Showdown's MMA rankings

Showdown Joe Ferraro's post-Super Bowl MMA rankings

As of February 6, 2012

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. Junior dos Santos

2. Cain Velasquez

3. Alistair Overeem

4. Frank Mir

5. Fabricio Werdum

6. Shane Carwin

7. Josh Barnett

8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

9. Daniel Cormier

10. Roy Nelson

Light heavyweight

1. Jon Jones

2. Rashad Evans

3. Dan Henderson

4. Mauricio Rua

5. Quinton Jackson

6. Lyoto Machida

7. Forrest Griffin

8. Phil Davis

9. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

10. Alexander Gustafsson

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva

2. Chael Sonnen

3. Yushin Okami

4. Mark Munoz

5. Michael Bisping

6. Chris Weidman

7. Demian Maia

8. Vitor Belfort

9. Luke Rockhold

10. Nate Marquardt

Welterweight

1. Georges St-Pierre

2. Carlos Condit

3. Nick Diaz

4. Jon Fitch

5. Jake Ellenberger

6. Jake Shields

7. Josh Koscheck

8. Anthony Johnson

9. Johny Hendricks

10. Charlie Brenneman

Lightweight

1. Frankie Edgar

2. Gray Maynard

3. Gilbert Melendez

4. Ben Henderson

5. Jim Miller

6. Clay Guida

7. Nate Diaz

8. Anthony Pettis

9. Michael Chandler

10. Eddie Alvarez

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo

2. Chad Mendes

3. Hatsu Hioki

4. Chan Sung Jung

5. Mark Hominick

6. Kenny Florian

7. Pat Curran

8. Marlon Sandro

9. Diego Nunes

10. Bart Palaszewski

Bantamweight

1. Dominick Cruz

2. Joseph Benavidez

3. Urijah Faber

4. Brian Bowles

5. Demetrious Johnson

6. Miguel Torres

7. Renan Barao

8. Scott Jorgensen

9. Takeya Mizugaki

10. Masakatsu Ueda

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 (P4P)

1. Anderson Silva

2. Jon Jones

3. Georges St-Pierre

4. Frankie Edgar

5. Jose Aldo

6. Rashad Evans

7. Dan Henderson

8. Dominick Cruz

9. Junior Dos Santos

10. Gray Maynard

Women's pound-for-pound

1. Cristiane (Cyborg) Santos

2. Miesha Tate

3. Marloes Coenen

4. Zoila Frausto

5. Megumi Fujii

6. Sarah Kaufman

7. Liz Carmouche

8. Ronda Rousey

9. Tara Larosa

10. Rosi Sexton