USA Today Consensus MMA Rankings for Sept 2011

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 http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/9/29/2458699/usa-today-mma-nation-september-2011-consensus-rankings





Heavyweight MMA


Consensus Rankings posted September 30, 2011



























































































































































































Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Cain Velasquez 100 UFC 1
2 Junior dos Santos 95 UFC 2
3 Alistair Overeem 90 UFC 3
4 Brock Lesnar 86 UFC 4
5 Fabricio Werdum 79 Strikeforce 6
6 Frank Mir 74 UFC 7
7 Shane Carwin 73 UFC 8
8 Josh Barnett 68 Strikeforce 9
9 Daniel Cormier 67 Strikeforce 20
10 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 64 UFC 11
11 Antonio Silva 46 Strikeforce 5
12 Fedor Emelianenko 39 M-1 12
13 Cheick Kongo 33 UFC 15
14 Brendan Schaub 31 UFC 10
15 Roy Nelson 28 UFC 14
16 Sergei Kharitonov 25 Strikeforce 13
16 Travis Browne 25 UFC 16
18 Matt Mitrione 23 UFC 17
19 Mike Russow 22 UFC 18
20 Cole Konrad 22 Bellator 19
21 Mark Hunt 16 UFC NR
22 Pat Barry 14 UFC 25
23 Stefan Struve 14 UFC 24
23 Shane del Rosario 14 Strikeforce 27
25 Mirko Filipovic 13 UFC 27




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Light Heavyweight MMA


Consensus Rankings posted September 29, 2011









































































































































































































Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Jon Jones 100 UFC 1
2 Mauricio Rua 94 UFC 3
3 Rashad Evans 93 UFC 2
4 Quinton Jackson 87 UFC 4
5 Lyoto Machida 85 UFC 5
6 Dan Henderson 78 UFC 7
7 Phil Davis 72 UFC 8
8 Forrest Griffin 68 UFC 6
9 Rafael Cavalcante 49 Strikeforce 10
10 Gegard Mousasi 47 Strikeforce 9
11 Muhammed Lawal 40 Strikeforce 16
12 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 38 UFC 12
13 Thiago Silva 37 UFC 11
14 Rich Franklin 37 UFC 13
15 Alexander Gustafsson 36 UFC 15
16 Tito Ortiz 31 UFC 14
17 Ryan Bader 26 UFC 17
18 Vladimir Matyushenko 19 UFC 19
19 Renato Sobral 17 Strikeforce 18
20 Cyrille Diabate 16 UFC 21
21 Stanislav Nedkov 14 UFC NR
22 Randy Couture 14 UFC 23
23 Roger Gracie 13 Strikeforce 20
24 Keith Jardine 12 Strikeforce 24
25 Brandon Vera 12 UFC 25
25 Jason Brilz 12 UFC 30
25 Kyle Kingsbury 12 UFC 26



 

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Middleweight MMA


Consensus Rankings posted September 29, 2011



























































































































































































Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Anderson Silva 100 UFC 1
2 Yushin Okami 90 UFC 2
3 Chael Sonnen 88 UFC 3
4 Mark Munoz 79 UFC 5
5 Vitor Belfort 77 UFC 6
6 Brian Stann 71 UFC 7
7 Demian Maia 67 UFC 9
8 Michael Bisping 66 UFC 8
9 Nate Marquardt 59 BAMMA 10
10 Luke Rockhold 53 Strikeforce 28
11 Ronaldo Souza 53 Strikeforce 4
12 Chris Leben 44 UFC 11
13 Hector Lombard 40 Bellator 12
14 Alan Belcher 36 UFC 16
15 Tim Kennedy 34 Strikeforce 14
16 Rousimar Palhares 27 UFC 19
17 Jorge Santiago 27 UFC 13
18 Wanderlei Silva 24 UFC 17
19 Mamed Khalidov 23 KSW 15
20 Robbie Lawler 19 Strikeforce 18
21 Chris Weidman 17 UFC 24
22 Yoshihiro Akiyama 16 UFC 20
23 Dan Miller 16 UFC 23
24 Tim Boetsch 15 UFC 36
25 Jason Miller 15 UFC 21

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Welterweight MMA


Consensus Rankings posted September 29, 2011



























































































































































































Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Georges St. Pierre 100 UFC 1
2 Jon Fitch 95 UFC 2
3 Carlos Condit 84 UFC 5
4 Nick Diaz 81 UFC 4
5 Josh Koscheck 80 UFC 7
6 Jake Shields 78 UFC 3
7 B.J. Penn 75 UFC 6
8 Jake Ellenberger 72 UFC 16
9 Charlie Brenneman 51 UFC 10
10 Rick Story 50 UFC 8
11 Thiago Alves 48 UFC 9
12 Diego Sanchez 44 UFC 11
13 Rory MacDonald 41 UFC 14
14 Martin Kampmann 41 UFC 12
15 Anthony Johnson 33 UFC 15
16 Paulo Thiago 29 UFC 18
17 Ben Askren 26 Bellator 17
18 Tyron Woodley 25 Strikeforce 21
19 Jay Hieron 25 Bellator 19
20 Johny Hendricks 24 UFC 20
21 Brian Ebersole 21 UFC 24
22 Matt Hughes 21 UFC 13
23 John Hathaway 20 UFC 23
24 Mike Pyle 20 UFC 26
25 Dong Hyun Kim 19 UFC 25

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Lightweight MMA


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Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Frankie Edgar 100 UFC 1
2 Gray Maynard 95 UFC 2
3 Gilbert Melendez 92 Strikeforce 3
4 Shinya Aoki 81 DREAM 4
5 Eddie Alvarez 79 Bellator 5
6 Ben Henderson 75 UFC 7
7 Clay Guida 72 UFC 6
8 Jim Miller 66 UFC 8
9 Melvin Guillard 64 UFC 9
10 Anthony Pettis 48 UFC 10
11 B.J. Penn 37 UFC 11
12 Dennis Siver 36 UFC 14
13 Sean Sherk 30 UFC 13
14 Nate Diaz 29 UFC NR
15 Tatsuya Kawajiri 28 DREAM 12
16 Rafael dos Anjos 25 UFC 15
17 Evan Dunham 24 UFC 16
18 Donald Cerrone 22 UFC 18
19 Gleison Tibau 21 UFC 17
20 Jorge Masvidal 19 Strikeforce 20
21 Sam Stout 17 UFC 23
22 Josh Thomson 16 K-1 22
23 George Sotiropoulos 15 UFC 24
24 Matt Wiman 14 UFC 25
25 Mizuto Hirota 14 DEEP 32

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Featherweight MMA


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Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Jose Aldo 100 UFC 1
2 Hatsu Hioki 91 UFC 3
3 Chad Mendes 91 UFC 2
4 Kenny Florian 80 UFC 4
5 Pat Curran 64 Bellator 12
6 Marlon Sandro 63 Bellator 6
7 Mark Hominick 62 UFC 5
8 Diego Nunes 59 UFC 7
9 Tyson Griffin 53 UFC 8
10 Manny Gamburyan 49 UFC 9
11 Erik Koch 44 UFC 13
12 Dustin Poirier 43 UFC 10
13 Joe Warren 40 Bellator 11
14 Hiroyuki Takaya 35 DREAM 14
15 Michihiro Omigawa 30 UFC 17
16 Bibiano Fernandes 28 DREAM 15
17 Patricio Freire 27 Bellator 16
18 Rani Yahya 26 UFC 19
19 Tatsuya Kawajiri 25 DREAM 27
20 Darren Elkins 22 UFC 18
21 Robert Peralta 19 UFC 21
22 Takeshi Inoue 18 DREAM 24
23 Mike Brown 17 UFC 20
24 Masanori Kanehara 16 Battle of Moscow 22
25 Kazuyuki Miyata 15 DREAM 23

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Bantamweight MMA


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Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank
1 Dominick Cruz 100 UFC 1
2 Joseph Benavidez 93 UFC 2
3 Brian Bowles 91 UFC 3
4 Urijah Faber 90 UFC 4
5 Demetrious Johnson 82 UFC 5
6 Scott Jorgensen 79 UFC 6
7 Miguel Torres 68 UFC 7
8 Brad Pickett 59 UFC 8
9 Takeya Mizugaki 51 UFC 9
10 Masakatsu Ueda 43 Amazon Forest Combat 10
11 Wagnney Fabiano 36 UFC 12
12 Renan Barao 34 UFC 11
13 Eddie Wineland 33 UFC 13
14 Michael McDonald 32 UFC 14
15 Antonio Banuelos 27 DREAM 20
16 Alexis Vila 25 Bellator NR
17 Zach Makovsky 25 Bellator 15
18 Damacio Page 25 UFC 16
19 Bibiano Fernandes 23 DREAM 27
20 Masakazu Imanari 21 DREAM 17
21 Joe Warren 18 Bellator 21
22 Hideo Tokoro 18 DREAM 18
23 Charlie Valencia 14 UFC 22
24 Takafumi Otsuka 13 DREAM 19
24 Raphael Assuncao 13 UFC NR

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 Jacare dropping out of the top 10 is pretty retarded

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 Overall pretty good. But Okami over Sonnen?



No.

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It's weird that Ellenberger is below Shields.

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TTT

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 Luke Rockhold making moves



love it

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Ansari - It's weird that Ellenberger is below Shields.


Okami above Sonnen sticks out to me

still consistently the best rankings going

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Glovegate - 
savage animal - 
Ansari - It's weird that Ellenberger is below Shields.




Okami above Sonnen sticks out to me



still consistently the best rankings going




Was just gunna say this.



Almost no argument to be made for their choice.
Yeah the only argument I could see is that Sonnen admitted to having been taking the steroids since he fought Okami....and he has been inactive since the loss and suspension...still not a strong argument.

 

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aoki needs to be dropped downnnnnn!

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ednzo777 - Vitor top 5?



1-1 in the past 2 years at 185 with only one win against AKiyama who was 1-2





 Why only 2 years? It couldn't be because that suits your argument against Belfort, could it?



How about the last 5 fights since time unfairly counts against figthers who have been injured???

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Interesting how Condit leapfrogged over Nick Diaz, from 5th to 3rd, without either one having fought since the last rankings came out.

I guess getting a shot at the title advances you in the rankings automatically.

Or am I missing something here?

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FutonCushion - Interesting how Condit leapfrogged over Nick Diaz, from 5th to 3rd, without either one having fought since the last rankings came out.



I guess getting a shot at the title advances you in the rankings automatically.



Or am I missing something here?


 Shields lost and I suppose most felt Condit's wins were more deserving than bumping Diaz up.

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savage animal - 
Ansari - It's weird that Ellenberger is below Shields.




Okami above Sonnen sticks out to me



still consistently the best rankings going


 Yeah I don't get either of those two rankings and agree they make no sense.




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Joachim Hansen doesn't even rank?