MMA RANKINGS - CHAPTER 1...

Edgars win bumps Cruz, but he still isn't better than BJ with a bad decision. 12-1 with great wins means he should be in there.

1. Anderson
2. GSP
3. Fedor
4. Aldo
5. Rua
6. Machida
7. Shields
8. Edgar
9. BJ Penn
10. Ben Henderson

1. Fedor
2. GSP
3. Aldo
4. Anderson
5. Machida
6. Shogun
7. Sheilds
8. Fitch
9. Edgar
10. Penn

I am sorry Bird, but Bendo in the top 10 p4p is absolutely ridiculous. If they would move someone like Sherk or Tyson to the WEC they would dominate that weak division aswell.

I know byut the kid just beat Cerrone, Varner, and Cerrone

more deserving than Brock IMO and I aint high on Fitch

Bird's votes don't count until he takes Ben Henderson off his rankings.

sorry guys he is here to stay for the day!

Wolfgangsta wrote:

Bird's votes don't count until he takes Ben Henderson off his rankings.

Why I don't agree, Bendo is 12-1 and has looked better every fight. He's beaten the top WEC LWs. It's not like he's got Ed Herman in his P4P.

bird, the fact the names BJ Penn and Ben Henderson are almost touching in your rankings makes me want to vomit.

I would have Henderson close to the top 10 now with all he has done. The guy is badass.

Henderson would be fortunate to be ranked a top 10 LW much less p4p

thanks Farmer , its not like my word is gods word, guess I hsould like that people are surprised when my rankings arent like theirs

IDK I will take Henderson over Cruz

1. Fedor - His last 4 opponents out weighed him all by 25+ pounds or more(one by like 200). The average divisional rankings of his last 3 opponents is 4.6.
2. Anderson Silva - Ya he gets weird but no body is beating him any time soon unless he lets Jake Sheilds grab ahold of him. The squashing of Forrest still resonates even post Maia.
3. GSP - He is as good as either fighter mentioned above or better on any given day.
4. Jose Aldo - His last two wins are as good as they come in MMA, but he only has those two, while the rest of the elite have established years of dominance. I wonder on his footwork in relation to the divisions flanking him though. Edgar and Cruz could dance around him all night. He would not have a significant enough speed advantage on either to negate the footwork.
5.Lyoto Machida - The stalemated first exchange with Shogun drops Machida down a few notches.
6. BJ Penn - Why didn't he take Edgar down?
7. Dominick Cruz - His style against Aldo would be very very interesting.
8. Shogun - His earlier p4p Pride days and his recent fights with Liddell and Machida prove he is a special talent in MMA.
9. Edgar - Like Cruz, I'd like to see him take on Aldo because of mobility and footwork. He could beat Jose Aldo with the right game plan.
10. Jake Shields - If he could raise his striking above a 6-7 out of 10.
11. Rashad Evans - Small for the weight class but still a high quality fighter. Looking like he will catch Rampage out of shape for their clash coming up as well.
12. Urijah Faber - Dominated his division for a long long time and is still a dynamic fighter. He lost his last fight to a much bigger FW in Aldo, probably the biggest FW to fight in the WEC.
13. Thiago Alves - If I were a WW this is still the guy I want to fight the absolute least, in terms of not suffering brain damage.
14. Joseph Benavidez - The smallest fighter I've ever seen. Destroyed former p4p Miguel Torres in his last fight.
15. Manny Gamburyan - Wins over Garcia and now Brown mean the former TUF LW is next in line for a crack to get cracked by Aldo.
16. King Mo - He could translate this success to the HW division as well I believe.
17. Vitor Belfort - The only striker to ever on paper have a chance to beat Anderson Silva that the UFC has found to fight him.
18. Jon Jones - Athleticism means more and more in MMA these days.
19. Gilbert Melendez - The UFC should try to get him as hard as they are Fedor and Shields.
20. Nick Diaz - This dude will fight and beat you in any weight class. Provided you don't wrestle him and stand and trade.

You wanna rank 20, rank 20. Only ten receive points for the ranking though.

Do 20 point rankings. if people just vote for ten they just vote for the top ten, but a consensus top 20 would still be created from those who do vote.


We are high level MMA fans here, we can do a 20.

LW

1. Gilbert Melendez
2. BJ Penn
3. Frankie Edgar
4. Eddie Alvarez
5. Gray Maynard
6. Shinya Aoki
7. Tatsuya Kawajiri
8. Tyson Griffin
9. Sean Sherk
10. Kenny Florian

I think the Melendez that beat Aoki beats the Penn that lost to Edgar, and Edgar himself.

LW

1 Frankie
2 BJ
3 Kenflo
4 Gray
5 Bendo
6 Sherk
7 Tyson Griffin
8 Jim Miller
9 Gilbert Melendez
10 Sotiropulous

Bendo in the top 10 WTF!?! I guess beating a borderline top 20 LW gets you there these days

tolivendiewithLA wrote:

Bendo in the top 10 WTF!?! I guess beating a borderline top 20 LW gets you there these days

sorry i just like the guy, beat the top 2 guys in WEC 3 times know and with BJ getting knocked off i think it shows the division is closer than we thought

I don't see how things happening in the WEC LW division relates to that happening in the UFC LW division, Frankie was already legit beating actual top 10 LWs.

tolivendiewithLA wrote:

I don't see how things happening in the WEC LW division relates to that happening in the UFC LW division, Frankie was already legit beating actual top 10 LWs.

agree and i think i was the only person on here that had Frankie number 2 in the division before the BJ fight so i dont think im to bad at rankings

Bendo is the shit. I have him 5th in all LW.

Still have him outside my LW top 10

LW:
1. Edgar
2. Penn
3. KenFlo
4. Alvarez
5. Maynard
6. Melendez
7. Sherk
8. Aoki
9. Griffin
10. Kawajiri

Thing about Henderson is he beat somebody for the second time last night. Cerrone and Varner didnt get him into my top 10 a few months ago, it does not look any better to me now...except he removed all doubt that he is superior to Cerrone.

I don't look too deep after my top 10, he's probably borderline but i put Sot there because i think Stevenson wrecks their entire division.

Agre with the Stevenson comment, how do we know he doesn't.