Stat of the Day: Average ranked height at each weight division (Updated)

Feb 19, 2013
Jason

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!

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