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Since: 9.12.01
From: ミネアポリス

#1 Posted on | Instant Rating: 9.45
These rankings followed UFC on FUEL 8, which I know was watched by everybody reading this right now.

Voting Panelists (61):
Armando Alvarez (Miami Herald) *****
Kenai Andrews (MMA Crossfire) *
Jeremy Botter (Houston Chronicle/Bleacher Report)
David Brown (Cherokee Scout) *
Tim Burke (Bloody Elbow) *
Jeff Cain (MMAWeekly.com)
Flavio Canto (Sensei SporTV)
Steve Cofield (ESPN Radio)
Jorge Corrêa (UOL (Brazil))
Davi Correia (Veja.com) *****
Mark Daniels (Boston Herald)
Stephanie Daniels (Tapout Radio) *
Gareth A Davies (Daily Telegraph UK) *
Gene DeAngelo (WWUZ FM) *
Dave Deibert (Post Media News) *
Kevin Dodrill (Fisher Radio) *
Bob Emanuel (Scripps Howard News Service)
Heidi Fang (MMA Fight Corner)
Paulo Favero (O Estado de S Paulo )
Steve Feitl (Asbury Park Press)
Joe Fernandez (Chicago Sun-Times)
Mario Filho (OSS TV)
Ryan Frederick (InsideFights.com)
Grant Gordon (Burbank Leader)
Andreas Hale (FightNews)
Chris Hall (Bloody Elbow) *
Randy Harris (WTAN Sports)
Brian Hemminger (MMAmania.com) **
Ana Hissa (Mundo da Luta )
Steve Jeffery (CFMU 93.3 FM)
Mike Johnston (Sportsnet)
Steve Juon (Wrestling Observer)
Abe Kanan (The Abe Kanan Show SiriusXM)
Case Keefer (Las Vegas Sun)
James Koh (FOX 11 Los Angeles) ***
Ron Kruck (Inside MMA)
Mark LaMonica (Newsday)
Claudia Lima (VIP)
Alexandre Matos (MMA Brasil)
Justin Mayer (Armed Forces Network)
Franklin McNeil (ESPN.com) ****
Thomas Myers (MMAmania.com)
Guga Noblat (O Globo )
Eric O'Brien (Clear Channel)
Brett Okamoto (ESPN.com) *
Chris Palmquist (MixedMartialArts.com)
Eddie Pappani (KIOZ San Diego) *
Nick Peet (Fighters Only)
Klima Pessanha (Globoesporte.com)
Ken Pishna (MMAWeekly.com)
Marc Raimondi (NY Post)
Ivan Raupp (Globoesporte.com)
Fernando Rudnick (Gazeta do Povo)
Marcelo Russio (Canal Combate ) ***
Ariel Shnerer (Fight Network)
John Silver (Chicago Sun-Times)
Jonathan Snowden (Bleacher Report)
Anthony Springer Jr. (FightNews) *
Neil Springer (Sun Media)
Hans Thompson (Inside MMA) *
Jeff Wagenheim (SI.com)
*did not submit a previous ballot
** did not submit "pound-for-pound" ballot
*** only submitted Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche in the Women's Bantamweight rankings
**** only submitted Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate in the Women's Bantamweight rankings
***** only submitted Ronda Rousey, Liz Carmouche and Miesha Tate in the Women's Bantamweight rankings

Pound-for-Pound
1 Anderson Silva
2 Jon Jones
3 Georges St-Pierre
4 Jose Aldo
5 Benson Henderson
6 Cain Velasquez
7 Demetrious Johnson
8 (9) Renan Barao
9 (8) Dominick Cruz
10 Frankie Edgar

Flyweight
Champion :
Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 John Dodson
3 Ian McCall
4 John Moraga
5 Jussier Da Silva
6 Louis Gaudinot
7 Chris Cariaso
8 Darren Uyenoyama
9 John Lineker
10 Timothy Elliott

Bantamweight
Champion :
Dominick Cruz
1 Renan Barao (Interim Champion)
2 Urijah Faber
3 Michael McDonald
4 Eddie Wineland
5 Brad Pickett
6 Raphael Assuncao
7 Scott Jorgensen
8 Brian Bowles
9 Mike Easton
10 Ivan Menjivar

Featherweight
Champion :
Jose Aldo
1 Chad Mendes
2 Ricardo Lamas
3 Frankie Edgar
4 Chan Sung Jung
5 Cub Swanson
6 Dennis Siver
7 Dustin Poirier
8 (9) Clay Guida
9 (8) Nik Lentz
10 Erik Koch

Lightweight
Champion :
Benson Henderson
1 Gilbert Melendez
2 Anthony Pettis
3 Gray Maynard
4 Nate Diaz
5 Jim Miller
6 Donald Cerrone
7 TJ Grant
8 Rafael dos Anjos
9 Joe Lauzon
10 Khabib Nurmagomedov

Welterweight
Champion :
Georges St-Pierre
1 Johny Hendricks
2 Carlos Condit
3 Nick Diaz
4 Rory MacDonald
5 Demian Maia
6 Jake Ellenberger
7 Martin Kampmann
8 Tarec Saffiedine
9 (10) Robbie Lawler
10 (9) Josh Koscheck

Middleweight
Champion :
Anderson Silva
1 Chris Weidman
2 Vitor Belfort
3 (4) Yushin Okami
4 (3) Michael Bisping
5 (6) Luke Rockhold
6 (5) Constantinos Philippou
7 Mark Munoz
8 (10) Ronaldo Souza
9 Chael Sonnen
10 (8) Hector Lombard

Light Heavyweight
Champion : Jon Jones
1 Lyoto Machida
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Dan Henderson
4 Glover Teixeira
5 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
6 Mauricio Rua
7 (T6) Rashad Evans
8 Phil Davis
9 Ryan Bader
10 Gegard Mousasi

Heavyweight
Champion :
Cain Velasquez
1 Junior dos Santos
2 Fabricio Werdum
3 Daniel Cormier
4 Antonio Silva
5 Frank Mir
6 Alistair Overeem
7 (8) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
8 (7) Roy Nelson
9 (NR) Mark Hunt
10 (9) Stefan Struve
(Out: Shane Carwin)

NEW RANKING
Women's Bantamweight
Champion :
Ronda Rousey
1 Miesha Tate
2 Liz Carmouche
3 Sarah Kaufman
4 Alexis Davis
5 Cat Zingano
6 Sara McMann
T7 Julie Kedzie
T7 Amanda Nunes
9 Germaine de Randamie


(edited by CRZ on 8.3.13 1505)


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Since: 10.7.11
From: San Francisco, CA

#2 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.92
I like the idea of these rankings. I do not watch UFC, but I'd be interested in doing so if I got more familiar with their fighters. Learning the names of their top guys would be a good first step.

I see they have eight mens divisions. Are there many fighters in each division who are not on these lists, or is this pretty much their entire roster?
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Since: 4.1.02
From: Dorchester, Ontario

#3 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.46
Every division has roughly 25-30 people except for flyweight and the women's division since both were only recently introduced. It's also complicated by some fighters jumping from weight class to weight class, such as how Anthony Pettis is dropping down to 145 and is automatically the next contender to Aldo's belt (they're fighting in August).



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Since: 2.11.02
From: Edinburgh, Scotland

#4 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.66
    Originally posted by CRZ
    These rankings followed UFC on FUEL 8, which I know was watched by everybody reading this right now.

It certainly should've been watched! Hunt v Struve and Stann v Wanderlei more than made up for a lackluster undercard.

I'm not sure I follow the logic that sees Mendes and Lamas ahead of Edgar in the featherweight rankings but not in P4P, but whatevs.

    Originally posted by Dionysus
    Are there many fighters in each division who are not on these lists, or is this pretty much their entire roster?

They've got more than they normally would because they recently 'absorbed' Strikeforce. Per Dana (who was mid "why we cut Jon Fitch" rant at the time, so take it with a pinch of salt) they've got 470 under contract and they'd be looking to trim a good number of those.

Watching prelims (which I think usually air free one way or another in the US) can be a good way to familiarise yourself with some of the newcomers and less well known guys. You can also get some Strikeforce fights on YouTube if you've got time to kill and want to get to know some of the guys that came over from there. Gilbert Melendez (current #1 contender at LW) had fun fights against Thompson and Kawajiri and Nick Diaz (fighting GSP for the WW belt on Saturday) against pretty much anyone he fought in Strikeforce was entertaining.
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