The middleweights were hard to rank down towards the last 10. Sorry if I left some good guys out.
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Rank |
Name |
Organization |
Next Fight |
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1 |
Anderson Silva |
UFC |
Cote (#12), 9/25 |
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2 |
Paulo Filho |
UFC |
Sonnen (#16) 11/3 |
|
3 |
Rich Franklin |
UFC |
Next Fight at LHW |
|
4 |
Dan Henderson |
UFC |
Next Fight at LHW |
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5 |
Robbie Lawler |
EliteXC? |
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6 |
Kazuo Misaki |
Strikeforce |
1/4 |
|
7 |
Nate Marquardt |
UFC |
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8 |
Matt Lindland |
Affliction |
Sobral (LHW) ) 1/24 |
|
9 |
Yushin Okami |
UFC |
Lister (NR), 12/27 |
|
10 |
Gegard Mousasi |
DREAM |
Belfort (#25,) 1/24 |
|
11 |
Thales Leites |
UFC |
McFedries (NR), 9/25 |
|
12 |
Patrick Cote |
UFC |
A. Silva (#1), 9/25 |
|
13 |
Michael Bisping |
UFC |
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14 |
Yoshihiro Akiyama |
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15 |
Ronaldo “Jacare” de Sousa |
DREAM |
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16 |
Chael Sonnen |
UFC |
Filho (#2) 11/3 |
|
17 |
Demian Maia |
UFC |
Quarry (#18), 11/15 |
|
18 |
Nate Quarry |
UFC |
Maia (#17), 11/15 |
|
19 |
Joey Villasenor |
EliteXC? |
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20 |
Cung Le |
Strikeforce |
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21 |
Jorge Santiago |
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22 |
Chris Leben |
UFC |
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23 |
Jason Macdonald |
UFC |
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24 |
Martin Kampman |
UFC |
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25 |
Vitor Belfort |
Affliction |
Mousasi (#10) 1/24 |
Others Considered: Ricardo Almeida, Rousimar Palhares, Dean Lister, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Frank Trigg
Filed under: Amir Sadollah, Anderson Silva, Anthony Johnson, C.B. Dolloway, Chael Sonnen, Chris Leben, Cung Le, David Loiseau, Dean Lister, Demian Maia, Denis Kang, Drew Fickett, Drew McFedries, Ed Hermann, Evan Tanner, Frank Shamrock, Gegard Mousasi, Goran Reljic, Jason MacDonald, Joe Riggs, Jorge Rivera, Kazuo Misaki, Kendall Grove, Martin Kampmann, Matt Horwich, Michael Bisping, Michihiro Omigawa, Mike Massenzio, Mike Swick, Murilio "Ninja" Rua, Nate Marquardt, Nate Quarry, Patrick Cote, Paulo Filho, Rich Franklin, Robbie Lawler, Rousimar Palhares, Scott Smith, Siyar Bahadurzada, Tim Credeur, Travis Lutter, Ultimate Fighting, Vitor Belfort, Wilson Gouveia, Yushin Okami | Tagged: Anderson Silva, Chael Sonnen, Chris Leben, Cung Le, Dan Henderson, Dean Lister, Demian Maia, Frank Trigg, Gegard Mousasi, Jason "Mayhem" Miller, Jason MacDonald, Joey Villasenor, Jorge Santiago, Kazuo Misaki, Martin Kampmann, Matt Lindland, Michael Bisping, Nate Marquardt, Nate Quarry, Patrick Cote, Paulo Filho, Rich Franklin, Robbie Lawler, Ronaldo "Jacare" de Souza, Rousimar Palhares, Thales Leites, Vitor Belfort, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Yushin Okami |
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[…] Rankings were compiled from the following sites: MMA Fighting, MMA ELO, FCFighter, TAGG Radio, MMA Weekly, Sherdog, CagePotato, FightMatrix, MMA Playground, HDNet/InsideMMA, MMA/VT (Japan), Houston Chronicle Brawl Sports, Total MMA, Fight Magazine, MMA Ratings, WAMMA, MMA EQ, Five Ounces of Pain, MMA News, Inside Fighting, MMA On Tap, MMA 4 Real, and MMA Blog. […]
There are a ton of my favorite mma fighters on that list.