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We did a post back in September, on the Average ranked height at each weight division.
It’s probably “too soon” to start tracking trends, but I thought I would give it a shot, to see if the UFC’s involvement of smaller divisions is causing them to get “bigger”. We will also add in the new Strawweight division.
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| Division | Height | Top 50 | Diff | Top 50 Diff from 9/12 |
Tallest/Shortest |
| Heavyweight+ | 6’2.0″ | 6’3.0″ | +1.0″ | +0.2″ | 7’0″ – [#10] Stefan Struve 5’9″ – 5 Tied (Monson, Komkin, Brents, Leniu, O. Sanchez) |
| Light Heavyweight | 6’1.1″ | 6’1.1″ | = | -0.4″ | 6’7″ – [#170] Malik Merad 5’8″ – 4 Tied (Filho, DeAnda, Latifi, Kim) |
| Middleweight | 6’0.0″ | 6’0.4″ | +0.4″ | -0.2″ | 6’6″ – 3 Tied (Grove, Barnatt, Ling) 5’7″ – 5 Tied (Howard, Hernandez, Tapusoa, Martin, Graceffo |
| Welterweight | 5’10.8″ | 5’11.2″ | +0.4″ | +0.3″ | 6’4″ – [#344] Corey Hill 5’5″ – [#390] Lukasz Chlewicki |
| Lightweight | 5’9.4″ | 5’9.3″ | -0.1″ | = | 6’3″ – [#160] Zorobabel Moreira, [#227] Jose Figueora 5’0″ – [#494] Gilberto Aguilar |
| Featherweight | 5’8.1″ | 5’7.5″ | -0.6″ | -0.3″ | 6’4″ – [#182] Will Chope 5’1″ – [#366] Pablo Veloquio |
| Bantamweight | 5’6.9″ | 5’6.8″ | -0.1″ | +0.1″ | 6’1″ – [#155] Daniel Aguirre, [#187] Patrick Reeves 5’3″ – 3 Tied (Killon, Cavalcante de Oliveira, Ogikubo) |
| Flyweight | 5’5.2″ | 5’4.8″ | -0.4″ | -0.2″ | 5’9″ – [#14] Will Campuzano, [#93] Ricky Calatayud 5’1″ – [#27] Nate Williams |
| Strawweight* | 5’4.7″ | 5’4.7″ | NA | NA | 5’8″ – [#1] Mitsuhisa Sunabe, [#5] Mikihito Yamagami 5’2″ – [#2] Rambaa Somdet, [#7] Noboru Tahara |
So, it may have been too soon to take a second look at this. Since September, we don’t see much consistent movement either way between the average top 50 height. The most interesting thing in this table is that there is a 5’0″ Lightweight out there!
Posted on February 19, 2013 by jcs
I find it hard to believe that Struve is still growing at 24, especially at such a significant rate. I think there’s some fudging here on the UFC’s part… I remember them over-reporting Shane Carwin’s height, as confirmed by Carwin himself. I also think they may have listed several different numbers for Anderson Silva through his UFC career (though I might be wrong about that).
In each of his past two fights — they claim he grew an additional half inch…. so it would seem someone is keeping close tabs on it.
Gilberto Aguilar is the Muggsy Bogues of MMA I guess.
Is Struve truly 7 feet tall, or does the UFC exhagerrate these numbers?