St. Pierre was still the king, but the rest of the division looked a bit different than it does today.

November 19, 2006

Rank	Fighter	Record	Points
1	Georges St. Pierre Last Fight: 11/18/2006 [UFC]	13-1-0	322
2	Matt Hughes Last Fight: 11/18/2006 [UFC]	41-5-0	221
3	Diego Sanchez Last Fight: 8/17/2006 [UFC]	16-0-0	184
4	Jon Fitch Last Fight: 10/14/2006 [UFC]	15-2-0	149
5	Jake Shields Last Fight: 9/9/2006 [Full Contact Promotions]	16-4-1	146
6	B.J. Penn Last Fight: 9/23/2006 [UFC]	10-4-1	135
7	Karo Parisyan Last Fight: 8/17/2006 [UFC]	15-4-0	121
8	Rory Markham Last Fight: 11/2/2006 [IFL]	12-2-0	109
9	Nick Thompson Last Fight: 10/21/2006 [Twin Cities Throwdown]	29-9-1	103
10	Josh Burkman Last Fight: 7/8/2006 [UFC]	17-4-0	99

Fightmatrix.com MMA rankings archive has been updated with the rankings as of November 2, 2008.

Fightmatrix.com MMA rankings archive has been updated with the rankings as of October 6, 2008.

Anderson Silva undoubtedly rules the Middleweight division today, but what would a FightMatrix Top 10 snapshot of the division look like two years ago?

September 15, 2006

Rank	Fighter	Record	Points
1	Rich Franklin Last Fight: 3/4/2006 [UFC]	22-2-0	241
2	Kazuo Misaki Last Fight: 8/26/2006 [PRIDE]	17-6-2	227
3	Paulo Filho Last Fight: 8/26/2006 [PRIDE]	13-0-0	201
4	Matt Lindland Last Fight: 9/9/2006 [IFL]	19-4-0	200
5	Dan Henderson Last Fight: 8/26/2006 [PRIDE]	20-5-0	184
6	Denis Kang Last Fight: 8/26/2006 [PRIDE]	27-7-1	182
7	Nathan Marquardt Last Fight: 3/4/2006 [UFC]	23-6-2	173
8	Anderson Silva Last Fight: 6/28/2006 [UFC]	16-4-0	147
9	Yushin Okami Last Fight: 8/26/2006 [UFC]	21-3-0	141
10	Akihiro Gono Last Fight: 8/26/2006 [PRIDE]	26-11-7	138

Interestingly enough, Yushin Okami is in the same exact position today.

EDIT:  Upon further review, Marquardt was not placed correctly.  He would’ve actually ranked 7th.  Since this was still on the front page, I’ve made changes to the rankings.

Fightmatrix.com MMA rankings archive has been updated with the rankings as of September 1, 2008.

Fightmatrix.com MMA rankings archive has been updated with the rankings as of August 4, 2008.

Fightmatrix.com historical ranking archive updated with the rankings as of July 6, 2008.

Fightmatrix.com MMA ranks archive has been updated with the rankings as of June 1, 2008.

Fightmatrix.com MMA ranks archive has been updated with the rankings as of May 3, 2008.

The historical rankings archive has been updated with the rankings as of April 3rd, 2008.

We’ve added a new feature to our historical rankings archive.  Each archive issue now includes a movement tracker, to indicate the progress fighters made since the last issue. 

The rank archive has been updated with the official rankings as of March 3, 2008.  Remember, we will be archiving a snapshot of the current rankings on a monthly basis.

See all the historical rankings here.

Every month, we will be taking a snapshot of the current FightMatrix.com MMA rankings for each division, and adding them to our rankings archive. 

Check out all historical rankings up to date here!

Historical ranks from December 14, 2007 through December 29, 2007

Note that the current revision has some significant changes due to switching to a more accurate fight database.  A major ranking update will be published on January 1st 2008. Keep Reading