GLOBAL-MMA Rankings (non-Zuffa) - Feb 2012

Post your comments on these rankings and the ranking system, as well as your own rankings (including flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight). A lot of great fights should be happening soon with a number of top ranked fighters; such as, Aoki vs. Alvarez II, Lombard vs. Khalidov, Lombard vs. Shlemenko, Askren vs. Lima, Santos vs. Prindle, among others. Many of these top ranked fighters are scheduled for other fights as well as the upcoming Bellator tournaments.

New top ranked fighters could emerge soon from promotions; such as, ONE FC, Legend FC, and ProElite.

These rankings will be updated each month based on the criteria in the post above.

What about featherweight, banamweight and flyweight divisions?

ZuffaKiller wrote:What about featherweight, banamweight and flyweight divisions?

I will probably add these divisions in future rankings. I excluded them due to the time to create and then maintain/update the rankings. Super heavyweight would be another good division to add since no other website has a ranking system for this division.

When you make featherweight rankings Hiroyukie takaya should be 1. featherweight and bibiano fernandes number 1 bantamweight.
Flyweight 1. Jussier da Silva

ZuffaKiller wrote:When you make featherweight rankings Hiroyukie takaya should be 1. featherweight and bibiano fernandes number 1 bantamweight.
Flyweight 1. Jussier da Silva

Yup, pretty much spot on with that. Makovsky or Ueda will probably be number 2 BW. Warren and Sandro will follow Takaya, as well as Curran.

other fighers in featherweight that should be ranked: pat curren, tatsuya kawajiri, patricio pitbull, marlon sandro,ronnie mann joe warren(Bellator Champ).

Bantamweight:Eduardo dantas, zack makavsky(Bellator champ),Masakatsu Ueda, Kyoji Horiguchi, Alexis Vila,Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Hiroshi Nakamura

ZuffaKiller wrote:other fighers in featherweight that should be ranked: pat curren, tatsuya kawajiri, patricio pitbull, marlon sandro,ronnie mann joe warren(Bellator Champ).

Bantamweight:Eduardo dantas, zack makavsky(Bellator champ),Masakatsu Ueda, Kyoji Horiguchi, Alexis Vila,Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos

Great suggestions. I will probably create these in the next week or so and then add them next month.

other flyweights: Mamoru Yamaguchi, BJ Kojima, Rambaa Somdet, Ulysses Gomez, Kevin Belingon

Great job CDF47! It´s awesome to have the fighters from non-zuffa promotions ranked. They don´t usually get the attention they deserve. I also think it´s better to just rank the LW-HW divisions for now. Many promotions don´t have the smaller weight classes and it´s really hard to rank BW and FW.

May I ask where Andrei Arlovski is? I think he's a top 10 HW outside of Zuffa. I definitely think he at least belongs in the other contenders section over the likes or Prindle and Lopez.

Arlovski could be put as a contender but not top 10 yet,

ZuffaKiller wrote:When you make featherweight rankings Hiroyukie takaya should be 1. featherweight and bibiano fernandes number 1 bantamweight.
Flyweight 1. Jussier da Silva

ZuffaKiller wrote:other fighers in featherweight that should be ranked: pat curren, tatsuya kawajiri, patricio pitbull, marlon sandro,ronnie mann joe warren(Bellator Champ).

Bantamweight:Eduardo dantas, zack makavsky(Bellator champ),Masakatsu Ueda, Kyoji Horiguchi, Alexis Vila,Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Hiroshi Nakamura

Some great names right here.

ZuffaKiller wrote:other flyweights: Mamoru Yamaguchi, BJ Kojima, Rambaa Somdet, Ulysses Gomez, Kevin Belingon

All great suggestions.

Johan Lofgren wrote:Great job CDF47! It´s awesome to have the fighters from non-zuffa promotions ranked. They don´t usually get the attention they deserve. I also think it´s better to just rank the LW-HW divisions for now. Many promotions don´t have the smaller weight classes and it´s really hard to rank BW and FW.

Thanks, I appreciate that. I agree, they do not get the attention they deserve or a fair shot at the rankings on nearly all websites so it is good to separate them out. Yeah, we can stick with these divisions for now.

AudaxPowder wrote:Arlovski could be put as a contender but not top 10 yet,

Agreed. He is about 14 or 15 now but a good win or two against a solid fighter could move him up fast.

KingKongo wrote:May I ask where Andrei Arlovski is? I think he's a top 10 HW outside of Zuffa. I definitely think he at least belongs in the other contenders section over the likes or Prindle and Lopez.

Yeah, he is close. The main reason he is not in the other contenders list is because he is 2-4 in his last 6 fights over the past 2 years. His losses did include top fighters; number 1 GLOBAL ranked Fedor, number 3 GLOBAL ranked Kharitonov, and number 10 Zuffa ranked Big Foot but his other loss was a 1st round KO loss to Rogers. Plus, his losses to Fedor and Kharitonov were brutal first round KOs. His recent head kick KO over Fulton was impressive. I do not have him ranked but I would say he is top 15 (just one or two away from the other contenders list).

Johan Lofgren wrote:

ZuffaKiller wrote:When you make featherweight rankings Hiroyukie takaya should be 1. featherweight and bibiano fernandes number 1 bantamweight.
Flyweight 1. Jussier da Silva

ZuffaKiller wrote:other fighers in featherweight that should be ranked: pat curren, tatsuya kawajiri, patricio pitbull, marlon sandro,ronnie mann joe warren(Bellator Champ).

Bantamweight:Eduardo dantas, zack makavsky(Bellator champ),Masakatsu Ueda, Kyoji Horiguchi, Alexis Vila,Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Hiroshi Nakamura

Some great names right here.

Yes, those are. There's a lot of great GLOBAL fighters in all three of those weight classes.

KingKongo wrote:May I ask where Andrei Arlovski is? I think he's a top 10 HW outside of Zuffa. I definitely think he at least belongs in the other contenders section over the likes or Prindle and Lopez.

I agree. He may have fallen on hard times but he is on a 2 fight win streak and with his history (he has beat several top guys) I think he deserves top 10 status.

Kinosis wrote:

KingKongo wrote:May I ask where Andrei Arlovski is? I think he's a top 10 HW outside of Zuffa. I definitely think he at least belongs in the other contenders section over the likes or Prindle and Lopez.

I agree. He may have fallen on hard times but he is on a 2 fight win streak and with his history (he has beat several top guys) I think he deserves top 10 status.

You really think top 10? In over the last two years, Arlovski had four straight losses with 3 first round KOs. He does have two recent wins but not quite enough to get top 10 in my opinion. He is definitely close though. I would say 14 ranked or 15 at worse. If he beats anyone of the top 10 or even someone in the top 15 he will definitely be close to or at top 10. He definitely has solid overall career results (which is an important criteria for this ranking system) to make the argument that he should be very close.

Below are stats that show the number of fighters per promotion that are ranked in the GLOBAL top 10.

GLOBAL-MMA Top 10 Rankings Promotional Statistics:

1. Bellator - 19 Fighters Ranked in the Top 10
2. M-1 Global - 13
3. DREAM - 5
4. DEEP - 3
5. Free Agents -3
6. KSW - 2
7. BAMMA - 2
8. Shooto - 1
9. Shooto Brazil - 1
10. AFC - 1

So for the 50 fighters listed, 9 promotions (plus 3 free agents) have fighters ranked in the GLOBAL top 10 from lightweight to heavyweight. Bellator and M-1 Global are dominating the rankings right now with DREAM trailing behind. So 64 percent of the fighters listed compete in either Bellator or M-1 Global. DEEP and KSW have strong potential to improve.

I expect ONE FC and Legend FC to start building new star fighters and new champions very soon so I expect they will be building their ranked fighters soon. Hopefully DREAM uses the One Asia Network to build up their roster and improve their rankings since they only host approximately 6 events each year.

MFC, KOTC, and Shark Fights have no fighters ranked in the top ten (although Tony Lopez is very close).

CDF47 wrote:

Kinosis wrote:

KingKongo wrote:May I ask where Andrei Arlovski is? I think he's a top 10 HW outside of Zuffa. I definitely think he at least belongs in the other contenders section over the likes or Prindle and Lopez.

I agree. He may have fallen on hard times but he is on a 2 fight win streak and with his history (he has beat several top guys) I think he deserves top 10 status.

You really think top 10? In over the last two years, Arlovski had four straight losses with 3 first round KOs. He does have two recent wins but not quite enough to get top 10 in my opinion. He is definitely close though. I would say 14 ranked or 15 at worse. If he beats anyone of the top 10 or even someone in the top 15 he will definitely be close to or at top 10. He definitely has solid overall career results (which is an important criteria for this ranking system) to make the argument that he should be very close.

Don't get me wrong, I know where you are coming from. Being 2-4 in his last 6 isn't great but it was all to highly ranked guys (besides Rogers). I tend to count overall achievement much higher than most people I think. To me, once you have done a lot in the sport it takes a lot to knock you down. I'm not up in arms or anything and have no problem with him having another fight or two to work his way back to the top 10 (or one really good win).

Arlovski should probably be among the contenders.

CDF47 wrote:Below are stats that show the number of fighters per promotion that are ranked in the GLOBAL top 10.

GLOBAL-MMA Top 10 Rankings Promotional Statistics:

1. Bellator - 19 Fighters Ranked in the Top 10
2. M-1 Global - 13
3. DREAM - 5
4. DEEP - 3
5. Free Agents -3
6. KSW - 2
7. BAMMA - 2
8. Shooto - 1
9. Shooto Brazil - 1
10. AFC - 1

So for the 50 fighters listed, 9 promotions (plus 3 free agents) have fighters ranked in the GLOBAL top 10 from lightweight to heavyweight. Bellator and M-1 Global are dominating the rankings right now with DREAM trailing behind. So 64 percent of the fighters listed compete in either Bellator or M-1 Global. DEEP and KSW have strong potential to improve.

I expect ONE FC and Legend FC to start building new star fighters and new champions very soon so I expect they will be building their ranked fighters soon. Hopefully DREAM uses the One Asia Network to build up their roster and improve their rankings since they only host approximately 6 events each year.

MFC, KOTC, and Shark Fights have no fighters ranked in the top ten (although Tony Lopez is very close).

Nice, Bellator and M-1 have legit rosters and they will only get better.