The top-tier Brazilian fighters are not really in Brazil... right???

I don't get some of the criticism of G-MMA rankings surrounding Brazilians. 'Most' all are fighting outside Brazil with the 'most all' the elite fighting in the UFC. Others are fighting all over the world. IMO opinion they are not fighting in Jungle Fight or smaller Brazilian promotions. I could be wrong though.

If the Brazilian fighter ranking critiques are saying that the #70 Brazilian is better than the #1-10 Japanese, or Chechen. or Dagestani, or Russian then that's kinda silly.

This Brazilian situation is a different one than with the Euro/Eastern-Euro/Asian countries. The UFC has focused their recruiting efforts almost exclusively on the USA & Brazil. This has skewed the "best in the world" category way toward those two countries. PRIDE did not do this. Americans a whole did not do as well in PRIDE. Brazilians also had less success in PRIDE than they've had in the UFC. 

The UFC has been using a 'non-representative' sampling of fighters from all over the world where MMA is practiced. In market research terms you get bad data coming out when you don't do a 'representative sampling' of an entire targeted population.

FIGHTERS Total: 309  89  77  52  15  12  10  7  5  5  4  3  3  2  2  2  2  2  2  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1

Another problem lies with how many Brazilians outside of the UFC and Bellator stay.freelance for an extended period of time, which doesn't allow many of them to fight each other domestically, thus making them more difficult to properly rank.

No Brasil is just better.

brazilians werent successful in Pride?  

Wand LHW king

Shogun Champion of the baddest Tourney ever assembled

Nog HW Champ and 2nd Best HW in Pride behind Fedor

Arona Top 5 in the Stacked LHW division

Paulo Fihlo

Ninja

etc...

Realidea wrote:brazilians werent successful in Pride?  

Wand LHW king

Shogun Champion of the baddest Tourney ever assembled

Nog HW Champ and 2nd Best HW in Pride behind Fedor

Arona Top 5 in the Stacked LHW division

Paulo Fihlo

Ninja

etc...

Whoa! Settle down there my friend.

I said AS successful as they've been championship-wise and as a whole in the UFC.

Americans were not as successful in PRIDE as they have been in the UFC.


BTW - I luv every guy you have on your list. I do.