BloodyElbow analyzes and follows prospects around the sport. They (as far as I know) did and do not use set criteria like we do to do initial rankings, but it is interesting to see that some fighters were on the initial version of both lists. This is issue #2 and will show changes from the first issue of our rankings.
The following prospects fulfilled the following criteria:
- Have not fought in any of the “Big 15” organizations. Please see the FAQ for more info.
- Have no more than one defeat.
- Have five wins or more.
- Have fought in the last 450 days.
Sorted by current rating
Heavyweight+
- (=) Shamil Abdurahimov (12-1-0) [BE #2 HW]
- (=) Guram Gughenishvili (11-0-0) [BE #1 HW]
- (=) Chris Barnett (7-1-0)
- (NEW) Stipe Miocic (6-0-0)
- (NEW) Edinaldo Oliveira (10-0-1)
Dropped out: (#4) Tony Johnson Jr. [Surpassed], (#5) Thiago Santos [Surpassed]
Light Heavyweight
- (=) Marcos Rogerio de Lima (8-0-0) [BE #1 LHW]
- (NEW) Ronny Marki Sales da Silva (11-1-0) [BE #10 LHW]
- (-1) Jonas Billstein (9-0-0)
- (NEW) Dan Spohn (5-0-0)
- (NEW) Doug Sparks (6-1-0)
Dropped out: (#3) Vyacheslav Vasilevsky [Division Move], (#4) Roy Boughton [2nd Loss], (#5) Vitor Vianna [Surpassed]
Middleweight
- (NEW) Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (15-1-0) [BE #4 MW]
- (+1) Jorge Lopez (9-1-0)
- (=) Bruno Santos (12-0-0) [BE #5 MW]
- (-3) Elvis Mutapcic (8-1-0)
- (-1) Alex Makhonin (9-1-0)
Dropped out: (#5) Claudio Henrique Da Silva [Surpassed]
Welterweight
- (+2) Shamil Zavurov (17-1-0)
- (=) Quinn Mulhern (15-1-0) [BE #8 WW]
- (-2) Erick Silva (12-1-0) [BE # 3 WW]
- (=) Rashid Magomedov (8-1-0)
- (=) Manuel Rodriguez (8-1-0)
Lightweight
- (=) Alexander Sarnavskiy (14-0-0) [BE #7 LW]
- (+1) Gordon Bell (7-0-0)
- (-1) Guillaume DeLorenzi (9-1-0) [BE #9 LW]
- (NEW) Joseph Duffy (10-0-0)
- (NEW) Francisco Drinaldo (9-1-0)
Dropped Out: (#1) Magno Almeida [BE #3 LW, Entered Big 15 & 2nd Loss], (#2) Radley Martinez [2nd Loss]
Featherweight
- (=) Michel Gagnon (7-1-0)
- (+1) Matt Fiordirosa (13-1-0) [BE #8 FW]
- (+1) Landon Piercy (5-1-0)
- (NEW) Rodolfo Marques (12-1-0)
- (NEW) Gerald Sedillo (12-1-0)
Dropped Out: (#2) Joshua Cody Stevens [2nd Loss], (#5) Richard Schiller [2nd Loss]
Bantamweight
- (+1) Frank Baca (7-1-0)
- (NEW) Cody Gibson (5-1-0)
- (NEW) Sirwain Kakai (6-1-0)
- (+1) Joseph Sandoval (5-0-0)
- (NEW) Kevin Belingon (9-0-0)
Dropped Out: (#1) Walel Watson [2nd Loss], (#3) Luiz Alberto Nogueira [Entered Big 15], (#4) Sam Thao [Surpassed]
Flyweight
- (=) Alexis Vila (9-0-0)
- (=) Darrell Montague (9-1-0)
- (=) Louis Gaudinot (5-1-0)
- (=) Brandon Merkt (11-0-0)
- (=) Roy Docyogen (9-0-0)
Women (Sorted by DD rating)
- (=) Cat Zingano (5-0-0)
- (=) Cindy Dandois (5-1-0)
- (=) Milana Dudieva (6-1-0)
- (NEW) Karla Benitez (5-0-0)
- (-1) Claudia Gadelha (6-0-0)
Dropped Out: (#5) Alexandra Sanchez [Surpassed]