MMA
Rankings Updated August 30th
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MMA Rankings- Heavyweights:
- Brock
Lesnar UFC
Champion
- Alistair Overeem
(+100) Strikeforce
Champion
- Fedor (+100)
- Cain
Velasquez (+100) closes the gap on Lesnar and Fedor
- Shane Carwin (+100) big
question about cardio now, but nearly had the title.
- Junior Dos Santos
(+260) tons
of confidence now
- Big
Nog (+400) no change after loss to cain
- Antonio Silvia
(+400) interesting
combination of skills and size, still improving
- Fabricio Werdum
(+400)
- Josh Barnett (+420)
- Frank
Mir (+420) still
way behind the top guys
- Aleks Emelianenko
(+420)
- Cheick Kongo (+420) young
guns are all moving past him, needs to beat a top shelf fighter.
- Gabriel Gonzaga
(+420) No match for
JDS, hard to see him as a contender anymore
- Brett Rogers (+420) dominated
by Overeem
- Ben Rothwell (+480)
- Roy Nelson (+480)
- Andrei Arlovski
(+500) losses
piling up
- Heath Herring
(+600)
- Stefan Struve
(+680) Needs to mature and gain experience, dangerous
if he gets into his game.
- Bobby Lashley
(+680)
 lot
a questions still, but he's a physical force.
- Tim Sylvia (+700)
- Mirko Cro Cop
(+700)
- Pat Barry (+700)
- Kimbo
Slice (+1700)
Fought his way out of UFC.
MMA Rankings-Light Heavyweights:
- Shogun
Rua UFC
Champion
- Lyoto Machida (+80)
puzzle solved?
- Rashad
Evans (+80)
solid/smart win over Rampage
- Jon Jones (+140) dominating
everyone he faces
- Quinton Jackson
(+160) problems "getting
off" against Rashad is not a good sign.
- Antonio Rogerio
Nogueira (+200) impressive
win over Cane, squeeker over Brilz.
- Dan
Henderson (+200) dominated
by Shields
- Thiago Silva (+200)
frustrated by Rashad's effective wrestling
- Forrest
Griffin (+280) solid
win over Tito
- Ryan
Bader (+280)
fits somewhere in the +280 group
- Phil Davis (+300) solid
win at 118, but needs to prove himself against quality fighters
- Gegard Mousasi
(+300) Dream
MW GP Champion No answer for King Mo's wrestling
- Vitor Belfort
(+300)
- Rich Franklin
(+300) retired Chuck
- Matt Hamill (+300) Bones
Jones destroyed him
- Stephan
Bonnar (+300) Great
win over Krysztof
- Ricardo Arona
(+300)
- Babalu Sobral
(+320) surprising stand up against Lawler
- Krzysztof Soszynski
(+320) continues
to improve
- Keith Jardine
(+340)
- Jason Brilz (+340)
- Rafael Cavalcante
(+360) Strikeforce
LHW Champion solid journeyman
earns recognition with big win over Mo
- Muhammed Lawal
(+360) Dominanted
Mousasi, shows his potential.
- Steve Cantwell
(+360)
- Luiz
Cane (+400) bad
loss to Diabate raises questions about his talent level
- Sokoudjou (+420)
- Randy Couture
(+460) Win over Coleman doesn't prove much
- Brandon Vera (+460)
hype is finally over
- Tito Ortiz
(+460) very limited offense
- Brian Stann (+480) nothing
off his back, but dangerous as a striker.
MMA Rankings-Middleweights:
- Anderson
Silva UFC Champion
- Chael Sonnen (+60) dominated
Silva, but still ends up a dog in a rematch.
- Jake
Shields (+100) proved
a lot with his win over Hendo
- Nate Marquardt
(+160) dominated
by Sonnen's wrestling
- Jorge Santiago
(+160) Sengoku
Champion big wins over Khalidov and Misaki
- Yushin Okami (+220) win
over Munoz, finally earns him a title shot?
- Dan
Henderson (+320) dominated
by Shields
- Hector Lombard
(+340) Bellator Champion we need to see him in
the big fights
- Demian Maia (+500) no
chance against Silva
- Ronaldo Souza
(+500) Strikeforce
Champion he fits somewhere in here,
tons of potential
- Alan Belcher (+500) lots
of talent, time to take on some top quality fighters
- Mark
Munoz (+500) good
effort against Okami, who was clearly better
- Chris Leben (+500)
- Yoshihiro Akiyama
(+500)
- Kazuo Misaki (+500)
- Michael Bisping
(+500) quality
win over Dan Miller
- Robbie Lawler
(+500) bad
loss against Babalu.
- Kendall Grove
(+500) always
dangerous
- Benji Radach (+500)
- Mamed Khalidov
(+500)
- Tim Kennedy (+540)
- Melvin Manhoef
(+540)
- Cung
Le (+540)
- Jake Rosholt (+540) dominating
Kendall, but still inexperienced
- Aaron Simpson
(+540)
- Wanderlei Silva
(+540) hard to see him favored over anyone listed
above
- Dan Miller (+600)
- Rousimar Palhares
(+600) didn't learn much with his quick/fluky win
at UFC 111.
- Patrick
Cote (+660) looked
like he'd been off 18 months against Belcher
- Tom Lawlor (+660)
inexplicable
loss to Doerkson. tons of talent, can't get it all together
- Jorge Rivera (+680)
best fighting of his career
MMA Rankings-Welterweights:
- Georges
St. Pierre UFC Champion another dominant
win over Hardy
- Jon Fitch (+300) great
fighter, only UFC loss is against GSP
- Josh
Koscheck (+320) dismissed Daley
just like Leben.
- Jake
Shields (+320)
- Anthony
Johnson (+360) competed well against Koscheck
- Nick Diaz (+360) Strikeforce
Champion possibly the only real threat to GSP?
- John Hathaway
(+400) the
secret is out.
- Ricky Story (+420)
time
to face a tough opponent on PPV
- Mike Pierce (+460) had
Fitch in trouble late, another win at 118.
- Dan Hardy (+500)
drops in relative strength
- Thiago Alves (+560)
- Martin Kampmann
(+560) inconsistent,
but very good against Thiago
- Carlos Condit
(+640) GREAT win over Rory MacDonald
- Jake Ellenberger
(+640) 3 solid
performances in the UFC
- Paulo
Thiago (+640)
- Matt Hughes (+640)
suprising KO/submission of Almeida
- Chris Lytle (+640)
- Ricardo Almeida
(+640) lacks
consistency
- Rory
MacDonald (+640) tons of allround talent
- Dennis Hallman (+640)
- Nate
Diaz (+640)
 could
be a contender at LW too. Great skillset.
- Greg Soto (+640) Solid
decision over Osipczak
- Nick Osipczak
(+660) Lost
to Greg Soto at 118
- Paul Daley (+660) one
dimensional
- Lyman Good (+660)
Bellator Champion
- Johny Hendricks
(+660) Nice win against TJ Grant at 113
- Dong Hyun Kim (+660) dominanting
win over Sadollah
- Paul Daley (+660) one
dimensional
- Mike
Swick (+680) struggling
against the top guys
- Jay Hieron (+680)
- Matt Brown (+680)
- Ben Saunders (+680) disappointing
loss to Hallman
- Evangelista Santos
(+680)
- Danillo Villefort
(+700)
- John Howard (+700)
- Marcus
Davis (+700) Nate
Diaz beat him at his own game.
- Dustin Hazelett
(+800) terrible against
Daley, dominated by Story
- Marius Zaromskis
(+800) Dream
Champion
MMA Rankings-Lightweights:
- Frankie Edgar UFC
Champion Great
win over Penn x2
- Gray
Maynard already
owns a win over Edgar
- George Sotiropoulous
(+40) legitimate
ground skills, proven against Stevenson and Batman
- Evan
Dunham (+40)
- BJ
Penn (+80) Edgar
completely outworked him in the rematch
- Kenny Florian
(+140) struggles
against the beast wrestlers
- Diego Sanchez
(+140) dominated
by Hathaway, not sure what weight class he'll end up in.
- Tyson Griffin
(+140) despite
consecutive losses he's still a top LW
- Gilbert Melendez
(+140) Strikeforce
Champion dominated
Aoki,
- Josh Thomson (+160) on
even terms with Melendez
- Joe
Stevenson (+200)
- Eddie Alvarez (+220) Bellator
Champion
- Shinya Aoki (+200) Dream
Champion
- Joachim Hansen
(+260)
- Tatsuya Kawajiri
(+300)
- Kurt Pellegrino
(+300) never got in his game against
Georgie S.
- Gesias Calvancante
(+320)
- Sean Sherk (+340)
- Ross Pearson (+340) impressive
since entering UFC
- Rafael Dos Anjos
+(340)
- Gleison Tibau
(+340)
- KJ Noons (+340)
Solid win over Heun, Gurgel. Needs to prove it
against top opponents.
- Clay Guida (+340)
- Jeremy Stephens(+340) impressive
win over Stout
- Melvin Guillard
(+340) Move
to Jackson paying off???
- Jim
Miller
(+340)
- Sam Stout (+340) tough
loss to Stephens. he'll move forward though.
- Ben Henderson
(+340) WEC Champion Just
keeps winning & improving
- Mark Bocek (+360)
tough loss against Miller
- Matt Wiman (+360) starting
to see a complete fighter having success
- Jamie Varner (+360) hard
to figure, talented when things are right
- Mizuto Hirota
(+360) Sengoku
Champion
- Shane
Roller(+400)
- Joe Lauzon (+400)
back
on track?
- Nik Lentz (+400)
great grappler, but needs more offense
- Takanori Gomi
(+400) back
on the map, but it was only one punch
MMA Rankings- Featherweights:
- Jose
Aldo WEC Champion
- Mike Brown (+300)
- Urijah
Faber (+300)
- Bibiano Fernandes
+(400) Dream
Champion quality win
over Hanson
- Marlon Sandro
(+400) exciting
striker, gathering some quality wins
- Masanori Kanehara
(+500) still solid despite spectacular loss to Sandro
- Joe Warren (+520)
won
Bellator's toughest tournament
- Pitbull
Freire (+520) lost
a close fight to Warren
- Hatsu Hioki (+580)
- Josh Grispi (+580)
- Joe Soto (+580)
Bellator Champion
- Chad Mendes (+580) One
dimensional, but he's a physical beast.
- LC
Davis (+600)
- Manny Gamburyan
(+600) Huge
KO of Mike Brown
- Deividas
Taurosevicius (+600)
- Diego
Nunes (+600) close win over Assuncao, close loss to Davis
- Raphael Assuncao
(+620)
- Darren Uyenoyama
(+620)
- Michihiro
Omigawa (+620)
- Chan Sung Jung
(+620) robbed against Garcia
- Fredson Paixão
(+620) solid veteran, slight nod over Garcia.
- Leonard Garcia
(+640) great battler, lots of holes standing
- Javier Vazquez (+640) best fighting of his career
- Hiroyuki Takaya
(+680)
MMA Rankings - Bantamweights:
- Dominick Cruz WEC
Champion unique skills frustrate
opponents, don't overlook his wrestling.
- Scott Jorgensen
(+40) big
win over Pickett, finally gets well earned title shot.
- Joseph Benavidez
(+40) constantly
improving, but hard to see him beating Cruz.
- Brian Bowles
(+40) best
power in the division
- Miguel Torres
(+100)
- Wagnney Fabianno
(+160) former contender at FW
- Brad
Pickett (+200) gave
Jorgensen all he could handle
- Antonio Banuelos
(+300)
- Masakazu Imanari
(+300)
- Damacio Page (+300)
- Masakatsu Ueda
(+300) no
longer unbeaten
- Takaya Mizugaki
(+460)
- Akitoshi Tamura
(+500)
- Shuichiro Katsumura
(+500) win over Ueda puts him on the map, Ueda
would be favored in a rematch.
MMA
Rankings Notes August 30th
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