MMA RANKINGS Heavyweight
Last update: July 29, 2010
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| Rank | Fighter | Points | Promotion | Last Rank |
| 1 |
Brock Lesnar |
348 |
UFC |
2 |
| 2 |
Fedor Emelianenko |
314 |
M-1 Global/Strikeforce |
1 |
| 3 |
Cain Velasquez |
307 |
UFC |
4 |
| 3 |
Fabricio Werdum |
307 |
Strikeforce |
9 |
| 5 |
Shane Carwin |
300 |
UFC |
3 |
| 6 |
Junior dos Santos |
280 |
UFC |
6 |
| 7 |
Frank Mir |
273 |
UFC |
5 |
| 8 |
Alistair Overeem |
262 |
Strikeforce/DREAM |
7 |
| 9 |
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira |
247 |
UFC |
8 |
| 10 |
Josh Barnett |
180 |
DREAM/Impact Fighting |
10 |
| 11 |
Antonio Silva |
180 |
Strikeforce |
12 |
| 12 |
Brett Rogers |
170 |
Strikeforce |
11 |
| 13 |
Gabriel Gonzaga |
136 |
UFC |
13 |
| 14 |
Cheick Kongo |
110 |
UFC |
14 |
| 15 |
Mirko Filipovic |
101 |
UFC |
16 |
| 16 |
Andrei Arlovski |
92 |
Strikeforce |
17 |
| 17 |
Aleksander Emelianenko |
91 |
Free Agent |
15 |
| 18 |
Roy Nelson |
79 |
UFC |
19 |
| 19 |
Pedro Rizzo |
76 |
Impact FC |
18 |
| 20 |
Ben Rothwell |
72 |
UFC |
20 |
| 21 |
Tim Sylvia |
54 |
Free Agent |
21 |
| 22 |
Randy Couture |
49 |
UFC |
22 |
| 23 |
Stefan Struve |
38 |
UFC |
23 |
| 24 |
Sergei Kharitonov |
36 |
Strikeforce |
25 |
| 25 |
Jeff Monson |
35 |
Free Agent |
NR |
Rankings compiled by Richard Wade.
Wow. What a historic month in MMA. We knew going in that it would be a big month given that the #1 and #2 heavyweights would both be fighting, but no one quite expected the way things turned out.
First off, we've got a new #1 Brock Lesnar who survived a real scare at the hands of #5 Shane Carwin to retain his title at UFC 116.
But it took more than just a Lesnar win to vault him to the top, #2 Fedor Emelianenko also had to lose. And he did to #3 Fabricio Werdum. This has left Strikeforce and M-1 Global in even more disarray than usual.
There is no word on who will challenge #8 Alistair Overeem for his Strikeforce title.
The biggest beneficiary of the chaos at the top is the other man at #3 Cain Velasquez who will face Lesnar at UFC 121 in the fall.
#6 Junior Dos Santos will face off with #18 Roy Nelson in a UFC 117 bout that is expected to determine the first challenger to the winner of Lesnar/Velasquez. #7 Frank Mir will face #9 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 119 in a bout that will return one man to contention and send the loser spiraling down and out of relevancy.
MMA RANKINGS Heavyweight explanation
The goal is to show how the MMA community rates the fighters, not to bore you with our opinions. Be sure and look at the points, they're a much more telling number than the ranking. A total of 39 fighters were ranked in the top 25 by one source or another, for reasons of sanity I only track the top 25 most highly rated fighters. 25 points are awarded for a first place ranking, 16 for a 10th place ranking, 1 for a 25th place ranking. A formula is used to "normalize" the data so all fighters are awarded points from those lists that do not include a full 25 fighters.
Rankings were compiled from 23 following sites: 411 Mania (1/6), Brawl Sports (1/6), Cage Potato (1/1), Fight Matrix (1/4), Fight! Magazine, Five Ounces of Pain (1/4), Full Contact Fighter, Inside Fighting, Inside MMA, MMA 4 Real (1/7), MMA Blog, MMA ELO (1/5), MMA Fighting (1/4), MMA Playground (1/10), MMA Rocks (1/4), MMA Torch (11/17), MMA Weekly (1/7), MMA/VT, Sherdog (1/7), Sports Illustrated (1/6), TAGG Radio, Total MMA (1/4), WAMMA (12/17).
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