume in the history of lightweight mma!

Its undisputed if you ask me!

By John G and NNR’s logic Shinya Aoki is a world beater.

His resume says so. He has beaten up more than enough top LWs to deserve his ranking. Just because the world thinks he’s a whiner and a drama queen, it doesn’t make his tapouts of great fighters any less legit. Yes BJ would without a question smash him but so what. He loses to BJ but probly beats up 98% of LWs in the world. Does that not make him a world beater? You guys kill me with your logic. Also everything you listed doesn’t matter because those guys were good and competitive enough to be ranked at the time they fought including aurelio who achieved it by beating gomi.

Most of the years Gomi was fighting there was no 155lb weight class in the UFC… during that time, Gomi was arguably the best 155lbrs in the world. IMO 2nd to BJ Penn who won the UFC 170lb title, beating an unbeatable Matt Hughes… now BJ has the 155lb title, plus beat Gomi when they fought… I’d say BJ’s the best 155lbr ever, regardless of fewer fights at 155lbs, In my opinion it’s more about quality of fights, opponents and titles, BJ’s been around the block with the elite.

say what you want about his resume but he’s never done sh*t in the Octagon. Nuff said. OWNED

How can he be the best LW ever when the only top 10 LWs he’s ever beaten are sherk and florian? You can’t just throw around that “all time” label just because he’s great. He has to prove it. Scalps are what matter in legacies not hypethetical he would have dominated every great lightweigth notions. Bringing up anything he did at any other weight is meaningless to the LW division.

wait didnt he beat your boy gomi???? he also beat pulver as did gomi and pulver wasnt in his prime for either fight. And even if Gomi beat a couple more top ten fighter then penn which i doubt look at who he has lost to and look at who penn lost to. Penn is better.

Great post NNR! YOU are clearly arguing with uneducated bloggers. I dont think this can even be disputed. Gomi has the best LW resume in the history of mma! FACT!

matt – where did i say Penn wasn’t better? I know for a fact that if they fought a 100 times that BJ would win everytime. As john clearly stated – Gomi has the resume at LW and BJ doesn’t.

NNR – BJ’s wins in other divisions with top competition is carried over to him in the LW category. BJ’s career wins and losses are in different weight classes, whereas Gomi is in LW and only LW. Just think of it as this"

BJ was the King of 155, and he left his throne to face tougher competition. Gomi is more like a stand in, and now that BJ’s back, he can now resume his role is king of 155.

Besides, BJ has only one 155 loss and he avenged it. And some of the competition that Gomi has faced, has come to the UFC and got beat by unranked fighters. That should settle that.

Or Diaz…

Took the words right out of my mouth jackalmma. BJ is set apart as the best light weight because he (as a light weight), accomplished great things outside the lightweight division.
One light weight(gomi) stays within the limitations of the light weight division and does very well, and the other(penn) goes beyond the limitations of his own class and accomplishes great things inside and out of it.
Who has more wins in Light weight? Gomi. Who is the greater lightweight fighter? Penn.

I read a few years ago that Gomi is hard to deal with, so take it for what it’s worth! ALL japanese athletes (chinese too0 are tough to deal with, most times you need to appease their team and govt. too!

True that. These Chinese and Japs are very shrewd people. i.e.Yi Jianlian and whoever handles him…