Highest ranked fighter you've seen perform; every weight class

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Bored at work, so here's a little game for you all. What's the highest ranked fighter you've seen compete in every weight class from the UFC official rankings? I'll start, although I can see UK fans are going to be at a massive disadvantage here.

Heavyweight: #3 Stipe Miocic; a loss vs Stefan Struive at UFC on Fuel TV Nottingham England
Light-Heavyweight: #7 Jimi Manuwa; Seen him about three times in the UFC alone.
Middleweight: #5 Lyoto Machida; Two wins, Mark Munoz in Manchester and Dan Henderson UFC 157 in Anaheim.
Welterweight: Champion Robbie Lawler; UFC 157 in Anaheim ruining Crotch-check.
Lightweight: #11 Al Iaquinta win over Piotr Hallmann in Manchester.
Featherweight: Interim Champion Conor McGregor, win over Diego Brandao in Dublin.
Bantamweight: #1 Renan Barao, two wins. vs Brad Picket in Birmingham, UK and at Wembley vs Michael McDonald.
Flyweight: #4 Ian McCall win over Brad Pickett in Dublin

Womens Bantamweight: Champion Ronda Rousey, win over Liz Carmouche in Anaheim UFC 157.
Womens Strawweight: #9 Joanne Calderwood, win over Cortney Casey in Glasgow, Scotland.

Not bad for a UK fan I guess. Two champs, an interim champ and a #1 ranked contender. Top 10 in every weight class apart from Lightweight.
 
Err, I saw 162, 182 and FN 33. You work it out... All I can tell you is that it includes the GOAT
 
I've only ever been to one UFC card live so it's pretty boring. But, I did get to see one of the greatest comebacks in history (Cup Cheick vs. Barry).
 
HW: Cain
LHW: Gus
MW: bisping
FLW: MM

Can't think of the WW/LW as penn retired lol.
 
Greatest of All Time, all fighters in all divisions:


Fedor vs Rogers
 
HW Mitrione
LHW Shogun/Rampage
MW Machida
WW Hendricks
LW Sam Stout
FW Jermey Stevens
FLW Mighty Mouse
WBW Alexis Davis
SW Randa Markos
 
UK fan:

HW: Cro Cop vs Kongo
LHW: Rampage (C) vs Hendo (pride champ) ... Beat that, unification fight more or less
MW: Dunno
WW: Dunno
LW: BJ vs Joe Daddy

Some cool fights of fighters early in their careers that I've seen are

Conor McGregor vs Steve O'Keefe (Conor's FW debut)

Anderson Silva Vs Tony Fryklund (Uppercut elbow. One of the best KO's of all time IMO)
 
HW Cain twice. Vs Bigfoot ufc 146. Vs jds 3 ufc 166
LHW Cormier. Vs Roy Nelson ufc 166.
MW can't remember.
WW lawler twice. Vs bigg rigg ufc 171 vs McDonald if can 189
LW Melendez. Vs sanche ufc 166
FW Mcgregor. Vs mendes ufc 189
BW can't remember
FLw can't remember
WBW Jessica eye. Vs Sarah calfman ufc 166
 
TheShockmaster said:
Bored at work, so here's a little game for you all. What's the highest ranked fighter you've seen compete in every weight class from the UFC official rankings? I'll start, although I can see UK fans are going to be at a massive disadvantage here.

Heavyweight: #3 Stipe Miocic; a loss vs Stefan Struive at UFC on Fuel TV Nottingham England
Light-Heavyweight: #7 Jimi Manuwa; Seen him about three times in the UFC alone.
Middleweight: #5 Lyoto Machida; Two wins, Mark Munoz in Manchester and Dan Henderson UFC 157 in Anaheim.
Welterweight: Champion Robbie Lawler; UFC 157 in Anaheim ruining Crotch-check.
Lightweight: #11 Al Iaquinta win over Piotr Hallmann in Manchester.
Featherweight: Interim Champion Conor McGregor, win over Diego Brandao in Dublin.
Bantamweight: #1 Renan Barao, two wins. vs Brad Picket in Birmingham, UK and at Wembley vs Michael McDonald.
Flyweight: #4 Ian McCall win over Brad Pickett in Dublin

Womens Bantamweight: Champion Ronda Rousey, win over Liz Carmouche in Anaheim UFC 157.
Womens Strawweight: #9 Joanne Calderwood, win over Cortney Casey in Glasgow, Scotland.

Not bad for a UK fan I guess. Two champs, an interim champ and a #1 ranked contender. Top 10 in every weight class apart from Lightweight.
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Hw- werdum- Fedor-jds
Lhw- rampage-hendo
Mw- Anderson Silva
Ww- Lawler- shields
Lw- pettis- benson-cerrone
Bw- dillashaw-barao
Fw- mighty mouse
wbw-meisha
 
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I saw Anderson Silva vs Bonnar in Rio in 2012. So I sai the best.

Only thing better would to have seen Fedor live.

Till this day I never saw the complete Affliction card. I only saw the fights. Always wondered how the production level of affliction was.
 
I was at ufc 82 so I guess
Hw: arlovski
Lhw: ?
Mw:Anderson
Ww: Fitch (I guess)
Lw: there weren't any notable LWs that I recall
Nothing smaller in those days
 
For a second I didn't understand that you meant live, so this thread made no sense to me lol.

Carwin is the only guy I've seen live, back in ROF. Never been to a UFC event.
 
Edit: I misread your question, didn't see you meant currently ranked, I just did in the history of fights I've been to.


Anderson vs Mardquardt and Chael 1
Sherk vs Franca
Fedor vs Sylvia
Mighty mouse vs Benavidez and Cariaso
McGregor vs Poirier
Benson vs Gil
Pettis vs RDA
Been to Joanna's first three ufc fights, so watched her debut up to winning the belt
JDS vs Miocic
Robbie vs Matt Brown
Dillashaw vs Soto

I'm sure there's been a couple others, but those are some of the highest ranked fights I've seen.

So 3 LW title fights, 2 FLW, 2 MW, 1 BW, 1 WSW

Been pretty good.
 
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SavageAngel said:
Till this day I never saw the complete Affliction card. I only saw the fights. Always wondered how the production level of affliction was.
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I was at affliction: banned. Production was really good actually.

They had Megadeath on a side stage and they played songs in between the fights.
 
It's pretty hard to beat mine since I was Strikeforce Fedor vs Werdum and UFC 139. I've only been to 2 events but 2 pretty dang good ones. UFC 139 is one of THE BEST of all time IMO.

I've seen probably 8-9 people who were considered #1 at some point and either held a belt in UFC or PRIDE. I've seen

HW - Fedor #1, Werdum #1
LHW - Hendo #1, Shogun #1
MW - Wandy #1
WW - Matt Brown, Kampman, Story
LW - Rafael Dos Anjos #1 (prelims of 139...heh)
FW - nobody
BW - Faber #1, Bowles #1
FlyW - nobody

WFly - Cyborg #1
WB - None
 
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HW- Cain UFC 166
LHW- DC UFC 173, as HW at 166, and will see again at 192
MW- ANDERSON SILVA @148
WW- Robbie @ 173
LW - Frankie was LW champ then but Pettis was also on the card @ 136
FW - Aldo @ 136
BW - TJ @ 173
FW - Dodson @ 166

WBW - Eye
WSW - N/A
 
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