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[Dr. MMA]

Top 15 for the first 7 divisions; Top 10 for flyweight and women's p4p

Please note that the MMANews FORUMS rankings are separate from the MMANews website rankings.

Committee members: Dr. MMA, Rivethead, KevoOnTheRadio, TBEAR, DiegoNightmare*
Alternate members: Mac* ( Mac will fill in as an alternate member if one of the members of the committee is unavailable.)
Appointed to combine and matrix rankings from the committee members: SWIFTboy**

*Both Mac and DiegoNightmare were unavailable for these rankings.
**SWIFTboy is also responsible for breaking any 3-way ties.

The following criteria were taken into account while generating the rankings:

A) Rankings are not based on opinion of fighter's skillset and potential but are based on evidence, i.e. fighter's opposition, track record, how dominant the wins were (dependent on opposition), and how dominant the losses were (dependent on opposition).

B) Recent victories hold more weight than historical, however, it doesn't negate it.

C) A fighter is ranked in the division where they have had their two most recent consecutive fights. This could be two actual fights or one actual fight and a scheduled/planned fight. For example, Kenny Florian is still considered a FW now (last 2 actual fights were at FW and only has plans for LW). There are some exceptions to this rule, for example Nate Marquardt is now considered a WW even though his last actual fight was at MW. This is because he has had two scheduled back-to-back fights at WW (one of which he made weight for and did not fight due to unforeseen circumstances).

D) If a fighter hasn't fought in 18 months or hasn't won a fight in 24 months, he will be removed from the top 10. For example, Shane Carwin was removed from the top 10 as he has not won a fight in 24 months.

E) If Fighter A wins a recent head-to-head matchup against Fighter B, it does not necessarily mean Fighter A moves ahead of fighter B. Head-to-head matchups are primarily considered when rankings are tied, similar to other sports like hockey or soccer.
e.g. If half of us thought that Machida was #3 and the other half thought Rampage was #3, then we look to their actual fight. Rampage won, so he moves up and Machida moves down.

F) With regards to the holy trinities (e.g. Machida beat Rashad who beat Rampage who beat Machida), we evaluate the individual's rank and their opposition's at the time of the fight. More recent victories are weighed heavier as are more dominating victories.
e.g. #4 ranked Machida defeated #1 ranked Rashad in May 2009, #3 ranked Rashad beat #4 ranked Rampage in May 2010, and #4 ranked Rampage beat #2 ranked Machida in Nov 2010. However, the dominance of their victories varied greatly. These factors was taken into consideration.

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The MMANews Forums rankings as of May 31, 2012 are:

Heavyweight
1 Junior Dos Santos
2 Cain Valasquez
3 Fabricio Werdum
4 Alistair Overeem
5 Daniel Cormier
6 Josh Barnett
7 Frank Mir
8 Antonio Silva
9 Fedor Emilianenko
10 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
11 Shane Carwin
12 Mark Hunt
13 Travis Browne
14 Roy Nelson
15 Cheick Kongo


Light Heavyweight
1 Jon Jones
2 Dan Henderson
3 Mauricio Rua
4 Rashad Evans
5 Lyoto Machida
6 Phil Davis
7 Quinton Jackson
8 Forrest Griffin
9 Ryan Bader
10 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
11 Alexander Gustafsson
12 Gegard Mousasi
13 Muhammad Lawal
14 Rafael Cavalcante
15 Stanislav Nedko


Middleweight
1 Anderson Silva
2 Chael Sonnen
3 Mark Munoz
4 Vitor Belfort
5 Yushin Okami
6 Michael Bisping
7 Hector Lombard
8 Brian Stann
9 Ronaldo Souza
10 Demian Maia
11 Luke Rokhold
12 Tim Boetsch
13 Chris Weidman
14 Allan Belcher
15 Tim Kennedy


Welterweight
1 Georges St. Pierre
2 Carlos Condit
3 Nick Diaz
4 Johnny Hendricks
5 Jake Ellenberger
6 Jon Fitch
7 Jake Shields
8 Josh Koscheck
9 BJ Penn
10 Martin Kampmann
11 Rory MacDonald
12 Diego Sanchez
13 Tyron Woodley
14 Ben Askren
15 Rick Story


Lightweight
1 Ben Henderson
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Gilbert Melendez
4 Grey Maynard
5 Nate Diaz
6 Jim Miller
7 Eddie Alvarez
8 Clay Guida
9 Michael Chandler
10 Anthony Pettis
11 Shinya Aoki
12 Donald Cerrone
13 Evan Dunham
14 Matt Wiman
15 Melvin Guillard


Featherweight
1 Jose Aldo
2 Hatsu Hioki
3 Chad Mendes
4 Pat Curran
5 Marlon Sandro
6 Hiroyuki Takaya
7 Diego Nunes
8 Chan Sung Jung
9 Daniel Strauss
10 Kenny Florian
11 Dustin Poirier
12 Denis Siver
13 Joe Warren
14 Bart Palaszewski
15 Erik Koch


Bantamweight
1 Dominic Cruz
2 Urijah Faber
3 Brian Bowles
4 Renan Barao
5 Bibiano Fernandes
6 Scott Jorgensen
7 Michael MacDonald
8 Miguel Torres
9 Masakatsu Ueda
10 Brad Pickett
11 Zach Makovsky
12 Takeya Mizugaki
13 Eduardo Dantes
14 Luis Nogueira
15 Eddie Wineland


Featherweight
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 Ian McCall
3 Jussier da Silva
4 Demetrious Johnson
5 Yasuhiro Urushitani
6 Mamoru Yamaguchi
7 Shinichi Kojima
8 Darrell Montague
9 Kiyotaka Shimizu
10 Mitsuhisa Sunabe


Women's p4p
1 Cristiane Santos
2 Ronda Rousey
3 Megumi Fujii
4 Zoila Gurgel
5 Miesha Tate
6 Marloes Coenen
7 Sarah Kaufman
8 Tara LaRosa
9 Rosi Sexton
10 Alexis Davis

[Luc1an]

Werdum ahead of AO? I do like Fedor back in to top ten tho! =)

[disposableassassin]

No love for gloves texiera(sp)?

[CtGreat]

Bisping at #6 MW has got to be a joke. The man has NEVER BEATEN A TOP 10 OPPONENT IN HIS CAREER!!!

[Xtremo]

Originally Posted by Luc1an

Werdum ahead of AO? I do like Fedor back in to top ten tho! =)

Yea I don't agree with Werdum over AO. AO only beat Roy who wasn't ranked to high at the time and AO beat Lesnar who was ranked high...oh and uh, in Werdum and AO's lastest meeting, AO won.. so..?

[Sakara=Excitement]

Great stuff guys!!!!

[TBEAR]

Does anyone read this anymore?

We went from 4+ pages of talking abouthtem to three posts.

[mulefloyd]

Results that aren't what we expect are still results and should matter more than our preconceived opinions, when making our new, hopefully more educated, opinion.