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Exercise in futility

Elliot Worsell

@ElliotWorsell

Senior Writer

PERHAPS the only thing more pointless than drawing up a pound-for-pound top 10 list is arguing about a pound-for-pound top 10 list. Doing so, after all, will crown no winner, bring no reward, and in the end serve only to highlight an inability to comprehend what exactly a pound-for-pound list represents.

As for what it supposedly represents, it does, like most things, mean different things to different people. Yet, ultimately, a pound-for-pound list is good only for wasting time and generating debate. It has no greater purpose than that and it certainly has no bearing on any particular fighter’s legacy or indeed

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