MMA All-Time Rankings Updated: 7/19/2010
We recently updated our all-time divisional MMA rankings. You can check them out here: All-Time Rankings
Featured Upcoming Bouts (Outside of UFC)
| Friday, April 4th 2025: Invicta FC 61: Ferreira vs. Palacios | |||
 [#2 W105] Elisandra Ferreira de Oliveira |  [#7 W105] Ana Palacios | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 9/20/2024 [Invicta FC] Last Opponent: [#5 W105] Andressa Romero Last 5: L W W W W | Last Fight Date: 12/13/2024 [Invicta FC] Last Opponent: [NR] Monique Adriane Last 5: L L W W W | ||
| Sunday, March 23rd 2025: DEEP JEWELS 48 | |||
 [#3 W105] Ayaka Hamasaki | [#12 W105] Moeri Suda | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 11/17/2024 [Rizin Fighting Federation] Last Opponent: [NR] Yu Ri Shim Last 5: L L W L W | Last Fight Date: 12/22/2024 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [NR] Akari Kamise Last 5: W W L W W | ||
| Friday, April 4th 2025: Invicta FC 61: Ferreira vs. Palacios | |||
 [#7 W145] Jamie Edenden |  [#8 W145] Jackie Cataline | ||
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| Last Fight Date: 9/20/2024 [Invicta FC] Last Opponent: [NR] Abigail Montes Last 5: D W W W W | Last Fight Date: 8/09/2024 [Invicta FC] Last Opponent: [#24 W145] Kelly Ottoni Last 5: W L L W W | ||
Featured Fighters
| [#4 MW] |  Khamzat Chimaev | [#9 MW] |  Roman Dolidze | |
| [#14 MW] |  Marvin Vettori | [#1 LHW] |  Magomed Ankalaev | |
| [#6 LW] | Dustin Poirier | [#49 HW] | Ryan Spann | |
| [NR] |  Conor McGregor | [#5 LW] | Justin Gaethje | |
| [#1 LW] | Islam Makhachev | [#37 BW] | DaMon Blackshear |
MMA Rankings Updated: 7/11/2010
UPDATE: Ratings will be updated shortly. There was a bug found.
Biggest Point-Based Upsets in 2010 (so far)
When considering upsets for the list, we took the winner’s rating at the first of that month and divided it by the loser’s rating at the first of that month. The list is sorted by the loser’s rating in descending order and we limited it to fights where the losing fighter’s rating was equal to or more than 3 times greater than the winner’s. Fighters coming back from inactivity are excluded from the list as they did not have a current rating.
Biggest Point-Based Upsets -(Sorted by Quotient of Winner/Loser with a Quotient >= 3)
1. Fabricio Werdum SUB(1) Fedor Emelianenko
2. Luis Palomino SD(3) Jorge Masvidal
3. Ben Askren UD(3) Dan Hornbuckle
4. Amir Sadollah UD(3) Brad Blackburn
5. Mike Campbell UD(3) Yves Edwards
6. John Salter TKO(1) Jason MacDonald
7. Shuichiro Katsumura SUB(2) Masakatsu Ueda
8. Tony Johnson Jr. UD(5) Tony Lopez
9. Drew Fickett SUB(2) Derrick Noble
10. Kamal Shalorus UD(3) Dave Jansen
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In the following list, we sorted by quotient, but enforced a minimum of 100 rating for the loser. A different look at it…
Biggest Point-Based Upsets -(Sorted by Quotient of Winner/Loser with Loser Rating >= 100)
1. Mike Campbell SD(3) Yves Edwards
2. Luis Palomino SD(3) Jorge Masvidal
3. John Salter TKO(1) Jason MacDonald
4. Fabricio Werdum SUB(1) Fedor Emelianenko
5. Ben Askren UD(3) Dan Hornbuckle
6. Amir Sadollah UD(3) Brad Blackburn
7. Travis Wiuff SD(3) Jeff Monson
8. Cung Le KO(2) Scott Smith
9. Muhammad Lawal UD(5) Gegard Mousasi
10. Sahmil Abdurahimov MD(3) Jeff Monson
UFC 116 Review
I’ve been slacking on reviewing the slew of MMA events in the past month, but we’re back with a vengeance for what was one of the most anticipated shows of the year this far. A huge (in every sense of the word) heavyweight title unification bout between champion Brock Lesnar and interim champ Shane Carwin was backed by a superstar of Japanese MMA Yoshihiro Akiyama taking on Chris Leben (a last-minute substitution for the legendary Wanderlei Silva who was hurt while training for the fight). A lightweight matchup between two streaking prospects Kurt Pellegrino and George Sotiropoulos capped off the undercard of UFC 116. And here’s how it all went down:
Preliminary card (Spike TV)
Seth Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero (205 lbs)
Round 1: They quickly engage and exchange kicks. Romero looks for a takedown. Petruzelli defends and hurts Romero with punches. Romero clinches to recover. Petruzelli backs up then lands another combination but slips while throwing a kick. Romero gets Petruzelli’s back in a scramble. Petruzelli sweeps and pounds away from guard. Romero with a reversal of his own and mounts Petruzelli. Romero looking for a submission; Seth rolls out of it and stands, dropping Romero with an uppercut. Romero holds on to Petruzelli’s leg as Seth lands some odd and sloppy ‘double axe-handle’ strikes. Round 10-9 Petruzelli
Round 2: Romero looks for a takedown early and eats a knee on the way in. He staggers but keeps trying for the takedown. Petruzelli takes his back in a scramble and transitions to an armbar; Romero reverses and ends up in top guard. Romero’s nose is leaking blood. Petruzelli attempts a triangle and Romero uses the submission attempt to pass into side control. Romero secures the crucifix position and looks for a kimura then turns it into a straight armbar. Petruzelli taps out, in obvious pain.
Aftermath: Romero’s UFC debut was unspectacular but a win is a win, and he will have a chance to do better in his next Octagon outing – maybe against Krzysztof Soszynski or Jared Hamman. Seth Petruzelli should take on Steve Cantwell or Kyle Kingsbury next.
Ranking Impact: Ricardo Romero, previously ranked at #77 HW, makes his LHW debut at #49. Seth Petruzelli falls 38 spots to #111 LHW.
Fight Grade: 3/5
MMA Rankings Updated (Again): 7/5/2010
Notable Info
- We got some Asian results in late this weekend, so not to be outdone, we decided to release another set of the rankings.
MMA Rankings Updated: 6/29/2010
We have released an update to fix a data display bug related to the statistics shown on fighter mouse overs.
UFC 116: How they stack up
UFC Heavyweight Championship
[#1] Brock Lesnar vs. [#4] Shane Carwin
Middleweight
[#13] Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. [#25] Chris Leben
Welterweight
[#23] Chris Lytle vs. [#68] Matt Brown
Light Heavyweight
[#36] Krzysztof Soszynski vs. [#83] Stephan Bonnar
Lightweight
[#10] George Sotiropoulos vs. [#14] Kurt Pellegrino
Heavyweight
[#36] Chris Tuchscherer vs. [#131] Brendan Schaub
Light Heavyweight
[#73] Seth Petruzelli vs. [#77] Ricardo Romero
Middleweight
[#47] Kendall Grove vs. [#101] Goran Reljic
Middleweight
[#41] Gerald Harris vs. [#83] Dave Branch
Welterweight
[#66] Forrest Petz vs. [#145] Daniel Roberts
Heavyweight
[#101] Jon Madsen vs. [#144] Karlos Vemola
MMA Rankings Updated: 06/27/2010
Notable Info
- The unthinkable has happened. Werdum moves up to #2, while Fedor drops to #3.
- There is currently a display bug in the Quality Performance %. The numbers listed are incorrect and will be fixed upon the next update.
Opponent Strength: 2007-2009
It’s been a while since we had a post that was strictly based on analysis, so I thought it was a good time to provide one. I decided to take a look at average opponent strength between 2007 and 2009. We’ll look at which fighters have had the best average opponent strength, and although I wanted to also post who had the worst, it was really hard to filter the list in a way that did not only contain obscure fighters or those who just now reached their lofty ranking. Before consuming the lists, please consider the following qualifiers and notes:
- Fighters must have had at least four qualifying fights between 1/1/2007 and 12/31/2009, an average of one fight per nine months. I did not want to bring this to the current day due to the next point.
- The opponents’ current FightMatrix division dominance ratings are considered, not their pre-bout ratings or regular ratings. I wanted to use the current division normalized status of the opponents to show what they’ve become, not what they were, or what the rating system thought they were. So, to limit the direct effect of points gained by the opponents who beat the listed fighters, I stopped the date range short of this year.
- No contests are excluded as are female fighters.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s take a look at the list.
Top 10
1. Forrest Griffin
2. Matt Hughes
3. Chuck Liddell
MMA Rankings Updated: 6/21/2010
Notable Info
- A ton of fights and some data maintenance lead to quite a few changes in the rankings this week.
Peak Division Dominance added to All-Time Rankings
Further bolstering our All-Time rankings is the Peak Division Dominance list. This list works nearly identically to the current list, in that it ranks fighters based on their peak dominance in a respective division. The all-time version takes each fighter’s best dominance rating throughout their career, then ranks them in order. One difference about the all-time version is that the fighter must have been established in the division before being eligible for the list.
The monthly window is small, but this dominance list is about an absolute peak, not an extended period. Most of the names in the list you’ll expect, and a few you won’t. Be sure to hover over the fighters’ names to view the division and month/year that they were most dominant. And also remember, there is more to division dominance than just the fighter’s body of work. The divisional strength is also considered as well.