Why should Khalil's ranking in the division go up for a TKO loss ?

[flowoftruth]

It was an incredible performance by him even in losing, but I don't see Dana's logic in why he should move up in the rankings.

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

Because it would make Alex look better and make it easier for Dana to promote him.

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

It shouldn’t.

Rankings mean jack shit anyways, he got the title fight ranked #8 with no top 10 wins despite that.

 

[The Blue Bird]

He made daddy work hard so he deserves a gift

 

[Cooliox]

Rankings are BS

It's just Dana's way of hyping fights

I remember Jake Shields beating Demian Maia and Maia was STILL ahead of Shields in the rankings, because Dana hated Shields.

Not to mention the time Dennis Siver's ranking mysteriously moved up while he was inactive, and he came into the top10 in order to fight Conor, and justify Conor's title shot.

LOTS of scheming and manipulation... which is to be expected when money is involved.

We keep looking at MMA as a sport, but Dana only cares about money. Right now Khalil is a draw so they're going to hype him up and squeeze what they can out of him before moving on to the next.

 

[CatchtheseHands]

Ankalev's ranking went up after drawing with Jan, so why not?

 

[Bobby Boulders]

It shouldn't. Dana just creating a talking point to make it appear like those rankings matter. Meanwhile, they will still toss in whichever ranked opponent they want, just like they did Khalil.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

The same way Dana thinks Jon should be #1 P4P over Alex and Islam even though both those guys have more fights in the last year than Jones in the last 5...

 

[Dr. Rose]

I think it happens in college football at times. It all depends on the quality of losses and schedule toughness. He gave Poatan his toughest fight of anyone not named Izzy. That should matter for something.

 

[PrideNverDies]

Because you touch yourself at night

 

[krelianx]

It shouldn't. Dana also should have no interference with rankings, since his own judgment about how rankings are decided is moronic.

 

[Shaolin Alan]

It should be automatic double yellows for anyone creating a post about UFC "rankings" on this forum!! We all know they are B.S and only Sherdog rankings truly matter

 

[Jfreemandrums]

He performed more admirably than Jamahil and Jiri the 2nd time

Took 2 rounds off of Alex and even after getting torn up, bruised Alex's face while Pereira was searching for the finish

 

[El Fernas]

Cause the others guys Pereira beat didnt made it that far, Jiri fought twice, never went past 2 rounds, Hill R1, Strickland R1.

 

[NoSmilez]

Khalil had a good showing but Alex had the flu or something. He was coughing during the press conference.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Dana is pretending to be outraged

 

[StonedLemur]

Because you touch yourself at night

I do too lol

 

[Ozze]

Because the rankings are made up by the opinion of the people who make them and not by gaining or losing points on wins and losses.

So if you see a fight like Khalil had and think "even though he lost to the champ, judging by what I saw, I think he's better than Krylov or Volkan" you could bump him up.

 

[Hank Grill]

More than half of the conglomerate of websites don't exist anymore for the rankings. Like the Lads say it's to push Poatan to the non 6 foot 5 fans.

 

[djason1988]

It's very difficult for me to believe, after watching that fight, that Rountree wouldn't ko both Jiri and Hill, and rather easily at that. I know, mma math, but all of these dudes are strikers and Rountree performed vastly superior to then against Pereira. I think the fight showed that Rountree is criminally underrated, and some adjustment was in order.