
yes you can, thats exactly how rankings work in sports... any given Sunday you can show up lose and drop in the rankings. if a perfect fighter has a bad performance and loses guess what? he drops in the rankings...
Your only as good as your last outing imho.
Thinking otherwise lets these vets get comfortable.
sports have clear winners. Take the mayweather/Canelo fight for example, dude went the distance with Floyd and lost. Is he going to drop in the rankings? Yes. Did he prove he could compete with the elite? Yes. Ain't nobody saying he lost so he isn't top tier anymore.
Battles are a matter of opinion most of the time. I'm not disagreeing that vets lose that hunger over time but saying a dude isn't top tier off one bad performance is ridiculous. Anybody can have a bad night, when they start having multiples then its an issue. Dudes like x-factor and young ill are guys you gotta look at like that.
We all like who we like and dislike who we dislike. That's what all these "rankings" represent. The fact that cats in here are saying shyt like "on a good day" or "when he's on his shyt" says it all. How many of you nikkas just named hitman and he just came off the worst 3rd round in the history of battles? What about his losing streak? If we judging of one performance at a time him and con ain't top tier anymore and clips has never had a 3rd. Depending on who you say won, either hollow of surf lost. So do they drop in the "rankings"? Top tier battlers that show up and half ass it will eventually get washed. O-red just did it to Ill and rex. TODD did it to x-factor.