USA TODAY/MMA Nation October 2011 Consensus Rankings: Light Heavyweight
by Richard Wade on Oct 27, 2011 6:00 PM EDT
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| Rank | Fighter | % | Promotion | Last Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jon Jones | 100 | UFC | 1 |
| 2 | Mauricio Rua | 94 | UFC | 2 |
| 3 | Rashad Evans | 93 | UFC | 3 |
| 4 | Quinton Jackson | 86 | UFC | 4 |
| 5 | Lyoto Machida | 85 | UFC | 5 |
| 6 | Dan Henderson | 79 | UFC | 6 |
| 7 | Phil Davis | 72 | UFC | 7 |
| 8 | Forrest Griffin | 68 | UFC | 8 |
| 9 | Gegard Mousasi | 49 | Strikeforce | 10 |
| 10 | Rafael Cavalcante | 47 | Strikeforce | 9 |
| 11 | Muhammed Lawal | 40 | Strikeforce | 11 |
| 12 | Antonio Rogerio Nogueira | 40 | UFC | 12 |
| 13 | Alexander Gustafsson | 39 | UFC | 15 |
| 14 | Rich Franklin | 37 | UFC | 14 |
| 15 | Tito Ortiz | 32 | UFC | 16 |
| 16 | Thiago Silva | 32 | UFC | 13 |
| 17 | Ryan Bader | 27 | UFC | 17 |
| 18 | Vladimir Matyushenko | 19 | UFC | 18 |
| 19 | Cyrille Diabate | 17 | UFC | 20 |
| 20 | Renato Sobral | 16 | Strikeforce | 19 |
| 21 | Stanislav Nedkov | 16 | 21 | |
| 22 | Roger Gracie | 13 | Strikeforce | 23 |
| 22 | Ryan Jimmo | 13 | 30 | |
| 24 | Kyle Kingsbury | 12 | UFC | 27 |
| 25 | Brandon Vera | 12 | UFC | 25 |
This weekend's UFC 137 has only one light heavyweight bout scheduled and it's not that impressive. Eliot Marshall will square off against the somehow still ranked #25 Brandon Vera in a fight that it's possible someone cares about.
UFC 138 does only slightly better featuring #19 Cyrille Diabate against Anthony Perosh.
UFC 139, though, is chock full of quality light heavyweight fights. #2 Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and #6 Dan Henderson headline the show while #24 Kyle Kingsbury vs. Stephan Bonnar and #17 Ryan Bader vs. Jason Brilz fill out the undercard.
Based on the premise that all MMA rankings are subjective but that it’s still useful and informative to know who the online MMA community as a whole ranks as the best fighters in MMA, we collect and average the rankings of the top MMA websites to produce our consensus rankings. We compile the top MMA rankings from each of our sources and award 25 points for a first place ranking, 16 for a 10th place ranking, 1 for a 25th place ranking. A formula is used to "normalize" the data so all fighters are awarded points from those lists that do not include a full 25 fighters. This formula ensures that each ranking site awards the same number of total points regardless of how many fighters they choose to rank. Each fighter’s total is divided by the number of possible points to determine their standing in the Consensus Rankings.
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Places like Playground need to stop doing silly stuff like ranking a Middleweight who hasn’t fought in the division in over two years in their top10.
Also, far too many people have Mousassi ranked above Lawal for my tastes.
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by Cory Braiterman on Oct 27, 2011 7:03 PM EDT reply actions
Hmm.
Tito at #7 and Kingsbury ahead of Bader and Little Nog, Kevin Iole?
Hendo below Lil Nog (Jordan Breen)?
Generally, there’s obviously a whole slew of different criteria being applied (or rather, not being applied) so there’s not really much point in aggregating the scores in my opinion. At least not until everybody is forced to rank more than 10 guys.
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Goddammit this Mousasi love just will not die.
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by Derek Suboticki on Oct 27, 2011 9:52 PM EDT reply actions
Vera is ranked 25 solely on the back of MDS ranking him 14th in the world.
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