Stepping aside from the HW title / rematch conversation for a minute, I think this point by BlackCease is too important to ignore. It applies to fighters across the board, regardless of division: it's very rare that both guys in a fight will be in their prime, more so these days than when the UFC was just starting to blow up. Jose Aldo's a good example: dude was straight up washing guys left and right in the WEC. I'm sure he's improved and evolved as a fighter since those days but he's also been in much more difficult fights and taken damage over that time, so he's not as "fresh" as guys who are just coming up... definitely not as fresh as he once was (for some of the older MMA heads out there, this also applies to someone like Chuck Liddell).
Today's Conor is probably the best he's ever been. But can you say the same about Aldo? I don't know that you can.
So back to the HWs, agree that Werdum is probably the best version of himself right now but not sure that a post-surgery Cain, even if he had arrived in Mexico much sooner, would be the "best" Cain. Then again, if he had won against Werdum this point probably wouldn't matter.
