Squabbles.com Fighter Rankings By Division for November 2009

November 20, 2009

By Whitey Hudson

Squabbles.com November 2009 MMA Fighter Rankings

So here they are, our fighter rankings by weight class for all MMA divisions.

On a few of them, there’s just no argument – Fedor, Silva, St.-Pierre…

Some might beg to differ on Machida, but there you go. We still say the champ won the fight over Rua, it may have been ugly, but it was enough to keep the belt.

As for Aldo? What can you say. Mike Brown is one hardass dude and Aldo worked him over like a man picking a whole fried chicken clean at a barbecue.

We’ll let Tito in next month if he manages to take out Forrest Griffin this weekend, but if he doesn’t, he goes back in the inactive file…

Heavyweight Rankings (206 to 265 lbs.)
1. Fedor Emelianenko (31-1, 1 No Contest) 2. Brock Lesnar (4-1) 3. Frank Mir (12-4) 4. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-5-1, 1 No Contest) 5. Shane Carwin (11-0) 6. Brett Rogers (10-1) 7. Fabricio Werdum (12-4-1) 8. Randy Couture (17-10) 9. Junior dos Santos (9-1) 10. Alistair Overeem (29-11, 1 No Contest)
Light Heavyweight Rankings (186 to 205 lbs.)
1. Lyoto Machida (16-0) 2. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (18-4) 3. Gegard Mousasi (27-2-1) 4. Rashad Evans (13-1-1) 5. Anderson Silva (25-4) 6. Quinton Jackson (30-7) 7. Forrest Griffin (16-6) 8. Dan Henderson (25-7) 9. Thiago Silva (14-1) 10. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (17-3)
Middleweight Rankings (171 to 185 lbs.)
1. Anderson Silva (25-4) 2. Nathan Marquardt (29-8-2) 3. Dan Henderson (25-7) 4. Yushin Okami (23-4) 5. Jorge Santiago (21-7) 6. Vitor Belfort (19-8) 7. Robbie Lawler (16-5, 1 No Contest) 8. Chael Sonnen (23-10-1) 9. Yoshihiro Akiyama (13-1, 2 No Contests) 10. Michael Bisping (18-2)
Welterweight Rankings (156 to 170 lbs.)
1. Georges St. Pierre (19-2) 2. Jon Fitch (19-3, 1 No Contest) 3. Dan Hardy (23-6) 4. Thiago Alves (16-4) 5. Jake Shields (24-4-1) 6. Josh Koscheck (13-4) 7. Matt Hughes (43-7) 8. Mike Swick (14-3) 9. Paulo Thiago (11-1) 10. Marius Zaromskis (12-3)
Lightweight Rankings (146 to 155 lbs.)
1. B.J. Penn (14-5-1) 2. Shinya Aoki (22-4, 1 No Contest) 3. Eddie Alvarez (17-2) 4. Gray Maynard (8-0, 1 No Contest) 5. Tatsuya Kawajiri (25-5-2) 6. Kenny Florian (11-4) 7. Frankie Edgar (10-1) 8. Diego Sanchez (21-2) 9. Joachim Hansen (19-8-1) 10. Mizuto Hirota (12-3-1)
Featherweight Rankings (136 to 145 lbs.)
1. Jose Aldo (16-1) 2. Mike Brown (22-5) 3. Urijah Faber (22-3) 4. Hatsu Hioki (20-3-2) 5. “Lion” Takeshi Inoue (16-3) 6. Bibiano Fernandes (7-2) 7. Wagnney Fabiano (12-2) 8. Raphael Assuncao (14-1) 9. Mackens Semerzier (4-0) 10. Leonard Garcia (13-5)
Bantamweight Rankings (126 to 135 lbs.)
1. Brian Bowles (8-0) 2. Miguel Torres (37-2) 3. Takeya Mizugaki (12-3-2) 4. Masakatsu Ueda (9-0-2) 5. Dominick Cruz (14-1) 6. Akitoshi Tamura (14-7-2) 7. Joseph Benavidez (10-1) 8. Damacio Page (12-4) 9. Rani Yahya (14-4) 10. Will Ribeiro (10-2)