(How do you say "Don’t be scared, homey" in Armenian? Photo courtesy of Sherdog.)
Following recent action in the UFC, Strikeforce, and Sengoku, we’ve updated the lightweight, welterweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and pound-for-pound lists in our Power Rankings section. First, a word about the P4P top ten…
Can we all agree that Anderson Silva, Fedor Emelianenko, and Georges St. Pierre are the three best fighters in the world right now, and any attempt to rank them is completely subjective, and therefore meaningless? Instead of creating a three-way tie at the top (which I briefly considered), we’re going to do it like this until further notice: Whoever has the most recent awe-inspiring, damn-near-inhuman performance gets to be #1.
Silva was THE MAN earlier this month when he scored a flawless victory over Forrest Griffin at UFC 101; that’s why he holds the top spot for now. (By the way, destroying a top-ten fighter in the division above your natural weight class is the quickest way to rise on the pound-for-pound list.) GSP was The Man when he fought through a jacked-up groin to shut out Thiago Alves in July; that’s why he’s #2. Fedor’s mid-air knockout of Andrei Arlovski happened way back in January; that’s why he’s #3. It has nothing to do with talent or accomplishments, as all three guys have tremendous amounts of each. Can’t wait until Lyoto Machida makes a couple of title defenses so we can include him in this little game too…
Besides the always-in-flux pound-for-pound page, the other drastically changed list is the light-heavyweight top ten, which saw Anderson Silva and Gegard Mousasi enter after their creamings of ranked 205′ers. As a result, Keith Jardine and Thiago Silva have been bumped — but one of them may be back before long.
Anyway, check ‘em out and let us know how you feel. We’ll update the middleweight list after UFC 102, and the featherweight list after DREAM.11, if not sooner.
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Fedor should be thankful he's even in the top three. Fedor's last six fights... Silvia, Hunt, Coleman, Lindland, Arlovski, and Hong Man Choi. Big f'in deal. Only Arlovski's worth a damn lately... the others are old, washed up, terrible fighters, or all of the above. FWIW, Fedor did lose... to Kohsaka, and there's the no contest vs L'il Nog.
GSP has lost twice. Once was an aberration in the Matrix. A punch to the temple will f*ck anyone up, and Serra finished GSP before he could recoup. The only other loss (to the most dominant WW in UFC history)... well, chalk it up to a rookie mistake (by tapping).
GSP was dominating Hughes that whole first round, and Hughes got lucky. Laying the two successive ass-whoopings on Hughes that followed their first bout should've more than made up for it. Fitch, Koscheck, Alves, Serra, Parisian, BJ Penn twice, Sean Sherk, Frank Trigg... GSP's cleaned out the WW division as decisively as Silva's run through the MW's.
Silva, 10-0 in the UFC in the past three years against top competition, has nothing left to prove. He destroyed the the some of the best MW's in the world, and made it look ridiculously easy. He's moved up to LHW's (against bigger guys) and made very quick work of two so far.
cloiselle and LargeMidget are nothing but geeky fanboys who know nothing of the sport except what they overhear, and regurgitate to make it sound like they have a clue.
Based on rh's logic... Silva would beat Emilianenko. Taller, younger, longer reach, more KO's and less decision victories in a head to head comparison.