UFC/WEC Organizational Rankings

**jerzey devil** · 11-07-2009, 03:22 PM

I've never understood why people choose to rank fighters together from different orgs. Doesn't make sense to me. So these are my UFC only and WEC only rankings by division.

*Disclaimer- These rankings, like all rankings, are still just opinion and you're all welcome to correct me where you feel you would have done something different. I'm just gonna rank the contenders too. Obviously the champ is #1.

UFC

Heavyweight

Champion: Brock Lesnar

1) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
2) Frank Mir
3) Junior Dos Santos
4) Shane Carwin
5) Cain Velasquez
6) Randy Couture
7) Gabriel Gonzaga
8) Cheick Kongo
9) Ben Rothwell
10) Heath Herring

Light Heavyweight

Champion: Lyoto Machida

1) Mauricio Shogun Rua
2) Quinton Jackson
3) Rashad Evans
4) Forrest Griffen
5) Thiago Silva
6) Luis Arthur Cane
7) Antonio Rogerio Nogeuira
8) Keith Jardine
9) Jon Jones
10) Brandon Vera

*I left Rampage in because as he is under contract with the UFC still, he cannot fight or be ranked anywhere else.

Middleweight

Champion: Anderson Silva

1) Nate Marquardt
2) Vitor Belfort
3) Demien Maia
4) Chael Sonnen
5) Yoshihiro Akiyama
6) Wanderlei Silva
7) Alan Belcher
8) Yushin Okami
9) Michael Bisping
10) Dan Miller

*I left Hendo out because it looks like he's gonna sign with Strikeforce.

*I had no idea where to rank Franklin so I left him off both MW and LHW.

Welterweight

Champion: Georges St. Pierre

1) John Fitch
2) Thiago Alves
3) Josh Koscheck
4) Paulo Thiago
5) Mike Swick
6) Paul Daley
7) Dan Hardy
8) Martin Kampmann
9) Anthony Johnson
10) Matt Hughes

Lightweight

Champion: BJ Penn

1) Diego Sanchez
2) Frankie Edgar
3) Gray Maynard
4) Kenny Florian
5) Clay Guida
6) Joe Stevenson
7) Tyson Griffen
8) Jim Miller
9) Nate Diaz
10) Sean Sherk

WEC

Lightweight

Champions: Jamie Varner/ Ben Henderson (Interim)

1) Donald Cerrone
2) Danny Castillo
3) Dave Jansen
4) Ricardo Lamas
5) Anthony Njokuani
6) Shane Roller
7) Rob McCullough
8) Marcus Hicks
9) Ed Ratcliff
10) Anthony Pettis

Featherweight

Champion: Mike Brown

1) Jose Aldo
2) Urijah Faber
3) Leonard Garcia
4) Mackens Semerzier
5) Wagney Fabiano
6) Josh Grispi
7) Rafael Assuncao
8) Deividas Taurosevicius
9) Manny Gamburyan
10) Jens Pulver

Bantamweight

Champion: Brian Bowles

1) Miguel Torres
2) Dominick Cruz
3) Takeya Mizugaki
4) Akitoshi Tamura
5) Antonio Banuelos
6) Joseph Benavidaz
7) Charlie Valencia
8) Rani Yahya
9) Damacio Page
10) Eddie Wineland

ebonygangster · 11-07-2009, 03:47 PM

reasonable i guess

iowapoet_29 · 11-07-2009, 04:07 PM

Can't argue too much with your rankings. I like ranking all the fighters together though. It puts free agency into perspective.

Arbie · 11-07-2009, 04:11 PM

I would rank Anderson Silva at LHW. Probably just before Forrest, or maybe before Evans also.

**jerzey devil** · 11-07-2009, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by iowapoet_29

Can't argue too much with your rankings. I like ranking all the fighters together though. It puts free agency into perspective.

I guess both systems have their pros and cons.

To me ranking all fighters together leans more towards a fantasy style of rankings.

Organizational rankings give you a good overview of a division and who should be close to getting a title shot.

rondog6669 · 11-07-2009, 04:19 PM

not bad except randy shouldn't be ranked the only top ten he has beat is Gonzoga and that was 2 years ago

also if you are going to rank Rampage because he still has a contract so dose Liddell

**jerzey devil** · 11-07-2009, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by rondog6669

not bad except randy shouldn't be ranked the only top ten he has beat is Gonzoga and that was 2 years ago

also if you are going to rank Rampage because he still has a contract so dose Liddell

Probably right about Randy but is Chuck coming back? I didn't think he was.

Arbie · 11-07-2009, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by rondog6669

not bad except randy shouldn't be ranked the only top ten he has beat is Gonzoga and that was 2 years ago

also if you are going to rank Rampage because he still has a contract so dose Liddell

I disagree. Shogun only has one top ten win in the past two years, but pretty obviously should be ranked top 3 at LHW, and thats because he looked impressive in his last fight even though he didn't win. Couture looked top 10 caliber in both the Lesnar and Nog fights, so he should still be ranked.

llperez22 · 11-07-2009, 05:09 PM

ufc lw's don't look too good. You are not giving Sherk enough props. He dominated Kenny and get's beat by only Penn and Edgar and you have him 10th behind lesser guys like Clay and Nate diaz. He also beat Griffin just 2 fights ago, although it was close. Clay defenitely needs to drop on that list. He shouldn't be higher then Sherk, Griffin, or stevenson.

**jerzey devil** · 11-07-2009, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Arbie

I disagree. Shogun only has one top ten win in the past two years, but pretty obviously should be ranked top 3 at LHW, and thats because he looked impressive in his last fight even though he didn't win. Couture looked top 10 caliber in both the Lesnar and Nog fights, so he should still be ranked.

I just took a shower and I thought about it and I agree with you. Randy's performances against Nog and Lesnar keeps him in the top ten.