Posted by Dave Walsh on 21st August 2009
From the office of the Independent World MMA Rankings
August 21, 2009: The August 2009 Independent World MMA Rankings have been released. These rankings are independent of any single MMA media outlet or sanctioning body, and are published on multiple web sites.
Some of the best and most knowledgeable MMA writers from across the MMA media landscape have come together to form one independent voting panel.
These voting panel members are, in alphabetical order: Zach Arnold (FightOpinion); Nicholas Bailey (MMA Ratings); Jared Barnes (Houston Chronicle); Jordan Breen (Sherdog); Jim Genia (Full Contact Fighter, MMA Memories, and MMA Journalist Blog); Jesse Holland (MMA Mania); Robert Joyner (Freelance); Todd Martin (CBS Sportsline); Zac Robinson (Sports by the Numbers MMA); Leland Roling (Bloody Elbow); Michael David Smith (AOL Fanhouse); Jonathan Snowden (Author of “Total MMA: Inside Ultimate Fighting”); Joshua Stein (MMA Opinion), Ivan Trembow (Freelance); and Dave Walsh (Total MMA).
Joachim Hansen is not currently eligible to be ranked due to the fact that he has been inactive for 12 months; and Josh Barnett is not currently eligible to be ranked due to his recent positive drug test.
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Posted by Dave Walsh on 17th July 2009
From the office of the Independent World MMA Rankings
July 17, 2009: The July 2009 Independent World MMA Rankings have been released. These rankings are independent of any single MMA media outlet or sanctioning body, and are published on multiple web sites. Some of the best and most knowledgeable MMA writers from across the MMA media landscape have come together to form one independent voting panel.
These voting panel members are, in alphabetical order: Zach Arnold (FightOpinion); Nicholas Bailey (MMA Ratings); Jared Barnes (Houston Chronicle); Jordan Breen (Sherdog); Jim Genia (Full Contact Fighter, MMA Memories, and MMA Journalist Blog); Jesse Holland (MMA Mania); Robert Joyner (MMA Payout); Todd Martin (CBS Sportsline); Zac Robinson (Sports by the Numbers MMA); Leland Roling (Bloody Elbow); Michael David Smith (AOL Fanhouse); Jonathan Snowden (Author of “Total MMA: Inside Ultimate Fighting”); Joshua Stein (MMA Opinion), Ivan Trembow (Freelance); and Dave Walsh (Total MMA).
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Posted by Fraser on 17th May 2009
As promised, here is part 2 of kick boxing rankings, this time focusing on the 70 kg division (aka the Middleweight, or K-1 MAX division). With K-1 dabbling with a 60 kg division, we’ll keep this focused on the 70 kg K-1 MAX area. This is a deeper talent pool than the Heavyweights, so we’ll go with a top 20:
Top 20 Kickboxers (70 kg division)
1. MASATO
2. Artur Kyshenko
3. Giorgio Petrosyan
4. Andy Souwer
5. Albert Kraus
6. Buakaw Por. Pramuk
7. Nieky Holtzken
8. Gago Drago
9. Yoshihiro Sato
10. Chahid Oulad El Hadj
11. Murat Direcki
12. Taishin Kohiruimaki
13. Yuya Yamamoto
14. Leroy Kaestner
15. Yoshihiro Kido
16. Chi Bin Lim
17. Alviar Lima
18. HINATA
19. Sahin Yakut
20. John Wayne Parr
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Posted by Fraser on 30th April 2009
To continue my push for K-1 talk, I figured now was as good a time as any to launch some kickboxing rankings. These are a work in progress and will be updated regularly, so I welcome your feedback. In the interest of some sort of unified rankings, I opted not to include every single weight class, but instead go with the two simple categories of Over 70 kg, and Under 70 kg (the division between K-1 and K-1 MAX). My apologies to purists who would like every separate weight class listed. We’ll start with the Over 70 kg list, and add Under 70 kg next week. On we go:
Top 10 Kickboxers (Over 70 kg)
1. Remy Bonjasky
2. Peter Aerts
3. Badr Hari
4. Semmy Schilt
5. Errol Zimmerman
6. Ewerton Teixeira
7. Keijiro Maeda
8. Gokhan Saki
9. Tyrone Spong
10. Alistair Overeem
Honorable Mention: Jerome Le Banner, Ruslan Karaev , Zabit Samedov
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Posted by Iain Liddle on 25th July 2008
…and they are proving as controversial as ever.
Click the link at the top of the page for an overview of the changes made or alternatively view the full, and utterly comprehensive, lists by clicking on the relevant weight class to you left.
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Posted by Iain Liddle on 13th June 2008
Top 70 and rising!
The glorious TOM, compiler of the most complete rankings known to MMAn, has done it again.
Individual weight classes can be found on the left menu, or an overview of the changes made can be seen at the top of this page.
As ever, our shameless bias to both handsome people and TUL$A TOP TEAM is prevalent.
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Posted by Marc Staehling on 6th February 2008
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By Marc Staehling
Before getting knee deep into the lightweight rankings, I’d like to take a moment to acknowldge Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s historic feat this past weekend. He was already a legend, and a first-ballot hall of famer, but with his victory over Tim Sylvia on Saturday, “Minotauro” is most certainly, one of the greatest fighters of all time.
Ranking fighters is difficult business, especially the lightweight division. As I illustrated in Part One and Part Two, because of the vast array of fighters in various organizations fighting between 150 and 160 lbs, coming up with a definitive ranking is essentially impossible. What I can, and will do, is look at some online MMA rankings and offer my critique.
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Posted by Marc Staehling on 29th January 2008
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Posted by Marc Staehling on 15th January 2008
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It’s safe to say that the deepest, and most consistently entertaining division in mixed martial arts is the lightweight division. Just a glance at fight of the year candidates over the last several years and you’ll see a slough of classic lightweight bouts. Uno/Sato 5/99, Penn/Pulver 1/02, Sato/Nakayama 11/02, Uno/Hansen 3/05, Hansen/Azeredo 4/06, Gomi/Diaz 2/07, Griffin/Edgar 2/07 and Huerta/Guida 12/07 are just a sampling of the fantastic lightweight fights that have taken place over the last several years.
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