Friday – ADFC  (Round 3)

Heavyweight
[#20] Shamil Abdurahimov vs. [#98] Marcos Oliveira

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Friday – Jewels 12

Women’s Flyweight
[#4] Ayaka Hamasaki vs. [#5 SFW] Jessica Aguilar
Non-title fight

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Friday – Shark Fights 14

Women’s Super Flyweight
[#1] Tara LaRosa vs. [#16] Carina Damm

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Saturday – Shooto (Shootor’s Legacy 2)

Flyweight
[#6] Kiyotaka Shimizu vs. [#32] Shinichi Hanawa
[#7] Yuki Shojo vs. [#28] Noboru Tahara
[#18] Masaaki Sugara vs. [#23] Junya Kudo

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Notable Info

• Welterweight and Lightweight expanded to an unprecedented Top 500.
• New stat added to the “Records & Stats” page — Best (T)KO/Win ratio.

Friday – Fresquez Promotions

Women’s Bantamweight
[#17] Christina Domke L-(TKO2) [*] Holly Holm
Holm’s debut. She is the #1 current Women’s P4P boxer and likely Top 5 in women’s boxing history.

Light Heavyweight
[#26] Keith Jardine W-(TKO1) [#252] Aron Lofton

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Saturday – Strikeforce

Light Heavyweight
[#7] Dan Henderson vs. [#10] Rafael Cavalcante
Henderson recently moved to #9 in our All-Time Absolute list.

Women’s Bantamweight
[#1] Marloes Coenen vs. [#4] Liz Carmouche
Carmouche was our 2010 Women’s Rookie of the Year.

Middleweight
[#20] Tim Kennedy vs. [#29 LHW] Melvin Manhoef

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Saturday – BellatorFC 35

Welterweight
[#21] Jay Hieron vs. [#74 MW] Anthony Lapsley

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Saturday – Chicago Cagefighting Championship

Featherweight (140lb)
[#56] Chase Beebe vs. [#274 LW] Steve Kinnisen

Featherweight
[#263] Jens Pulver vs. [#285 BW] Wade Choate

Welterweight
[#9] Martin Kampmann vs.  [#12] Diego Sanchez

Middleweight
[#24] Mark Munoz vs. [#30] CB Dollaway

Middleweight
[#15] Alessio Sakara vs. [#123] Chris Weidman

Bantamweight
[#4] Brian Bowles vs. [#64] Damacio Page

Lightweight
[#50] Joe Stevenson vs. [#78] Danny Castillo

Light Heavyweight
[#35] Cyrille Diabate vs. [*] Steve Cantwell

Lightweight
[#49] Shane Roller vs. [#80] Thiago Tavares

Bantamweight
[#15] Takeya Mizugaki vs. [#49] Reuban Duran

Middleweight
[#126] Dong Yi Yang vs. [#178] Rob Kimmons

Middleweight
[#22] Rousimar Palhares vs. [#38] Dave Branch

Light Heavyweight
[#99] Igor Pokrajac vs. [#130] Todd Brown

Top 5 Highest Ranked FightMatrix Fighters not on Sherdog Rankings

(#6 FW) Kazuyuki Miyata
(#6 LW) Clay Guida
(#8 WW) Paul Daley
(#8 LHW) Randy Couture
(#8 BW) Zach Makovsky

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Top 5 Largest Rank Difference between Sherdog Ranked and FightMatrix

(-16 HW) Roy Nelson
(-10 FW) Dustin Poirier
(-10 BW) Brad Pickett
(-10 LW) Sean Sherk
(-9 BW) Demetrious Johnson

We decided to exclude Rambaa Somdet, as he is technically a Mini-Flyweight fighter, Dan Henderson, who we rank in different divisions, and Wanderlei Silva, who was recently dropped off of Sherdog’s list for inactivity.

Please share your thoughts in the Comments.  If we missed someone, please let us know.

Notable Info

• Welterweight and Lightweight expanded to Top 400.

Friday – DEEP 52 Impact

DEEP Bantamweight Championship
[#16] Hiroshi Nakamura UD(3) [#6] Masakazu Imanari (C)

Women’s Flyweight
[#8] Seo Hee Ham UD(3) [#9] Saori Ishioka

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Friday – MFC 28 (HDNet)

Light Heavyweight
[#28] Ryan Jimmo vs. [#51] Dwayne Lewis

Light Heavyweight
[#48] Emanuel Newton vs. [#50] Rodney Wallace

Lightweight (160lb)
[#50] Drew Fickett vs. [#89] Matt Veach

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Saturday – BAMMA 5

Heavyweight (215lb Catch)
[#33] Ricco Rodriguez vs. [#161 LHW] James McSweeney
Rodriguez missed weight by 2 pounds.

Saturday – G-Force Fights

Lightweight
[#6 FW] Luis Palomino vs. [*] John Robles

Saturday – Cage Warriors FC 40

Women’s Super Flyweight
[#4 BW] Roxanne Modafferi vs. [#6] Rosi Sexton
Modafferi’s first fight below 130 lbs.

Welterweight
[#3] Jon Fitch vs. [#4] B.J. Penn

Middleweight
[#10] Michael Bisping vs. [#32] Jorge Rivera

Lightweight
[#8] George Sotiropoulos vs. [#41] Dennis Siver

Welterweight
[#11] Chris Lytle vs. [#82] Brian Ebersole

Middleweight
[#49] Kyle Noke vs. [#92] Chris Camozzi

Lightweight
[#68] Spencer Fisher vs. [#94] Ross Pearson

Light Heavyweight
[#26] Alexander Gustafsson vs. [#54] James Te Huna

Middleweight
[#21] Riki Fukuda vs. [*] Nick Ring

Light Heavyweight
[#191 HW] Anthony Perosh vs. [*] Tom Blackledge

Featherweight
[*] Zhang Tie Quan vs. [*] Jason Reinhardt

Heavyweight
[#67] Chris Tuchscherer vs. [#159] Mark Hunt

Lightweight
[#82] Maciej Jewtuszko vs. [#451] Curt Warburton

In our next release, we will be expanding the Welterweight and Lightweight divisions to the Top 400.  After this expansion, we will re-evaluate the current limits of all divisions and possibly expand another time or two.  However, this upcoming expansion may be the final one for the foreseeable future.  We apologize for non-uniform expansions, but we are attempting to expand based on divisional strength alone, within the confines of the rating system’s optimal performance zone.

It’s been a mostly uneventful week, with only one significant occurence in the rankings: former #1 ranked flyweight Jussier da Silva suffered the first defeat of his career when he lost a unanimous decision to the WEC veteran Ian McCall.   McCall was formerly ranked at #95 bantamweight, and landed at #4 in the flyweight division, with Jussier falling to #6 and Yasuhiro Urushitani and Mamoru Yamaguchi in a virtual tie for the newly vacated #1.

Here’s what the flyweight Top 50 looks like after this weekend: Flyweight (Under 131 lbs) fighter ranks.

Ranking Expansion

Once again, we expanded our lightweight, welterweight, and middleweight rankings by 50.  See who is in the Top 350’s:

Middleweight 301-350

Welterweight 301-350

Lightweight 301-350

Notable Info

• Middleweight, Welterweight, and Lightweight expanded to Top 350.
• Slight modification to blocking routine which forgives those who lose to aggressively placed early career fighters.