MMA on Tap Top 10 - June 5, 2007

thanks for the great list, but i’m going to try pick holes in it

how come GSP lost to Serra and stayed top of his weight division, and Chuck Liddell loses his first fight in 3 years and slips to 4th (btw when did Rua last fight?).

Also, do you factor inactivity into your lists? unless i’m mistaken, Shogun Rua nad BJ Penn for example haven’t fought a top 10 for a while and it must be a year since Wanderlei Silva won a fight.

Also, Rampage Jackson clearly has Liddell’s number with two comanding wins and a LHW belt that justifies his move up the rankings… but what about the fact that Wanderlei Silva Destroyed Jackson in their last two fights?

And Also John, in November you wrote an article about top 3 HW being Fedor, Cro Cop and Barnett… Fedor obviously stays top but barnett has lost his last 2 fights and stays 3rd. Cro Cop beat Barnett in Septmeber, and Sanchez in Feb, before losing to Gonzaga in April. How does he go from 2nd to 5th on 1 loss and Barnett loses 2 consecutive fights and stays 3rd?

Great topic though and can’t wait to see what people think about the rankings.

i have to agree but it is hard to rank the LHW with the Liddell/Rampage fight, especially Silva having beaten Rampage…. but i want to know where kazushi sakarauba is at. i know he just lost to Gracie but hes gotta be somewhere close to the list… no?

ok… i’ll have a stab at it…

Heavyweight

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Mirko Cro Cop
4. Josh Barnett
5. Randy Couture
6. Tim Sylvia
7. Andrei Arlovski
8. Gabriel Gonzaga
9. Fabricio Werdum
10. Aleksander Emelianenko

Light Heavyweight

1. Chuck Liddell
2. Mauricio Rua
3. Quinton Jackson
4. Dan Henderson
5. Wanderlei Silva
6. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
7. Ricardo Arona
8. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
9. Tito Ortiz
10. Rashad Evans

Middleweight

1. Dan Henderson
2. Matt Lindland
3. Anderson Silva
4. Rich Franklin
5. Paulo Filho
6. Denis Kang
7. Nate Marquardt
8. Kazuo Misaki
9. Robbie Lawler
10. Yushin Okami

Welterweight

=1. Georges St. Pierre
=1. Matt Hughes
3. Matt Serra
4. BJ Penn
5. Karo Parisyan
6. Josh Koscheck
7. Diego Sanchez
8. Jake Shields
9. Jon Fitch
10. Carlos Condit

Lightweight

1. Hayato Sakurai (or BJ Penn in 6 months time)
2. Gilbert Melendez
3. Takanori Gomi
4. Nick Diaz
5. Tatsuya Kawajiri
6. Sean Sherk
7. Vitor Riberio
8. Shinya Aoki
9. Joachim Hansen
10. Norifumi Yamamoto

Pound for Pound (my interprutation is different)

1. Dan Henderson
2. Georges St. Pierre
3. Fedor Emelianenko
4. Matt Lindland
5. Matt Hughes
6. Chuck Liddell
7. BJ Penn
8. Mauricio Rua
9. Quinton Jackson
10.Mirko Cro Cop

Wow that’s actually really hard to come up with, because you can poke holes in almost every combination or theory possible. it’s really easy to say why someone should or shouldn’t go on a list… but working out where on the list is harder…

wolfman “gracie hunter” doesn’t belong on the list, sorry :(....

it’s easy to pick holes in these, but i think they did a good job and they put them up for peeps to disect, i would hate to do that.

big prop’s!!

This guys are really crazy, Josh Barnett better than Cro Cop????? I don’t guess so. This my Rank:

Heavyweight

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Mirko Cro Cop
4. Randy Couture
5. Tim Sylvia
6. Gabriel Gonzaga
7. Andrei Arlovski
8. Josh Barnett
9. Fabricio Werdum
10. Aleksander Emelianenko

Light Heavyweight

1. Mauricio Rua
2. Wanderlei Silva
3. Ricardo Arona
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Dan Henderson
6. Chuck Liddell
7. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
8. Kazush Sakuraba
9. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
10. Tito Ortiz

Middleweight

1. Paulo Filho
2. Dan Henderson
3. Matt Lindland
4. Anderson Silva
5. Rich Franklin
6. Denis Kang
7. Nate Marquardt
8. Kazuo Misaki
9. Robbie Lawler
10. Frank Trigg

Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Matt Serra
3. Matt Hughes
4. BJ Penn
5. Josh Koscheck
6. Karo Parisyan
7. Diego Sanchez
8. Jake Shields
9. Jon Fitch
10. Carlos Condit

Lightweight

1. Takanori Gomi
2. Gilbert Melendez
3. Shinya Aoki
4. Hayato Sakurai
5. Nick Diaz
6. Tatsuya Kawajiri
7. Vitor Riberio
8. Joachim Hansen
9. Sean Sherk
10. Norifumi Yamamoto

Pound for Pound

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Mirko Cro Cop
4. Mauricio Rua
5. Quinton Jackson
6. Dan Henderson
7. Georges St. Pierre
8. Chuck Liddell  
9. Matt Lindland
10. Josh Barnett

  That’s all.

Okay here is the sticky…

Heavyweight
1.) Fedor Emelianenko
2.) Mark Hunt
3.) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
4.) Mirko “Cro Cop”
5.) Andrei Arlovski
6.) Josh Burnett
7.) Randy Couture
8.) Kazuyuki Fujita
9.) Heath Herring
10.) Brandon Vera

Light-heavyweight
1.) Chuck Liddell
2.) Wanderlei Silva
3.) Quintin Jackson
4.) Forrest Griffin
5.) Tito Ortiz
6.) Renato Sobral
7.) Mauricio Rua
8.) Dan Henderson
9.) Renzo Gracie
10.) Frank Shamrock

Middleweight
1.) Evan Tanner
2.) Matt Lindland
3.) Dan Henderson
4.) Travis Lutter
5.) Nate Marquardt
6.) Anderson Silva
7.) Rich Franklin
8.) Kendall Grove
9.) Jeremy Horn
10.) Denis Kang

Welterweight
1.) BJ Penn
2.) Matt Hughes
3.) Karo Perizian
4.) Matt Serra
5.) George St. Pierre
6.) Nick Diaz
7.) Joe Stevenson
8.) Takanori Gomi
9.) Diego Sanchez
10.) Hayato “Mach” Sakurai

Lightweight
1.) BJ Penn
2.) Hermes Franka
3.) Sean Sherk
4.) Joe Stephenson
5.) Melvin Gullard
6.) Joe Lauzon
7.) Jenz Pulver
8.) Yves Edwards
9.) Roger Huerta
10.) Spencer Fisher

Pound-for-Pound
1.) Fedor Emelianenko
2.) Chuck Liddell
3.) Dan Henderson
4.) BJ Penn
5.) Matt Lindland
6.) Matt Hughes
7.) George St. Pierre
8.) Karo Perizian
9.) Wanderlei Silva
10.) Quintin Jackson

Sherk would destroy Gomi.

all of those are garbage, none of you understand how rankings work

I think MMA on Tap’s list is easily tops.  Good effort by the rest, but the guys here did a great job.  Old top 10s at this point, but still pretty good now.

jko - Thanks. Our latest rankings can be found here:

http://www.mmaontap.com/mma/entry/mma-on-tap-top-10-july-11-2007/