Click here to read and see the entire rankings.Rankings slideshow written by Sean Smith These bantamweight rankings were voted on by a panel of ten writers from around the Bleacher Report MMA community. These ten writers answered the call and gave…
These bantamweight rankings were voted on by a panel of ten writers from around the Bleacher Report MMA community. These ten writers answered the call and gave us a great first set of rankings for the Bleacher Report MMA community.
If you poll different writers you would end up with completely different rankings, each unique in their own way.
No one writer had the same rankings and the top ten—especially the fighters ranked at number ten and number nine—were different and showed the vast difference between the writers rankings.
Now, these rankings were published before UFC 130 and feature some of the fighters from the only UFC event in May.
Fighters like Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Matt Hamill, Frank Mir and Roy Nelson have graced the different divisional rankings from around the Bleacher Report writers who were asked to fill out who they thought was in their divisional top ten.
Click here to read and see the entire rankings. Rankings slideshow written by Nick Caron These heavyweight rankings were voted on by a panel of ten writers from around the Bleacher Report MMA community. These ten writers answered the call and ga…
These heavyweight rankings were voted on by a panel of ten writers from around the Bleacher Report MMA community. These ten writers answered the call and gave us a great first set of rankings for the Bleacher Report MMA community.
If you poll different writers you would end up with completely different rankings, each unique in their own way.
No one writer had the same rankings and the top ten—especially the fighters ranked at number ten and number nine—were different and showed the vast difference between the writers rankings.
Now, these rankings were published before UFC 130 and feature some of the fighters from the only UFC event in May.
Fighters like Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Matt Hamill, Frank Mir and Roy Nelson have graced the different divisional rankings from around the Bleacher Report writers who were asked to fill out who they thought was in their divisional top ten.
Here is the first installment of the Bleacher Report MMA Rankings.
Each month, on the first and 15th of the month we will publish divisional rankings. On the first of each month we will post our pound-for-pound rankings.
The rankings were voted on by n…
Here is the first installment of the Bleacher Report MMA Rankings.
Each month, on the first and 15th of the month we will publish divisional rankings. On the first of each month we will post our pound-for-pound rankings.
The rankings were voted on by numerous writers on Bleacher Report and do not reflect any of their rankings personally.
The rankings are an average of each writer’s vote for each weight class.
I used to be a big fan of UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) reality TV show. The first few seasons were captivating and interesting. The TUF series made stars out of fighters such as Forrest Griffin, Michael Bisping, Rashad Evans, Josh Koscheck and …
I used to be a big fan of UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) reality TV show. The first few seasons were captivating and interesting. The TUF series made stars out of fighters such as Forrest Griffin, Michael Bisping, Rashad Evans, Josh Koscheck and Chris Leben.
Unfortunately, the show has gone stale and there is no reason to watch it anymore. TUF 13, which is on SPIKE TV every Wednesday night, has had very low ratings.
Fans are tired of seeing boring fighters and fights on the show and the coaches this season (Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos) are not creating enough drama to warrant viewership.
The UFC thought that having Lesnar on TUF 13 would spike up the ratings, but this hasn’t been the case.
Maybe it is because Lesnar isn’t the heavyweight champion anymore or maybe it is because Lesnar is calmer and more mellow than before.
Casual MMA fans don’t know who Dos Santos is, even though he is one of the best heavyweights in the world. Lesnar and Dos Santos have been cordial to each other in the episodes, and there is no tension between them.
Fans used to flock to their TV sets to watch Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz go at each other verbally every week on TUF 3. Rashad Evans and Quinton Jackson as coaches on TUF 10 helped ratings too, as well as having street fighter Kimbo Slice on the show.
The smart fans are sick and tired of the UFC and SPIKE TV hyping up the episodes and not delivering. Who can forget the weekly previews that implied Kimbo would fight again on TUF 10 even though he lost and was out of the competition already?
How about the time when Dana White kept on saying that one of the fighters on the show (Phillipe Nover) was going to be the next Anderson Silva? Nover isn’t even in the UFC anymore after getting cut.
I can’t even name one of the fighters on TUF 13. I do know who Lew Polley is since I saw an episode where Polley (Dos Santos’ wrestling coach) was riding the guys too hard in practice.
None of the fighters stand out, and I don’t think there is a future UFC champion on TUF 13.
WWE’s Tough Enough reality show is way more interesting than TUF 13 thanks to the charismatic Stone Cold Steve Austin. Austin has more charisma than all the TUF 13 coaches and fighters combined.
It doesn’t really matter who the coaches will be on TUF 14 because the show is getting old and boring. The best option might be to have Evans and Jon Jones as coaches and bring in better fighters and personalities to compete.
If Evans and Jones are not available, I think I would rather see Miesha Tate and Gina Carano as coaches than any of the male fighters on the Zuffa roster.
SPIKE TV and the UFC need to revamp the show quickly and change it up if they want more viewers.
Current Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz has agreed to face former IBF super-middleweight champion Jeff Lacy in a boxing match sometime later this fall. Both fighters have been going back-and-forth, giving opinions on what they think of each…
Current Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz has agreed to face former IBF super-middleweight champion Jeff Lacy in a boxing match sometime later this fall.
Both fighters have been going back-and-forth, giving opinions on what they think of each sport and what they are capable of doing in the other one.
Since 2006, Lacy has gone 4-4 in boxing while Diaz has gone 14-3, including a 10-fight win streak he is currently on.
The proposed bout has caused a lot of interest among fight fans, and it’s about as intriguing as when James Toney stepped into the cage to take on Hall-of-Famer Randy “The Natural” Couture at UFC 118. It’s also a much more dangerous fight for Diaz than it was for Toney.
The best mixed martial artists are all in a familiar spot at or near the top of their respective divisions.However, as similar as the best fighters in the sport may be in terms of talent, many of their careers are currently headed in very different dir…
The best mixed martial artists are all in a familiar spot at or near the top of their respective divisions.
However, as similar as the best fighters in the sport may be in terms of talent, many of their careers are currently headed in very different directions.
For example, Fedor Emelianenko, who may have been at the top of this list at this time last year, will now be fighting to remain relevant in his next bout, which will come against Dan Henderson in July.
Career paths can be changed with every appearance in this sport. In the minds of critics, a fighter is only as good as how he performed in his last fight.
With that being said, here are the top 50 fighters in the sport today and the direction in which their careers are currently trending.
