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whittaker has 8 now with the gastelum win
Vitor was ranked at MW when he fought Silva, as was Cote. There's others you missed too, and fightmatrix is not a good source for this. Try searching mmaweekly or Sherdog archives.
Anyone find an easy way to look up Suredawgs older rankings?
Nope, only way I know of is google but a lot of the time the links don't work anymore.
T levels were too low to make top 10 after TRT banThanks TS! I love reading these. I'm really surprised that Franklin and Bisping didn't have more ranked wins. Also, wouldn't Belfort be one of Weidman's ranked wins?
TS missed a few
Franklin had 1 more top 10 win vs Okami
Weidman had 1 more win vs Belfort
Silva had 3 more wins. Leites, Brunson and Belfort
Hendo had 3 more wins. Bisping, Misaki and Murilo
Luke had 1 more win vs Kennedy
I'd also like to see a list with guys that had a bunch of top 10 wins but never won the belt
Belfort, Mousasi, Machida, Romero and Jacare all had a bunch. More than some champs lol
Dan Henderson and Belfort, if they were ranked, it was probably at LHW back then.
Lee Murray I doubt he was ranked in the top10 at all.
Thales Leites, coming off a W over Marquardt, even if controverial, I assume had to be top10 ranked though
I agree, personally.belfort earned a title shot at middlweight against silva......he was certainly ranked.
belfort fought in both divisions but fought more at middle weight that at lhw during his second ufc stint. the list is incomplete when it comes to anderson silva and now i doubt the other resume's as well
And Sherdog also used to have Lightweight and Welterweight rankings combined into one; you also can't even access those rankings from the late 90's/early 00's.Firstly props on the research.
One critique would be there seems to be discrepancies in the older fighter records.
How do we evaluate the accuracy of fightmatrix records? Sherdog and MMAWeekly top 10s were typically taken as the definitive rankings
Okami was ranked #13.Franklin had 1 more top 10 win vs Okami
Belfort was removed from the rankings due to inactivity (he hadn't fought in 18 months).Weidman had 1 more win vs Belfort
belfort earned a title shot at middlweight against silva......he was certainly ranked.
belfort fought in both divisions but fought more at middle weight that at lhw during his second ufc stint. the list is incomplete when it comes to anderson silva and now i doubt the other resume's as well
Leites was #14, Brunson was #12, and Belfort had been removed from the rankings due to inactivity (he hadn't fought at Middleweight in two years).Silva had 3 more wins. Leites, Brunson and Belfort
Bisping was #11, Misaki was #28, and his first win against Bustamante was at Light Heavyweight.Hendo had 3 more wins. Bisping, Misaki and Murilo
Kennedy was #12.Luke had 1 more win vs Kennedy
And Sherdog also used to have Lightweight and Welterweight rankings combined into one; you also can't even access those rankings from the late 90's/early 00's.
Okami was ranked #13.
Belfort was removed from the rankings due to inactivity (he hadn't fought in 18 months).
Leites was #14, Brunson was #12, and Belfort had been removed from the rankings due to inactivity (he hadn't fought at Middleweight in two years).
Bisping was #11, Misaki was #28, and his first win against Bustamante was at Light Heavyweight.
Kennedy was #12.
And you're wrong; their first fight was a reserve bout as part of the 205 lb Grand Prix.I'm pretty sure it was at 183 as Bustamante was the UFC 185 champ coming into Pride
Misaki was only ranked #28 when he lost to Henderson because Misaki was on just a one fight win streak against #114 Akira Shoji (and hadn't defeated Henderson yet).Misaki was 28 after beating Hendo himself? I doubt that
So you think fighters should get to reserve their ranking after not fighting in a division for two years?Edit:
Just saw the links for the rankings... the ranking matrix needs to be adjusted. Alot of this is just way off
So you think fighters should get to reserve their ranking after not fighting in a division for two years?