LHW Top 20

Or however many you can think of.

1. Jon Jones
2. Dan Henderson
3. Rashad Evans
4. Lyoto Machida
5. Alexander Gustafsson
6. Shogun Rua
7. Phil Davis
8. Forrest Griffin
9. Ryan Bader
10. Lil Nog

LHW not LW.

freakzilla wrote:

LHW not LW.

1. John Jones
2. Every 1 else

It was 6 am give a me a break.

Anyway why can't we just have the old thread where we posted all our rankings instead of these individual ones ?

1 Jon Jones
2 Dan Henderson
3 Mauricio Rua
4 Rashad Evans
5 Lyoto Machida
6 Alexander Gustaffson
7 Phil Davis
8 Rafeal Cavalcante
9 Mo Lawal
10 Gegard Mousasi
11 Ryan Bader
12 Quintion Jackson
13 Forrest Griffin
14 Rogerio Noguiera
15 Glover Teixeira
16 Ryan Jimmo
17 Stanislav Nedkov
18 Attila Vegh
19 James Te Huna
20 Thiago Silva

Ali wrote:

Anyway why can't we just have the old thread where we posted all our rankings instead of these individual ones ?

Because there was too much redundancy. Lately I've been asking after each title fight in a division. A division typically has 1 to 3 defenses per year so after a title fight seemed like a good time to ask who are the best of the division so that way a good handful of important fights would of theoretically taken place so there is more opportunity for change. But, depending on the responsiveness of MMA fans on this website, this might be the last time I ask for rankings.

1 Jon Jones
2 Dan Henderson
3 Rashad Evans
4 Lyoto Machida
5 Alexander Gustaffson
6 Mauricio Rua
7 Phil Davis
8 Gegard Mousasi
9 Ryan Bader
10 Quinton Jackson
11 Rafeal Cavalcante
12 Forrest Griffon
13 Glover Texeira
14 Rogerio Noguiera
15 Thiago Silva
16 Ryan Jimmo
17 Stanislav Nedkov
18 Vitor Belfort
19 James Te Huna
20 Vinny Magalhes

Hmm, does anyone know what Belforts future plans are, did mention anything postfight?

GDPofDRC wrote:

Hmm, does anyone know what Belforts future plans are, did mention anything postfight?

Vitor said he was open to fighting at either weight, said cutting to 205lbs was alot easier but he'll fight whoever the UFC ask him to.

That's what Vitor said at the post fight conference.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Hmm, does anyone know what Belforts future plans are, did mention anything postfight?

I'm under the assumption he is going back to MW. He was scheduled to fight at MW before taking this fight. I'm assuming he is still fairly close to getting another MW title shot. I haven't seen or heard anything that would suggest he is staying at LHW. In fact I remember hearing that despite being pretty big he is still going to be at MW, just don't remember where.

Might have to include him in on this list then if his weight is p4p.

He doesn't really warrant a place for being competitive against Jones and beating Rumble at a catchweight, rankings are about beating fighters in that division.

Argument noted. Finding: INVALID

Then you're just making it into a popularity contest.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Argument noted. Finding: INVALID

Agreed. Happens all the time. Florian, Mouse, Joe, Faber and plenty others got love at rankings without fighting or just fighting once in different divisions. Hell Vitor technically didn't even fight at MW in the UFC before fighting Spider.

Ali wrote:

Then you're just making it into a popularity contest.

I think we can make educated guesses on where they would/should be ranked at different weight classes.

OU wrote:

Ali wrote:

Then you're just making it into a popularity contest.

I think we can make educated guesses on where they would/should be ranked at different weight classes.

That's not how you're suppose to rank with weight classes, to be ranked in the top 10 or 20 you need to defeat a fighter who's ranked in that weight class or at least have a body of fights in that division.

I put Vitor on there because he came closer to winning than anyone else Jones has ever fought(barring Hammill).

Ludo wrote:

I put Vitor on there because he came closer to winning than anyone else Jones has ever fought(barring Hammill).

I may not agree with it but I can accept it. Ranking for the notoriety is what I don't like.

Vitor Belfort just fought Jon Jones, a 205 pound fighter, in his last fight. Also, in Vitors entire career, only four fights have happened that were not heavier than the middleweight division, the last being a year ago, two fights ago. So tell me how he doesn't warrant consideration at 205 again.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Vitor Belfort just fought Jon Jones, a 205 pound fighter, in his last fight. Also, in Vitors entire career, only four fights have happened that were not heavier than the middleweight division, the last being a year ago, two fights ago. So tell me how he doesn't warrant consideration at 205 again.

Beating Ace and Rumble at catchweights should have no implications on the LHW rankings, they weren't even over 200lbs.

They are more so LHW fights then they are MW fights in my opinion, any thing over 185 is a light heavyweight fight essentially. A fight at 10 pounds over the MW mark has more implications at 205 then 185

Ali wrote:

GDPofDRC wrote:

Vitor Belfort just fought Jon Jones, a 205 pound fighter, in his last fight. Also, in Vitors entire career, only four fights have happened that were not heavier than the middleweight division, the last being a year ago, two fights ago. So tell me how he doesn't warrant consideration at 205 again.

Beating Ace and Rumble at catchweights should have no implications on the LHW rankings, they weren't even over 200lbs.

Both men have fought at LHW since that fight. GDP is right, technically LHW is 186(187non title)-205(206 non title)