@Dirty Schwein I am bit surprised that fighters want p4p rankings so badly. Or rappers want to brag about the best album or anything else really. Its usually left to punters to have an endless debate about which makes it more fun. I'm struggling to see a fighters perspective apart from having massive egos which bruise very easily.
Acknowledgment of greatness is a real thing - it should affect the persons involved far more than anyone else as it's their legacy and body of work that is being put up to scrutiny against all who have gone before, and will come after them.
Heavyweights; fastest runners; biggest selling stars etc. get credit for simply being, but when all the nuance and technical aspects are factored in, we get a clear picture of what is what. Someone like Mighty Mouse has a right to be utterly pissed that his flawless ability is dismissed because he's 5'3" in a weight class people don't care about. For all intents and purposes, what he has done is majestic and only via P4P can it be given the accreditation it deserves. Same as low-selling, but highly skilled or brilliant artists or singers etc. Rakim is seen as the best rapper of all time by those who delve into the scene, for others, he is a non-entity because he didn't sell like far bigger names.
Jon Jones is at least a sociopath, but he has justifiable reason to be incensed that he is so easily put to the side by people who don't consider what he's done purely from the perspective of the octagon. I think a huge part of the reason he's going up in weight is to kill the discussion once and for all at in the weight class where you are the big dog, full-stop.