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UFC 117: How they stack up

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Jason

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

There’s been a famine of UFC events in the month of July. After nearly a month-long hiatus, UFC returned with a fight card headlined by a light-heavyweight bout between Jon Jones and Vladimir Matyushenko, and broadcast on Versus network live from San Diego, California. With a mediocre fight line-up, the most notable thing about this card was the UFC return of iconic MMA referee ‘Big’ John McCarthy, taking his place as the third man in the Octagon for this first time since 2007.

Takanori Gomi vs. Tyson Griffin (155 lbs)

Round 1: Both fighters circle, feint and jab. Not much landing early. They continue trading punches and Gomi catches Griffin with a left, then follows up with a right hook that drops Tyson face-first onto the canvas. Gomi jumps on his fallen opponent and the referee quickly steps in to stop the bout. Griffin not happy with the stoppage but it was justified.

Aftermath: After being submitted by Ken Florian in his UFC debut, former Pride FC champion Gomi showed a return to the old form, stopping Tyson Griffin for the first time in his career. Gomi earned the Knockout of the Night bonus for his performance, and claimed in the post-fight interview that he “learned to fight like an American”. The victory earns Gomi a return to the Top 10; however it is too soon for any talk of title contention. For now Gomi can either fight another contender such as George Sotiropoulos, or Joe Stevenson, who was supposed to be Gomi’s original opponent for this event but was forced to withdraw with an injury.

Tyson Griffin was eager to get back into the Octagon after losing a decision to Evan Dunham at UFC 115. Unfortunately stepping up as a short-notice replacement did not work out for him this time, and Griffin finds himself on a losing streak for the first time in his MMA career. His next fight will be a must-win to remain in the UFC. Sam Stout or Denis Siver would make for good ‘rebound’ opponents.

Ranking Impact: Takanori Gomi rises 7 spots to #10 LW. Tyson Griffin falls 12 spots to #32 LW.

Fight Grade: 3/5

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Last Opponent: [NR] Bo Mi Lee
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MMA All-Time Rankings Updated: 7/19/2010

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Jason

We recently updated our all-time divisional MMA rankings. You can check them out here: All-Time Rankings

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Biggest Point-Based Upsets in 2010 (so far)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Jason

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

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

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UFC 116 Review

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Oleg

I’ve been slacking on reviewing the slew of MMA events in the past month, but we’re back with a vengeance for what was one of the most anticipated shows of the year this far. A huge (in every sense of the word) heavyweight title unification bout between champion Brock Lesnar and interim champ Shane Carwin was backed by a superstar of Japanese MMA Yoshihiro Akiyama taking on Chris Leben (a last-minute substitution for the legendary Wanderlei Silva who was hurt while training for the fight). A lightweight matchup between two streaking prospects Kurt Pellegrino and George Sotiropoulos capped off the undercard of UFC 116. And here’s how it all went down:

Preliminary card (Spike TV)

Seth Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero (205 lbs)

Round 1: They quickly engage and exchange kicks. Romero looks for a takedown. Petruzelli defends and hurts Romero with punches. Romero clinches to recover. Petruzelli backs up then lands another combination but slips while throwing a kick. Romero gets Petruzelli’s back in a scramble. Petruzelli sweeps and pounds away from guard. Romero with a reversal of his own and mounts Petruzelli. Romero looking for a submission; Seth rolls out of it and stands, dropping Romero with an uppercut. Romero holds on to Petruzelli’s leg as Seth lands some odd and sloppy ‘double axe-handle’ strikes. Round 10-9 Petruzelli

Round 2: Romero looks for a takedown early and eats a knee on the way in. He staggers but keeps trying for the takedown. Petruzelli takes his back in a scramble and transitions to an armbar; Romero reverses and ends up in top guard. Romero’s nose is leaking blood. Petruzelli attempts a triangle and Romero uses the submission attempt to pass into side control. Romero secures the crucifix position and looks for a kimura then turns it into a straight armbar. Petruzelli taps out, in obvious pain.

Aftermath: Romero’s UFC debut was unspectacular but a win is a win, and he will have a chance to do better in his next Octagon outing – maybe against Krzysztof Soszynski or Jared Hamman. Seth Petruzelli should take on Steve Cantwell or Kyle Kingsbury next.

Ranking Impact: Ricardo Romero, previously ranked at #77 HW, makes his LHW debut at #49. Seth Petruzelli falls 38 spots to #111 LHW.

Fight Grade: 3/5

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MMA Rankings Updated (Again): 7/5/2010

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Jason

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.

MMA Rankings Updated: 07/04/2010

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Jason

MMA Rankings Updated: 6/29/2010

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Jason

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

UFC 116: How they stack up

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Jason

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

MMA Rankings Updated: 06/27/2010

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Jason

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.

Opponent Strength: 2007-2009

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Jason

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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