You're saying you're impressed with the performances of Shogun, Wanderlei, Soku, Werdum, Crocop, Herring? You can't possibly be. And there's a half dozen more Pride fighters that been slaughtered to add to that list.
Yet you had the highest respect of most of these fighters before they got their ass kicked in the UFC. So if the UFC is so weak, how come they beat nearly every Pride fighter that's been signed?
BTW these are the same people that knocked the shit outta your favorite fighter of all time Arona! (knocked out by Shogun, lost to Wand, knocked out by Soku!) so it's hard to take anything you say seriously.
And Nog, even though he won, you can't have been impressed with his performance either - he got his ass kicked for 3 rounds by Tim Sylvia (!)