Kalugin debates top 10 greatest UFC fighters, includes Khabib and McGregor

MMA analyst Kalugin published his subjective top 10 greatest UFC fighters of all time, disagreeing with Vlad Matveev's earlier ranking. Kalugin argued that Matveev's criteria missed crucial factors like contribution to MMA's popularization, peak form, dominance in fights, commercial impact, and records. He questioned how Daniel Cormier, Alexander Volkanovski, and Randy Couture could make the top 10 while Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor were excluded. Kalugin's top 10 includes: Jon Jones, Georges St-Pierre, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Jose Aldo, Alex Pereira, Anderson Silva, Demetrious Johnson, Islam Makhachev, and Amanda Nunes. He emphasized that greatness encompasses more than just titles and defenses, including a fighter's scale of influence and geographical expansion of the sport.