Back in October 2013 she was the number 2 flyweight at Fight Matrix behind Honchak, number 10 p4p. I'm not a believer in the Fight Matrix methodology but still, you're not wrong.
Yep.
Jessica Eye was considered a top ten flyweight back in the day. I think she entered the Unified Women's Rankings/MMARising at ten back in 2011. It is not that easy to find that kind of information now but there are articles floating about with that information in them. Mostly from the UG.
I decided to look into some of my old notes from years back to see if I had anything. I saw a few items that I will post. The top one is Unified. I can't recall the other systems off the top of my head. No specific order to them in time frame but I think the Unified one is the (second most) recent just by eyeballing them.
The most recent one is the second list now that I am feeling a little better; it reflects Munah Hollands win over Marianna Kheyfets, having fractured her orbital bone during the fight and leading to her retirement from MMA.
Once LaRosa was inactive and Sexton and Gaff went to the UFC Honchak and Eye were left on top of the heap at flyweight.
Cat was already back to the bantamweight division due to her Invicta stint and going into the UFC prior to Sexton and Gaff of course.
Super Flyweights (116-125 pounds):
1.
Tara LaRosa (20-2-0)
2.
Rosi “The Surgeon” Sexton (12-2-0)
3.
Cat “Alpha” Zingano (6-0-0)
4.
Barb “Little Warrior” Honchak (5-2-0)
5.
Sheila “The German Tank” Gaff (9-4-1)
6.
Aisling “Ais The Bash” Daly (13-2-0)
7.
Jessica “Evil” Eye (6-1-0)
8.
Marianna “The Crushen Russian” Kheyfets (5-0-0)
9.
“Slick” Sally Krumdiack (9-4-0)
10.
Hanna Sillen (5-1-0)
*Previously number two-ranked Zoila “The Warrior Princess” Gurgel (Frausto) removed due to inactivity. She will be eligible to be ranked again upon her return from injury.
Note: This was the timeframe of the Cage Warriors Women's Flyweight Tournament. Gaff had just punked Jennifer Maia with a fake hand-greeting to punch that knocked Maia out of the top ten at flyweight for this rankings.
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Flyweight (116-125lbs) (MMAVixens.com?)
1.Cat Zingano 6-0
2. Rosi Sexton 13-2
3.Sheila Gaff 10-4-1
4. Munah Holland 6-1
5.Angela Magana 10-4
6. Barb Honchak 5-2
7. Aisling Daly 13-3
8.Takayo Hashi 14-4
9.Marianna Kheyfets 5-1
10. Jessica Eye 13-4
11. Roxanne Modafferi 15-10
12.Miki Morifuji 11-6
13. Carina Damm 17-8
14.Hanna Sillen 5-1
15. Reyna Cordoba 5-0
16. Heather Clark 5-2
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1
Tara LaRosa
2
Rosi Sexton
3
Takayo Hashi
4
Sheila Gaff
5
Aisling Daly
6
Angela Magana
7
Lacey Schuckman
8
Jessica Eye
9
Felice Herrig
10
Michelle Ould
11
Maiju Kujala
12
Barb Honchak
13
Heather Clark
14
Reyna Cordoba
15
Marianna Kheyfets
16
Jasminka Cive
17
Katja Kalliokoski (Kankaanpaa)
18
Hanna Sillen
19
Kate Jackson
20
Tevi Say
21
Sarah Maloy
24
Kinberly Novaes
23
Bec Hyatt (Rawlings)
24
Sarah Alpar
25
Sally Krumdiack
26 Simona Soukupova
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Here is just a number of flyweights of that timeframe and just before hand to get a sense of some of the fighters. Not everyone listed was a flyweight at the same time. There are a few that are a part of the larger list not included but lots of cross overs.
((Edit) And there are just so many out there. I remember feeling that Brazilians just were not being accurately depicted in the rankings during this time period so when I was doing the Women's MMA List by Weight Class thread I made sure to be fully inclusive of them in the upper rankings where it made sense to me.)
W125:
Tara Larosa, Cat Zingano, Rosi Sexton. Hitomi Akano, Carina Damm, Barb Honchak, Sheila Gaff, Sally Krumdiack, Zoila Gurgel (Frausto). Marianna Kheyfets, Hanna Sillen, Maiju Kujala, Katja Kankaanpaa (Kalliokoski), Reyna Cordoba, Angela Magana, Sophie Bagherdai, Heather Clark, Jessica Eye, Michelle Ould, Takayo Hashi, Aisling Daly, Lacey Schuckman, Kate Jackson, Jennifer Maia, Kalindra Faira, Tevi Say, Sarah Maloy, Kinberly Novaes, Bec Hyatt, Sarah Alpar, Nina Ansaroff, Kelly Warren, Casey Noland, Jasminka Cive
Tonya Evinger, Anita Rodriguez, Felice Herrig
Herrig had started into the strawweight division just before this period. Heather Jo Clark was gunning for her and trying to get her to go back up to flyweight or catchweight for a fight. Clark would eventually go down to strawweight in pursuit of that fight and the UFC (of course).
Evinger fought three times at flyweight towards the end of this period. 2011-2012. Including the fight with Rodriguez who has often jumped between weight divisions.