Cage Potato Power Rankings
Heavyweight (Over 205 lbs)
- Fedor Emelianenko
- Randy Couture
- Tim Sylvia
- Andrei Arlovski
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueria
- Fabricio Werdum
- Ben Rothwell
- Mirko Filipovic
- Josh Barnett
- Cheick Kongo
Light Heavyweight (186-205 lbs)
- Quinton Jackson
- Lyoto Machida
- Chuck Liddell
- Forrest Griffin
- Keith Jardine
- Mauricio Rua
- Thiago Silva
- Vladimir Matyushenko
- Wanderlei Silva
- Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Middleweight (171-185 lbs)
- Anderson Silva
- Dan Henderson
- Robbie Lawler
- Paulo Filho
- Matt Lindland
- Rich Franklin
- Jason Miller
- Frank Shamrock
- Kazuo Misaki
- Yushin Okami
Welterweight (156-170 lbs)
- Georges St. Pierre
- Matt Serra
- Matt Hughes
- Jon Fitch
- Hayato Sakurai
- Jake Shields
- Shinya Aoki
- Carlos Condit
- Karo Parisyan
- Marcus Davis
Lightweight (146-155 lbs)
- B.J. Penn
- Gesias Calvancanti
- Takanori Gomi
- Sean Sherk
- Mitsuhiro Ishida
- Gilbert Melendez
- Roger Huerta
- Tatsuya Kawajiri
- Joachim Hansen
- Kenny Florian
Featherweight (136-145 lbs)
- Urijah Faber
- Norifumi Yamamoto
- Akitoshi Tamura
- Masakazu Imanari
- Wagnney Fabiano
Pound-for-Pound
- Georges St. Pierre
- Fedor Emelianenko
- Anderson Silva
- B.J. Penn
- Urijah Faber
- Quinton Jackson
- Randy Couture
- Dan Henderson
- Lyoto Machida
- Norifumi Yamamoto
Updated on January 23, 2008
How These Rankings Aged
These 2008 rankings capture MMA at a turning point. Fedor Emelianenko sat at the top of the heavyweights, but within two years he had lost to Fabricio Werdum, while Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez came to dominate the UFC division. At light heavyweight, Lyoto Machida and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua were on their way to UFC titles, and a young Jon Jones, not yet on any list, would soon overtake them all.
Looking back at old rankings is one of the best ways to see how quickly the sport moves, and how many great fighters’ careers peaked in this era.