MMA Connected rankings

Showdown Joe Ferraro's MMA Connected rankings

As of August 30, 2010

These rankings, like many others, are subjective in nature and are simply an opinion based on fighters' performances, past record of competition and various hypotheses, facts, etc. Don't take them personally.

Heavyweight

1. Brock Lesnar

2. Shane Carwin

3. Fabricio Werdum

4. Fedor Emelianenko

5. Cain Velasquez

6. Junior dos Santos

7. Frank Mir

8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

9. Alistair Overeem

10. Josh Barnett

Light heavyweight

1. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

2. Lyoto Machida

3. Rashad Evans

4. Quinton Jackson

5. Anderson Silva

6. Forrest Griffin

7. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

8. Thiago Silva

9. Ryan Bader

10. Rafael Cavalcante

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva

2. Chael Sonnen

3. Jake Shields

4. Nathan Marquardt

5. Dan Henderson

6. Demian Maia

7. Vitor Belfort

8. Yushin Okami

9. Robbie Lawler

10. Alan Belcher

Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre

2. Jon Fitch

3. Thiago Alves

4. Josh Koscheck

5. Nick Diaz

6. Dan Hardy

7. Paul Daley

8. Martin Kampmann

9. Paulo Thiago

10. Carlos Condit

Lightweight

1. Frankie Edgar

2. B.J. Penn

3. Gray Maynard

4. Kenny Florian

5. Gilbert Melendez

6. Ben Henderson

7. Shinya Aoki

8. Eddie Alvarez

9. Tatsuya Kawajiri

10. Evan Dunham

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo

2. Manny Gamburyan

3. Mike Brown

4. Urijah Faber

5. Hatsu Hioki

6. Bibiano Fernandes

7. Marlon Sandro

8. Michihiro Omigawa

9. Masanori Kanehara

10. Josh Grispi

Bantamweight

1. Dominick Cruz

2. Brian Bowles

3. Joseph Benavidez

4. Miguel Torres

5. Scott Jorgensen

6. Takeya Mizugaki

7. Damacio Page

8. Masakatsu Ueda

9. Rani Yahya

10. Wagnney Fabiano

The rankings below are fictional, and the basis surrounding them are if the athletes were all the same weight (e.g. 170 pounds), how would they perform against one another. 

Pound-for-pound

1. Georges St-Pierre

2. Anderson Silva

3. Jose Aldo

4. Fedor Emelianenko

5. Mauricio Rua

6. Frankie Edgar

7. B.J. Penn

8. Jake Shields

9. Jon Fitch

10. Lyoto Machida

Women's pound-for-pound

1. Cristiane Santos

2. Megumi Fujii

3. Sarah Kaufman

4. Tara Larosa

5. Rosi Sexton

6. Yuka Tsuji

7. Marloes Coenen

8. Erin Toughill

9. Roxanne Modafferi

10. Aisling Daly