The following list consists of non-top 10 male fighters who have been ranked, have won at least 5 fights, and have went undefeated for the past two years, but have not moved their rank position more than 25 positions.

1. Nick Penner (Current Rank: #77 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #72 | [5-0-0 2yr])

Talk about a stasis.  In this span, his rating went DOWN.  Penner has fought two debuting fighters and a 0-1 fighter.  In his last two, he’s taken a small jump in quality, but it’s time to move away from Canada and take an increase in competition.

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2. Delson Heleno (Current Rank: #43 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #60 | [6-0-0 2yr])

Heleno has made a career out of bouncing around the minor circuits on a global scale.  His losses are pretty respectable, but he has no very good wins.  Maybe he’s simply peaked as a fighter.

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3. Brent Weedman (Current Rank: #39 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #57 | [7-0-0 2yr])

On a positive note, he’s gotten noticed and moved onto Bellator from the southeastern US circuit.  Time will tell if he can rise up the rankings.

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4. Hector Lombard (Current Rank: #24 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #45 | [10-0-0 2yr])

The most prolific thrasher of mid-level competition in professional mixed martial arts.  Shlemenko will be his highest ranked competition (at the time of the bout) since his loss to Akihiro Gono in June 2006.  In fact, Shlemenko is ranked higher than Lombard thanks to the Bellator Middleweight tournament.  It should be interesting, because Lombard’s two losses, and draw, were to the only three higher ranked fighters (at the time of the bout) that Lombard has faced outside of his pro debut against a 1-0 fighter.

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5. Joe Doerksen (Current Rank: #25 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #58 | [6-0-0 2yr])

After nearly 60 professional fights, I think we know what we’re getting with Doerksen.

If you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, you can do see here: All-Time Career Rankings

UFC Lightweight Championship
[#1] Frankie Edgar vs. [#2] BJ Penn

Heavyweight
[#6 LHW] Randy Couture vs. [DEBUT] James Toney

Middleweight
[#8] Demian Maia vs. [#74] Mario Miranda

Lightweight
[#5] Kenny Florian vs. [#8] Gray Maynard

Welterweight
[#30] Nate Diaz vs. [#35] Marcus Davis

Lightweight
[#71] Joe Lauzon vs. [#114] Gabe Ruediger

Lightweight
[#63] Nik Lentz vs. [#82] Andre Winner

Middleweight
[#37] Dan Miller vs. [#48] John Salter

Welterweight
[#121] Nick Osipczak vs. [#174] Greg Soto

Welterweight
[#15] Mike Pierce vs. [#200] Amilcar Alves

UFC Middleweight Championship
[#1] Anderson Silva vs. [#2] Chael Sonnen

Welterweight
[#3] Jon Fitch vs. [#5] Thiago Alves

Lightweight
[#25] Clay Guida vs. [#39] Rafael dos Anjos

Welterweight
[#9] Matt Hughes vs. [#10] Ricardo Almeida

Heavyweight
[#5] Junior dos Santos vs. [#26] Roy Nelson

Welterweight
[#38] Rick Story vs. [#55] Dustin Hazelett

Light Heavyweight
[#29] Phil Davis vs. [#64] Rodney Wallace

Light Heavyweight
[#40 HW] Tim Boetsch vs. [#97] Todd Brown

Welterweight
[#42] Johny Hendricks vs. [#61] Charlie Brenneman

Heavyweight
[#44] Stefan Struve vs. [#88] Christian Morecraft

Welterweight
[#33] Ben Saunders vs. [#142] Dennis Hallman

We recently updated our all-time divisional MMA rankings.   You can check them out here: All-Time Rankings

UPDATE: Ratings will be updated shortly.  There was a bug found.

When considering upsets for the list, we took the winner’s rating at the first of that month and divided it by the loser’s rating at the first of that month.  The list is sorted by the loser’s rating in descending order and we limited it to fights where the losing fighter’s rating was equal to or more than 3 times greater than the winner’s.  Fighters coming back from inactivity are excluded from the list as they did not have a current rating.

Biggest Point-Based Upsets -(Sorted by Quotient of Winner/Loser with a Quotient >= 3)

1. Fabricio Werdum SUB(1) Fedor Emelianenko

2. Luis Palomino SD(3) Jorge Masvidal

3. Ben Askren UD(3) Dan Hornbuckle

4. Amir Sadollah UD(3) Brad Blackburn

5. Mike Campbell UD(3) Yves Edwards

6. John Salter TKO(1) Jason MacDonald

7. Shuichiro Katsumura SUB(2) Masakatsu Ueda

8. Tony Johnson Jr. UD(5) Tony Lopez

9. Drew Fickett SUB(2) Derrick Noble

10. Kamal Shalorus UD(3) Dave Jansen

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In the following list, we sorted by quotient, but enforced a minimum of 100 rating for the loser.  A different look at it…

Biggest Point-Based Upsets -(Sorted by Quotient of Winner/Loser with Loser Rating >= 100)

1. Mike Campbell SD(3) Yves Edwards

2. Luis Palomino SD(3) Jorge Masvidal

3. John Salter TKO(1) Jason MacDonald

4. Fabricio Werdum SUB(1) Fedor Emelianenko

5. Ben Askren UD(3) Dan Hornbuckle

6. Amir Sadollah UD(3) Brad Blackburn

7. Travis Wiuff SD(3) Jeff Monson

8. Cung Le KO(2) Scott Smith

9. Muhammad Lawal UD(5) Gegard Mousasi

10. Sahmil Abdurahimov MD(3) Jeff Monson