USAT/SBN April 2011 MMA Consensus Rankings: Light Heavyweight
by Richard Wade on Apr 29, 2011 10:54 AM EDT
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| Rank | Fighter | % | Promotion | Last Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jon Jones | 100 | UFC | 1 |
| 2 | Mauricio Rua | 95 | UFC | 2 |
| 3 | Rashad Evans | 91 | UFC | 3 |
| 4 | Quinton Jackson | 88 | UFC | 4 |
| 5 | Lyoto Machida | 86 | UFC | 5 |
| 6 | Forrest Griffin | 77 | UFC | 6 |
| 7 | Dan Henderson | 68 | Strikeforce | 8 |
| 7 | Ryan Bader | 68 | UFC | 7 |
| 9 | Phil Davis | 60 | UFC | 11 |
| 10 | Thiago Silva | 51 | UFC | 9 |
| 11 | Antonio Rogerio Nogueira | 43 | UFC | 10 |
| 12 | Gegard Mousasi | 42 | Strikeforce | 12 |
| 13 | Rich Franklin | 34 | UFC | 14 |
| 14 | Rafael Cavalcante | 31 | Strikeforce | 13 |
| 15 | Muhammed Lawal | 30 | Strikeforce | 15 |
| 16 | Randy Couture | 27 | UFC | 16 |
| 17 | Matt Hamill | 23 | UFC | 17 |
| 17 | Renato Sobral | 23 | Strikeforce | 19 |
| 19 | Alexander Gustafsson | 21 | UFC | 18 |
| 20 | Cyrille Diabate | 18 | UFC | 20 |
| 20 | Roger Gracie | 18 | Strikeforce | 24 |
| 22 | Brandon Vera | 17 | UFC | 27 |
| 22 | Keith Jardine | 17 | Strikeforce | 32 |
| 24 | Stephan Bonnar | 17 | UFC | 25 |
| 25 | Jason Brilz | 16 | UFC | 21 |
| 25 | Luiz Cane | 16 | UFC | 22 |
#1 Jon Jones was expect to face former teammate #3 Rashad Evans in his first title defense, but an injury to the champion has derailed those plans.
Instead, Evans will square off against the overmatched #9 Phil Davis while he waits for his title shot.
This Saturday's UFC 129 may be our last chance to watch #16 Randy Couture as he plans to retire following his bout with #5 Lyoto Machida.
#4 Quinton "Rampage" Jackson will try to take another step toward a title shot when he takes on #17 Matt Hamill.
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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I always enjoy these rankings ...
… if for no other reason than the fact that you rank the top 25, rather than merely the top 10.
I wish you’d expand it to the top 50, or even the top 100 – but I suppose that’s getting greedy on my part.
And I say look out for Alexander Gustafsson. I’m really, really high on him.
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gave him a huge bump for drawing Mousasi.
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by Nate Wilcox on Apr 29, 2011 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions
I guess those kinds of decisions are the reason I've never heard of them
Let the fighters fight, let the referees ref, but dear God, don't let the judges judge.
by halitosis on Apr 29, 2011 11:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
i hate to rag on joe silva
he has a tough job and usually does well. and i know there were injuries and unexpected things going on. etc.
but there is no excuse in the universe to explain why we are not seing jackson v. evans and hammill v. davis.
two fights that make sense instead of two fights that make no sense.
dumb, dumb, dumb.
Sure there's an excuse
Jackson/Hamill was booked before the Jones/Evans fight was off the table and it’s really not fair to the fighters to change their opponents if they don’t have to. You think Hammil wants to lose his fight with Rampage? Maybe Rampage said no to an opponent switch.
Don’t just assume that it’s some kind of failure in matchmaking. Injuries and other things happen and sometimes the cards don’t come out the way we’d like them to in an ideal world.
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well
hamill/davis was booked before jackson/hamill. they broke that fight up. then they booked jackson/hammill before jones/evans, when everyone was hoping for jackson/evans, and that fight was widely decried.
the whole thing was done to pressure evans into fighting jones and now that fight isn’t even happening and we’re left with two dumb fights instead of two very good ones.
when jones/evans fell through, silva’s options were limited. but a lot of dumbness led him into that point. and i still might have tried to switch things around to get things the way they should be, whether that’s “fair” to the fighters or not.
Based on reported facts and the parties involved
Rashad said he would have rather waited to see the outcome of Jones/Shogun, and he did so they booked a fight for Rampage after his opponent flopped a drug test, pretty simple, no convoluted conspiracy or anything like that at all.
This isn’t a series of dumb moves, it’s just bad luck and circumstance, you’re reading way too much into things and making a ton of assumptions.
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i'm not saying there weren't injuries involved
or elements of bad luck.
but the hamill/rampage fight was dumb when it was booked. and the evans/davis fight was dumb when it was booked.
if they broke up hammill/davis when tito got injured so davis could fight little nog, i’m not sure whey they can’t break up the hamill/rampage fight.
Who else were the supposed to book against Rampage?
With Evans unwilling to take that fight they needed to book an opponent, so they booked the best guy they had available.
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2-5
I feel are all interchangable, except Jackson should be a definite 5 imo due to loss to evans, shogun, and basically a loss to machida. I know thats not how it works as far as rankings, but it’s not like we have Hamill ranked at number 2 because he “beat” jones
You can’t compare Rampage’s victory over Machida to Hamill’s “victory” over Jones. That’s just silly.
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by Worldisart on Apr 29, 2011 11:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I wanna see King Mo vs Phil Davis
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by mburtoni on Apr 29, 2011 11:41 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
+1 to this
I would also like to see King Mo and Ryan Bader. Frankly, I just want to see King Mo in the UFC, or at least fight more than once a year.
by HeadKickOfDoom on Apr 29, 2011 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Thiago Silva defines a fighter with top ten skill, but doesn’t have the strength of record to really justify a top ten ranking. At least to me, he looks like he will be a legit threat to any top 15 Light Heavyweight, but I would like to see him beat someone higher than Jardine to see him ranked so high.
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Don't see how Mousasi remains so high.
I know he effectively did beat Jardine, but Mo shellacked him last year. Why is he above Mo?
probly because
Mo didn’t look very good in that win at all and has been on the shelf for 9 months and still hasn’t fought.
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by Cory Braiterman on Apr 29, 2011 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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