my opinion on rankings is that they’re all subjective and basically meaningless beyond a way to keep track of fighters who are actively competing and to spur discussion. Can be useful for matchmakers too.
But whether you want to accept it or not, Nakamura spent many months on some to the most reputable top 10 lists in the sport. I’m thinking specifically of MMA Weekly, Sherdog and Full Contact Fighter.
That’s based on my memory so I’d be interested if someone wants to actually check the records — if they can be found.
Trigg was on a tear when he beat Misaki. Ask Mayhem Miller.

The variables of MMA are so enormous that MMAth has very little applicability. One fighter can undergo such massive changes in their level of formidability due to factors like injuries, motivation, training camp changes, personal problems and bad skill set matchups that it’s not really fair to bash fighters based on post-facto evaluations of their opponents.
For example, when Matt Hughes barely beat Carlos Newton at UFC 34 it was an epic win over an absolutely top fighter. With in a couple of years a win over Newton was nothing impressive.
Also see Tim Sylvia. When Randy Couture and Big Nog beat him it was big doings. But by the time he got crushed by Fedor and then Mercer he was dismissed by almost all. And clearly the Tim Sylvia that got in the cage with Mercer was not the same fighter that faced Couture or Fedor.

My bad, I think “over-hyped” is what you said. He’s hardly rated.

disqualifies you from having a valid opinion. Fail on SO many levels.

mamed needs respect too, obviously it was a hard shot

Ah, good point. I knew that it wasn’t exclusive, but I didn’t think there was any overlap between Sengoku and Strikeforce, particularly after the much-ballyhooed DREAM alliance. Forgot all about Bigfoot.