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

[acannxr]

Where does Tony Ferguson rank? I mean he was interim champ..

I didn't count interim champions as real champions, but if you'd gotten to page two, you would've seen that I'd looked over Ferguson's resume:

Just did this for an FYI.

Ferguson's resume (based on FightMatrix):

#2 Rafael dos Anjos
#8 Kevin Lee
#6 Anthony Pettis
#4 Donald Cerrone

 

[pater13anthemios]

I didn't count interim champions as real champions, but if you'd gotten to page two, you would've seen that I'd looked over Ferguson's resume:

Thanks keep up the great work

 

[stinkynecklace]

The Flyweight version is here.
The Bantamweight version is here.
The Featherweight version is here.
The Welterweight 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.

Rankings are based on FightMatrix.

Conor McGregor

McGregor's resume:

#1 Eddie Alvarez

McGregor has 1 top ten win.

Sean Sherk

Sherk's resume:

#10 Hermes Franca
#9 Tyson Griffin

Sherk has 2 top ten wins.

Anthony Pettis

Pettis' resume:

#8 Donald Cerrone
#1 Benson Henderson
#3 Gilbert Melendez

Pettis has 3 top ten wins.

Jens Pulver

Pulver's resume:

#4 Phil Johns
#1 Caol Uno
#3 Dennis Hallman
#3 B.J. Penn

Pulver has 4 top ten wins.

Frankie Edgar

Edgar's resume:

#6 Sean Sherk
#1 BJ Penn
#2 BJ Penn
#2 Gray Maynard

Edgar has 4 top ten wins.

Rafael dos Anjos

dos Anjos' resume:

#2 Benson Henderson
#7 Nate Diaz
#1 Anthony Pettis
#2 Donald Cerrone

dos Anjos has 4 top ten wins.

Khabib Nurmagomedov

Nurmagomedov's resume:

#6 Rafael dos Anjos
#7 Michael Johnson
#4 Edson Barboza
#5 Conor McGregor
#1 Dustin Poirier
#2 Justin Gaethje

Nurmagomedov has 6 top ten wins.

B.J. Penn

Penn's resume:

#2 Caol Uno
#5 Matt Serra
#6 Takanori Gomi
#8 Joe Stevenson
#4 Sean Sherk
#4 Kenny Florian
#2 Diego Sanchez

Penn has 7 top ten wins.

Eddie Alvarez

Alvarez' resume:

#9 Tatsuya Kawajiri
#5 Shinya Aoki
#4 Michael Chandler
#6 Gilbert Melendez
#2 Anthony Pettis
#1 Rafael dos Anjos
#9 Justin Gaethje

Alvarez has 7 top ten wins.

Benson Henderson

Henderson's resume:

#7 Jim Miller
#6 Clay Guida
#1 Frankie Edgar
#2 Frankie Edgar
#4 Nate Diaz
#2 Gilbert Melendez
#8 Josh Thomson

Henderson has 7 top ten wins.

Takanori Gomi

Gomi's resume:

#5 Rumina Sato
#5 Dokonjonosuke Mishima
#7 Ralph Gracie
#2 Jens Pulver
#3 Tatsuya Kawajiri
#2 Hayato Sakurai
#3 Marcus Aurelio
#2 Mitsuhiro Ishida

Gomi has 8 top ten wins.

I really like all of these threads you’ve made on ranked wins. I have a request, would you do a pound for pound one? I just noticed that Pettis has ranked wins in three weight classes. I wonder if he would be ranked higher P4P than he is at LW. It’s obvious you put a lot of work into these threads so I won’t hold my breath haha

 

[acannxr]

I really like all of these threads you’ve made on ranked wins. I have a request, would you do a pound for pound one? I just noticed that Pettis has ranked wins in three weight classes. I wonder if he would be ranked higher P4P than he is at LW. It’s obvious you put a lot of work into these threads so I won’t hold my breath haha

I don't engage in P4P discussions, ever, so I certainly wouldn't make a thread on the topic .

 

[stinkynecklace]

I don't engage in P4P discussions, ever, so I certainly wouldn't make a thread on the topic .

Haha fair enough. I don’t either, or GOAT discussions because it is a fantasy. I was just curious about who would rank the highest when wins over ranked opponents across weight classes was considered.

 

[acannxr]

Poirier's resume:

#7 Anthony Pettis
#10 Justin Gaethje
#1 Eddie Alvarez
#7 Dan Hooker
#4 Michael Chandler

Poirier has 5 top ten wins.

 

[acannxr]

I added Oliveira to the list.

 

[rodkek]

The Flyweight version is here.
The Bantamweight version is here.
The Featherweight version is here.
The Welterweight 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.

Rankings are based on FightMatrix.

Conor McGregor

McGregor's resume:

#1 Eddie Alvarez

McGregor has 1 top ten win.

Sean Sherk

Sherk's resume:

#10 Hermes Franca
#9 Tyson Griffin

Sherk has 2 top ten wins.

Charles Oliveira

Oliveira's resume:

#5 Kevin Lee
#4 Tony Ferguson
#6 Michael Chandler

Oliveira has 3 top ten wins.

Anthony Pettis

Pettis' resume:

#8 Donald Cerrone
#1 Benson Henderson
#3 Gilbert Melendez

Pettis has 3 top ten wins.

Jens Pulver

Pulver's resume:

#4 Phil Johns
#1 Caol Uno
#3 Dennis Hallman
#3 B.J. Penn

Pulver has 4 top ten wins.

Frankie Edgar

Edgar's resume:

#6 Sean Sherk
#1 BJ Penn
#2 BJ Penn
#2 Gray Maynard

Edgar has 4 top ten wins.

Rafael dos Anjos

dos Anjos' resume:

#2 Benson Henderson
#7 Nate Diaz
#1 Anthony Pettis
#2 Donald Cerrone

dos Anjos has 4 top ten wins.

Khabib Nurmagomedov

Nurmagomedov's resume:

#6 Rafael dos Anjos
#7 Michael Johnson
#4 Edson Barboza
#1 Dustin Poirier
#2 Justin Gaethje

Nurmagomedov has 5 top ten wins.

B.J. Penn

Penn's resume:

#2 Caol Uno
#5 Matt Serra
#6 Takanori Gomi
#8 Joe Stevenson
#4 Sean Sherk
#4 Kenny Florian
#2 Diego Sanchez

Penn has 7 top ten wins.

Eddie Alvarez

Alvarez' resume:

#9 Tatsuya Kawajiri
#5 Shinya Aoki
#4 Michael Chandler
#6 Gilbert Melendez
#2 Anthony Pettis
#1 Rafael dos Anjos
#9 Justin Gaethje

Alvarez has 7 top ten wins.

Benson Henderson

Henderson's resume:

#7 Jim Miller
#6 Clay Guida
#1 Frankie Edgar
#2 Frankie Edgar
#4 Nate Diaz
#2 Gilbert Melendez
#8 Josh Thomson

Henderson has 7 top ten wins.

Takanori Gomi

Gomi's resume:

#5 Rumina Sato
#5 Dokonjonosuke Mishima
#7 Ralph Gracie
#2 Jens Pulver
#3 Tatsuya Kawajiri
#2 Hayato Sakurai
#3 Marcus Aurelio
#2 Mitsuhiro Ishida

Gomi has 8 top ten wins.

dont get it twisted khabib is still the goat

 

[Volador]

I think it would make sense to include Conor in Khabib's list, since FightMatrix immediately reactivated his rank after the Khabib fight and ranked him #5 after losing, without taking any new fights. He only wasn't listed at the time due to inactivity. I think it would make sense to list him, maybe with an asterisk next to his name to clarify, since even after losing, his FM points were enough to justify a #5 rank. Still great work.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

LW All Time Greats

1. Khabib
2. RDA
3. Penn
4. Edgar
5. Pettis
6. Pulver
7. Benson

The rest of those clowns don't matter.

 

[Islam Imamate]

I know he's not a UFC or PRIDE champ but I wonder how many top 10 wins Aoki has. I feel like he's underrated when it comes to talking about the GOAT LWs.

 

[welcometohavoc]

You forgot #10 Pat Healy for Khabib, would push him to the 2nd most top 10 wins on the list

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That's UFC rankings, not world rankings

 

[acannxr]

Poirier's resume:

#7 Anthony Pettis
#10 Justin Gaethje
#1 Eddie Alvarez
#7 Dan Hooker

Poirier has 4 top ten wins.

McGregor wasn't ranked at Lightweight when Poirier defeated him in January and he was only #12 before their most recent fight.

I think it would make sense to include Conor in Khabib's list, since FightMatrix immediately reactivated his rank after the Khabib fight and ranked him #5 after losing, without taking any new fights. He only wasn't listed at the time due to inactivity. I think it would make sense to list him, maybe with an asterisk next to his name to clarify, since even after losing, his FM points were enough to justify a #5 rank. Still great work.

Any fighter removed from the rankings due to inactivity was excluded from a fighter's resume, and this was applied to the hundreds of resumes I compiled across all weight classes, so I'm hardly going to make an exception for Nurmagomedov.

I know he's not a UFC or PRIDE champ but I wonder how many top 10 wins Aoki has. I feel like he's underrated when it comes to talking about the GOAT LWs.

I already did that a couple of pages back...

Aoki's resume:

#9 Joachim Hansen
#3 Gesias Cavalcante
#8 Caol Uno
#2 Eddie Alvarez
#3 Joachim Hansen
#4 Mizuto Hirota
#8 Tatsuya Kawajiri

Aoki has 7 top ten wins.

 

[Volador]

Any fighter removed from the rankings due to inactivity was excluded from a fighter's resume, and this was applied to the hundreds of resumes I compiled across all weight classes, so I'm hardly going to make an exception for Nurmagomedov.

I'm aware of all that, and nowhere did I suggest you do that only for Khabib. You can do whatever you like, it's you list. I'm just saying that for many people's perception when it comes to discussing someone's resume, a win over a top 10 fighter that was removed due to a technicality of the website you're using and then immediately reactivated, isn't the same as beating a guy ranked outside the top 10 or some other random fighter, it still carries weight. Hence my suggestion of listing those kinds of wins with a clarifying asterisk.

 

[acannxr]

I'm aware of all that, and nowhere did I suggest you do that only for Khabib. You can do whatever you like, it's you list. I'm just saying that for many people's perception when it comes to discussing someone's resume, a win over a top 10 fighter that was removed due to a technicality of the website you're using and then immediately reactivated, isn't the same as beating a guy ranked outside the top 10 or some other random fighter. Hence my suggestion of listing those kinds of wins with a clarifying asterisk.

Inactivity isn't a "technicality", it's a perfectly acceptable reason for someone to get removed (or demoted) from the rankings.

 

[redblue]

How the hell does FightMatrix have Kevin Lee at #5 when he was #8 ranked in the UFC at the time he fought Oliveira?

FightMatrix has some shit rankings overall. It's bad enough they were ranking Will Brooks top 5 at lightweight just because he was Bellator champ. Guy got smashed in the UFC.

 

[El Panteron]

How the hell does FightMatrix have Kevin Lee at #5 when he was #8 ranked in the UFC at the time he fought Oliveira?

FightMatrix has some shit rankings overall. It's bad enough they were ranking Will Brooks top 5 at lightweight just because he was Bellator champ. Guy got smashed in the UFC.

Beating one of the best lightweights in the world in Chandler twice will do that.

Hindsight doesn't retroactively change things.

 

[I WILL CUT YOU]

Prime Sherk would walk right through Conor then impregnate Dee with high calcium children.

 

[acannxr]

How the hell does FightMatrix have Kevin Lee at #5 when he was #8 ranked in the UFC at the time he fought Oliveira?

Lee's win over Barboza bumped him up to #5, his loss to Iaquinta dropped him to #7, his next loss was at Welterweight, so when he returned and defeated Gillepsie (and McGregor got removed from the rankings due to inactivity), he was put back in the #5 spot.

Furthermore, if you took a second to look at who and how the UFC's rankings are compiled, you'd understand why they have laughable credibility:

Initial observations:

• Only less than half of the above media members have a primary focus on MMA.
• Roughly one-third of the above media members don't even (primarily) cover sports.
• At least two of the above media members' domains are for sale.
• A good portion of the above media members are nothing more than Facebook/Twitter pages.

A summation of the people who vote on the UFC's rankings.

ah yes! good memory buddeh! the names were totally skipping my mind when i made the post. thanks for that!

*found what i was looking for.*

@acannxr

And the UFC tells the media members who to vote for (based purely on marketability).

It's bad enough they were ranking Will Brooks top 5 at lightweight just because he was Bellator champ. Guy got smashed in the UFC.

Brooks got highly ranked because he'd defeated Chandler; Chandler got highly ranked because he'd defeated Alvarez; Alvarez got highly ranked because the UFC didn't have all the top Lightweights when Alvarez was building up his resume and he was able to fight them in other organizations (i.e. Dream).

 

[redblue]

Beating one of the best lightweights in the world in Chandler twice will do that.

Hindsight doesn't retroactively change things.

Brent Primus is a top 5 lightweight as well.

Shite website with shite arbitrary rankings.