The First Official Rankings of Ninja's Place

Heavyweight
1. **Fedor Emelianenko (130)
2. Brock Lesnar (108)
3. Josh Barnett (106)
4. Randy Couture (82)
5. Frank Mir (73)
6. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (66)
7. Shane Carwin (58)
8. Cain Velasquez (39)
9. Alistair Overeem (23)
10. Brett Rogers (21)
RV: Cheick Kongo, Mirko Filipovic, Andrei Arlovski

Light Heavyweight
1. **Lyoto Machida (110)
2. Quinton Jackson (94)
3. Rashad Evans (84)
4. Forrest Griffin (80)
5. Mauricio Rua (61)
6. Rich Franklin (37)
7. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (32)
8. Luis Cane (31)
9t. Dan Henderson (15)
9t. Anderson Silva (15)
RV: Keithe Jardine, Renato Sobral, Thiago Silva, Gegard Mousasi, Jon Jones, Matt Hamill

Middleweight
1. **Anderson Silva (110)
2. Dan Hernderson (97)
3. Nate Marquardt (84)
4. Damian Maia (71)
5. Yushin Okami (61)
6. Vitor Belfort (50)
7. Jorge Santiago (40)
8. Robbie Lawler (21)
9t. Yoshihiro Akiyama (20)
9t. Gergard Mousasi (20)
RV: Thales Leites, Chael Sonnen, Alan Belcher, Wanderlei Silva, Nick Diaz

Welterweight
1. **Georges St. Pierre (110)
2. Jon Fitch (93)
3. Thiago Alvez (79)
4. Jake Shields (68)
5. Martin Kampmann (61)
6. Mike Swick (55)
7. Josh Joshcheck (38)
8. Matt Hughes (30)
9. Carlos Condit (27)
10. Nick Diaz (20)
RV: Dustin Hazelett, Paulo Thiago, Dan Hardy, Hayato Sakurai, Anthony Johnson, Karo Parisyan

Lightweight
1. BJ Penn (89)
2. Kenny Florian (81)
3. Diego Sanchez (66)
4. Shinya Aoki (56)
5. Eddie Alvarez (51)
6. Grey Maynard (46)
7. Frankie Edgar (36)
8. Joachim Hansen (31)
9. Sean Sherk (17)
10. Tatsuya Kawajiri (7)
RV: Nate Diaz, Spencer Fisher, Satoru Kitaoka, Josh Thomson, Tyson Griffin, Jamie Varner


**Unanimous

I'm kind of shocked at the lack of votes for Mousasi. I guess it is because he he split votes at LHW & MW.

JZ not receiving any votes at LW is a little shocking too when guys like Varner, Diaz, & Fisher are.

It's crazy Anderson made 2 top 10s.

I also expected Aleks, Werdum, or dos Santos to get a few votes too.

What are everyone elses thoughts?

Everything turned out perfect IMO

looks good.

good shit man, I think it will be better when Diaz and Mousasi settle into 1 weight class

mousasi made it pretty clear he wont be fighting at mw so i voted for him at lhw.

i want to see how mousasi does vs. Babalu before i rank him at LHW...

Best Rankings on the web for the most part

When do we vote again? I missed this one.

I'll probably do another one in mid August. That'll let us see Trilogy, 101, & SF before the voting again.

farmer dude you gotta reopen the voting or let some of us get our votes in, many hadn't even joined in time.

















Or were lazy/busy like me.

Well I'm too busy/lazy this week so after a few cards we'll get right back into it and have more than 10 to 13 voters.

Sounds like a plan.

Good work, Farmer. I think the rankings look good for the most part. I was a bit surprised that Diego ranked higher than Aoki, though. That was probably my biggest surprise.

I saw Brock at #2 Hw, then I stopped reading. Are you kiidding me? I don't even want to look at the rest of your rankings

terpsandravens wrote:

I saw Brock at #2 Hw, then I stopped reading. Are you kiidding me? I don't even want to look at the rest of your rankings

My rankings? Dude everyone on this board voted on them. It was razor thin, but Brock edged out Josh.

Brock's better than Josh Barnett. Barnett looked like garbage against Gilbert Yvel. Lesnar would have done disgusting things to Yvel.

terpsandravens wrote:

I saw Brock at #2 Hw, then I stopped reading. Are you kiidding me? I don't even want to look at the rest of your rankings

it was a vote .. do you see that number by there name... 108 and 106 .. seems pretty close there bud .. I voted for barnett at #2.. but it doesnt matter cuz after barnett loses to Fedor, Brock will be the #2 ranked HW in the world .. so you better just deal with it now.

My rankings? Dude everyone on this board voted on them. It was razor thin, but Brock edged out Josh.[/quote]

Ummm, I didn't get a vote...lol. I guess I should have signed on to this board before I left town last week. Make sure you let me know when you do another Farmer...

overall i think the rankings are pretty solid. No blatant blunders.

I gotta say, those rankings prove the intelligence level of the people who post here. It just solidifies to me that serious fans know so much more than places like sherdog. Great lists IMO

So does this change anyones opinion on Barnett?

I think it seriously casts a shadow on all of his wins. He got busted after he beat Couture so he's a repeat offender. If he got caught in the biggest fight of his life too then you have to think he did them when he fought Nog, Monson, Aleks and the rest of his big wins.

Farmer1906 wrote:

So does this change anyones opinion on Barnett?

I think it seriously casts a shadow on all of his wins. He got busted after he beat Couture so he's a repeat offender. If he got caught in the biggest fight of his life too then you have to think he did them when he fought Nog, Monson, Aleks and the rest of his big wins.

Absolutely...if he tested positive for roids then he's either a pussy and doesnt want Fedor, which is unlikely I hope, or he's a blatant fucking retard.

I had Barnett all the way down at 6 on my rankings, and if I had thought he was on steroids during his last 5 fights, I wouldn't have had him on there at all.

I was never as high on barnett as the rest of the mma fans.