what weight class defines these fighters?

[ironfist05]

BJ Penn- LW or WW?
Hendo- MW or LHW?
Randy Couture- LHW or HW?
Urijah Faber- BW or FW?
Melendez- FW or LW?
Sean Sherk- LW or WW?
Rich Franklin- MW or LHW?
Paulo Filho- MW or LHW?
Mach Sakurai- LW or WW?
Jake Shields- WW or MW?

 

[shertard74]

Lw
Lhw
Hw
Bw
Lw
Lw
Mw
Mw
Ww
Mw

 

[BisexualMMA]

BJ Penn- LW or WW?

LW

Hendo- MW or LHW?

LHW

Randy Couture- LHW or HW?

LHW

Urijah Faber- BW or FW?

Hmmm...

Melendez- FW or LW?

LW

Sean Sherk- LW or WW?

LW

Rich Franklin- MW or LHW?

MW

Paulo Filho- MW or LHW?

MW

Mach Sakurai- LW or WW?

Hmmm...

Jake Shields- WW or MW?

Hmmm...

Inline.

 

[Poptard1985]

Faber was a long time chamep at FW and Shields was champ the MW weight in multiple orgs.

 

[bandicoot]

Whichever one they had the most success in.

 

[Noraa 666]

Whichever one they had the most success in.

I for some reason feel this is the right answer

 

[Promtheus]

I for some reason feel this is the right answer

lol...agreed

 

[Jonny Bones]

Lw
lhw
hw
bw
lw
lw
mw
mw
ww

 

[McPhlegm]

Whichever one they had the most success in.

This man here makes a good argument. I'm with him.

 

[elzar]

most of these are pretty obvious.

 

[HaulParris]

BJ Penn- LW or WW?
Hendo- MW or LHW?
Randy Couture- LHW or HW?
Urijah Faber- BW or FW?
Melendez- FW or LW?
Sean Sherk- LW or WW?
Rich Franklin- MW or LHW?
Paulo Filho- MW or LHW?
Mach Sakurai- LW or WW?
Jake Shields- WW or MW?

Interesting thread. For someone like Faber, he seemed unstoppable at FW, but arguably fought lesser opponents (no disrespect to Chance Farrar, Joe Pearson, or Jens), whereas at BW, he has looked dominant against everyone except Cruz and Barao.

 

[Master Shonuff]

The class they had the most success at

 

[Fight To Win]

BJ Penn- LW or WW?
Hendo- MW or LHW?
Randy Couture- LHW or HW?
Urijah Faber- BW or FW?
Melendez- FW or LW?
Sean Sherk- LW or WW?
Rich Franklin- MW or LHW?
Paulo Filho- MW or LHW?
Mach Sakurai- LW or WW?
Jake Shields- WW or MW?

LW.
LHW.
That's a tough one. HW.
Again, a tough one. I'd say BW.
LW.
LW.
MW.
MW.
WW.
WW.

 

[s1fys]

BJ Penn- LW or WW?
Hendo- MW or LHW? OPEN WEIGHT/HEAVYWEIGHT
Randy Couture- LHW or HW?
Urijah Faber- BW or FW?
Melendez- FW or LW?
Sean Sherk- LW or WW?
Rich Franklin- MW or LHW?
Paulo Filho- MW or LHW?
Mach Sakurai- LW or WW?
Jake Shields- WW or MW? About the same. More wins at WW, best win is Hendo at MW.

in Bold

 

[Bestrafer7]

BJ Penn - He always looked like one of the greatest MMA fighters of all-time at Lightweight.. He was just a good welterweight, a decent middleweight and a bad light heavyweight.

Hendo - Hendo is just a god damn badass who will fight anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Randy Couture - Randy will always be a Heavyweight in my mind.

Urijah Faber - I truly believe Urijah is better at Bantamweight, but he has more accomplishments at Featherweight.

Melendez - He was a great featherweight, but a dominate lightweight.

Sean Sherk - Sherk was the Lightweight Champ, that was easily his biggest accomplishment.

Rich Franklin - Rich Franklin is known for his own weight.. but definitely Middleweight if I had to pick.

Paulo Filho - He accomplished more at Middleweight

Mach Sakurai - He was his best at 160lbs, but Shooto's MW class (167lbs) was his second best.

Jake Shields - Welterweight

 

[Augustus Caesar]

Whichever one they had the most success in.

This.

 

[Chas]

Whichever one they had the most success in.

This.

Since when does weight class define a fighter, anyway? When i think of MMA fighters, the first thing i think is certainly not...

 

[papafreitas]

how about Wand LHW or MW?
And Vitor MW, LHW or HW?
and Maia WW or MW?

 

[CHONGO]

I'd say Randy at LHWas that run put him over with the fans.

No need to comment on Franklin