Sho's OFFICIAL MMA Ranking Thread

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My last rankings were just a beta version.

NOTE: There is absolutely nothing scientific about how I make these rankings. No formulas or averages. These are just my opinion. I simply got tired of reading other writers/blogs rankings thinking that I can do better and decided to make my own. There is no specific deadline, but typically I plan to update near the end of the month because that’s when I normally feel like making lists of things.

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As of February 28th, 2010
As of March 31st, 2010
As of May 9th, 2010
As of September 30th, 2010
As of November 3rd, 2010
As of January 3rd, 2011
As of February, 17th 2011

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As of February 28th, 2010

Heavyweight

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Brock Lesnar
3. Frank Mir
4. Junior Dos Santos
5. Cain Velasquez
6. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
7. Brett Rogers
8. Josh Barnett
9. Fabricio Werdum
10. Andrei Arlovski

Light Heavyweight

1. Lyoto Machida
2. Mauricio Rua
3. Rashad Evans
4. Gegard Mousasi
5. Quinton Jackson
6. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
7. Forrest Griffin
8. Thiago Silva
9. Renato Sobral
10. Luis Arthur Cane

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva
2. Dan Henderson
3. Chael Sonnen
4. Vitor Belfort
5. Nate Marquardt
6. Jake Shields
7. Demian Maia
8. Yoshihiro Akiyama
9. Yushin Okami
10. Mamed Khalidov

Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Josh Koscheck
4. Thiago Alves
5. Dan Hardy
6. Paulo Thiago
7. Nick Diaz
8. Paul Daley
9. Mike Swick
10. Carlos Condit

Lightweight

1. BJ Penn
2. Shinya Aoki
3. Eddie Alvarez
4. Tatsuya Kawajiri
5. Kenny Florian
6. Gilbert Melendez
7. Frankie Edgar
8. Gray Maynard
9. Mizuto Hirota
10. Joachim Hansen

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo
2. Mike Brown
3. Urijah Faber
4. Bibiano Fernandes
5. Michihiro Omigawa
6. Rafael Assuncao
7. Hatsu Hioki
8. Takeshi Inoue
9. Masanori Kanehara
10. Manny Gamburyan

[calgaryballer]

Looks good, couple of questions though-

JDS over Cain, why?
Belfort at #4, he hasn't won a middleweight fight yet (Franklin was 195)

Seems odd that Hansen is still ranked as a LW even though he is moving to FW, whereas Vitor is a LHW who is moving to mW

[CrimsonGhost56]

Andrei Arvloski?

[calgaryballer]

Andrei Arvloski?

I was listening to the Sherdog podcast, and they said they were struggling to find 15 good HW's to put in their rankings. Having AA at #10 isn't a suprise to me

[CrimsonGhost56]

I was listening to the Sherdog podcast, and they said they were struggling to find 15 good HW's to put in their rankings. Having AA at #10 isn't a suprise to me

id put Monson up there before AA

[calgaryballer]

He's only a fight removed from a terribly boring decision loss to Pedro Rizzo. After the TOp 8 guys, it's really tough to rank anyone else

[CrimsonGhost56]

He's only a fight removed from a terribly boring decision loss to Pedro Rizzo. After the TOp 8 guys, it's really tough to rank anyone else

meh. only thing AA has done in the past 14 months has been getting knocked the fuck out twice. monson has gone 5-1 with wins over roy nelson (albeit controversial) and wrecking kharitonov over the same time span.

[Liquidrob]

I think I'm out of the division ranking business, its very hard to do it properly with guys jumping around weight, no real matchmaking of 'contenders', the UFC not co-promoting, etc...plus so many guys are giving 'Top 10' status just after fighting a couple guys in the UFC

[SHOGUN]

JDS over Cain, why?

You can probably flip-flop either of them IMO, but I had Cigano rated above Cain prior to fighting Nog and believe that he has had the edge in SOS over Cain.

Belfort at #4, he hasn't won a middleweight fight yet (Franklin was 195)

His two fights in Affliction were at middleweight plus with his quality of performance and history at higher weights were enough to make me rate him highly.

Seems odd that Hansen is still ranked as a LW even though he is moving to FW, whereas Vitor is a LHW who is moving to mW

Understood about Hansen but A) Hansen hasn't officially fought at LW yet and B) No one else really made a convincing enough argument for the #10 spot. Sherk (who I orginially had there), Sanchez and Griffin are bleh choices, JZ has two losses vs. #2 and #4, but his lack of activity makes it difficult to justify, while Miller and Ben Henderson lack SOS.

Andrei Arvloski?

meh. only thing AA has done in the past 14 months has been getting knocked the fuck out twice. monson has gone 5-1 with wins over roy nelson (albeit controversial) and wrecking kharitonov over the same time span.

Not a lot of options really. Carwin has only had one quality win despite his Lesnar-like stature and hype, Ubereem has been busy can crushing and cracking skulls in K-1, Gonzaga is meh and Big Foot is coming off a loss to Werdum. Monson losing to Rizzo fucked up his chances. There is no one better. At least Arlovski's last two losses have been against top competition.

[CrimsonGhost56]

until fighters arent locked into certain orgs theres no way to truly tell whos the best of the best, cause half the guys never fight each other.

[Steel Mamba]

meh. only thing AA has done in the past 14 months has been getting knocked the fuck out twice. monson has gone 5-1 with wins over roy nelson (albeit controversial) and wrecking kharitonov over the same time span.

AA went toe to toe with the best HW in the world and gave him a lot of problems, has recent wins over Rothwell, Werdum, and Nelson (nothing controversial about his W). No way does Monson touch AA.

[CrimsonGhost56]

AA went toe to toe with the best HW in the world and gave him a lot of problems, has recent wins over Rothwell, Werdum, and Nelson (nothing controversial about his W). No way does Monson touch AA.

AA was definitely beating Fedor.... until he got knocked out

at least Monson is staying active. 2 brutal KO loses is all AA has to show for in over a year, and theres no signs of him coming back soon. when your last W was 15 months ago idk how you could be considered a current top 10 HW

[Kuzzy Powers]

AA is too busy wanting to box and shit.. so he aint trying to put in a ton of work. Sure, Monsoon is more active, but id pick AA in a fight against him right now. Rogers fucked dudes shit up but Rogers has proven to be a legit top 10 himself IMO. Other then that AA has still looked pretty damn good to me. Getting caught like that to Fedor aint too much to be ashamed of.. hes only the greatest HW in the history of time.

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As of March 31st, 2010

Heavyweight

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Brock Lesnar
3. Junior Dos Santos
4. Cain Velasquez
5. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
6. Brett Rogers
7. Shane Carwin
8. Fabricio Werdum
9. Frank Mir
10. Josh Barnett

Light Heavyweight

1. Lyoto Machida
2. Mauricio Rua
3. Rashad Evans
4. Gegard Mousasi
5. Quinton Jackson
6. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
7. Forrest Griffin
8. Thiago Silva
9. Renato Sobral
10. Luis Arthur Cane

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva
2. Dan Henderson
3. Chael Sonnen
4. Vitor Belfort
5. Nate Marquardt
6. Jake Shields
7. Demian Maia
8. Yoshihiro Akiyama
9. Yushin Okami
10. Mamed Khalidov

Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Josh Koscheck
4. Thiago Alves
5. Paulo Thiago
6. Nick Diaz
7. Paul Daley
8. Dan Hardy
9. Mike Swick
10. Carlos Condit

Lightweight

1. BJ Penn
2. Shinya Aoki
3. Eddie Alvarez
4. Tatsuya Kawajiri
5. Kenny Florian
6. Gilbert Melendez
7. Frankie Edgar
8. Gray Maynard
9. Mizuto Hirota
10. Joachim Hansen

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo
2. Mike Brown
3. Urijah Faber
4. Bibiano Fernandes
5. Michihiro Omigawa
6. Rafael Assuncao
7. Hatsu Hioki
8. Takeshi Inoue
9. Masanori Kanehara
10. Marlon Sandro