EmpireWF's Official Zuffa MMA Rankings

[EmpireWF]

rob has his non-Zuffa rankings and the Zuffa dudes were feeling a bit left out.

Heavyweight
1. Brock Lesnar
2. Cain Velasquez
3. Junior dos Santos
4. Shane Carwin
5. Frank Mir
6. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
7. Roy Nelson
8. Cheick Kongo
9. Ben Rothwell
10. Mike Russow

Honorable Mention: Travis Browne, Brendan Schaub, Stefan Struve, Gabriel Gonzaga

Light Heavyweight
1. Shogun Rua
2. Lyoto Machida
3. Rashad Evans
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Forrest Griffin
6. Ryan Bader
7. Jon Jones
8. Rich Franklin
9. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
10. Matt Hamill

Honorable Mention: Thiago Silva, Phil Davis, Randy Couture, Jason Brilz, Ricardo Romero

Middleweight
1. Anderson Silva
2. Chael Sonnen
3. Vitor Belfort
4. Yushin Okami
5. Nate Marquardt
6. Demian Maia
7. Chris Leben
8. Yoshihiro Akiyama
9. Wanderlei Silva
10. Alan Belcher

Honorable Mention: Michael Bisping, Mark Munoz, Dan Miller, CB Dollaway, Gerald Harris, Rousimar Palhares

Welterweight
1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Josh Koscheck
4. Jake Shields
5. Martin Kampmann
6. Dan Hardy
7. Thiago Alves
8. Carlos Condit
9. John Hathaway
10. Matt Hughes

Honorable Mention: Dong Hyun Kim, Nate Diaz, Johny Hendricks, Jake Ellenberger, Paulo Thiago, Mike Swick

Lightweight
1. Frankie Edgar
2. Gray Maynard
3. B.J. Penn
4. Ben Henderson
5. George Sotiropoulos
6. Sean Sherk
7. Jim Miller
8. Evan Dunham
9. Takanori Gomi
10. Kenny Florian

Honorable Mention: Joe Lauzon, Jamie Varner, Melvin Guillard, Cole Miller

Featherweight
1. Jose Aldo
2. Manny Gambuyran
3. Mike Brown
4. Urijah Faber
5. Josh Grispi
6. Leonard Garcia
7. Chan Sung Jung
8. L.C. Davis
9. Mark Hominick
10. Rafael Assuncao

Honorable Mention: Cub Swanson, Tyler Toner, Diego Nunes, Tiequan Zhang

Bantamweight
1. Dominick Cruz
2. Scott Jorgensen
3. Brian Bowles
4. Joseph Benavidez
5. Miguel Torres
6. Damacio Page
7. Takeya Mizugaki
8. Brad Pickett
9. Charlie Valencia
10. Wagnney Fabiano

Honorable Mention: Eddie Wineland, Rani Yahya,

[CrimsonGhost56]

i know the dunham-sherk fight was controversial but dunhman - 4 sherk - 10? that much of a disparity between the two? two fighters i would rank much higher then you have would be bisping and matt hughes

[JeremyHight]

I would drop Sonnen below Belfort simply because Sonnen not only lost, but was caught using PEDs and lost. He won't be sniffing the title any time soon.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

rob has his non-Zuffa rankings and the Zuffa dudes were feeling a bit left out.

Heavyweight
1. Brock Lesnar
2. Cain Velasquez
3. Junior dos Santos
4. Shane Carwin
5. Frank Mir
6. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
7. Roy Nelson
8. Cheick Kongo
9. Ben Rothwell
10. Mike Russow

Honorable Mention: Travis Browne, Brendan Schaub, Stefan Struve, Gabriel Gonzaga

Where is Matt Mitrione? You mention fuckin Struve, but no big Matt? You should be ashamed of yourself

Light Heavyweight
1. Shogun Rua
2. Lyoto Machida
3. Rashad Evans
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Forrest Griffin
6. Ryan Bader
7. Jon Jones
8. Rich Franklin
9. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
10. Matt Hamill

Honorable Mention: Thiago Silva, Phil Davis, Randy Couture, Jason Brilz, Ricardo Romero

Bones Jones needs to be a little higher on the list

Middleweight
1. Anderson Silva
2. Chael Sonnen
3. Vitor Belfort
4. Yushin Okami
5. Nate Marquardt
6. Demian Maia
7. Chris Leben
8. Yoshihiro Akiyama
9. Wanderlei Silva
10. Alan Belcher

Honorable Mention: Michael Bisping, Mark Munoz, Dan Miller, CB Dollaway, Gerald Harris, Rousimar Palhares

Sonnen needs to go down a little...sorry, recent events put him behind some of these other cats

Welterweight
1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Josh Koscheck
4. Jake Shields
5. Martin Kampmann
6. Dan Hardy
7. Thiago Alves
8. Carlos Condit
9. John Hathaway
10. Matt Hughes

Honorable Mention: Dong Hyun Kim, Nate Diaz, Johny Hendricks, Jake Ellenberger, Paulo Thiago, Mike Swick

Shields > Kos...Alves > Hardy and Kampmann...Matt Hughes should be a little higher, too...no Nate?

Lightweight
1. Frankie Edgar
2. Gray Maynard
3. B.J. Penn
4. Evan Dunham
5. Ben Henderson
6. George Sotiropoulos
7. Jim Miller
8. Kenny Florian
9. Takanori Gomi
10. Sean Sherk

Honorable Mention: Joe Lauzon, Jamie Varner, Melvin Guillard, Cole Miller

George Sotiropoulos is #4 and climbing. Why is Dunham and Sherk so far apart?

Featherweight
1. Jose Aldo
2. Manny Gambuyran
3. Mike Brown
4. Urijah Faber
5. Josh Grispi
6. Leonard Garcia
7. Chan Sung Jung
8. L.C. Davis
9. Mark Hominick
10. Rafael Assuncao

Honorable Mention: Cub Swanson, Tyler Toner, Diego Nunes, Tiequan Zhang

Bantamweight
1. Dominick Cruz
2. Scott Jorgensen
3. Brian Bowles
4. Joseph Benavidez
5. Miguel Torres
6. Damacio Page
7. Takeya Mizugaki
8. Brad Pickett
9. Charlie Valencia
10. Wagnney Fabiano

Honorable Mention: Eddie Wineland, Rani Yahya,

[Warner2BruceTD]

This isnt 1950, we should all be ranked together, in harmony.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik[/ame]

[Warner2BruceTD]

read the comments to the video guys, c'mon, let's come together...

We are only one sport, MMA, that's all that matters. We shouldn't fight on what org we are, is there really a difference other then that? No. There isn't

I'm sorry. I love Strikeforce. Like I seriously love DREAM. But I hate this segregation. It's just too cheesy.

who can push dislike on combined rankings??only a dicccckkk!

[EmpireWF]

Yeah, my bad about Dunham/Sherk. Recent fight totally slipped my mind.

[Kuzzy Powers]

I dont see what puts Ryan Bader ahead of Jon Jones.

And lmfao @ Mike Russow being ranked ahead the likes of Gonzaga and even Struve. Mike Russsow's biggest win is Justin McCully.

[EmpireWF]

I dont see what puts Ryan Bader ahead of Jon Jones.

I put Bader above Bones only because he has a more impressive win (Lil Nog) than any of Jones' wins. Even if he may have used lay and pray, it's still a tougher opponent than Hamill or Matyushenko.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Lil Nog is overated. PRIDE bias at its finest.

[EmpireWF]

Lil Nog is overated. PRIDE bias at its finest.

Easy to say that now.

[SHOGUN]

Sherk is too high. If it wasn't for Cecil Peoples and Co., he'd be 1-3 in his last four fights and he didn't impress against Dunham at all. and you're being too harsh on Florian as well. He can't win the big fight(s), but I'll be damned if he's barely in the Top 10.

Nitpicky, but I'd put Brazilian Imanari in over Belcher.

[Liquidrob]

Lil Nog is overated. PRIDE bias at its finest.

Nog should have won that fight

[Warner2BruceTD]

Not just based on that fight, just overated in general, like most ex-PRIDE fighters. Fans romanticize the PRIDE days, obviously those guys were good fighters, but a lot of times the ex-PRIDE guys have better reps than they deserve.

Overated doesnt = bum.

[Liquidrob]

My point is Nog should have won that fight, bad judging is bad judging, just like Dunham vs Sherk