MMA RANKINGS - CHAPTER 3...

Except he was really not a nobody after beating Edwards in his win streak leading to his WEC title shot. And he justified his rankings at the time by beating Faber again along with another title defense.

I think GSP is the best but I wish he would try to finish some1s ass.

Looks like MTB vs Nam Pham at 133.

Ali wrote:

Looks like MTB vs Nam Pham at 133.

Pretty good fight.

1. Anderson Silva
2. GSP
3. Jose Aldo
4. Jon Jones
5. Frankie Edgar
6. Jon Fitch
7. Dominick Cruz
8. Gilbert Melendez
9. Eddie Alvarez
10. Rashad Evans

I will have 20 in this week, but won't be around for 132, so I'll have to do em before so, maybe I'll say like whoever wins Cruz/Faber gets 7 and the other 14 or some bullshit.

1. Anderson Silva
2. GSP
3. Jon Jones
4. Jose Aldo
5. Frankie Edgar
6. Jon Fitch
7. Dominick Cruz
8. Gray Maynard
9. Jake Shields
10. Rashad Evans

1. Anderson Silva
2. GSP
3. Jon Jones
4. Jose Aldo
5. Gray Maynard
6. Jon Fitch
7. Cain Velasquez
8. Frankie Edgar
9. Dominick Cruz
10. Nick Diaz
11. Gil Melendez
12. Jim Miller
13. Eddie Alvarez
14. Rashad Evans
15. Urijah Faber

Anderson
GSP
Bones
Aldo
Edgar
Cain
Cruz (to make to easy, winner of Cruz/Faber goes here, other goes where Faber is, can't think of anything else)
Maynard
BJ
Fitch
Shogun
Fedor
JDS
Machida
Shields
Rashad
Henderson
Faber
Melendez
Diaz
Benavidez
Rampage
Overeem
Jim Miller
Mendes
Souza
Bowles
Alvarez
Hioki
D. Johnson

Tally em up folks

Heavyweight:
1. Cain Velasquez
2. Junior Dos Santos
3. Alistair Overeem
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Antonio Silva
6. Shane Carwin
7. Frank Mir
8. Fabricio Werdum
9. Fedor Emelianenko
10. Josh Barnett

Light Heavyweight:
1. Jon Jones
2. Shogun Rua
3. Rashad Evans
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Lyoto Machida
6. Dan Henderson
7. Forrest Griffin
8. Thiago Silva
9. Phil Davis
10. King Mo

Man for being the "best division in the sport" 205 is starting to get dicey as shit down near the bottom. I'd have Thiago Silva on there for sure but since he's suspended till next April I guess I'll leave him off. Those SF LHWs outside of Dan are all interchangeable at this point

Middleweight:
1. Anderson Silva
2. Chael Sonnen
3. Jacare Souza
4. Vitor Belfort
5. Yushin Okami
6. Brian Stann
7. Mark Munoz
8. Damian Maia
9. Mamed Khalidov
10. Tim Kennedy


Welterweight:
1. GSP
2. Jon Fitch
3. BJ Penn
4. Jake Shields
5. Carlos Condit
6. Josh Koscheck
7. Nick Diaz
8. Thiago Alves
9. Rory Macdonald
10. Jake Ellenberger

Lightweight:
1. Frankie Edgar
2. Gray Maynard
3. Gilbert Melendez
4. Eddie Alvarez
5. Melvin Guillard
6. Ben Henderson
7. Shinya Aoki
8. Clay Guida
9. Jim Miller
10. Dennis Siver



Featherweight
1. Jose Aldo
2. Hatsu Hioki
3. Chad Mendes
4. Kenny Florian
5. Mark Hominick
6. Pat Curran
7. Tyson Griffin
8. Joe Warren
9. Patricio Friere
10. Diego Nunes



Bantamweight
1. Dominick Cruz
2. Joseph Benavidez
3. Urijah Faber
4. Brian Bowles
5. Demetrious Johnson
6. Miguel Torres
7. Scott Jorgensen
8. Renan Barao
9. Michael Macdonald
10. Masakazu Imanari

1 Velasquez
2 dos Santos
3 Overeem
4 Silva
5 Barnett
6 Carwin
7 Werdum
8 Emelianenko
9 Lesnar
10 Mir

1 Jones
2 Rua
3 Jackson
4 Machida
5 Evans
6 Henderson
7 Griffin
8 Lawal
9 Davis
10 Mousasi

1 Silva
2 Okami
3 Souza
4 Stann
5 Munoz
6 Sonnen
7 Lombard
8 Belfort
9 Marquardt
10 Khalidov

1 St. Pierre
2 Fitch
3 Penn
4 Shields
5 Condit
6 Diaz
7 Koscheck
8 Ellenberger
9 Alves
10 Brenneman

1 Maynard
2 Edgar
3 Alvarez
4 Miller
5 Melendez
6 Guillard
7 Aoki
8 Guida
9 Siver
10 Henderon

1 Aldo
2 Hioki
3 Mendes
4 Sandro
5 Florian
6 Hominick
7 Freire
8 Nunes
9 Warren
10 Griffin

1 Cruz
2 Bowels
3 Benavidez
4 Faber
5 Torres
6 Johnson
7 McDonald
8 Bareo
9 Jorgensen
10 Imanari

1 McCall
2 Yamaguchi
3 Urushitani
4 Montauge
5 De Silva
6 Vila
7 Shimizu
8 Shoji
9 Dodson
10 Gomez

1 St Pierre
2 Silva
3 Aldo
4 Cruz
5 Jones
6 Maynard
7 Velasquez
8 Edgar
9 Rua
10 Penn

1. GSP
2. Anderson
3. Aldo
4. Bones
5. Edgar
6. Maynard
7. Cruz
8. Cain
9. Fitch
10. JDS

1. Anderson Silva
2. GSP
3. Aldo
4. Edgar
5. Bones
6. Cruz
7. Fitch
8. Maynard
9. Rashad Evans
10. BJ Penn

I would vote in this but top tens are pointless. Random ordering of the big seven zuffa champs than whatever at large bids for the last three. Doesn't say anything and isn't interesting. 20 or nothing imo.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

I would vote in this but top tens are pointless. Random ordering of the big seven zuffa champs than whatever at large bids for the last three. Doesn't say anything and isn't interesting. 20 or nothing imo.

Its not random ordering. Its trying to figure out the best of the best regardless of weight class.

But we know who the top seven of the ten are by default and subjective pissing contests of Aldo over Cain or Jones over GSP don't do anything for me. I want to be engaged to think of who the best fighters are and when Zuffa alone has almost 400, I think a p4p list should cover at least 5% of the fighters right? A top ten is what, 2.5% of the total fighters if we say Zuffa has 400?

Wolfgangsta wrote:

But we know who the top seven of the ten are by default and subjective pissing contests of Aldo over Cain or Jones over GSP don't do anything for me. I want to be engaged to think of who the best fighters are and when Zuffa alone has almost 400, I think a p4p list should cover at least 5% of the fighters right? A top ten is what, 2.5% of the total fighters if we say Zuffa has 400?

If you want to ank the Dave Herman's, Nate Diaz's, and Tyson Griffin's of the world then go for it, but I don't think people care where they're ranked. They just want to them to put on good fights.

Strange reply in that it has nothing to do with what we're discussing.

I agree with wolf on this 1. I think the top 20 would still be cool and there would be alot of different views that we then could debate on.

1. GSP
2. Anderson
3. Aldo
4. Jones
5. Velasquez
6. Cruz
7. Edgar
8. Fitch
9. Penn
10. Shogun