UFC.com removes Okami from rankings

He's still in the real top 10, just not in the UFC's top 10.
 
Why? He's no longer in the UFC, so there's no reason he should be in their rankings. Anyone who follows the UFC knows he got released, and also knows he's a ranked MW. They're the internal rankings for the UFC, if you want to see MMA rankings, look elsewhere. Shockingly, he's still there, because... they aren't limited to just the UFC.

Getting your shit in a knot over this is retarded.

It still makes the UFC look illegitimate because now other fighters move up in rankings without earning the spot. How is Rockhold #6 with a UFC record of 0-1 being brutally Ko'd?
 
Umm, they're UFC rankings....Yushin Okami is not with the UFC anymore, therefore Yushin Okami is not on the UFC rankings.

Same reason why Pat Curran isn't in the UFC FW rankings, or Michael Chandler on the UFC LW rankings.

or am I missing something here?

Exactly
Why should he be on the website if he is not in UFC
 
It still makes the UFC look illegitimate because now other fighters move up in rankings without earning the spot. How is Rockhold #6 with a UFC record of 0-1 being brutally Ko'd?

Illegitimate to who? A bunch of pissed off sherdoggers? Okami was a good fighter, but he's completely irrellevant
 
It still makes the UFC look illegitimate because now other fighters move up in rankings without earning the spot. How is Rockhold #6 with a UFC record of 0-1 being brutally Ko'd?

Because Strikeforce was a Zuffa promotion, so he still has a win over Jacare and Kennedy.
 
It still makes the UFC look illegitimate because now other fighters move up in rankings without earning the spot. How is Rockhold #6 with a UFC record of 0-1 being brutally Ko'd?

Ask the Media, they are the ones that vote for these rankings.
 
It still makes the UFC look illegitimate because now other fighters move up in rankings without earning the spot. How is Rockhold #6 with a UFC record of 0-1 being brutally Ko'd?

Out of respect for his accomplishments in Strikeforce, and the list of top ten MWs who've been brutally KOed by Vitor is growing.
 
They're counting the people in the promotion. You don't see Michael Chandler, Ben Askren, Bibiano Fernandes, Mamed Khalidov, etc. anywhere in their rankings either.
 
but its called UFC rankings, not Zuffa rankings

Because no where in the rankings guidelines does it say that only UFC wins are considered. They just rank them by perceived skill and wins.
 
Because no where in the rankings guidelines does it say that only UFC wins are considered. They just rank them by perceived skill and wins.

Not sure what specifically you mean, but right on the page it says:

Rankings were generated by a voting panel made up of media members. The media members were asked to vote for who they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight-class and pound-for-pound.
 
It looks like once they cut you, everyone else magically moves up a spot. Rockhold now #6.

Click on each media vote and you can see that the UFC censored Okami's name out on every voting ballot.

Hello. It's the UFC rankings not MMA rankings. They aren't around to promote other MMA organiations and there fighters.

There are other websites for MMA rankings that include fighters outside the UFC: MMA Weekly, Sherdog, and many others
 
Since he's not in the UFC it makes sense he's not a part of the UFC rankings. All of you who are upset by this are just being morons. THIS is not the issue of Okami being cut that is a concern.
 
But the I thought the rankings were voted on by objective reporters. =)
 
It's funny because the MW ranking lost an entire spot and no one can fill it until next week where they vote again. So it's Weidman and then #1-9 instead of #10.

...or they just move everyone previously below Okami up a step and puts the guy with the 11th most votes there in the empty slot.
 
Cutting Okami was a joke, so is this lol.

Sad.

EDIT- If UFC is just ranking UFC fighters this isn't an issue at all obviously, i didn't know that.

The cut was still shit.
 
Since he's not in the UFC it makes sense he's not a part of the UFC rankings. All of you who are upset by this are just being morons. THIS is not the issue of Okami being cut that is a concern.

this, but does it surprise you at all?
 
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