That being said, these recent fights do require a bit of time to set up. They start off with domination and it gets good in the final two years as a rival catches up (RB v McL 24-25, Merc v RB 20-21). Without one or two boring years in between that you get stuff like 2014-2016. Can't have it all :(

This holds true in recent times, though there are outliers (2016 was a nothing burger outside of the Ham Ros fight) or reversals (2009-2013 cycle started out with the cool title fight and got less interesting later on)

Williams is gonna have to hire bodyguards for this one

This sounds like an englishman ordering a mental condition from a menu.