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    Most top 10 wins in order (From Sherdog Forum, Great read)

    rudeboyben84
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    Post  rudeboyben84 Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:52 pm

    The list is based on rankings from reputable sites only: sherdog, "mma media top 10", black belt magazine, mmanews, mmaweekly, mmafighting, independent world mma rankings, mma writer's top 10.... back to the year of 2000.
    no fightmatrix or other questionable ranking sites/systems!
    the research took me a lot of time. i just wanted to know which current fighter had the most quality wins, it's not about who is the best p4p or whatever.

    a top 10 win counts only when you fight him on the weight where he is ranked at.

    example: fedor defeated lindland(ranked mw). it doesn't count because he fought fedor at hw.

    anderson's ww wins count because he fought them at their own weight.


    Tier 1
    Anderson Silva
    1. Tetsuji Kato (WW)
    2. Hayato Sakurai (WW)
    3. Alex Stiebling (MW)
    4. Jeremy Horn (MW)
    5. Lee Murray (MW)
    6. Rich Franklin (MW)
    7. Nate Marquardt (MW)
    8. Rich Franklin (MW)
    9. Dan Henderson (MW)
    10. Thales Leites (MW)
    11. Forrest Griffin (LHW)
    12. Demian Maia (MW)
    13. Chael Sonnen (MW)
    14. Vitor Belfort (MW)
    15. Yushin Okami (MW)
    16. Chael Sonnen (MW)

    Tier 2

    George St. Pierre
    1. Karo Parisyan (WW)
    2. Pete Spratt (WW)
    3. Frank Trigg (WW)
    4. Sean Sherk (WW)
    5. B.J. Penn (WW)
    6. Matt Hughes (WW)
    7. Josh Koscheck (WW)
    8. Matt Hughes (WW)
    9. Matt Serra (WW)
    10. Jon Fitch (WW)
    11. Thiago Alves (WW)
    12. Dan Hardy (WW)
    13. Josh Koscheck (WW)
    14. Jake Shields (WW)

    Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
    1. Valentijn Overeem (second fight) (HW)
    2. Mark Coleman (HW)
    3. Heath Herring (HW)
    4. Semmy Schilt ("super"HW)
    5. Ricco Rodriguez (HW)
    6. Mirko Filipović (HW)
    7. Heath Herring (HW)
    8. Sergei Kharitonov (HW)
    9. Fabricio Werdum (HW)
    10. Josh Barnett (HW)
    11. Tim Sylvia ("super"HW)
    12. Randy Couture (HW)
    13. Brendan Schaub (HW)

    Fedor Emelianenko
    1. Renato Sobral (HW)
    2. Semmy Schilt ("super"HW)
    3. Heath Herring (HW)
    4. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
    5. Kazuyuki Fujita
    6. Kevin Randleman
    7. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (HW)
    8. Mirko Filipovic (HW)
    9. Mark Hunt ("super"HW)
    10. Tim Sylvia ("super"HW)
    11. Andrei Arlovski (HW)
    12. Brett Rogers ("super"HW)

    Dan Henderson
    1. Gilbert Yvel (HW)
    2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (HW)
    3. Renato Sobral (HW)
    4. Renzo Gracie (MW)
    5. Yuki Kondo (LHW)
    6. Akihiro Gono (MW)
    7. Murilo Bustamante (MW)
    8. Wanderlei Silva (LHW)
    9. Rich Franklin (LHW)
    10. Rafael Cavalcante (LHW)
    11. Fedor Emelianenko (HW)
    12. Mauricio Rua (LHW)

    Tier 3

    Matt Hughes
    1. Carlos Newton (WW)
    2. Hayato Sakurai (WW)
    3. Carlos Newton (WW)
    4. Gil Castillo (WW)
    5. Sean Sherk (WW)
    6. Frank Trigg (WW)
    7. Renato Verissimo (WW)
    8. Georges St-Pierre (WW)
    9. Frank Trigg (WW)
    10. B.J. Penn (WW)
    11. Matt Serra (WW)

    B.J. Penn
    1. Din Thomas
    2. Caol Uno
    3. Matt Serra
    4. Takanori Gomi
    5. Matt Hughes
    6. Joe Stevenson
    7. Sean Sherk
    8. Kenny Florian
    9. Diego Sanchez
    10. Matt Hughes

    Chuck Liddell
    1. Kevin Randleman (LHW)
    2. Guy Mezger (LHW)
    3. Vitor Belfort (LHW)
    4. Alistair Overeem (LHW)
    5. Tito Ortiz (LHW)
    6. Randy Couture (LHW)
    7. Randy Couture (LHW)
    8. Renato Sobral (LHW)
    9. Tito Ortiz (LHW)
    10. Wanderlei Silva (LHW)

    Randy Couture
    1. Maurice Smith (HW)
    2. Jeremy Horn (LHW)
    3. Kevin Randleman (HW)
    4. Pedro Rizzo (HW)
    5. Pedro Rizzo (HW)
    6. Cuck Liddell (LHW)
    7. Tito Ortiz (LHW)
    8. Vitor Belfort (LHW)
    9. Tim Sylvia (HW)
    10. Gabriel Gonzaga (HW)

    Tito Ortiz
    1. Jerry Bohlander
    2. Guy Mezger
    3. Wanderlei Silva
    4. Yuki Kondo
    5- Evan Tanner
    6. Elvis Sinosic
    7. Vladimir Matyushenko
    8. Vitor Belfort
    9. Forrest Griffin
    10. Ryan Bader

    Wanderlei Silva
    1. Eugene Jackson
    2. Dan Henderson
    3. Kazushi Sakuraba
    4. Quinton Jackson
    5. Yuki Kondo
    6. Quinton Jackson
    7. Kazuhiro Nakamura
    8. Ricardo Arona
    9. Keith Jardine

    Takanori Gomi
    1. Ryan Bow
    2. Rumina Sato
    3. Dokonjonosuke Mishima
    4. Jens Pulver
    5. Tatsuya Kawajiri
    6. Luiz Azeredo
    7. Hayato Sakurai
    8. Marcus Aurelio
    9. Mitsuhiro Ishida

    Shinya Aoki
    1. Akira Kikuchi
    2. Joachim Hansen
    3. Akira Kikuchi
    4. Gesias Calvancante
    5. Caol Uno
    6. Eddie Alvarez
    7. Joachim Hansen
    8. Mizuto Hirota
    9. Tatsuya Kawajiri

    Quinton Jackson
    1. Igor Vovchanchyn
    2. Kevin Randleman
    3. Chuck Liddell
    4. Ricardo Arona
    5. Chuck Liddell
    6. Dan Henderson
    7. Wanderlei Silva
    8. Keith Jardine
    9. Lyoto Machida

    Mauricio Rua
    1. Quinton Jackson (LHW)
    2. Little Nog (LHW)
    3. Alistair Overeem (LHW)
    4. Ricardo Arona (LHW)
    5. Kazuhiro Nakamura (LHW)
    6. Alistair Overeem (LHW)
    7. Chuck Liddell (LHW)
    8. Lyoto Machida (LHW)
    9. Forrest Griffin (LHW)

    Tier 4

    Mirko Filipovic
    1. Kazuyuki Fujita
    2. Kazuyuki Fujita
    3. Heath Herring
    4. Igor Vovchanchyn
    5. Josh Barnett
    6. Josh Barnett
    7. Josh Barnett

    Vitor Belfort
    1. Wanderlei Silva ("MW")
    2. Gilbert Yvel (HW)
    3. Heath Herring (HW)
    4. Randy Couture (LHW)
    5. Matt Lindland (MW)
    6. Rich Franklin (LHW)

    Gilbert Melendez
    1. Stephen Palling (FW)
    2. Hiroyuki Takaya (FW)
    3. Rumina Sato (FW)
    4. Tatsuya Kawajiri (LW)
    5. Shinya Aoki (LW)
    6. Tatsuya Kawajiri (LW)

    Dominick Cruz
    1. Joseph Benavidez (BW)
    2. Brian Bowles (BW)
    3. Joseph Benavidez (BW)
    4. Scott Jorgensen (BW)
    5. Urijah Faber (BW)
    6. Demetrious Johnson (BW)

    Alistair Overeem
    1. Vitor Belfort (LHW) (first fight)
    2. Igor Vovchanchyn (LHW)
    3. Sergei Kharitonov (HW)
    4. Brett Rogers (HW)
    5. Fabricio Werdum (HW)
    6. Brock Lesnar (HW)

    Jose Aldo
    1. Mike Brown (FeW)
    2. Urijah Faber (FeW)
    3. Manvel Gamburyan (FeW)
    4. Mark Hominick (FeW)
    5. Kenny Florian (FeW)
    6. Chad Mendes (FeW)

    Tier 4 contenders

    Junior Dos Santos
    1. Fabricio Werdum
    2. Mirko Crocop
    3. Shane Carwin
    4. Cain Velasquez
    5. Frank Mir

    Jon Jones
    1. Ryan Bader
    2. Mauricio Rua
    3. Quinton Jackson
    4. Lyoto Machida
    5. Rashad Evans

    Kazushi Sakuraba
    1. Carlos Newton
    2. Vitor Belfort
    3. Ebenezer Fontes Braga
    4. Renzo Gracie
    5. Kevin Randleman

    Lyoto Machida
    1. Rich Franklin
    2. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
    3. Thiago Silva
    4. Rashad Evans
    5. Mauricio Rua

    Urijah Faber
    1. Ivan Menjivar (FW)
    2. Jeff Curran (FW)
    3. Raphael Assuncao (FW)
    4. Takeya Mizugaki (BW)
    5. Brian Bowles (BW)

    Josh Barnett
    1. Semmy Schilt
    2. Randy Couture
    3. Aleksander Emelianenko
    4. Mark Hunt
    5. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira

    Chael Sonnen
    1. Paulo Filho
    2. Yushin Okami
    3. Nate Marquardt
    4. Brian Stann
    5. Michael Bisping

    Rashad Evans
    1. Chuck Liddell
    2. Forrest Grifin
    3. Thiago Silva
    4. Quinton Jackson
    5. Phil Davis

    Hatsu Hioki
    1. Mark Hominick
    2. Jeff Curran
    3. Takeshi Inoue
    4. Marlon Sandro
    5. Bart Palaszewski

    Joachim Hansen
    1. Takanori Gomi
    2. Caol Uno
    3. Yves Edwards
    4. Shinya Aoki

    Andrei Arlovski
    1. Vladimir Matyushenko
    2. Tim Sylvia
    3. Fabricio Werdum
    4. Ben Rothwell

    Tim Sylvia
    1. Ricco Rodriguez (HW)
    2. Gan McGee (HW)
    3. Andrei Arlovski (HW)
    4. Andrei Arlovski (HW)

    Mark Coleman
    1. Dan Severn (HW)
    2. Igor Vovchanchyn (HW)
    3. Allan Goes (LHW)
    4. Mauricio Rua (LHW)

    Nick Diaz
    1. Robbie Lawler (WW)
    2. Marius Zaromskis (WW)
    3. Paul Daley (WW)
    4. B.J. Penn (WW)

    Fabricio Werdum
    1. Alistair Overeem (HW)
    2. Aleksander Emelianenko (HW)
    3. Gabriel Gonzaga (HW)
    4. Fedor Emelianenko (HW)

    Tatsuya Kawajiri
    1. Yves Edwards (LW)
    2. Vitor Riberio (LW)
    3. Joachim Hansen (LW)
    4. Gesias Cavalcante (LW)

    Renato Sobral
    1. Mikhail Illoukhine
    2. Kiyoshi Tamura (first fight)
    3. Maurice Smith
    4. Jeremy Horn

    Frankie Edgar
    1. Sean Sherk (LW)
    2. B.J. Penn (LW)
    3. B.J. Penn (LW)
    4. Gray Maynard (LW)

    Frank Mir
    1. Tim Sylvia
    2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
    3. Roy Nelson
    4. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

    retired contenders

    Heath Herring
    1. Tom Erikson
    2. Mark Kerr
    3. Igor Vovchanchyn
    4. Gan McGee
    5. Cheick Kongo

    Brock Lesnar
    1. Heath Herring
    2. Randy Couture
    3. Frank Mir
    4. Shane Carwin

    Kevin Randleman
    1. Pete Williams
    2. Pedro Rizzo
    3. Murilo Rua
    4. Mirco Crocop
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    Post  rudeboyben84 Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:05 pm

    It isnt a continuation of the Fedor vs Anderson arguement on the other thread but I though this was a good read. The guy really seems to have done a much better job of doing what I did on the other Thread in breaking down big wins.

    You cant help feel Frustrated for Melendez who has 6, More top 10 wins than Jon Jones, more than the UFC Lw's is stuck in strikeforce where he is going to be thrown 2 Journeymen a year tops when he could be doing damage in the UFC.

    How long is his contract again? I remember he signed a new one at a bad time. Sad

    I wonder if guys like BJ, Hendo and Nog will add any more top 10 ranked names on to their record?

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    Post  manschesthair_utd Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:25 pm

    very impressive research!!

    some dedicated posters on there amidst the 50,000 odd idiots.

    edit: actually 250,000 + members
    holy shit...


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    Post  Mryzyz Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:15 pm

    You have to remember when looking at stats like this is that 'top ten' is both subjective and arbitrary.

    Going by most top 15 wins or top 5 wins would be just as useful, and would show a different hierarchy (probably, I haven't actually checked)

    Though it's still interesting and a reasonable representation of a fighters career achievements.
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    Post  kavik2 Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:49 pm

    Surpised Stiebling was ever top ten, interesting list tho.

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