Global-MMA Rankings (Outside UFC) - September 2014

Heavyweight
1.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
2.  Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Alexander Volkov (Bellator)
4.  Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
5.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
6.  Damian Grabowski (M-1 Global)
7.  Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (IGF Champion)
8.  Blagoi Ivanov (Bellator)
9.  Konstantin Gluhov (M-1 Global)
10. Satoshi Ishii (IGF)

Other Contenders: Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion), Ken Hasegawa (DEEP Champion), Konstantin Erokhin (Fight Nights), Brett Rogers (Fight Nights), Magomed Malikov (M-1 Global)

Light Heavyweight
1.  Emanuel Newton (Bellator Champion)
2.  Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (Bellator)
3.  Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (Bellator)
4.  Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (DEEP Champion)
5.  Attila Vegh (Free Agent)
6.  Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global Champion)
7.  Mikhail Zayats (Bellator)
8.  Mike Kyle (WSOF)
9.  Tito Ortiz (Bellator)
10. Jason Jones (BAMMA Champion)

Other Contenders: Luiz Cane (SFT), Liam McGeary (Bellator), James McSweeney (ONE FC), Joey Beltran (Bellator), Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global)

Middleweight
1.  Mamed Khalidov (KSW)
2.  Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator Champion)
3.  Yushin Okami (WSOF)
4.  Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global Champion)
5.  Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global)
6.  Michal Materla (KSW Champion)
7.  Maiquel Falcao (KSW)
8.  David Branch (WSOF Champion)
9.  Doug Marshall (Bellator)
10. Kazuhiro Nakamura (DEEP Champion)

Other Contenders: Brandon Halsey (Bellator), Brett Cooper (Bellator), Jay Silva (KSW), Leandro Ataides (ONE FC), Jesse Taylor (WSOF)

Welterweight
1.  Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion)
2.  Douglas Lima (Bellator Champion)
3.  Rousimar Palhares (WSOF Champion)
4.  Jake Shields (WSOF)
5.  Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator)
6.  Steve Carl (WSOF)
7.  Josh Burkman (WSOF)
8.  Jon Fitch (WSOF)
9.  Paul Daley (BAMMA)
10. Rick Hawn (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion), Michael Page (Bellator), Gota Yamashita (King of Pancrase), Nobutatsu Suzuki (ONE FC), Yasubey Enomoto (Fight Nights)

Lightweight
1.  Will Brooks (Bellator)
2.  Shinya Aoki (ONE FC Champion)
3.  Michael Chandler (Bellator)
4.  Justin Gaethje (WSOF Champion)
5.  Musa Khamanaev (M-1 Global Champion)
6.  Patricky Freire (Bellator)
7.  Marcin Held (Bellator)
8.  Isao Kobayashi (King of Pancrase)
9.  Vuyisile Colossa (ONE FC)
10. Ramazan Esenbaev (IGF)

Other Contenders: David Rickels (Bellator), Saad Awad (Bellator), Melvin Guillard (WSOF), Lowen Tynanes (ONE FC), Leandro Silva (Pancrase)

Featherweight
1.  Patricio Freire (Bellator Champion)
2.  Pat Curran (Bellator)
3.  Rick Glenn (WSOF Champion)
4.  Kazunori Yokota (DEEP Champion)
5.  Daniel Straus (Bellator)
6.  Georgi Karakhanyan (WSOF)
7.  Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
8.  Caol Uno (Shooto)
9.  Jadamba Narantungala (ONE FC Champion)
10. Daniel Romero (Shooto)

Other Contenders: Koji Oishi (ONE FC), Marat Gafurov (M-1 Global Champion), Hiroyuki Takaya (Shooto), Diego Nunes (Bellator), Magomedrasul Khasbulaev (Bellator)

Bantamweight
1.  Bibiano Fernandes (ONE FC Champion)
2.  Eduardo Dantas (Bellator Champion)
3.  Joe Warren (Bellator)  
4.  Marlon Moraes (WSOF Champion)
5.  Soo-Chul Kim (ROAD FC)
6.  Shintaro Ishiwatari (King of Pancrase)
7.  Marcos Galvao (Bellator)
8.  Masakatsu Ueda (ONE FC)
9.  Luis Alberto Nogueira (Bellator)
10. Dae Hwan Kim (ONE FC)

Other Contenders: Cody Bollinger (WSOF), Yuta Sasaki (Shooto), Kevin Belingon (ONE FC), Tyson Nam (WSOF), Rafael Silva (Bellator)

Flyweight
1.  Yuki Motoya (DEEP Champion)
2.  Haruo Ochi (DEEP)
3.  Andrew Leone (ONE FC)
4.  Adriano Moraes (ONE FC)
5.  Tatsumitsu Wada (DEEP)
6.  Nam Jin Jo (ROAD FC Champion)
7.  Shinichi "BJ" Kojima (ONE FC)
8.  Czar Sklavos (Shooto)
9.  Ryuichi Miki (Shooto Champion)
10. Alexandre Pantoja Passidomo (Shooto Brazil)

Other Contenders: Mikihito Yamagami (ROAD FC), Kiyotaka Shimizu (King of Pancrase), Yasuhiro Urushitani (ONE FC), Dileno Lopes (Shooto Brazil), Yosuke Saruta (Grandslam)

Junior Flyweight
1.  Mitsuhisa Sunabe (King of Pancrase)
2.  Rambaa Somdet (PXC)
3.  Shinya Murofushi (Shooto Champion)
4.  Junji Ito (Shooto)
5.  Yoshitaka “Nobita” Naito (Shooto)
6.  Yuki Shojo (Shooto)
7.  Gilberto Dias (Shooto Brazil)
8.  Noboru Tahara (Pancrase)
9.  Hiroyuki Abe (Pancrase)
10. Ryo Hatta (ZST Champion)

Other Contenders: Ken Asuka (Shooto), Ryuya Fukuda (Shooto), Akihito Sasao (Shooto), Takuya Eizumi (Pancrase), Yukitaka Musashi (Pancrase)
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Global-MMA Ranking Update Summary

* Ranked Fighters Removed from All Previous Rankings Dating Back to February 2012:

Heavyweight: Tony Lopez, Fedor Emelianenko (Retired), Cole Konrad (Retired), Brett Rogers, Eric Prindle, Todd Duffee (UFC), Alexei Kudin, Soa Palelei (UFC), Levan Razmadze, Rich Hale, Chaban Ka, Rolles Gracie, Jeff Monson, Peter Graham, Alexey Oleinik (UFC), Konstantin Gluhov, Aleksander Emelianenko, Ryan Martinez, Lavar Johnson, Mike Russow, Andrei Arlovski (UFC), Dmitriy Sosnovskiy, Guram Gugenishvilli, Derrick Mehmen, Kenny Garner, Shamil Abdurahimov

Light Heavyweight: Glover Texeira (UFC), D.J. Linderman, Marcus Vanttinen, Gegard Mousasi (Strikeforce), Jimi Manuwa (UFC), Vinny Magalhaes (UFC), Roger Hollett (UFC), Richard Hale (Division Change), Mark Godbeer, Maxim Grishin, Travis Wiuff (Division Change), Tomasz Narkun, Sergey Kornev (Retired), Robert Drysdale (UFC), Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Aleksandar Radosavljevic (Retired), Max Nunes, Jacob Noe, Raphael Davis, Jan Blachowicz (UFC), Anthony Johnson (UFC), Paul Buentello, Vladimir Matyushenko (Retired), Moise Rimbon, Roger Gracie, Christian M’Pumbu, Thiago Silva (UFC)

Middleweight: Nate Marquardt (Strikeforce), Giva Santana, Bryan Baker, Hector Lombard (UFC), Andrei Semenov, Jorge Santiago (Strikeforce), Anthony Johnson (Division Change), Ryuta Sakurai, Magomed Sultanakhmedov (Retired), Antonio Neto (UFC), Thales Leites (UFC), Vitor Vianna, Bruno Santos, Roger Gracie (Division Change), Mario Miranda (Division Change), Arthur Guseinov, Dan Cramer, Eun-Su Lee, Elvis Mutapcic

Welterweight: Ben Saunders, Gael Grimaud, Bryan Baker, Yuya Shirai, Marius Zaromskis, Lyman Good, Myung Ho Bae, Fabricio Monteiro, Jay Hieron, Karl Amoussou, Akihiro Murayama, Rashid Magomedov (UFC), Albert Tumenov (UFC), Alexander Yakovlev (UFC), Takenori Sato (UFC), Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (Division Change), Ryan Ford, Shamil Zavurov, Aslambek Saidov

Lightweight: Francisco Trinaldo (UFC), Ricardo Tirloni, Koji Oishi, Mizuto Hirota (Strikeforce), Mairbek Taisumov, Zorobabel Moreira, Alexander Sarnavskiy, Rich Clementi, Katsunori Kikuno, Paul Sass, Lloyd Woodard, Antonio McKee (Retired), Dave Jansen, Lewis Gonzales, Satoru Kitaoka, Yui Chul Nam (UFC), Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Kotetsu Boku, Naoyuki Kotani (UFC), Nick Newell, Eddie Alvarez (UFC)

Featherweight: Ronnie Mann, Mike Corey, Wilson Reis, Joachim Hansen, Mike Richman, Yusuke Kawanago, Takeshi Inoue, Joe Warren (Division Change), Wagnney Fabiano, Shahbulat Shamhalaev, Honorio Banario, Kazuyuki Miyata, Tatsuya Kawajiri (UFC), Doo Ho Choi (UFC), Takumi Nakayama, Marlon Sandro, Matt Bessette, Shinya Aoki, Fabricio de Assis Costa da Silva

Bantamweight: Hiroshi Nakamura, Masakazu Imanari, Hideo Tokoro, Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Wagnney Fabiano (Division Change), Alexis Vila, Rodolfo Marques Diniz, Travis Marx, Zach Makovsky (Division Change), Kyoji Horiguchi (UFC), Miguel Torres, Leandro Issa (UFC), Pablo Alfonso, Ed West, Anthony Leone

Flyweight: Taiyo Nakahara, Kentaro Watanabe, Rey Docyogen, Yuki Yasunaga, Ali Bagautinov (UFC), Jose Maria Tome (UFC), Darrell Montague (UFC), Zach Makovsky, Sergio Pettis (UFC), Alexis Vila (Division Change), Will Campuzano (UFC), Joshua Sampo (UFC), Mamoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiro Maeda, Yosuke Saruta, Kentaro Watanabe, Hideo Tokoro

Junior Flyweight: Junji Ikoma, Takehiro Ishii, Mikihito Yamagami (Division Change), Masakazu Utsugi, Takuya Eizumi, Ryosuke Tanuma, Tadaaki Yamamoto, Jun Nakamura, Masayoshi Kato, Tatsuya Yamamoto
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Global-MMA Ranking Rules

*This ranking system includes fighters that are not under exclusive contract to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

*Top level fighters that leave the UFC may be ranked in subsequent rankings.

*Fighters that sign exclusively to the UFC will be removed from the rankings.

*Rankings are based on a fighter's overall career results and recent performance.

*A fighter will be ranked number one if he defeats the number one ranked fighter in the weight division except under certain rare circumstances where the number two ranked fighter clearly deserves to move into the number one ranking position.  

*Victories over highly ranked fighters and losses against non-ranked opponents have a larger effect on the fighters ranking position.

*A fighter will not necessarily take the place of his opponent in the rankings after a victory or a loss.

* A fighter can move up a maximum of three spots with impressive victories over a fighter ranked below him; however, there is no limit if the fighter earned a title or a tournament championship with the victory.

* An unranked newly crowned champion who earned a title in a major league MMA promotion can enter the top ten even with a victory over an unranked fighter.

*A fighter will drop in the rankings if he does not fight regularly against high level competition.

*A top ten ranked fighter can become ranked in another weight division after one or more wins in his new weight class.

*A fighter can be ranked in two different weight divisions.

*Champions and fighters from prominent promotions will have an advantage over champions and fighters from promotions with lesser competition.

*A fighter will be removed from the rankings if he does not fight for two years.

*Fighters that are signed to multiple promotions will have their promotions listed based on the following criteria: 1) championship held in a promotion, 2) predominant promotion the fighter fights in, 3) promotion
last fought in.

*Rankings will be updated every month.

I have Slava at #2 now.

Golden Age wrote:I have Slava at #2 now.

I was going to put him at 3 next month behind Shlemenko. It is a tough call now. Slava is on a tear and new M-1 champ. You think 3 is fair?

Sorry I haven't update, just a few changes to be made.

I agree with Slava at 3. We shouldn't punish Shlemenko for losing at 205 and Vasilevsky gets a legitimate claim at no.1 if he can manage to beat Khalidov if that bout materializes.

CDF47 wrote:

Golden Age wrote:I have Slava at #2 now.

I was going to put him at 3 next month behind Shlemenko.  It is a tough call now.  Slava is on a tear and new M-1 champ.  You think 3 is fair?

#3 is fair.

wekka wrote:Sorry I haven't update, just a few changes to be made.

I agree with Slava at 3. We shouldn't punish Shlemenko for losing at 205 and Vasilevsky gets a legitimate claim at no.1 if he can manage to beat Khalidov if that bout materializes.

No problem.

Yeah, I feel the same way about Slava at 3 and Shlemenko at 2. I hope the Slava/Mamed fight happens. Will be a great fight.

wekka, also for next month, moraes is now one fc champ at flw.

Keep up the good work CDF47!

Good stuff here. Good work

Van Halen MMA wrote:Good stuff here. Good work

Hey VH. Nice to see you around.

AudaxSmoke wrote:Keep up the good work CDF47!

Thanks audax

Van Halen MMA wrote:Good stuff here. Good work

thank you

Ray Sefo was on Inside MMA yesterday. At the end of the show Kenny Rice asked Bas and Stephan Bonnar if they think Marlon Moraes is the best BW outside UFC. Bas said Marlon is the best BW outside UFC.

CDF47 wrote:Ray Sefo was on Inside MMA yesterday.  At the end of the show Kenny Rice asked Bas and Stephan Bonnar if they think Marlon Moraes is the best BW outside UFC.  Bas said Marlon is the best BW outside UFC.

Dantas and Bibi are still ahead of Moraes if you ask me. Don't care about much of what Bas has to say lately and definitely don't care about the UFC's BW division right now. Of course Inside Zuffa is shilling for it's shadow organization.

^I agree on all your points

Kongo is too high imo. Grabowski and Ivanov should be before him.

Sergei always too high as usual

I think Kongo is in between Grabowski and Ivanov.

I'd rearrange to this or something

1.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
2.  Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Alexander Volkov (Bellator)
4.  Damian Grabowski (M-1 Global)
5.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
6.  Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
7.  Blagoi Ivanov (Bellator)
8.  Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (IGF Champion)
9.  Konstantin Gluhov (M-1 Global)
10. Satoshi Ishii (IGF)

Golden Age wrote:Kongo is too high imo. Grabowski and Ivanov should be before him.

Kongo got up there by winning the Bellator tournament, losing a decision to the champ in a good fight, and then winning two straight, including a finish win against Lavar Johnson. I could see Grabowski over him possibly but I just had Kongo pass him up after the Johnson quick finish. Ivanov also beat Johnson but he didn't win his tournament and was finished in the finale.

AudaxSmoke wrote:Sergei always too high as usual

I think Kongo is in between Grabowski and Ivanov.

I could see Kongo in between those two.  Was just impressed with his quick finish of Johnson and the roll he has been on. He did pretty good against Minakov as well.  

Sergei has a big fight coming up against top 10 Ishii so we'll see if he needs to drop.  If he loses he will take a decent dive in the top 10 rankings.

AudaxSmoke wrote:I'd rearrange to this or something

1.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
2.  Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Alexander Volkov (Bellator)
4.  Damian Grabowski (M-1 Global)
5.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
6.  Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
7.  Blagoi Ivanov (Bellator)
8.  Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (IGF Champion)
9.  Konstantin Gluhov (M-1 Global)
10. Satoshi Ishii (IGF)

Those rankings do look good.

So Manhoef just beat #9, has a fight lined up with #6, and now after that he will face the winner of #2 vs. #11.  

Also Slava should be ahead of Okami next month IMO.

Manhoef should beat Materla, imo. So Bellator is setting up huge implications within our rankings.

Thanks for the hook up, Coker!

I'm on the manhoef war wagon! !!

Bring home the ksw belt and then set up the fight with storm (I'm assuming he'll win against Halsey)

I'm on the manhoef war wagon! !!

Bring home the ksw belt and then set up the fight with storm (I'm assuming he'll win against Halsey)