LowKick.com Community MMA Rankings for October
Posted on November 1, 2010, 08:36 AM by Anton GurevichAfter a long month of voting, we are glad to finally introduce the results of LowKick.com Community MMA Rankings. More than 800 different LowKick.com users submitted their Top 10 lists, making our community rankings one of the most unique features in Mixed Martial Arts. LowKick.com is a fan-oriented website, giving you the power to voice your opinion and have an influence on MMA. For bad or for good, these are the opinions of MMA community, and they truly reflect on the current situation in the sport.
So, enough talking. Click on the links below (or scroll down) to see the results:
Pound for Pound
Heavyweight
Light Heavyweight
Middleweight
Welterweight
Lightweight
Pound for Pound
UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre tops the list with a significant advantage over Anderson Silva. And unlike on other rankings around the internet, Fedor Emelianenko holds on the third place, despite losing to Fabricio Werdum via Submission back in June. The most surprising entry is Cain Velasquez, who managed to rapidly climb on a 7th place, after his impressive victory over Brock Lesnar at UFC 121. Also, Alistair Overeem occupies the 9th place, with a small advantage over the former UFC Lightweight Champion BJ "The Prodigy" Penn, who managed to hold his place on LowKick.com Community Rankings.
Heavyweight
MMA Legend Fedor Emelianenko kept his place as #1 Heavyweight in the World, receiving 4513 points from the LowKick.com Community. UFC 121 triumphant Cain Velasquez moved up to the second place, as the Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion and K-1 2010 Finalist Alistair Overeem closes the Top 3. Brock Lesnar moved back to #4, right above the next contender for the UFC Heavyweight crown, Junior Dos Santos. Frank Mir, Minotauro Nogueira and Josh Barnett close the list.
Light Heavyweight
No surprises here. Shogun Rua, Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans close the Top 3 of Light Heavyweight rankings, as the youngster Jon "Bones" Jones occupies the fourth place. Former Champion Rampage Jackson closes the Top 5. The other half of the list headlined by Dream Light Heavyweight Champion Gegard Mousasi, with Ryan Bader, Randy Couture, Minotoro Nogueira and Forrest Griffin closing the list.
Middleweight
Anderson Silva is the undisputed king of Middleweight division, with 1,000 points above the #2 Vitor Belfort. The two will meet at UFC 126 on February 5th, but will Belfort's victory be enough to dethrone Silva from the top spot? Only time will tell. Strikeforce Middleweight Champ Jacare Souza occupies the 8th place, as Bellator's 185 King Hector Lombard closes the rankings as #10.
Welterweight
I don't know if to call it a surprise, but Jon Fitch finishes the month of October on the #2 spot of LowKick.com Community Welterweight rankings. Ahead of the next title contenders Josh Koscheck and Jake Shields. Also, following an exciting victory over KJ Noons this month, Strikeforce Welterweight Champion Nick Diaz closes the Top 5 of Welterweight rankings. Finally, despite the knockout loss to Carlos Condit, Dan Hardy managed to survive on the 8th spot on LowKick.com Welterweight rankings, as the "Natural Born Killer" two places behind on #10. Will he keep his place in November's list? Up to you, guys.
Lightweight
No doubt about the first place here, as Frankie Edgar sits on the top of the mountain as the best Lightweight in the World. BJ Penn will not be featured as a Lightweight in November, but still, the fact that "The Prodigy" is ranked as #2 shows the amount of credit he has from the fans. As for non-UFC fighters, Gilbert Melendez is #4, Shinya Aoki #6 and Eddie Alvarez is #7. Also, Due to having his second straight fight at Welterweight, Nate Diaz will be moved out of the Lightweight rankings. So LowKick'ers, there's plenty to vote for in November!
Comments
I don't care if I disagree with some of the rankings. I still love this and love being a part of it.
Thats what its all about : )
And, in my opinion, these are the BEST rankings i have ever seen, and i havent even voted on them myself. They undoubtedly kicks sherdogs ass.
Another argument why the cooperation of many is the best way to achieve good results. Democracy and lowkicks users FTW.
How did we end up with GSP as P4P leader?
The #1 criteria should be ability to fight and win at different weight classes!!!
Thats a bit of a misconception. I think its because people hear the word "pound" and think it has something to do with weight classes. Really, it has nothing to do with switching weight classes. Thats a dumb way to look at it. A fighter's ability to cut or gain weight has no bearing on their actual skillsets. It doesn't hurt if a guy can win fights in multiple divisions, but it has no direct impact on their p4p ranking.
I have to disagree. I think it has everything to do with pounds. That's where the term came from.
Gosh ! Alot of people still don't understand what Pound for Pound Means !!! It Means for example GSP is the same weight as Brock and they get in a fight with the skill of GSP would beat the crap out of Brock and vice versa If Brock is the same weight as GSP, GSP would over power and dominate Brock in the same manner. SO 1 pound of GSP compare with 1 pound of Brock simple as that !
you have to imagine if Brock walked onto the set of 'hunny i srunk the kids' and was zapped down size of Frakie Edgar, then Frankie and Brock had a fight, who would win?
Exactly and that is where the term came from. Not their ability to jump weight classes.
That's what I was talking about.
I was looking at all this argueing and realizeing you all agree but you all misunderstand each other in the context of each others views.lol. I will make it simple. Fightlife, JPGRO23, Thischris, and thang are all correct. lol.
I got weaked. How surprising and they don't even show their face.lol.
You get sharped from me falcon haha.
Thanx man, and you showed your face.
Why is overeem in the p4p?
because that's the people opinion?
He spent time at LHW, then moved to HW, where he holds a belt. Not to mention he currently strikes with the top kickboxers in the world...
because he demonstrate every fight that he get more close to fight stronger guys he is one of the best today hevyweight
Yeah he was at 205 where he lost to a lot of guys. I am not saying his striking isnt excellent but he's pretty untested at HW. Who has he faced? Brett Rogers? That's not really grounds for p4p material. As far as the belt goes he won it against a UFC drop out 3 years ago and has defended it once since then
Completely agree... Overatedeem hasn't fought anybody, and now SF has a strong HW division so there is no excuse. I don't doubt he's better than his anemic MMA record shows but he's not exactly going out there aiming to correct this problem.
Every top opponent he's fought, he's lost to.
He may have excellent striking; but he sure as hell has a dodgy chin and no heart.
Haha Overeem has a bunch of nicknames on this site!
Well his fights against Lil Nog, Liddell and Shogun he was winning them until he gassed, thats been his biggest problem in the LHW division, he used to cut too much to make that weight limit, if u watch those fights he was actually winning he outstriked lIddell and Nog and almost choked out Shogun but then he gassed and lost those fights but now that hes a HW I dont think that will be the case hopefully his next fight is against Werdum or Fedor so we can really see if he belongs up there or not
Either way, at the end of the day he lost which being p4p probly means that you are able to beat top fighters not make the fights competitive or almost win. Now with him being at HW, he hasn't faced legit competition yet. People are just buying the hype of the REEM toss
Some ppl classify p4p being that if two fighters fought, whose's skill set will win disregarding height and weight....if you go by that then Overeem has the best striking in MMA and his ground is really good also seeing that hes won Bjj tournaments in Abu Dhabi so from that point of view you can say he is top ten p4p
What bjj tournaments has he won? Agreed he has really good striking, not taking that away. I've seen the list of tournament winners and he's not amongst those. Also he's been untested against a solid wrestler and bjj well idk what tournaments you're talking about
I saw it in one of his videos, the documentary thing that he is doing, one of them has all of his accomplishes and championships
Well they were probably exaggerating because I didn't see his name in a list that goes back 12 years for the top 3 guys/girls in the grappling competition and he's not on any
What about the women rankings?
I cant name more then 3 female fighters
The people on this site are not interested in women's mma like it is with men's (specifically UFC), but it is interested in eye candy and thus the site pretty much reflects that. You probably can get more specific in the overall (most common) generalized interest of the site.
actually I barely even know their names I had to check in google
I simply knew them as
The hot one who dropped a towel at weigh in,
Cyborg,
And the dutch chick.
Actual names; Gina Carano, Cristiane Santos, Marloes Coenen.
and the one who had the ko slam, I think sarah kaufman.
yeah, I forgot about her
so im up to 4. just need 6 more to have a list. I guess I could always just base them on looks...
In that case, Gina Carano for top women fighter forever.
Vera's girl looks pretty good. At fighting.
How in the hell is Dan Hardy still in the top 10 and above Condit at that?
bc of his hair. No 1 has as cool of hair as Hardy!
I'm guessing because people lag in their picks... set it and forget it.
Hardy is so overrated, I gained respect for his after the GSP fight but that still doesn't mean he isnt overrated, I would have put him no higher than number 10 before the Condit fight now I believe he shouldn't be on the top 10 at all
Ya I know! A guy loses to a fighter who is currently ranked number one p4p in the world and then gets caught in his next fight and he should drop from top three in the division to no-name obscurity right?
Smh, only mma fans.
from the fight of him and gsp men just think the effrot that give dan hardy in that fight thats why whe have to admit he is stronger guy and caristmatic person also lol but may be for the next list its dosent appear in the rankings
Lol how did Hardy get caught, he got out struck and then KO'd, it wasn't like Condit was swinging wildly and luckly hit him, he planned it all out and used combination you can't just disregard that as Hardy getting caught....and everyone knows he didn't deserve that title shot he barely beat Davis and he lost two both top ten opponents he fought so ya I think he doesn't deserve to be on there
No point in arguing. You said yourself that you had "just started to gain respect for Hardy after the GSP fight." He lost now so that must prove he is overrated right? How does it feel to be a perfect example of whats wrong with certain mma "fans."
Lol just cause I gained respect for him doesn't mean hes top ten, I got all the respect in the world for Roy Nelson, Liddell and Pulver but that doesn't mean i'm going to put them in the top ten....Hardy got beaten by both top ten fighters he fought and looked decent against Swick and Davis, only impressive victory was over Markham and thats about it
and also, stop saying that I took Hardy off cause he lost, if you look at my rankings of October I never had him in the top ten then either, so it has nothing to do with his loss to Condit
Or maybe some people didn't update their rankings.
condit deserves to be above hardy obviously, but hardy is still top ten. the next fights in the welterweight division will do all the talking.
With every event that goes by, im sure people will realise who deserves to be in the top 10
Until you throw in more untested fighters who look great haha.
This is really cool.
anyone else take issue with the fact that hardy is ranked ahead of condit. when condit just schooled hardy at his own game. just goes to prove that this is in most peoples mind a popularity contest not a honest assesment of a fighters skills
good rankings...almost identical to my list
Definetely the most un-biased rankings I've seen ever! Good job people!!!
lol gsp is overated shogun would kill him in a fight so would silva
Stop hating on GSP, just look at his past opponents Hardy, Alves, Penn, Fitch, Serra, Hughes and Kos..he beat them all which is really impressive I truly believe GSP faces the toughest competition as a champion every time than any other champion in MMA
I know look at that list compared to:
Irvin, Leites, Maia, Sonnen, Griffin, Cote.
GSP's is much more impressive. :D
Silva is #2 for me.
agreed...also a tad more impressive than- Rogers, Arlovski, Sylvia, Man-Choi, Lindland (at heavyweight)...just a tad
Ya or you can even argue that the whole LHW division is #2 seeing that nobody has been able to defend there title more than once since Rampage (I don't count the win Machida had over Shogun), hoepfully Shogun breaks that streak
Just to explain you guys something about the Dan Hardy case. He had a lot of points before the fight against Condit, and still managed to hold his place in the rankings, even after Condit knocked him out. This is a beauty in our rankings - someone manages to hold into his place, and someone not.
With this being said, the fact that Dan Hardy ranked higher than Condit is not the worst thing I've seen comparing to other rankings. Some people would even agree with Dan Hardy being ranked higher.
AG
Fedor is the best MMA fighter of all time. You people really need to realize that he is the michael jordan of MMA. He may not be in the UFC but he has beaten the top dogs and has so much heart and guts. He takes serious hits for his country and family. The man is a warrior.
MJ of MMA... oh come on thats a bit of an overstatement....
Unless your referring to how MJ carried his team and how in fedors case he carried his promotion. then yeah.
thats right fedor for me its teh kind of fighter to see represent sambo or any martial arts that he does fedor the best fighter i thanks him because he show is spirit of fighting the greatest fedor emelianenko
Also look at every dominant fighter from pride that went to the ufc, They all lost the dominator stigma they had about them. Well one could say Shogun domination transferred over after his rough patch when he was injured. I mean look what happened to Cro cop when he came over/ All their "legendary" status quickly got devoured in the UFC. Fedor is the one big name that didnt make the transistionand hes fought only second tier fighters since leaving Pride. Therefore its how judge his current rankingwhen hes among champios who fight other fighters on the p4p list everytime they fight.
Silva is dominating. Shogun you mentioned. Rampage and Nog held the belts. They have done alright.
I dont consider Silva a Pride transfer, he was with other organiztions when UFC purchased Pride (mainly cage rage) but he only had 5 fights in pride, 2 being losses. So he wasnt one of the Pride legends I was talking about. And Nog only held an interim belt which he only had to beat sylvia to get, hes gone 3-2 since Prides purchase not really all that impressive
No1 will beat GSP he is 2 strong. Anderson silva looks set to lose very soon. Fedor must fight Overeem. And BJ ya got bags of talent get off ur ass and train harder with a new camp i think can't wait for Cain vs Dos Santos!
AS looks set to lose? Are u on drugs?
fedar will fight overeem or rodgers or wurdum, but it wont be until june or july. With a little bit of drama to go with it. Fedars man will say he may have a deal worked out with the UFC and then they will pull out and say DW is racist. Then he will have a contract worked out with Bellatar and then he will pull out and say the org is all about money and he is above that. Just examples :)
Fedor will never sign his rights away to Dana White. He has more sense than that. And he makes more money per fight than almost any UFC fighter, you can check the figures.
Oh ok so the more money you make the better the fighter? So its not about fighting the best its about making the best.
Also he would be the highest paid fighter in the UFC as well. The UFC offer was bigger than SF
No one is sure of that.
Well Im just going off Dana's comment saying he would, back when UFC was going after Fedor right before he signed with Strikeforce. So its just how much stock you put in Dana telling the truth. I believed him, at that point it wasnt hard to believe that Dana would have made Fedor the highest paid fighter. I dont think he would anymore.
Lmao! How is Hardy number 8 and Condit number 10? Was I the only one watching that fight or what?