UFC Welterweight Champions with least-to-most Top 10 ranked wins at Welterweight.

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Colby now has a ranked win over 5th ranked Jorge

 

[don't ask]

Mayhem is a meme now but people forget how much of a lethal jiu jitsu specialist he was. Went to war with Jacare on the ground in dream twice IIRC.

Naw, even back then it was seen as a gimme fight and Mayhem was trying hard to cash in on his fifteen minutes. At one point in the fight he even yelled at his cornerman to get out of his spotlight. At this time he was all over early MMA message boards feuding with squirrelneck ("holla at a playa if you see him in the streets") and drumming up his "Mayhem Monkeys". He was never seen as a threat in any way.

 

[pankrat]

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Champions with most wins in each division here.
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Rankings are based on FightMatrix.

Pat Miletich

Miletich has 0 top wins.

Carlos Newton

Newton's resume:

#2 Pat Miletich

Newton has 1 top ten win.

B.J. Penn

Penn's resume:

#1 Matt Hughes
#4 Matt Hughes

Penn has 2 top ten wins.

Matt Serra

Serra's resume:

#10 Yves Edwards
#1 Georges St-Pierre

Serra as 2 top ten wins.

Johny Hendricks

Hendricks' resume:

#3 Jon Fitch
#6 Josh Koscheck
#1 Martin Kampmann
#3 Carlos Condit
#5 Robbie Lawler

Hendricks has 5 top ten wins.

Tyron Woodley

Woodley's resume:

#3 Carlos Condit
#1 Robbie Lawler
#2 Stephen Thompson
#2 Demian Maia
#3 Darren Till

Woodley has 5 top ten wins.

Robbie Lawler

Lawler's resume:

#10 Josh Koscheck
#4 Rory MacDonald
#8 Matt Brown
#2 Johny Hendricks
#3 Rory MacDonald
#8 Carlos Condit
#9 Donald Cerrone

Lawler has 7 top ten wins.

Kamaru Usman

Usman's resume:

#7 Demian Maia
#3 Rafael dos Anjos
#1 Tyron Woodley
#3 Colby Covington
#2 Jorge Masvidal
#4 Gilbert Burns
#3 Jorge Masvidal
#3 Colby Covington

Usman has 8 top ten wins.

Matt Hughes

Hughes' resume:

#3 Dave Menne
#4 Carlos Newton
#6 Hayato Sakurai
#3 Gil Castillo
#2 Sean Sherk
#4 Frank Trigg
#5 Renato Verissimo
#9 Georges St-Pierre
#3 Frank Trigg
#3 B.J. Penn
#5 Matt Serra
#10 Ricardo Almeida

Hughes as 12 top ten wins.

Georges St-Pierre

St-Pierre's resume:

#9 Jason Miller
#7 Frank Trigg
#8 Sean Sherk
#2 B.J. Penn
#1 Matt Hughes
#4 Josh Koscheck
#3 Matt Hughes
#1 Matt Serra
#2 Jon Fitch
#2 Thiago Alves
#5 Dan Hardy
#3 Josh Koscheck
#2 Jake Shields
#2 Carlos Condit
#5 Nick Diaz
#2 Johny Hendricks

St-Pierre has 16 top ten wins.

Why don't you include #2 Ludwig for BJ Penn?

Their fight was at Welterweight.

 

[pankrat]

Why don't you include #2 Ludwig for BJ Penn?

@acannxr

 

[Lawrence]

The Flyweight version is here.
The Bantamweight version is here.
The Featherweight version is here.
The Lightweight version is here.
The Middleweight version is here.
The Light Heavyweight version is here.
The Heavyweight version is here.
Champions with most wins in each division here.
The Multi-Division version is here.

Rankings are based on FightMatrix.

Pat Miletich

Miletich has 0 top wins.

Carlos Newton

Newton's resume:

#2 Pat Miletich

Newton has 1 top ten win.

B.J. Penn

Penn's resume:

#1 Matt Hughes
#4 Matt Hughes

Penn has 2 top ten wins.

Matt Serra

Serra's resume:

#10 Yves Edwards
#1 Georges St-Pierre

Serra as 2 top ten wins.

Johny Hendricks

Hendricks' resume:

#3 Jon Fitch
#6 Josh Koscheck
#1 Martin Kampmann
#3 Carlos Condit
#5 Robbie Lawler

Hendricks has 5 top ten wins.

Tyron Woodley

Woodley's resume:

#3 Carlos Condit
#1 Robbie Lawler
#2 Stephen Thompson
#2 Demian Maia
#3 Darren Till

Woodley has 5 top ten wins.

Robbie Lawler

Lawler's resume:

#10 Josh Koscheck
#4 Rory MacDonald
#8 Matt Brown
#2 Johny Hendricks
#3 Rory MacDonald
#8 Carlos Condit
#9 Donald Cerrone

Lawler has 7 top ten wins.

Kamaru Usman

Usman's resume:

#7 Demian Maia
#3 Rafael dos Anjos
#1 Tyron Woodley
#3 Colby Covington
#2 Jorge Masvidal
#4 Gilbert Burns
#3 Jorge Masvidal
#3 Colby Covington

Usman has 8 top ten wins.

Matt Hughes

Hughes' resume:

#3 Dave Menne
#4 Carlos Newton
#6 Hayato Sakurai
#3 Gil Castillo
#2 Sean Sherk
#4 Frank Trigg
#5 Renato Verissimo
#9 Georges St-Pierre
#3 Frank Trigg
#3 B.J. Penn
#5 Matt Serra
#10 Ricardo Almeida

Hughes as 12 top ten wins.

Georges St-Pierre

St-Pierre's resume:

#9 Jason Miller
#7 Frank Trigg
#8 Sean Sherk
#2 B.J. Penn
#1 Matt Hughes
#4 Josh Koscheck
#3 Matt Hughes
#1 Matt Serra
#2 Jon Fitch
#2 Thiago Alves
#5 Dan Hardy
#3 Josh Koscheck
#2 Jake Shields
#2 Carlos Condit
#5 Nick Diaz
#2 Johny Hendricks

St-Pierre has 16 top ten wins.

Good post TS.. and interesting.

I love Robbie, but his stats would be totally different if the Judges had been on point for his wins over Cerrone and Condit... Not to mention the split with Hendrix...

 

[ThunderStruck]

Sooo...
Hardy
Serra
Kos
Diaz
Almost 40 hughes
Alves

Arent padded wins???

33 years old = almost 40 for you?

 

[bjpenngoat]

33 years old = almost 40 for you?

This resurrection is amazing. You must have been searching for things to support your continued failing Argument that Georges st Pierre is somehow the goat by beating 2 legends out of their prime and a bunch of sub 500 fighters at the time of undeserved title fight to the end of their pedestrian and average careers.

I've been on here since 2009, dig for some more.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

You forgot #1 185 Bisping for champ-champ GSP

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

Just imagine if GEORGES didn’t tear his ACL twice.

 

[ThunderStruck]

This resurrection is amazing. You must have been searching for things to support your continued failing Argument that Georges st Pierre is somehow the goat by beating 2 legends out of their prime and a bunch of sub 500 fighters at the time of undeserved title fight to the end of their pedestrian and average careers.

I've been on here since 2009, dig for some more.

Im not the one who resurrected the thread you dumb fucking cuck.

 

[Orochimaru 大蛇丸]

ok, but I wouldnt recommend Fightmatrix for this type of assessment, they didnt really watch the fights, Im pretty sure of it.

For instance, Patino:

Spoiler: Vale Tudo scene...

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Damn, surprised this guy got banned

 

[Bad Karate]

So misleading due to the improvements from the fighters.

Usman beating Colby twice gets him the same amount of "top ten wins" as GSP beating Dan Hardy and Jason Miller but legacy wise they clearly were more important.

 

[acannxr]

Added Leon Edwards.

 

[acannxr]

Updated Edwards' resume.

 

[acannxr]

Leon isn't some advanced level fighter. GSP fought plenty of Leon's

GSP stands alone at the top of WW

And GSP has twice as many top ten ranked wins as Usman; GSP haters tried this same thing when Woodley was champion.

 

[acannxr]

I always thought that's pretty clearly GSP, but maybe I am biased. So what's your opinion?`

If you refer to the OP, you'll see that GSP has twice as many top ten ranked wins as Usman.

 

[Rationality]

Also impressive is that GSP appears to have more wins (4) against others on the list.