MMAFrenzy Welterweight Rankings
By Chris Leslie on October 23, 2012
MMAFrenzy continues to roll out our rankings with today’s look at the welterweight division. Be sure to check out our previous rankings as we continue to work our way up to heavyweight. The rankings were created by each of our staff ranking fighters 1-10 and then taking an average of the scores to establish the final ranking for the fighters. Be sure to tune in for our middleweight rankings tomorrow.
Welterweight Rankings
Welterweight may very well be the craziest ranks we have done so far when it comes to averages. This is one of the toughest divisions in all of MMA with so many people in the division but when you add in the level of quality backgrounds among the fighters involved,it leads for some crazy rankings. With so many fighters on this list separated by such thin margins we actually ranked more fighters this time.
Honorable Mentions: Demian Maia*, BJ Penn, Rick Story, Thiago Alves, Mike Pierce, Mike Pyle, Tyron Woodley, Dong Hyun Kym, John Hathaway
*- the rankings were done before UFC 153, otherwise Maia would be higher on the list
Photos courtesy of the UFC
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Thought rory would be a little higher and agreed that Maia is now ranked after his performance. Any word on who marquardt might fight next and when? I heard Coker said he wants all the big names on the januaray card
Rory had an average rank of 7.5, so he was ranked higher by some. The issue was the logjam that happens from 4-7b. Where we had 5 fighters within 1 point of each other in the averages.
As for Marquardt, no clue right now. Though Tarec Saffiedine makes sense.
170 is impossible so hard to be critical at all. I’d agree my only beefs would be that kos is too high, rory too low, and that askren is even mentioned! Granted you said Maia would’ve already bumped him, but how bout my boy Mike Pyle getting some more love! Askren is too unproven IMO. Also think pierce should be rated higher. But anywho thanks for doing these, they’re always fun.
When’s the middleweight released and are you going to do any WMMA rankings?
Middleweight is wrapping up now, busy news day. Takes about 3 hours to produce them. As for WMMA, not enough intel right now. The entire division is somewhat in flux.