UFC 82: Ranking Impact

Mar 3, 2008
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Here is how UFC 82 affected the the Top-10 rankings across all divisions:

Heavyweight and above:  Andrei Arlovski moves up to #5 with a TKO stoppage of Jake O’Brien.  Heath Herring moves up to #8 for his first Top-10 appearance in quite some time, while Cheick Kongo drops to #10.

Rank ↑ ↓ Fighter Record Points
1   Fedor Emelianenko
Last Fight: 12/31/2007 [Yarennoka]
27-1-0
520
2   Randy Couture
Last Fight: 8/25/2007 [UFC]
16-8-0
399
3   Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Last Fight: 2/2/2008 [UFC]
31-4-1
374
4   Fabricio Werdum
Last Fight: 1/19/2008 [UFC]
10-3-1
235
5 3 Andrei Arlovski
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
12-5-0
193
6   Gabriel Gonzaga
Last Fight: 1/19/2008 [UFC]
8-3-0
190
7   Mirko Filipovic
Last Fight: 9/8/2007 [UFC]
22-6-2
184
8 9 Heath Herring
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
28-13-0
176
9   Tim Sylvia
Last Fight: 2/2/2008 [UFC]
25-4-0
172
10 5 Cheick Kongo
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
11-4-1
165

Light Heavyweight: With Dan Henderson moving to 185 lbs, fighters ranked #6-#11 move up a slot, with Tito Ortiz now rounding out the Top-10.

Rank ↑ ↓ Fighter Record Points
1   Quinton Jackson
Last Fight: 9/8/2007 [UFC]
28-6-0
411
2   Chuck Liddell
Last Fight: 12/29/2007 [UFC]
21-5-0
247
3   Ryoto Machida
Last Fight: 12/29/2007 [UFC]
12-0-0
242
4   Keith Jardine
Last Fight: 9/22/2007 [UFC]
13-4-1
235
5 1 Forrest Griffin
Last Fight: 9/22/2007 [UFC]
15-4-0
200
6 1 Mauricio Rua
Last Fight: 9/22/2007 [UFC]
16-3-0
171
7 1 Sokoudjou
Last Fight: 12/29/2007 [UFC]
4-2-0
162
8 1 Ricardo Arona
Last Fight: 4/8/2007 [PRIDE]
13-5-0
149
9 1 Wanderlei Silva
Last Fight: 12/29/2007 [UFC]
31-8-1
130
10 1 Tito Ortiz
Last Fight: 7/7/2007 [UFC]
16-5-1
130

Middleweight: Henderson debuts strong at #3 despite the loss to the champion.  Anderson Silva widens his lead over the rest of the division, while Yushin Okami’s position remains unchanged after a victory over unranked Evan Tanner.  Jorge Santiago is displaced from the Top-10.

Rank ↑ ↓ Fighter Record Points
1   Anderson Silva
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
21-4-0
393
2   Paulo Filho
Last Fight: 12/12/2007 [WEC]
16-0-0
225
3 NR Dan Henderson
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
22-7-0
189
4 1 Robbie Lawler
Last Fight: 9/15/2007 [EliteXC]
15-4-0
185
5 1 Rich Franklin
Last Fight: 10/20/2007 [UFC]
23-3-0
162
6 1 Kazuo Misaki
Last Fight: 12/31/2007 [Yarennoka]
18-8-2
141
7 1 Yoshihiro Akiyama
Last Fight: 12/31/2007 [Yarennoka]
10-1-0
140
8 1 Matt Lindland
Last Fight: 4/14/2007 [BodogFIGHT]
20-5-0
133
9 1 Nathan Marquardt
Last Fight: 2/2/2008 [UFC]
26-7-2
131
10   Yushin Okami
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
21-4-0
130

Welterweight: Jon Fitch inches his way past Matt Hughes & Karo Parisyan to the #3 spot.  Josh Koscheck trades places with Jake Shields at #6.  Diego Sanchez remains at #9. 

Rank ↑ ↓ Fighter Record Points
1   Georges St. Pierre
Last Fight: 12/29/2007 [UFC]
15-2-0
271
2   Matt Serra
Last Fight: 4/7/2007 [UFC]
9-4-0
209
3 2 Jon Fitch
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
16-2-0
151
4 1 Matt Hughes
Last Fight: 12/29/2007 [UFC]
41-6-0
136
5 1 Karo Parisyan
Last Fight: 11/17/2007 [UFC]
18-4-0
133
6 2 Josh Koscheck
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
10-2-0
125
7   Carlos Condit
Last Fight: 2/13/2008 [WEC]
22-4-0
109
8 2 Jake Shields
Last Fight: 11/10/2007 [EliteXC]
20-4-1
109
9   Diego Sanchez
Last Fight: 3/1/2008 [UFC]
18-2-0
107
10   Akihiro Gono
Last Fight: 11/17/2007 [UFC]
28-12-7
103

Lightweight: there were no 155-lbs fights at UFC 82.

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