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Started 2 weeks ago by chrisl
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chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

Heavyweight
1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Brock Lesnar
3. Big Nog/Mir
5. Josh Barnett (his appeal was extended so until that’s over he stays on the list for now)
6. Brett Rogers
7. Junior Dos Santos
8. Carwin/Velazquez
10. Aleksander Emelianenko/Fabricio Werdum/Allistair Overeem

Light Heavyweight
1. Lyoto Machida
2. Shogun Rua
3. Rashad Evans
4. Rampage Jackson
5. Gegard Mousasi
6. Forrest Griffin
7. Thiago Silva
8. Luiz Cane
9. Lil’ Nog
10. Rich Franklin

Middleweight
1. Anderson Silva
2. Dan Henderson/Nate Marquardt
4. Jorge Santiago/ Vitor Belfort
6. Demian Maia
7. Chael Sonnen
8. Robbie Lawler
9. Yushin Okami
10. Yoshiro Akiyama

Welterweight
1. GSP
2. John Fitch
3. Jake Shields
4. Thiago Alves
5. Josh Koscheck
6. Mike Swick
7. Paul Daley
8. Paulo Thiago
9. Martin Kampmann
10. Carlos Condit/Dan Hardy

Lightweight
1. BJ Penn
2. Shinya Aoki
3. Kenny Florian
4. Tatsuya Kawajiri
5. Gray Maynard
6. Eddie Alvarez
7. Mitsu Hirota
8. Frankie Edgar
9. Diego Sanchez
10. Tyson Griffin

Featherweight
1. Mike Thomas Brown
2. Urijah Faber
3. Jose Aldo
4. Leonard Garcia
5. Hatsu Hioki
6. Raphael Assuncao
7. Bibiano Fernandes
8. Mackens Semerzier
9. Takeshi Inoue
10. Masanori Kanehara/Wagnney Fabiano

Bantamweight
1. Brian Bowles
2. Miguel Torres
3. Masakatsu Ueda
4. Dominick Cruz
5. Takeya Mizugaki
6. Joseph Benavidez
7. Damacio Page
8. Rani Yahya
9. Akitoshi Tamura
10. Eddie Wineland/Antonio Banuelos

Notes-
Wanderlei and Randy were both left off for pretty much the same reason (two of my favorites FYI)- Wandi has fought at 205 and 195 but has yet to fight at 185 so that’s why he’s not there. Couture has dropped from heavy to 205 and honestly; I believe he is done at heavyweight. His last fight at 205 he was beat soundly and being as that is the toughest weight class in the UFC I do not believe he’s up there...yet.

Yes, I gave ties… get over it… ;)

I would list Fly but I have not seen enough of the spider monkey division to effectively rank them.

Nick Diaz is the catchweight king… he has no desire to stick in a weight class so it is hard to rank him.

Shields said on numerous occasions he would like to fight at WW but there is a lack of real competition currently. If he abandons the weight class completely then I would move him up.

Also as for P4P, for those of you who do not already know my feelings about this take the top couple guys in each class and throw darts at their names and that's your P4P list.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
carls

Heavyweight
Joined: Jun '09
Posts: 625

Nice dude. The best so far for sure.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Eldiablo

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Jan '09
Posts: 279

Nice list chris.

Rampage is a tough one to list since he "quit" MMA, though he's still among the tops. The LHW right now is the toughest division to rank in my borderline humble opinion. I dig the Japanese-heavy LW rankings!

And for the record, I am not familiar with anything Bantam/Featherweight beyond the top 3-4 in each ranking. Although they are incredibly fun the watch, those little guy fights just remind me of kids fighting, no disrespect intended.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

Thanks guys

Eldiablo- a lot of the little guys fight pretty much in Japan only. The only promotion that really is a large stage for the little guys stateside is of course the WEC. I'm kind of a junky so I look for the fights online a lot.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
fr702

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ChrisL, pretty clean I would have done a few things different but rather clean actually

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Gunslinger

Heavyweight
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Posts: 1,377

very nice chris all very nice pics the only things i would have changed would have been because of personal prefernce which is great....so really good job.....could fr have a little competition here?

Posted 2 weeks ago #
fr702

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Like I said its clean but I would have done somethings differently

Posted 2 weeks ago #
chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

Not going for competition here... just figured if I'm always going to be a smart a$$ on other rankings I may as well state my point of view.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Lex415

Light Heavyweight
Joined: May '09
Posts: 271

I like that you put Aleksander!

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Eldiablo

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Jan '09
Posts: 279

maybe the same "paperwork" that kept Aleksander out of California had something to do with Barnett's postitive steroid tests and subsequent appeal extension?

Posted 2 weeks ago #
chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

I think Aleksander is underrated by many people who just consider him the other Emelianenko (there will soon be an other other Emelianenko on the scene from what I hear). He's a tough fighter and I'd like to see him against better competition to truly be able to judge his skill.

As far as the paperwork... CSAC has their hands full with a lot of BS w/n CSAC itself. Barnett's extension being granted a second time is a little bit of an eyebrow raiser. Mostly because with his history it is surprising that he had an extension, and then to be granted a second one tells me either CSAC is busy or Barnett is working on something.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Justin H

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Aleks is a good fighter, but not nearly the level of Fedor. I would love to see more of him, but I also don't want him fighting if there is any truth the rumor of him having Hep. If he is clean, which in my research it seems he is, then I want to see him fight some more, possibly in the UFC as he has expressed a desire to do.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

Oh I agree that he's not on Fedor's level but few are. Well everything I've seen on the Hep stuff was because of a crazy rumor that got spread around because of the paperwork crap. I know he wants into the UFC, and perhaps the fact that he's not with the Red Devil Sport Club may make things easier, I know he wass supposed to fight Blagoi soon. However, I think Blagoi got hurt.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
jcohl

Heavyweight
Joined: Jul '09
Posts: 1,289

Grest rankings post, chrisl.
Although I can't help thinking that if fr702 had gotten his stuff together and posted HIS rankings instead of helping Scott Coker plot the course of the Strikeforce Alliance, I wouldn't have to read 9 different sets of other people's rankings...
;)

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Gunslinger

Heavyweight
Joined: Nov '08
Posts: 1,377

hahahah^...frcoker

Posted 2 weeks ago #
MarvelKnight4

Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 1,112

good stuff chrisl

Posted 2 weeks ago #
petterson (banned)

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Posts: 473

oh this is entertaining, you put sheilds in welter as did i and although i got cried at for it no one said anything to you

Posted 2 weeks ago #
MarvelKnight4

Heavyweight
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Posts: 1,112

i didn't include Rampage in my rankings because he is not an active fighter at the moment and as for Josh Barnett the dude tested positive for steroirds so that's pretty much that but good stuff chrisl,

Posted 2 weeks ago #
jazzkok

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Mar '09
Posts: 347

Some good $hit chrisl. Although i would have cain above dos santos. Some of the best i've seen dude

Posted 2 weeks ago #
chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

Actually Jazz I think that's one of the toughest calls to make (Cain/Carwin/ Dos Santos) I gave it to Dos Santos because he out struck MCC(even though he wasn't himself he's still a great striker but was beat at his own game) and defeated Fabricio Werdum when Werdum was arguably on the doorstep for a shot.

Marvel I agree with both points but scuttlebutt is Rampage is still training MMA in addition to the movie, so I'm not closing the door on him either. Plus, like I said above with Barnett until his appeal is done I'm giving him the innocent until proven guilty treatment for now.

petterson I think that had more to do with you making things personal with others and less about shields placement. In honesty, only reason I put him at WW and not MW is that he's insisted that is what he is. If you use more tact I find people are more calm in their response. It's all good though man.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
petterson (banned)

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chrisl regardless i want fr to give me a logical explenation

Posted 2 weeks ago #
MarvelKnight4

Heavyweight
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petterson, dude chrisl's ranking's have been the best so far so don't try to hate dude :),

chrisl, i see your point dude, i guess i should also give Barneet the benfefit of the doubt as well.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
chrisl

Light Heavyweight
Joined: Feb '09
Posts: 301

honestly Marvel it's an easy thing to do, I wrote Barnett off until he got the second extension which as I said is intriguing on many levels.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
fr702

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Petterson you said

chrisl regardless i want fr to give me a logical explenation

Sorry for the delay, today has been a long day nevertheless I believe when I said this

I will tell you that there are alot of fighters world wide that you have left out and you even have fighters in the wrong weight classes (Nick Diaz) (Jake Shields) or you have fighters ranked that haven't fought in over a year (but that is ok these are your rankings)...

I either upset you or offended you somehow, I will tell you that in my post to you I wasn't attempting to attack you nor put down you rankings, if you took my entire statement otherwise well than I apologize...

Now why didn't I tell ChrisL the same thing about Sheilds, well honestly when all of these rankings jump up on the forum section I'm not going to pick apart everyones thought process, also with my above statement (originally in your thread) I've established a basis that I don't believe that Sheilds should be ranked in the WW division, why would I continue to repeat myself in everyones rankings? I wasn't personally attacking you, and I find no reason to continue to repeat myself everytime I see Sheilds ranked in the WW division, I personally wouldn't rank him as a WW, he is a MW fighter in the Strikeforce organization, he did choke out Robbie Lawler recently as a MW fighter, as long as he is competing in Strikeforce Cesar Gracie has stated that he (Sheilds) will be fighting as a Middle Weight...

Posted 2 weeks ago #
southcakalak

Middleweight
Joined: Dec '08
Posts: 100

Seem to me like petterson is just looking for conflicts

...that being said, these rankings r solid, I might not have forrest and rich in the top ten seeing as rich is the catchweight king(win or lose) and forrest has dropped two straight, and also I probably wouldn't have lawler up there...but these are little things, good stuff

Posted 2 weeks ago #
NicKageB

Middleweight
Joined: Sep '09
Posts: 167

Looks great my only solid problem is the tie between Mir and Big Nog. I think Mir destroyed him soundly enuf to secure a spot above him

Posted 2 weeks ago #
jcohl

Heavyweight
Joined: Jul '09
Posts: 1,289

I think any rankings start running into problems with fighters like Josh Barnett, Mirko CroCop, and Matt Hughes, who have all to one extent or another removed themselves from contentional consideration by either retiring, semi-retiring, or plain old hiding out in the cornfield...

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Justin H

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FR,
Sorry to nit pick you, amigo, but the Lawler-Shields fight was at a catch weight of 182lbs. Shields upcoming title fight will be at MW, though he has said that at the time being he is focused on MW because outside of the UFC, all the exciting fights are at MW. Though it would arguably be nice to see him v. Nick Diaz at WW, they do that every day in practice so it's not likely. Otherwise, I'm not sure there are many WW outside the UFC that can really test him. MWs is obviously another story, and I'd personally like to see Lawler get another shot to not be stupid.

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fr702

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technically 182lbs is a middle weight bout, they agreed not to come in over 182 soooo there JustinH ;-)

LW~ 146 - 155
WW~ 156 - 170
MW~ 171 - 185
LHW~ 186 - 205
HW~ 206 - 265

:P

Posted 2 weeks ago #
jcohl

Heavyweight
Joined: Jul '09
Posts: 1,289

Oh no.
Hearing our mod squad pick nits is like being a little kid again and sitting in the back seat of my old man's Cherokee and listening to my folks argue about some sh!t...
;)

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