UFC/Pride Heavyweight Champions with least-to-most Top 10 ranked wins at Heavyweight.

[tripleo]

Stipe beat dc x 2 already seals out.

nog has a country mile of a resume as does barnett. Longevity never worked for dc, he came in too late and retired too soon.

Stipe beat a 41 years old Cormier in a close decision

Barnett? are you being serious right now?

 

[Brom Bones]

Automatic ban. Shoji was awesome. A true warrior.

Nowhere did I say he wasn't awesome, ignoramus. Him being top 10 at HW is what I was incredulous about.

 

[acannxr]

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Gono hespekts OG @acannxr but... not Fightmatrix.
Igor was considered top2 P4P back then.

I dont think Fightmatrix is the right tool when you want to assess that transitional era [OW to Div. belts].
If people wanna use it by default, I can dig it, but I see people jumpin´to conclusions without proper understandin´of the context...

FightMatrix is definitively neither perfect or even ideal, but it's the best option if I want it to remain consistent across the board.

and a shit job on being logical or flexible to adjust his own silly rules.

You don't know what logical means and "being flexible" would result in nothing more than my own subjectivity getting inserted into how this list was created.

i also dont see how Frye wasnt a top win for Coleman.

FightMatrix had Frye ranked at #39 at the time.

Why is Mark Kerr not counted?

Because Mark Kerr was never the UFC Heavyweight Champion.

dc would bump up a few notches if you count his strikeforce wins

I did include his Strikeforce wins, at least the ones that involved top ten ranked fighters.

 

[dildos]

Stipe beat a 41 years old Cormier in a close decision

Barnett? are you being serious right now?

Yes.

 

[Starman]

Nowhere did I say he wasn't awesome, ignoramus. Him being top 10 at HW is what I was incredulous about.

You laughed and insulted him.

Shoji was ranked #10 in the heavyweight division (down 1 spot from his 9th place ranking in January) when he fought Coleman in 2000. The OP is right. He’s not wrong just because you’re ignorant.

 

[leatherneck]

FightMatrix is definitively neither perfect or even ideal, but it's the best option if I want it to remain consistent across the board.


You don't know what logical means and "being flexible" would result in nothing more than my own subjectivity getting inserted into how this list was created.


FightMatrix had Frye ranked at #39 at the time.


Because Mark Kerr was never the UFC Heavyweight Champion.




I did include his Strikeforce wins, at least the ones that involved top ten ranked fighters.

so you arent counting the UFC HW tourney wins?

"FightMatrix had Frye ranked at #39 at the time."

- not at the time of their first fight.

 

[Final Say]

Stipe beat a 41 years old Cormier in a close decision

that wasnt a close fight

 

[DagOban**]

Fedor is GOAT

 

[tripleo]

that wasnt a close fight

It was, DC landed some huge hits, Stipe won but it was close

 

[arcadeperfect]

JDS all day.

 

[Kingz]

The Lightweight version is here.
The Welterweight version is here.
The Middleweight version is here.
The Light Heavyweight version is here.

Rankings are based on FightMatrix.

Bas Rutten

Rutten has 0 top ten wins (90% of his fights took place at Openweight).

Ricco Rodriguez

Rodriguez' resume:

#3 Randy Couture

Rodriguez has 1 top ten win.

Maurice Smith

Smith's resume:

#4 Mark Coleman

Smith has 1 top ten win.

Mark Coleman

Coleman's resume:

#3 Dan Severn
#10 Akira Shoji

Coleman has 2 top ten wins.

Kevin Randleman

Randleman's resume:

#8 Pedro Rizzo
#5 Mirko Filipovic

Randleman has 2 top ten wins.

Tim Sylvia

Sylvia's resume:

#4 Ricco Rodriguez
#7 Andrei Arlovski
#10 Andrei Arlovski

Sylvia has 3 top ten wins.

Frank Mir

Mir's resume:

#4 Tim Sylvia
#2 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#8 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#7 Antonio Silva

Mir has 4 top ten wins.

Brock Lesnar

Lesnar's resume:

#9 Heath Herring
#3 Randy Couture
#3 Frank Mir
#5 Shane Carwin

Lesnar has 4 top ten wins.

Daniel Cormier

Cormier's resume:

#6 Antonio Silva
#8 Josh Barnett
#7 Frank Mir
#1 Stipe Miocic
#5 Derrick Lewis

Cormier has 5 top ten wins.

Fabricio Werdum

Werdum's resume:

#4 Gabriel Gonzaga
#1 Fedor Emelianenko
#10 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#5 Travis Browne
#5 Mark Hunt
#8 Travis Browne

Werdum has 6 top ten wins.

Andrei Arlovski

Arlovski's resume:

#7 Vladimir Matyushenko
#7 Tim Sylvia
#9 Fabricio Werdum
#4 Antonio Silva
#4 Travis Browne
#9 Frank Mir

Arlovski has 6 top ten wins.

Randy Couture

Couture's resume:

#6 Maurice Smith
#5 Kevin Randleman
#8 Tsuyoshi Kohsaka
#5 Pedro Rizzo
#10 Pedro Rizzo
#5 Tim Sylvia
#3 Gabriel Gonzaga

Couture has 7 top ten wins.

Cain Velasquez

Velasquez' resume:

#3 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#1 Brock Lesnar
#9 Antonio Silva
#1 Junior dos Santos
#3 Antonio Silva
#2 Junior dos Santos
#8 Travis Browne

Velasquez has 7 top ten wins.

Stipe Miocic

Miocic's resume:

#5 Mark Hunt
#3 Andrei Arlovski
#1 Fabricio Werdum
#3 Alistair Overeem
#5 Junior dos Santos
#2 Francis Ngannou
#1 Daniel Cormier
#2 Daniel Cormier

Miocic has 8 top ten wins.

Josh Barnett

Barnett's resume:

#2 Semmy Schilt
#2 Randy Couture
#10 Semmy Schilt
#6 Kazuhiro Nakamura
#2 Mark Hunt
#3 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#7 Frank Mir
#7 Andrei Arlovski

Barnett has 8 top ten wins.

Junior dos Santos

Santos' resume:

#4 Fabricio Werdum
#9 Mirko Filipovic
#6 Shane Carwin
#1 Cain Velasquez
#4 Frank Mir
#9 Mark Hunt
#6 Ben Rothwell
#4 Derrick Lewis

dos Santos has 8 top ten wins.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Nogueira's resume:

#5 Valentijn Overeem
#5 Gary Goodridge
#3 Mark Coleman
#6 Ricco Rodriguez
#5 Mirko Filipovic
#3 Josh Barnett
#9 Tim Sylvia
#5 Randy Couture
#10 Brendan Schaub

Nogueira has 9 top ten wins.

Fedor Emelianenko

Emelianenko's resume:

#6 Semmy Schilt
#10 Heath Herring
#1 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#9 Gary Goodridge
#9 Mark Coleman
#2 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
#4 Mirko Filipovic
#4 Mark Coleman
#7 Mark Hunt
#8 Tim Sylvia
#6 Andrei Arlovski
#8 Brett Rogers

Emelianenko has 12 top ten wins.

and STILL the undisputed GOAT...Emelianenkoooo Fedor

 

[acannxr]

so you arent counting the UFC HW tourney wins?

"FightMatrix had Frye ranked at #39 at the time."

- not at the time of their first fight.

Their first fight was at Openweight, not Heavyweight.

 

[bambammccoy]

JDS could reasonably get to the top of the list with some reasonable match making.

Shamil
Sakai
Alexey

Thats 3 winnable top 10 fights right there. Im a fan boy. I have got to give up. 2012 was so long ago.

 

[leatherneck]

Mark Kerr def won the UFC Heavyweight tournament. Multiple times.

 

[cheesus]

Ngannou should be added to this list.

#7 Arlovski
#2 Overeem
#3 Blaydes
#4 JDS
#7 Jairzinho

Try reading the title before posting

 

[WOLVERINEKILLS]

Again, this thread has stipe with twice as many top 5 wins as fedor.

Point being, don’t just use stats to try to make a point, as there may be other stats that say the opposite.

But the problem is during that era Fedor was in his prime fighting the top fighters were split between two separate organizations, Pride & UFC. So the fact Fedor has less top 5 wins has more to do with the fact he did not have all of the top 10 heavyweight fighters in Pride. Some of those were in the UFC which made those fights impossible at that time.

 

[WOLVERINEKILLS]

How was CroCop better? He’s a one trick pony as well and got KOed cold many times. And those 3 weren’t even true HWs, but bloated MWs or LHWs at best. Yes they fought big guys like Schilt, Zulu or Hong Man Choi, but they had no MMA skills. They got steam rolled when they faced legit well rounded HWs.

Cro Cop was one of the best strikers of his wra and even trained Stipe at one point. Fedor definitely crushed some cans while he also defeated the best heavyweights during his prime too. And speaking of blown up light heavyweights, is that not what Fedor was? If he would have dieted correctly? I think him being undersized made those wins even more impressive.

 

[mjfan23]

No surprise here

 

[NoBiasJustMMA]

how are stipe and barnett resume miles ahead?

They both have a lot more wins at HW. DC only had 28 fights and he split time between 2 divisions.

 

[NoBiasJustMMA]

so you arent counting the UFC HW tourney wins?

"FightMatrix had Frye ranked at #39 at the time."

- not at the time of their first fight.

He's counting all the wins that fit the criteria and is using the same criteria for everyone. If you want to make your own list not based on the criteria set out in the OP then make your own thread.