Global-MMA Rankings - June 2016

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Heavyweight
1. Fedor Emelianenko (RIZIN)
2. Vitaly Minakov (Bellator)
3. Sergei Kharitonov (Bellator)
4. Tony Johnson (Bellator)
5. Blagoy Ivanov (WSOF Champion)
6. Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion)
7. Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
8. Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep)
9. Alexander Volkov (M-1 Global Champion)
10. Evgeny Erokhin (WSOF-GC Champion)

Other Contenders: Bobby Lashley (Bellator), Smealinho Rama (WSOF), Brandon Vera (ONE Champion), Oli Thompson (IGF Champion), Matt Mitrione (Bellator)

Light Heavyweight
1. Liam McGeary (Bellator Champion)
2. Phil Davis (Bellator)
3. David Branch (WSOF Champion)
4. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (Bellator)
5. Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (Bellator)
6. Tomasz Narkun (KSW Champion)
7. Linton Vassell (Bellator)
8. Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global)
9. Rashid Yusupov (M-1 Global Champion)
10. Emanuel Newton (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global), Jiri Prochazka (RIZIN), Vinny Magalhaes (WSOF), Attila Vegh (KSW), Tito Ortiz (Bellator)

Middleweight
1. Mamed Khalidov (KSW Champion)
2. David Branch (WSOF Champion)
3. Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global Champion)
4. Rafael Carvalho (Bellator Champion)
5. Brandon Halsey (Bellator)
6. Alexander Shlemenko (M-1 Global)
7. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global)
8. Michal Materla (KSW)
9. Vitaly Bigdash (ONE Champion)
10. Anatoly Tokov (RIZIN)

Other Contenders: Ken Hasegawa (DEEP), Jung Hwan Cha (ROAD FC Champion), Aziz Karaoglu (KSW), Clifford Starks (WSOF), Alessio Sakara (Bellator)

Welterweight
1. Ben Askren (ONE Champion)
2. Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator Champion)
3. Douglas Lima (Bellator)
4. Jake Shields (WSOF)
5. Paul Daley (Bellator)
6. Emil Weber Meek (Venator Champion)
7. Rousimar Palhares (Venator)
8. Benson Henderson (Bellator)
9. Michael Page (Bellator)
10. Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion)

Other Contenders: Jon Fitch (WSOF Champion), Luis Santos (ONE), Alexey Kunchenko (M-1 Global Champion), Yushin Okami (WSOF), Hisaki Kato (RIZIN)

Lightweight
1. Justin Gaethje (WSOF Champion)
2. Will Brooks (Free Agent)
3. Shinya Aoki (ONE Champion)
4. Michael Chandler (Bellator)
5. Marcin Held (Bellator)
6. Ramazan Esenbaev (M-1 Global)
7. Lowen Tynanes (ONE)
8. Derek Anderson (Bellator)
9. Patricky Freire (Bellator)
10. Dave Jansen (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Josh Thomson (Bellator), David Rickels (Bellator), Daron Cruickshank (RIZIN), Murad Machaev (Eurasia Fight Nights), Saad Awad (Bellator)

Featherweight
1. Daniel Straus (Bellator Champion)
2. Patricio Freire (Bellator)
3. Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
4. Marat Gafurov (ONE Champion)
5. Pat Curran (Bellator)
6. Rick Glenn (WSOF)
7. Marcos Alexandre Campos de Almeida (WSOF Champion)
8. Kazunori Yokota (DEEP Champion)
9. Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global Champion)
10. Bubba Jenkins (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Lance Palmer (WSOF), Goiti Yamauchi (Bellator), Jadamba Narantungala (ONE), Isao Kobayashi (Bellator), Hiroyuki Takaya (RIZIN)

Bantamweight
1. Bibiano Fernandes (ONE Champion)
2. Marlon Moraes (WSOF Champion)
3. Marcos Galvao (Bellator Champion)
4. Masakatsu Ueda (Pancrase)
5. Darrion Caldwell (Bellator)
6. Soo Chul Kim (ROAD FC)
7. Joe Warren (Bellator)
8. Eduardo Dantas (Bellator)
9. Dae Hwan Kim (ONE)
10. Chris Gutierrez (WSOF)

Other Contenders: Luis Alberto Nogueira (Pancrase), Shintaro Ishiwatari (King of Pancrase), Victor Henry (Pancrase), Timur Valiev (WSOF), Jonathan Brookins (Pancrase)
 
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Global-MMA Ranking Update Summary

* Ranked Fighters Removed from All Previous Rankings Dating Back to February 2012:

Ranked Fighters Removed from All Previous Rankings Dating Back to February 2012:

Heavyweight: Tony Lopez, Cole Konrad (Retired), Eric Prindle, Todd Duffee (UFC), Alexei Kudin, Soa Palelei (UFC), Levan Razmadze, Rich Hale, Chaban Ka, Rolles Gracie, Jeff Monson, Peter Graham, Alexey Oleinik (UFC), Aleksander Emelianenko, Ryan Martinez, Lavar Johnson, Mike Russow, Andrei Arlovski (UFC), Dmitriy Sosnovskiy, Guram Gugenishvilli, Derrick Mehmen, Kenny Garner, Brett Rogers, Magomed Malikov, Konstantin Erokhin (UFC), Shamil Abdurahimov (UFC), Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (UFC), Konstantin Gluhov, Stephan Puetz (Division Change), Damian Grabowski (UFC), Ken Hasegawa (Division Change), Marcin Tybura (UFC), Satoshi Ishii, Fernando Rodrigues Jr., Denis Smoldarev

Light Heavyweight: Glover Texeira (UFC), D.J. Linderman, Marcus Vanttinen, Gegard Mousasi (Strikeforce), Jimi Manuwa (UFC), Roger Hollett (UFC), Richard Hale (Division Change), Mark Godbeer, Maxim Grishin, Travis Wiuff (Division Change), Sergey Kornev (Retired), Robert Drysdale (UFC), Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Aleksandar Radosavljevic (Retired), Max Nunes, Jacob Noe, Raphael Davis, Jan Blachowicz (UFC), Anthony Johnson (UFC), Paul Buentello, Vladimir Matyushenko (Retired), Moise Rimbon, Christian M’Pumbu, Joey Beltran, Luiz Cane, Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (Division Change), James McSweeney, Jason Jones, Maxim Grishin, Mikhail Zayats, Mike Kyle, Thiago Silva, Teddy Holder, Goran Reljic, Vadim Nemkov, Shamil Gamzatov, Roger Gracie

Middleweight: Nate Marquardt (Strikeforce), Giva Santana, Bryan Baker, Hector Lombard (UFC), Andrei Semenov, Jorge Santiago (Strikeforce), Anthony Johnson (Division Change), Ryuta Sakurai, Magomed Sultanakhmedov (Retired), Antonio Neto (UFC), Thales Leites (UFC), Vitor Vianna, Bruno Santos, Roger Gracie (Division Change), Mario Miranda (Division Change), Arthur Guseinov, Dan Cramer, Eun-Su Lee, Elvis Mutapcic, Jesse Taylor, Leandro Ataides, Jay Silva, Brett Cooper, Kazuhiro Nakamura (Retired), Joe Schilling, Tamdan McCrory (UFC), Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, Doug Marshall, Kendall Grove, Young Choi, Tomasz Drwal, Melvin Manhoef, Yushin Okami (Division Change), Maiquel Falcao

Welterweight: Ben Saunders, Gael Grimaud, Bryan Baker, Yuya Shirai, Marius Zaromskis, Lyman Good, Myung Ho Bae, Fabricio Monteiro, Jay Hieron, Karl Amoussou, Rashid Magomedov (UFC), Albert Tumenov (UFC), Alexander Yakovlev (UFC), Takenori Sato (UFC), Shamil Zavurov, Aslambek Saidov, Josh Burkman (UFC), Ryan Ford, Rick Hawn, Steve Carl (UFC), Beslan Isaev, Yasubey Enomoto, Gota Yamashita, Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (UFC), Nobutatsu Suzuki, Murad Abdulaev, Fernando Gonzalez, Shingo Suzuki, Akihiro Murayama, Yuta Watanabe, Brennan Ward, Evangelist “Cyborg” Santos, Saad Awad

Lightweight: Francisco Trinaldo (UFC), Ricardo Tirloni, Koji Oishi, Mizuto Hirota (Strikeforce), Mairbek Taisumov, Zorobabel Moreira, Rich Clementi, Katsunori Kikuno, Paul Sass, Lloyd Woodard, Antonio McKee (Retired), Lewis Gonzales, Satoru Kitaoka, Yui Chul Nam (UFC), Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Kotetsu Boku, Naoyuki Kotani (UFC), Nick Newell, Eddie Alvarez (UFC), Leandro Silva (UFC), Luis “Buscape” Firmino, Melvin Guillard, Isao Kobayashi (Division Change), Vuyisile Colossa, Mansour Barnaoui, Koji Ando, Musa Khamanaev, Jason Knight (UFC), Alexander Sarnavskiy, Brian Foster, Brandon Girtz

Featherweight: Ronnie Mann, Mike Corey, Wilson Reis, Joachim Hansen, Mike Richman, Yusuke Kawanago, Takeshi Inoue, Joe Warren (Division Change), Wagnney Fabiano, Shahbulat Shamhalaev, Honorio Banario, Kazuyuki Miyata, Tatsuya Kawajiri (UFC), Doo Ho Choi (UFC), Takumi Nakayama, Marlon Sandro, Matt Bessette, Shinya Aoki (Division Change), Fabricio de Assis Costa da Silva, Daniel Romero, Magomeddrasul Khasbulaev, Koji Oishi (Retired), Caol Uno, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Diego Nunes, John Teixeira da Conceicao, Yutaka Saito, Georgi Karakhanyan

Bantamweight: Hiroshi Nakamura, Masakazu Imanari, Hideo Tokoro, Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Wagnney Fabiano (Division Change), Alexis Vila, Rodolfo Marques Diniz, Travis Marx, Zach Makovsky (Division Change), Kyoji Horiguchi (UFC), Miguel Torres, Leandro Issa (UFC), Pablo Alfonso, Ed West, Anthony Leone, Yuta Sasaki (UFC), Tyson Nam, Cody Bollinger, Takafumi Otsuka, Rafael Silva, Mike Richman, Kevin Belingon, Josh Hill

Flyweight: Taiyo Nakahara, Kentaro Watanabe, Rey Docyogen, Yuki Yasunaga, Ali Bagautinov (UFC), Jose Maria Tome (UFC), Darrell Montague (UFC), Zach Makovsky, Sergio Pettis (UFC), Alexis Vila (Division Change), Will Campuzano (UFC), Joshua Sampo (UFC), Mamoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiro Maeda, Yosuke Saruta, Kentaro Watanabe, Hideo Tokoro, Yasuhiro Urushitani, Yosuke Saruta

Junior Flyweight: Junji Ikoma, Takehiro Ishii, Mikihito Yamagami (Division Change), Masakazu Utsugi, Takuya Eizumi, Ryosuke Tanuma, Tadaaki Yamamoto, Jun Nakamura, Ryuya Fukuda, Akihito Sasao

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Global-MMA Ranking Rules

*This ranking system includes fighters that are not under exclusive contract to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

*Top level fighters that leave the UFC may be ranked in subsequent rankings.

*Fighters that sign exclusively to the UFC will be removed from the rankings.

*Rankings are based on a fighter's overall career results and recent performance.


*A fighter will be ranked number one if he defeats the number one ranked fighter in the weight division except under certain rare circumstances where the number two ranked fighter clearly deserves to move into the number one ranking position.

*Victories over highly ranked fighters and losses against non-ranked opponents have a larger effect on the fighters ranking position.

*A fighter will not necessarily take the place of his opponent in the rankings after a victory or a loss.


* A fighter can move up a maximum of three spots with impressive victories over a fighter ranked below him; however, there is no limit if the fighter earned a title or a tournament championship with the victory.

* An unranked newly crowned champion who earned a title in a major league MMA promotion can enter the top ten even with a victory over an unranked fighter.

*A fighter will drop in the rankings if he does not fight regularly against high level competition.

*A top ten ranked fighter can become ranked in another weight division after one or more wins in his new weight class.

*A fighter can be ranked in two different weight divisions.

*Champions and fighters from prominent promotions will have an advantage over champions and fighters from promotions with lesser competition.


*A fighter will be removed from the rankings if he does not fight for two years.

*Fighters that are signed to multiple promotions will have their promotions listed based on the following criteria: 1) championship held in a promotion, 2) predominant promotion the fighter fights in, 3) promotion last fought in.

*Rankings will be updated every month.
 
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I always enjoy your ranking, but in these one there are some changes that looked pretty weird to me.
Only because Brooks is a free agent Gaethje surpass him?
I don't like the "if a guy beats you, he should be ahead of you" idea, Meeks wasn't in the rankings before and now he has a really good spot only for the Toquinho's fight, but for some strange reason Shields has a better rank than Palhares.
Erokhin and Meek are actually the champions
 
Interesting rankings and everything is debatable.
Well, not everything

#9 Michael Page: 3 fights against irrelevant competition in the last 2 years. No top wins in his career.
#11 WSOF champion Jon Fitch, who is just coming from beating Okami and Zeferino

What the fuck
 
Interesting rankings and everything is debatable.
Well, not everything

#9 Michael Page: 3 fights against irrelevant competition in the last 2 years. No top wins in his career.
#11 WSOF champion Jon Fitch, who is just coming from beating Okami and Zeferino

What the fuck
not to mention benson ranked over them both. I could understand at LW, but he's only had 3 fights at WW and lost the most recent one. and of course Fedor and liam shouldn't be #1 for their divisions. I mean, Liam over a guy who most people still had top 5ish or top 10 when he left the UFC. And Fedor... multiyear layoff, gets a joke squash match on his return. Before that his most relevant win in the current streak was probably Ishii
 
not to mention benson ranked over them both. I could understand at LW, but he's only had 3 fights at WW and lost the most recent one. and of course Fedor and liam shouldn't be #1 for their divisions. I mean, Liam over a guy who most people still had top 5ish or top 10 when he left the UFC. And Fedor... multiyear layoff, gets a joke squash match on his return. Before that his most relevant win in the current streak was probably Ishii

I think that in GlobalMMA ranks, fighters usually remain their spot if they move weighclasses. I guess that's why Benson is up there. Anyways, I think his wins over Masvidal and Thatch are already better than anything MVP has ever done.

MVP in the top ten is bullshit, based on pure hype, a disdain to those fighters who are actually being active and fighting the most legit competition available.
MVP, for whatever reason, is not being matched up with the best competition available. This is politics. And these kind of politics should be punished, not rewarded, by fans in general and those who make rankings in particular, in my opinion.
This is not a knock on Page, I like the guy and think have lot of potential. He just hasnt proven so against legit competition. It's a knock on Bellator, in this case.

Fedor is kind of a fetish lol, so I won't say anything.
I agree that Liam over Phil Davis is a joke
 
I always enjoy your ranking, but in these one there are some changes that looked pretty weird to me.
Only because Brooks is a free agent Gaethje surpass him?
I don't like the "if a guy beats you, he should be ahead of you" idea, Meeks wasn't in the rankings before and now he has a really good spot only for the Toquinho's fight, but for some strange reason Shields has a better rank than Palhares.
Erokhin and Meek are actually the champions

Thanks, glad you like them and thanks for the input.

I had Gaethje pass Brooks after his last win in March, about 2 1/2 months ago, which was way prior to Brooks being a free agent. Being a free agent has no bearings on the rankings.

One of the criteria is beating a fighter gets him above the fighter he beat. It is a ladder type system and is the main criteria for fighters moving up. Palhares beat Shields and was ahead of him but that does not mean he will be ahead of him forever. A big loss like this dropped him in the rankings. Rankings have to work this way where fighters can move above guys that beat them in the past. They would fail otherwise since, for instance, Jon Jones would still be under Hamill.

Thanks for the info. on Meek and Erokhin. I will update the rankings to show their titles.
 
Interesting rankings and everything is debatable.
Well, not everything

#9 Michael Page: 3 fights against irrelevant competition in the last 2 years. No top wins in his career.
#11 WSOF champion Jon Fitch, who is just coming from beating Okami and Zeferino

What the fuck

Fitch is 5-4 in his last 9 fights and 4-3 in his last 7. He could move up in his next title fight but he is 4 spots below Palhares who beat him. I think he is in a good spot.
 
not to mention benson ranked over them both. I could understand at LW, but he's only had 3 fights at WW and lost the most recent one. and of course Fedor and liam shouldn't be #1 for their divisions. I mean, Liam over a guy who most people still had top 5ish or top 10 when he left the UFC. And Fedor... multiyear layoff, gets a joke squash match on his return. Before that his most relevant win in the current streak was probably Ishii

We had a vote on Benson after he went to Bellator and most people had him top 5 at WW originally. His loss to the champ dropped him from that top 5 spot.

A vote was held on Fedor as well and most agreed he was still 1 as he was when he retired a few years ago.

Liam climbed to number 1 with big wins and a taking the Bellator title. That spot was well earned IMO. Davis will have a chance to take that spot shortly.
 
I think that in GlobalMMA ranks, fighters usually remain their spot if they move weighclasses. I guess that's why Benson is up there. Anyways, I think his wins over Masvidal and Thatch are already better than anything MVP has ever done.

MVP in the top ten is bullshit, based on pure hype, a disdain to those fighters who are actually being active and fighting the most legit competition available.
MVP, for whatever reason, is not being matched up with the best competition available. This is politics. And these kind of politics should be punished, not rewarded, by fans in general and those who make rankings in particular, in my opinion.
This is not a knock on Page, I like the guy and think have lot of potential. He just hasnt proven so against legit competition. It's a knock on Bellator, in this case.

Fedor is kind of a fetish lol, so I won't say anything.
I agree that Liam over Phil Davis is a joke

Moving weight classes is always tough to rank. There is no strict rule for that.

I understand your take on Page's competition. I will consider that in future rankings and the guys below him could pass him up if he doesn't face better opponents. I agree that his competition could be better. I don't get that either. He should be fighting Bellator's best by now.
 
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If anyone thinks of any fighters that should be considered for the contenders list in future rankings, let me know. Many times I add the fighters recommended on this site and G-MMA when spots open up in the contenders.
 
FLW, Straweight, Women's FLW, and Women's Featherweight rankings are on the Global-MMA website, as well as format updates. I would have post them here but the formats are not copying over well.
 
Justin over Brooks is stupid, Brooks was number two org LW champ with wins over 3 guys in your top 10 but he's number 2?

He's still outside UFC at this point, he's best LW outside UFC.
 
Justin over Brooks is stupid, Brooks was number two org LW champ with wins over 3 guys in your top 10 but he's number 2?

He's still outside UFC at this point, he's best LW outside UFC.

Brooks has definitely been impressive and is on a tear but Gaethje is on an equally impressive run as well. He is now 16-0 and after he tore through Foster with leg kicks once again in the 1st after Foster just won the GP, I had to give him the nod.

Gaethje is now 16-0 with 14 finishes and has held the WSOF title for a while now. He has impressive wins over JZ, Brian Cobb, Dan Lauzon, Newell, Guilard, Palomino, and now Foster. I think he is now best LW outside UFC.

Brooks is impressive as well at 17-1 with 9 finishes and wins over Held, Jansen, Chandler, Sarnavskiy, Awad, and Kitaoka but based on most recent performances I think Gaethje gets the nod. It is a tough call and would be great to see these two fight to settle the top spot.
 
I definitely don't agree with Khalidov being #1 over Branch. Branch has wins over Okami, Starks, and has a title above his weight class. Khalidov didn't even beat the 9-6 guy he fought the other day.

MVP should not be in the top ten.
 
I definitely don't agree with Khalidov being #1 over Branch. Branch has wins over Okami, Starks, and has a title above his weight class. Khalidov didn't even beat the 9-6 guy he fought the other day.

MVP should not be in the top ten.

Khalidov has been number 1 since Shlemenko lost. He has been a top MW outside UFC for many years and has many good wins. Branch has quickly climbed to the number 2 spot with some really good wins but I don't think it is enough yet to overtake Khalidov.

MVP could be getting passed up soon if he doesn't face better competition, I agree.
 
caldwell and moraes should be ahead of bibi.

I've been considering giving Moraes that spot for some time but it is hard to take from Bibi after his long run.

Caldwell has to take the title and have some defenses to climb to top 2 or 3. That one could be a while.
 
Khalidov has been number 1 since Shlemenko lost. He has been a top MW outside UFC for many years and has many good wins. Branch has quickly climbed to the number 2 spot with some really good wins but I don't think it is enough yet to overtake Khalidov.

It's definitely enough lol, that's why he is #1 in every rank except yours

Both Mamed and Branch have 10 wins in the last 5 years.
Branch's wins are against better competition, holds major belts in two different weightclasses barely losing a round in the process
Mamed has just lost, in the eyes of most observers and analysts, to a 9-6 record guy.

Branch is the undisputed #1 MW out of UFC
On the other hand, I think #3 at LHW is too high for what he has done in that division.
 
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If anyone thinks of any fighters that should be considered for the contenders list in future rankings, let me know. Many times I add the fighters recommended on this site and G-MMA when spots open up in the contenders.

Jason High should be considered
10-2 among Strikeforce, UFC, Titan and WSOF. Was a top UFC LW. Losing to Dos Anjos should barely affect your spot

WSOF contenders just dont get the credit they deserve in these ranks

Enmanuel Newton keeping a top ten spot while Vinny Magalhaes doesnt get it has no sense
8 Bellator LW contenders and not a single one from WSOF?? Foster, High, Firmino, Zeferino...
 
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