Things You Might Otherwise Miss
Our Recently Active page is good for these obscure tidbits, but just to name a few..
- We assessed our semi-annual population adjustment for the Japanese. This explains many of the seemingly unexplained rating drops for fighters that don’t leave Japan. Only men were adjusted as we just don’t have enough data for women.
- We also updated our All-Time MMA Rankings too. This is the 2nd week in a row that I’ve mentioned Miguel Torres, because in this update, he finally lost his #1 Bantamweight position as the current populous is simply catching up.
- Speaking of Japan, a strange fight took place in Pancrase. Our #1 Strawweight Mitsuhisa Sunabe faced off against then-ranked #401 Lightweight Takafumi Ito in an “open weight” bout. What’s even stranger is that the 5’8″ Sunabe, weighed in at 121.7lb, which is only about 2-2.5 pounds above what he normally weighs in at. Ito weighed in at 159.6lb, but the 37.9 pound weight advantage did not help him, as Sunabe tapped him out in the 3rd round.