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

Notable Info

• We got some Asian results in late this weekend, so not to be outdone, we decided to release another set of the rankings.

We have released an update to fix a data display bug related to the statistics shown on fighter mouse overs.

UFC Heavyweight Championship
[#1] Brock Lesnar vs. [#4] Shane Carwin

Middleweight
[#13] Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. [#25] Chris Leben

Welterweight
[#23] Chris Lytle vs. [#68] Matt Brown

Light Heavyweight
[#36] Krzysztof Soszynski vs. [#83] Stephan Bonnar

Lightweight
[#10] George Sotiropoulos vs. [#14] Kurt Pellegrino

Heavyweight
[#36] Chris Tuchscherer vs. [#131] Brendan Schaub

Light Heavyweight
[#73] Seth Petruzelli vs. [#77] Ricardo Romero

Middleweight
[#47] Kendall Grove vs. [#101] Goran Reljic

Middleweight
[#41] Gerald Harris vs. [#83] Dave Branch

Welterweight
[#66] Forrest Petz vs. [#145] Daniel Roberts

Heavyweight
[#101] Jon Madsen vs. [#144] Karlos Vemola

Notable Info

• The unthinkable has happened.  Werdum moves up to #2, while Fedor drops to #3.
• There is currently a display bug in the Quality Performance %.  The numbers listed are incorrect and will be fixed upon the next update.

It’s been a while since we had a post that was strictly based on analysis, so I thought it was a good time to provide one.  I decided to take a look at average opponent strength between 2007 and 2009.  We’ll look at which fighters have had the best average opponent strength, and although I wanted to also post who had the worst, it was really hard to filter the list in a way that did not only contain obscure fighters or those who just now reached their lofty ranking.  Before consuming the lists, please consider the following qualifiers and notes:

• Fighters must have had at least four qualifying fights between 1/1/2007 and 12/31/2009, an average of one fight per nine months. I did not want to bring this to the current day due to the next point.
• The opponents’ current FightMatrix division dominance ratings are considered, not their pre-bout ratings or regular ratings.  I wanted to use the current division normalized status of the opponents to show what they’ve become, not what they were, or what the rating system thought they were.  So, to limit the direct effect of points gained by the opponents who beat the listed fighters, I stopped the date range short of this year.
• No contests are excluded as are female fighters.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s take a look at the list.

Top 10

1. Forrest Griffin

2. Matt Hughes

3. Chuck Liddell

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Notable Info

• A ton of fights and some data maintenance lead to quite a few changes in the rankings this week.