MMA Connected rankings

Sportsnet Staff September 15, 2011, 7:28 PM

Showdown Joe Ferraro’s MMA Connected rankings
As of September 19, 2011

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. Cain Velasquez

2. Brock Lesnar

3. Junior dos Santos

4. Shane Carwin

5. Frank Mir

6. Alistair Overeem

7. Fabricio Werdum

8. Josh Barnett

9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

10. Daniel Cormier

Light heavyweight

1. Jon Jones

2. Mauricio Rua

3. Rashad Evans

4. Quinton Jackson

5. Lyoto Machida

6. Forrest Griffin

7. Dan Henderson

8. Phil Davis

9. Tito Ortiz

10. Ryan Bader

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva

2. Chael Sonnen

3. Yushin Okami

4. Nate Marquardt

5. Mark Munoz

6. Demian Maia

7. Vitor Belfort

8. Luke Rockhold

9. Robbie Lawler

10. Brian Stann

Welterweight

1. Georges St-Pierre

2. Jon Fitch

3. BJ Penn

4. Carlos Condit

5. Jake Ellenberger

6. Jake Shields

7. Nick Diaz

8. Charlie Brenneman

9. Rick Story

10. Thiago Alves

Lightweight

1. Frankie Edgar

2. Gray Maynard

3. Gilbert Melendez

4. Ben Henderson

5. Jim Miller

6. Clay Guida

7. Anthony Pettis

8. Shinya Aoki

9. Eddie Alvarez

10. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo

2. Hatsu Hioki

3. Chad Mendes

4. Mark Hominick

5. Pat Curran

6. Marlon Sandro

7. Kenny Florian

8. Diego Nunes

9. Tyson Griffin

10. Joe Warren

Bantamweight

1. Dominick Cruz

2. Joseph Benavidez

3. Urijah Faber

4. Brian Bowles

5. Demetrious Johnson

6. Miguel Torres

7. Scott Jorgensen

8. Takeya Mizugaki

9. Masakatsu Ueda

10. Brad Pickett

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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. Georges St-Pierre

3. Jon Jones

4. Jose Aldo

5. Frankie Edgar

6. Jake Shields

7. Dan Henderson

8. BJ Penn

9. Dominick Cruz

10. Jon Fitch

Women’s pound-for-pound