MMA World Rankings

Heavyweight: 206-265Lbs
1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Antonio Nogueira
3. Brock Lesnar
4. Frank Mir
5. Junior Dos Santos
6. Cain Valezques
7. Shane Carwin
8. Alistair Overeem
9. Fabricio Werdum
10. Brett Rogers
11. Andrei Arlovski
12. Gabriel Gonzaga
13. Aleksander Emelianenko
14. Antonio Silva
15. Mirko Crocop

Just Missded out, Roy Nelson, Josh Barnett, Jeff Monson, Stefan Struve, Tim Sylvia, Ben Rothwell, Todd Duffee, Ricco Rodriguez, Pedro Rizzo, Gilbery Yvel, Rob Broughton, Bobby Lashley, Chris Tuchscherer


Light heavyweight: 186-205lbs
1. Lyoto Machida
2. Shogun Rua
3. Rashad Evans
4. Gegard Mousasi
5. Quinton Jackson
6. Antônio Rogério Nogueira
7. Forrest Griffin
8. Randy Couture
9. Thiago Silva
10. Rich Franklin
11. King Mo
12. Renato Sobral
13. Jon Jones
14. Brandon Vera
15. Vladimir Matyushenko

Just midded out: Luiz Cane, Ryan Bader, Mark Coleman, Ricardo Arona, Matt Hamill, Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell, Phil Davis, Brian Stann, Keith Jardine, Krzysztof Soszynski, Stanislav Nedkov

Middleweight: 171-185lbs
1. Anderson Silva
2. Dan Henderson
3. Vitor Belfort
4. Jake Shields
5. Chael Sonnen
6. Nate Marquadt
7. Damien Maia
8. Paulo Filho
9. Robbie Lawler
10. Ronaldo Souza
11. Mamed Khalidov
12. Yoshihiro Akiyama
13. Hector Lombard
14. Yushin Okami
15. Jorge Santiago

Just missed out: Rousimar Palhares, Michael Bisping, Patrick Cote, Alan Belcher, Cung Le, Kazuo Misaki, Scott Smith, Aaron Simpson, Wanderlei Silva, Jason Miller, Minowaman.


Welterweight: 156-170lbs
1. George St. Pierre
2. John Fitch
3. Thaigo Alves
4. Nick Diaz
5. Dan Hardy
6. Paulo Thiago
7. Paul Daley
8. Josh Koscheck
9. Marius Zaromskis
10. Mike Swick
11. Martin Kampmann
12. Carlos Condit
13. Matt Hughes
14. Akihiro Gono
15. Jay Hieron

Just missed out: Dan Hornbuckle, Matt Serra, Ben Saunders, Hayato Sakurai, Joe Riggs, Marcus Davis, Rory MacDonald, John Howard, Ricardo Almeida, John Hathaway.

Lightweight: 146-155lbs
1. Bj Penn
2. Shinya Aoki
3. Eddie Alverez
4. Kenny Florian
5. Tatsuya Kawajiri
6. Diego Sanchez
7. Gray Maynard
8. Joachim Hansen
9. Gilbert Melendez
10. Frankie Edgar
11. Ben Henderson
12. Takanori Gomi
13. Tyson Griffin
14. JZ Cavalcante
15. Josh Thomson

Just missed out: Sean Sherk, Joe Stevenson, Evan Dunham, Satoru Kitaoka, Mizuto Hirota, Nate Diaz, Efrain Escudero, Jamie Varner, Donald Cerrone, Clay Guida, Denis Siver, Terry Etim, Gleison Tibau, Melvin Guilard.

Featherweight: 136-145lbs
1. Jose Aldo
2. Mike Thomas Brown
3. Urijah Faber
4. Bibiano Fernandes
5. Hatsu Hioki
6. Masanori Kanehara
7. Marlon Sandro
8. Raphael Assuncao
9. Josh Grispi
10. Joe Soto
11. Manvel Gamburyan
12. Takeshi Inoue
13. Michihiro Omigawa
14. Deividas Taurosevicius
15. Mackens Semerzier

Just Missed out: Mark Hominick, Kid Yamamotto, Diego Nunes, Joe Warren, Leonard Garcia, Mark Hominick, LC Davis, Yuji Hoshino, Cub Swanson, Din Thomas.

Couture moves up a spot with a win over Coleman
Coleman drops out of the top 15 and is replaced by Vera (Anyone want Vera over the Janitor?)

Sonnen Moves Over Marquardt with a win Over him... I was thinking Sonnen 5th, Nate 6th. I thought as much as I hate him Shields diserves 4th cause he hasnt lost in a long time.

Alos at Mw Lombard picked up another win and moves up a place.


At welterweight Swick moves down to were Thiago was and Thiago moves just over Kos due to the recent win over him. I moved Im putting Swick under Zaromskis as he has lost 2 recently.

Also Serra looked great winning last nite and I like the guy but I dont think he cracks the top 15. Any other fights happen last nite that effect the rankings?

Phil Davis goes on the just missed out list as Stann is there... and he is 5 and 0

At HW : Maybe put Tuchsherer and Joey Beltran on just missed out. (You have Lasley in there after all)

At LHW: Vera should be ranked over Janitor, Phil Davis just missed out


MW: Sonnen beat a very top ranked opponent yesterday, pretty convincingly. Perhaps deserves a place over Shields.

WW: Paulo thiago over Semtex? anyone?


Guillard and Ronnys Torres on just missed out?

Cheers for the feedback mate.

Guilard added, Janitor and Vera swapped after all I think Vera won and If Couture moves up the ranks Vera diserves credit for such a close fight agaisnt a top ranked guy.

Tuchs and Beltran are both Shite... Ill stick Tuchs on because he got a half decent win, Beltran is a Cage Rage class figher though, hasnt a decent win to his name and should have put Gracie away more convincingly, the way Gracie was flopping limply at him he should have punished him with some uppercuts or Knees.

Id be all for putting Paulo Thiago over Semtex... lets see what everyone else has to say before we change it.

Yeah, i'd agree with Thiago over Semtex. Personally i'd have him over Hardy too. I think Hardy will drop a few spots after GSP mauls him.

I dont want to jump him up too high with one win, Ill move him over Semtex then... Like you say Hardy can wait to drop down after GSP rapes him!

I don't think Beltran deserves to be included. Al Turk could have beaten Gracie last night.

He beat Kos as well though. And gave Fitch a good fight. I think if he fought Fitch again he could beat him. Swick was top 10 not long ago. Hardy is highly ranked for a disputed win over Davis and a decision over Swick. Thiago KO'd Kos and tapped Swick. Semtex has blasted out too guys who are somewhere between 11-20. But when he fought a really top fighter, he was made look awful.

Moose Stuff For Money... wrote:I don't think Beltran deserves to be included. Al Turk could have beaten Gracie last night.

Agree, Rolles might be the worst fighter in the UFC.

Moose Stuff For Money... wrote:I don't think Beltran deserves to be included. Al Turk could have beaten Gracie last night.

Haha Id have had a crack at beating him myself... Worst Cardio in MMA? I think Tank Abbott has more in the gas tank even after 10 pints! Beltran is a Bum and was just being brough in to be fed to Gracie... although having said that he is another perfect Kimbo opponent.

Yeah you make a fair point about Paulo Thaigo he beat Swick much more convincingly and a win over Kos is much much bigger than a win over Marcus Davis.... Im happy enough to swap them places, credit were credit is due for beating Swich and Kos and finishing them both inside the distance.

Rolles is the Travis Lutter of the HWs.

Tuchsherer got knee'd in the balls in the first round.

Again? That's some bad luck.

Cannot beleive i was so excited about Rolles, huge let down. For a guy who has been training in mma for 5 years, he didnt look it.


i think Sonnen goes over Sheilds for certain Sheilds has wins over Mayhem and Lawler.

in a similar time frame Sonnen has wins over Miller, Okami and MARQUADT. It could be argued that he beat the #2 ranked fighters in his last 2 fights.

plus he has a whole MW career backing his recent explots up whilst Sheilds has a predominantly welterweight record.

Hendo's been number 2 since he entered the UFC IMO. Okami never deserved a shot, he was getting one because Anderson wanted the fight to wipe off that loss. Nate was prob number 3. just over Vitor. Sonnen or Shields sit at 5. I'm not pushed on which. I think Shields will drop down after Hendo sparks him. But any top class BJJ blackbelt with a good bottom game will beat Sonnen IMO.


Sonnen has 8 submission losses, that shows a massive weakness in his game. He also lost to Jeremy Horn 3 times. I don't think using his past career is much of a benefit to him over Shields.

Id probably have Shields where he is , Lawler and Mayhem were good wins. SOnnen lost three fights ago, its close, Id be happy with either.

Rolles Gracie put on one of the worst performances ive ever seen, abysmal. He wouldn't look out of place with the TUF 10 cast.

Has anyone seen the FIGHT! magazine rankings.

pretty controversial, on the one hand they work it out mathematically and thus it is totally fair and they can compile a top 100 of rankings.

on the other hand, there are the lists:

for example

http://www.fightmagazine.com/mma-rankings/mma-middleweight-rankings.asp

Sonnen at 1 ahead of Anderson and Minowa. wTf?

Ninja at 88?

Randy at 6??? are they on glue??

at least its a decent evidence to say "fighter X isnt even top 50!" or thats "3 top 30 wins in a row".

The Heavyweight rankings are pretty ridiculous:

Barnett at 4, above Nog and Mir, despite his ban.

Monson number 6, again above Mir, and Overeem and Carwin.

A very premature number 3 for Velasquez.

At least Kimbo is 45

Oh and apparently, Aldo, Brown and Faber don't manage a place in the top two between them.

Wow thats pretty cool! Nice to see Minowa and Sakuraba ranked so high! But then again Id love to see how they are worked out, Jason Guida is better than Non Ranked Aleks Emelianenko It cant take into account how good you looked in victory or how badly you lost

Sonnen best Mw, Alek not ranked at heavyweight, Jose Aldo number 3 at Fw! Faber and MTB werent the ones above him!, Monson above Mir? There are a few that made me laugh!

How are these worked out though?

not sure exactly how it works, but they only take into account particular fights, mainly from the big orgs.

alot of fighters only have small changes because of this, but Minowaman is 16-13 and Monson is 7-4!!