{"id":8460,"date":"2011-03-08T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2011-03-08T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:29:00","slug":"brock-lesnar-the-mma-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8460","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar & the MMA World Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Ben Bieker <\/strong><\/p>\n

HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (over 205 pounds)*
\n<\/strong>1. Cain Velasquez
\n2. Junior Dos Santos
\n3. Fabricio Werdum
\n4. Brock Lesnar moves up one with the loss of Fedor. He has a big fight with the number two ranked JDS coming up soon that could propel him even higher.
\n5. Antonia Silva beat Fedor convincingly making him to make one of the biggest jumps someone can make on this chart. With so many good fighters in the top ten at Heavyweight for Silva to beat the person, who was the consensus number one for so long it says something. That is why he jumped 5 spots.
\n6. Shane Carwin
\n7. Frank Mir
\n8. Fedor Emelianenko is not most people because if most people lost twice in a row they would most likely drop off the top ten completely. Just like if GSP or if Anderson Silva were to loss two in a row they, most likely, would not drop off the ranking either. That is why Fedor drops to number 8, but if he losses again then he will most likely drop out of the top ten completely.
\n9. Josh Barnett
\n10. Ant\u00f4nio Rodrigo Nogueira<\/p>\n

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (205-pound limit)
\n<\/strong>1. Mauricio \u201cShogun\u201d Rua
\n2. Rashad Evans
\n3. Forrest Griffin
\n4. Quinton Jackson
\n5. Jon Jones
\n6. Lyoto Machida
\n7. Dan Henderson destroyed Rafael Cavalcante. He may have gotten dropped in the first round but to be forty and still competing at the highest level is something not everyone can do. With this performance and the promise of more to come Dan has jumped two spots.
\n8. Ryan Bader drops down with the win of Henderson
\n9. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira drops down with Henderson\u2019s jump also.
\n10. Matt Hamill<\/p>\n

MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185-pound limit)
\n<\/strong>1. Anderson Silva
\n2. Chael Sonnen
\n3. Yushin Okami
\n4. Nathan Marquardt
\n5. Demian Maia
\n6. Ronaldo \u201cJacare\u201d de Souza
\n7. Hector Lombard
\n8. Jorge Santiago
\n9. Robbie Lawler
\n10.Mamed Khalidov<\/p>\n

WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170-pound limit)
\n<\/strong>1. Georges St-Pierre
\n2. Jon Fitch
\n3. Thiago Alves
\n4. Josh Koscheck
\n5. Jake Shields
\n6. B.J. Penn even though he drew with Jon Fitch; Jon Fitch is the perennial number two in the Welterweight division. IT is clear that if B.J. did not gas then he would have won the fight. The fight was only a tie because the last round was scored 10-8, and if it wasn\u2019t you would have seen Jon Fitch get his second loss in the octagon.
\n7. Carlos Condit moves down 1. This most likely would not have happened if he fought and beat Chris Lytle, but he got hurt and could not compete. With B.J. gaining a spot he drops down.
\n8. Paul Daley
\n9. Nick Diaz
\n10. Diego Sanchez debut<\/p>\n

LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION (160-pound limit)
\n<\/strong>1. Frankie Edgar
\n2. Gilbert Melendez
\n3. Gray Maynard
\n4. Jim Miller
\n5. Eddie Alvarez
\n6. Shinya Aoki
\n7. Anthony Pettis
\n8. Taytsu Kawajiri moves jump2 2 spots because of the shift in Kenny Florian\u2019s weight and the loss of George Sotiropoulos. He has a fight coming up with Gilbert Melendez that could affect the Lightweight ranking a lot.
\n9. Dennis Siver debuts at 9 and does not take the spot his opponent, George Sotiropoulos, because Dennis has some losses on his record that did not permit him to go higher. Taytsu shifted up because he has more quality wins with only one loss that comes to the currently 6th ranked Shinya Aoki.
\n10. Benson Henderson re-debuts on the list after his loss to Anthony Pettis. He comes back to the list because Kenny Florian drops off since he is moving down to Featherweight.<\/p>\n

FEATHERWEIGHT DIVISION (145 pound-limit)
\n<\/strong>1. Jose Aldo
\n2. Diego Nunes
\n3. Chad Mendes
\n4. Dustin Poierer
\n5. Michihiro Omigawa
\n6. Manny Gamburyan
\n7. Hatsu Hioki
\n8. Josh Grispi
\n9. Joe Warren
\n10. Mark Hominick<\/p>\n

BANTAMWEIGHT DIVISION (135 pounds or less)
\n<\/strong>1. Dominick Cruz
\n2. Joseph Benavidez
\n3. Brian Bowles came back after a year layoff and absolutely killed Damacio Page. Given Damacio Page was not ranked, but he had given a good fight to many people in the top ten. Plus, to come back and look that good in a fight says a lot. With only one loss to the current kingpin of the Bantamweight division he can stake a good claim at one of the top spots in the Bantamweight division.
\n4. Scott Jorgensen shifts down one because of Brian\u2019s move.
\n5. Miguel Torres also moves down one because of Brian\u2019s win
\n6. Brad Pickett
\n7. Demetrious Johnson
\n8. Antonio Banuelos
\n9. Eddie Wineland
\n10. Uriah Faber<\/p>\n

The next rankings will come out after the April 9th Strikeforce card. There are a few events in that span with many ranked fighters that will affect many of MMA\u2019s divisions.<\/p>\n

Strikeforce <\/strong><\/p>\n

Diaz vs. Daley
\nNick Diaz (#9 Welterweight) vs. Paul Daley (#8 Welterweight)
\nGilbert Melendez (#2 Lightweight) vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri (#8 Lightweight)
\nShinya Aoki (#6 Lightweight) vs. Lyle Beerbohm<\/p>\n

UFC
\n<\/strong>128
\nShogun Rua (#1 Light Heavyweight) vs. Jon Jones (#5 Light Heavyweight)
\nUriah Faber (#10 Bantamweight) vs. Eddie Wineland (#9 Bantamweight)
\nJim Miller (#4 Lightweight) vs. Kamal Shalorus
\nYoshihiro Akiyama vs. Nate Marquardt (#4 Middleweight)
\nMirko Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub
\nJoseph Benavidez (#2 Bantamweight) vs. Ian Loveland<\/p>\n

Nogueira vs. Davis
\nAntonio Nogueira (#9 Light Heavyweight) vs. Phil Davis<\/p>\n

Bellator
\n<\/strong>39
\nEddie Alvarez (#5 Lightweight) vs. Pat Curran<\/p>\n

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By Ben Bieker HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (over 205 pounds)* 1. Cain Velasquez 2. Junior Dos Santos 3. Fabricio Werdum 4. Brock Lesnar moves up one with the loss of Fedor. He has a big fight with the number two ranked JDS coming up soon that could propel him even higher. 5. Antonia Silva beat Fedor convincingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2198,131,510,2876,736],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-anderson-silva","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-mma","tag-ranking","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}