Rankings Update: Gastelum enters top ten

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                    <p>After each event, the UFC polls various members of the media to update its rankings in each weight division as well as the pound for pound rankings.</p>

This past weekend the UFC held UFC 180 in Mexico City, but the event only featured a few meaningful bouts division wise. The biggest winner in the rankings was welterweight Kelvin Gastelum who moved up four spots and into the top ten with his win over Jake Ellenberger.

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion : Johny Hendricks
1    Robbie Lawler 
2    Rory MacDonald 
3    Tyron Woodley 
4    Carlos Condit 
5    Matt Brown 
6    Hector Lombard 
7    Kelvin Gastelum +4
8    Demian Maia 
9    Tarec Saffiedine 
10    Dong Hyun Kim 
11    Jake Ellenberger -4
12    Rick Story 
13    Jordan Mein 
14    Gunnar Nelson 
15    Ryan LaFlare 

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6 Anthony Pettis 
 
7 Ronda Rousey 
 
 1
8 Anderson Silva 
 
 1
 

 

PFHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHA. I predicted this last month.

Here comes "Ronda is mean, she's nasty, and ranked p4p higher than Anderson Silva!"

ChaosOverkill - 















6

Anthony Pettis 

 


7

Ronda Rousey 



 


 1


8

Anderson Silva 



 


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PFHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHA. I predicted this last month.



Here comes "Ronda is mean, she's nasty, and ranked p4p higher than Anderson Silva!"


When the fuck did this happen? Wow, does the ufc even want validity for mma? This truly blowns my mind...

it happened today.

brianlg - 
ChaosOverkill - 















6

Anthony Pettis 

 


7

Ronda Rousey 



 


 1


8

Anderson Silva 



 


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PFHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHA. I predicted this last month.



Here comes "Ronda is mean, she's nasty, and ranked p4p higher than Anderson Silva!"


I remember someone calling this.

How the fuck is Andy only #8 P4P?


Lol that was me, I called it 4 rankings in a row that it would happen.

ChaosOverkill - 
brianlg - 
ChaosOverkill - 















6

Anthony Pettis 

 


7

Ronda Rousey 



 


 1


8

Anderson Silva 



 


 1



 


 



PFHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHA. I predicted this last month.



Here comes "Ronda is mean, she's nasty, and ranked p4p higher than Anderson Silva!"


I remember someone calling this.

How the fuck is Andy only #8 P4P?


Lol that was me, I called it 4 rankings in a row that it would happen.


It was only a matter of time. Sure it is Anderson Silva, but he still has only losses on his record for well over 2 years. If he starts winning again, I'm sure he'll move back up with ease. It really always comes down to ranking the women with the men in the first place.

sadisticsoldier - 
ChaosOverkill - 
brianlg - 
 
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        <span class="User-308621" id="userPost51490691"><span class="User-308438" id="userPost51490601">Lol that was me, I called it 4 rankings in a row that it would happen.</span></span></p>
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<span class="User-308621" id="userPost51490691">It was only a matter of time. Sure it is Anderson Silva, but he still has only losses on his record for well over 2 years. If he starts winning again, I'm sure he'll move back up with ease. It really always comes down to ranking the women with the men in the first place.</span></blockquote>

 

If there was a fight to initiate changes, sure, after Cat if she wins, sure. Where Silva is, isn't the point, this was the same voters changing votes, on nothing, no fights, nothing just "A fast one" for like 4 ranking spots since her last fight.

 

ChaosOverkill - 
sadisticsoldier - 
ChaosOverkill - 
brianlg - 
 
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        <span class="User-308621" id="userPost51490691"><span class="User-308438" id="userPost51490601">Lol that was me, I called it 4 rankings in a row that it would happen.</span></span></p>
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<span class="User-308621" id="userPost51490691">It was only a matter of time. Sure it is Anderson Silva, but he still has only losses on his record for well over 2 years. If he starts winning again, I'm sure he'll move back up with ease. It really always comes down to ranking the women with the men in the first place.</span></blockquote>

 

If there was a fight to initiate changes, sure, after Cat if she wins, sure. Where Silva is, isn't the point, this was the same voters changing votes, on nothing, no fights, nothing just "A fast one" for like 4 ranking spots since her last fight.


 


They vote from scratch every time, so it seems like it is easy for changes to occur. Opinions change, and you can't expect for their opinion to remain the same for an inactive fighter. The longer it's been since a fighter has had a good performance or any performance, the larger the probability he isn't the same fighter he once was. At least in my opinion that is probably the reason he is dropping. If he beats Nick Diaz impressively, he'll probably shoot back up even if Nick Doesn't normally fight at MW.

sadisticsoldier - 
ChaosOverkill - 
sadisticsoldier - 
ChaosOverkill - 
brianlg - 
 
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                <span class="User-308621" id="userPost51491624"><span class="User-308438" id="userPost51490704"><span class="User-308621" id="userPost51490691"><span class="User-308438" id="userPost51490601">Lol that was me, I called it 4 rankings in a row that it would happen.</span></span></span></span></p>
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        <span class="User-308621" id="userPost51491624"><span class="User-308438" id="userPost51490704"><span class="User-308621" id="userPost51490691">It was only a matter of time. Sure it is Anderson Silva, but he still has only losses on his record for well over 2 years. If he starts winning again, I'm sure he'll move back up with ease. It really always comes down to ranking the women with the men in the first place.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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        <span class="User-308621" id="userPost51491624"><span class="User-308438" id="userPost51490704">If there was a fight to initiate changes, sure, after Cat if she wins, sure. Where Silva is, isn't the point, this was the same voters changing votes, on nothing, no fights, nothing just &quot;A fast one&quot; for like 4 ranking spots since her last fight.</span></span></p>
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<span class="User-308621" id="userPost51491624">They vote from scratch every time, so it seems like it is easy for changes to occur. Opinions change, and you can't expect for their opinion to remain the same for an inactive fighter. The longer it's been since a fighter has had a good performance or any performance, the larger the probability he isn't the same fighter he once was. At least in my opinion that is probably the reason he is dropping. If he beats Nick Diaz impressively, he'll probably shoot back up even if Nick Doesn't normally fight at MW.</span></blockquote>

 

That's a stretch to me, that even though neither have fought, you change your view on where Rhonda and Anderson sit on that list. Opinion changes happen due to new information, and he's not retired or indefinitely out, he's scheduled to fight. If opinions varied that much, that list would change drastically more often, and it doesn't. All that's been happening is her moving up every few weeks. In theory you could be right, if ROusey's spot actually ever correct down one then back up, but it doesn't, ever. So it would mean they only change opinion on fighters position near Rousey while she hasn't fought, and that's it. How convenient.

 

Well, it certainly isn't the best system. It seems every time someone gets lined up for a title shot they start creeping up suddenly on the lists. I honestly don't think many of these media members taking part are qualified at all. I don't think there is any kind of rigging by the UFC outside of when they do stupid shit like pulling Nate Diaz from the lists even though he is more active than a bunch of other fighters still on the list. I think it is just an awareness thing.

Ronda Rousey is always being talked about and it is hard to deny that she is ahead of the field in her particular division. Hopefully they separate the men and women into different p4p lists, or scrap it all together. There is really no need to have a UFC endorsed P4P list at all, but hopefully with the new women's division at the very least they separate the men and women into 2 p4p lists.

sadisticsoldier - Well, it certainly isn't the best system. It seems every time someone gets lined up for a title shot they start creeping up suddenly on the lists. I honestly don't think many of these media members taking part are qualified at all. I don't think there is any kind of rigging by the UFC outside of when they do stupid shit like pulling Nate Diaz from the lists even though he is more active than a bunch of other fighters still on the list. I think it is just an awareness thing.

Ronda Rousey is always being talked about and it is hard to deny that she is ahead of the field in her particular division. Hopefully they separate the men and women into different p4p lists, or scrap it all together. There is really no need to have a UFC endorsed P4P list at all, but hopefully with the new women's division at the very least they separate the men and women into 2 p4p lists.

 

Yeah I've gotten over them including her here, but Anderson is a symbolic name, as the former VASTLY thought of number 1 fighter, at least post Fedor, you could call him a gatekeeper to serious P4P not having the belt, but still having the cred and being technically active.

 

It seems incredibly flippant, no matter how arbitrary and thrown in the rankings are supposed to, and the real stupidity, is that at some point som promo for her next fight will have the words "SHe' now p4p higher than Anderson Silva" in it. They use these rankings to push hype all the time. If they didn't, then yeah it would be a bunch of nothing but this is fuel for their pathetic marketing attempts for fights. "Well if our blessed media thinks it, and I didn't make the list, well then she's mean and nasty am I rite?"

did Mike Pierce retire?

jiujitsumstr - I just don't like Kelvin. It's nothing he did or said. I just don't like him.

great to hear

jiujitsumstr - I just don't like Kelvin. It's nothing he did or said. I just don't like him.
Its because he's Mexican. Phone Post 3.0