Posted on September 21, 2011 by jcs

First, a run-down of the particulars: Due to potential metric conversion issues and weight class changes, a limit of 148 pounds is observed for this list. Inception of the championship occured on 3/27/1992, the first known professional fight taking place at or below 148 pounds. Only a period in the mid 2000s saw fighters leave [...]

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Posted on September 21, 2011 by Jonathan

Bristol, England pugilist Alex Owen (19 – 1 – 0) (last ranking [#52FW] in July 2008) was going somewhere in MMA.  From 2002 to 2007, Owen tore through the British featherweight ranks, scoring victories over top fighters such as [#50BW] Paul McVeigh (18 – 6 – 0) and WEC veteran [#27BW] Brad Pickett (20 – [...]

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Posted on September 21, 2011 by jcs

First, a run-down of the particulars: Due to potential metric conversion issues and weight class changes, a limit of 137 pounds is observed for this list. Inception of the championship occured on 7/29/1989, the fifth known professional fight taking place at or below 137 pounds, which included the first two winners of Bantamweight bouts in [...]

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Posted on September 21, 2011 by jcs

In the upcoming week or two, I plan to research all lineal championships from the beginning of MMA up until now, starting with Flyweight.  I wanted to post this announcement in an effort to get any type of brainstorming from our members on how to consider particular types of scenarios.  The challenges are: Inception – [...]

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Posted on July 8, 2011 by oleg

The recently published historical ranking sets are now searchable using our Fighter Search page. See for yourself: http://www.fightmatrix.com/fighter-search/?fName=Nogueira On a side note, the historical rankings have recently been regenerated up until 7/1/2007, to resolve a few issues and to reflect recent data improvements.

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Posted on July 5, 2011 by jcs

The “Generated Historical Rankings” are now live and can be accessed via this link and through our nav menus.  The first ranking set was created for 1/1/1994, with subsequent ranking sets created on a quarterly basis. We plan on refreshing these rankings every so often, as the software and historical data continues to improve.  The [...]

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Posted on July 1, 2011 by jcs

In the near future, we will be releasing a new feature: Generated Historical Ranking Sets This will allow you to view issues of divisional rankings which predate FightMatrix, that have been generated by a recent version of the software rating system.  Ever curious what the Top 25 Heavyweight list looked like in 1999, or who [...]

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Posted on April 8, 2011 by jcs

If you don’t remember the first part of this article, you can find it here. In September 2010, we looked at non-elite fighters who had been ranked for two years, and consistently won fights, but had become stagnant. Revisiting the Top 5 1. Nick Penner (9/1/10 Rank: #77 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #72 | [5-0-0 2yr]) [...]

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Posted on May 10, 2010 by oleg

Fightmatrix.com Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Archive has been updated with the rankings for March & April 2010. We’ve made some technical improvements to our archives that should be transparent to our readers, but will allow us to update the archives more regularly.

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Posted on March 24, 2010 by oleg

Fightmatrix.com Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Archive has been updated with the rankings as of February 7, 2010. This will likely be the final release of the ranking archives in the current format, as we are working on improving & expanding our historical rankings section.

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