UFC 112: How they stack up
UFC Middleweight Championship
[#1] Anderson Silva vs. [#8] Demian Maia
UFC Lightweight Championship
[#1] B.J. Penn vs. [#7] Frankie Edgar
Welterweight
[#10] Matt Hughes vs. [*] Renzo Gracie
Lightweight
[#31] Terry Etim vs. [#87] Rafael dos Anjos
Middleweight
[#30] Kendall Grove vs. [#60] Mark Munoz
Light Heavyweight
[#29] Phil Davis vs. [#31] Alexander Gustafsson
Lightweight
[#115 WW] Paul Taylor vs. [#126] John Gunderson
Welterweight
[#31] Rick Story vs. [#107] Nick Osipczak
Welterweight
[#40] Brad Blackburn vs. [#83] DaMarques Johnson
Lightweight
[#95] Matt Veach vs. [#166] Paul Kelly
Heavyweight
[#118] Mostapha Al-Turk vs. [#164] Jon Madsen
Fedor in danger of losing the #1 spot this summer?
Although we’ve only been posting rankings since (outside of some beta testing) January 2008, Fedor would’ve likely been the #1 ranked heavyweight since his win over Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira on 12/31/04, over 5 years ago. He followed that up with some big wins, but has been relatively inactive since the beginning of 2008, only having fought three times. His inability to come to an agreement with the UFC has limited him to fighting the best heavyweights not in the organization, which has stymied his potential point total. As a result, other top heavyweights are slowly creeping toward #1, and a win over Werdum won’t do much to hold them off.
Should Brock Lesnar pull off a dominant victory against Shane Carwin in their title fight, he will likely overtake Fedor for the top heavyweight position. Should Carwin win, Fedor will likely stay at #1, with Carwin at #2, and Lesnar at #3 — unless a fight such as Velasquez/dos Santos comes off, which would cause more shuffling at the top.
TUF 11: Episode 2 Results
Fight Outcome
[#1] Kyle Noke W-SUB(1) [#13] Clayton McKinney
New Rankings After Episode 2 Results
1. Kyle Noke
2. Chris Camozzi
3. Court McGee
4. Joe Henle
5. Brad Tavares
6. Kyacey Uscola
7. Josh Bryant
8. Nick Ring
9. Charles Blanchard
10. Jim Hammortree
11. Kris McCray
12. Rich Attonito
13. Clayton McKinney*
14. Jamie Yager
Rankings remain unchanged.
Note: We are going to keep all original 14 fighters ranked due to “wildcard” possibilities. Fighters who have lost are tagged with an asterisk.
Introducing Organization & Country Filtered Rankings
We’ve added a new feature in this release: the ability to filter all divisional rankings by country and organization.
For example, here’s the UFC’s heavyweight division at a glance:
http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/heavyweight-265-lbs/?OrgFilter=UFC
or, a list of all currently ranked Japanese flyweights:
http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/flyweight/?NatFilter=JP
Just select an organization and/or country in the “Last Fought In” and “Country” dropdown lists that appear at the top of the divisional rankings, and watch a cross-section of that division.
Keep in mind that this data is not always 100% accurate: sometimes we may have a fighter’s nationality wrong in our database, or a fighter may appear on the org that he last fought in long after it becomes known that he is no longer with the organization (for example, Dan Henderson and UFC/Strikeforce). If you notice any errors, or have suggestion on how to further improve this feature, please let us know in our forums!
MMA Rankings Updated: 4/4/2010
Notable Info
- We did some serious database maintenance in the past week to increase overall accuracy of database bout history. As a result, there will be some moderate fluctuations throughout the rankings.
TUF 11: New Rankings After Episode 1
This year, we are going to provide rankings on a post-by-post basis that include the TUF 11 results throughout the season. Please note, these fights will NOT be included in our standard rankings.
New Rankings After Episode 1 Results (Remaining Fighters Only)
1. Kyle Noke
2. Chris Camozzi
3. Court McGee
4. Joe Henle
5. Brad Tavares
6. Kyacey Uscola
7. Josh Bryant
8. Nick Ring
9. Charles Blanchard
10. Jim Hammortree
11. Kris McCray
12. Rich Attonito
13. Clayton McKinney
14. Jamie Yager
The biggest jumps between the initial posting and this one were made by Brad Tavares (+22) and Joe Henle (+16). Henle was able to secure victory from the hands of defeat with an arm-bar, and Tavares backed up his professional undefeated record by beating another undefeated fighter in Jordan Smith, who has been a ranked fighter at FightMatrix for quite a while.
TUF 11: The Line-Up
The TUF 11 participants have been listed based on their projected Middleweight rating and tiered appropriately. Often times, records for TUF participants are incomplete and will fill in soon after the season debuts.
The A-Team
1. Kyle Noke
2. Constantinos Phillippou
3. Jordan Smith
The Next Best Thing
4. Victor O’Donnell
5. Court McGee
6. Kyacey Uscola
7. Chris Camozzi
8. Josh Bryant
9. Nick Ring
Worth Keeping an Eye On
10. Charles Blanchard
11. Seth Baczynski
12. Charley Lynch
Lost In The Crowd
13. Rich Attonio
14. Jim Hammortree
15. Kris McCray
16. Norman Paraisy
Long-Shots
17. Greg Rebello
18. Cleburn Walker
19. Brent Cooper
20. Joe Henle
The Rest
21. Woody Weatherby
22. Jacen Flynn
23. Warren Thompson
24. Lyle Steffens
25. Jamie Yager
26. Clayton McKinney
27. Brad Tavares
28. Ben Stark
Ultimate Fight Night 21: How They Stack Up
Lightweight
[#3] Kenny Florian vs. [#10] Takanori Gomi
Heavyweight
[#36] Roy Nelson vs. [#32] Stefan Struve
Middleweight
[#25] Nate Quarry vs. [#57] Jorge Rivera
Lightweight
[#65] Ross Pearson vs. [#73] Dennis Siver
Lightweight
[#191] Rob Emerson vs. [#71] Nik Lentz
Lightweight
[#29] Gleison Tibau vs. [#33] Caol Uno
Lightweight
[#64] Rafaello Oliveira vs. [#172] Andre Winner
Lightweight
[#121] Ronys Torres vs. [#79 WW] Jacob Volkmann
Middleweight
[#18] Yushin Okami vs. [#88] Lucio Linhares
Middleweight
[#58] Gerald Harris vs. [#58 LHW] Mario Miranda
Welterweight
[#107] Charlie Brenneman vs. [#57] Jason High
UFC 111: How they stack up
UFC Welterweight Championship
[#1] Georges St. Pierre vs. [#6] Dan Hardy
UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship
[#5] Frank Mir vs. [#10] Shane Carwin
Lightweight
[#29] Kurt Pellegrino vs. [#43] Fabricio Camoes
Welterweight
[#2] Jon Fitch vs. [#28] Ben Saunders
Lightweight
[#14] Jim Miller vs. [#44] Mark Bocek
Welterweight
[#25 LW] Nate Diaz vs. [#88] Rory Markham
Welterweight
[#21 MW] Ricardo Almeida vs. [#52] Matt Brown
Light Heavyweight
[#44] Rodney Wallace vs. [#78] Jared Hamman
Middleweight
[#24] Rousimar Palhares vs. [#28] Tomasz Drwal
Welterweight
[#111] Greg Soto vs. [#188] Matt Riddle
A mid-week update…
We’re still testing our new changes, so an intermediate update was just posted for 3/15/2010.
MMA Rankings Updated: 3/12/2009
Notable Info
- We decided to make a release this week as we’re debuting some changes. This change (so far) is undetectable on the surface, but we’re actually starting to move parts of our database online, so the ranking pages you see now are dynamically constructed. This will open up a ton of possibilities for us to post more data onto our web site