Nov 17, 2008 - 10:16:41 PM By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Over the next several weeks, we here at the Torch will be bringing you our rankings for all of the weight classes. We will tackle a new division each week until all are covered, followed by updates after every major show.
During the week, each of the staff members will bring you a blog explaining why they chose the way they did in their top 10. This week, off the heels of UFC 91, we will be starting with the heavyweight division. Each staff member picked their top 10, and the overall rankings were figured out based on placement in the top 10 as well as how many ballots each fighter was on.
Are the rankings what you thought they'd be? Are we way off? Let us know at TorchRankings@gmail.com and we'll present our Torch Nation rankings as voted on by you, the Torch readers. So enjoy this, our first set of heavyweight rankings; and look out for our staff's reasonings and explanations during the week. Next week: the Light Heavyweight Division.
MMATorch Staff Rankings: The Heavyweights
1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Andrei Arlovski
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Josh Barnett
6. Randy Couture
7. Gabriel Gonzaga
8. Tim Sylvia
9. Frank Mir
10. Fabricio Werdum
Also receiving votes: Ben Rothwell, Alistair Overeem, Cheick Kongo, Junior Dos Santos, Shane Carwin, Antonio Silva and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic.
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yikes. josh BURNETT?! the poll to the right has his name spelled correctly.
how has dos santos not broken into your top ten considering he beat number
ten, werdum? i dig pwtorch and all but mmatorch isn't looking as credible.
hrmph.
Jamie Penick
18 Nov 2008, 08:58
Simple typo on the name, thanks for pointing it out. As for the rest of
the rankings, it's all subjective, and all of our writers that voted will
be explaining their reasoning's for those picks this week.
Nick
02 Dec 2008, 07:32
It's not really a typo when you call him Barnett all throughout your
individual rankings. That indicates you just don't know his name. Kind of
a big difference.
Nick
02 Dec 2008, 07:35
I'm a dumbass.
the juggernaut
27 Dec 2008, 22:15
looks like the rankings just got a BIG shakeup at UFC 92!
man i can't wait for Lesnar vs Mir 2 for the undisputed heavyweight title!
