Topic: Top Featherweights - 145 lbs.
Early 2011 FW Rankings: What Say You?
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01.26.2011 | 12:09 PM ET
Thoughts?
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02.02.2011 | 12:00 PM ET
Always go with results of the fights rather than your opinion of the result. Only take into account what happens in MMA not a person's ability in another sport. If a fight is a fluke it will work itself out in the long run. Rankings are meant to be fluid, they should be changing all the time. Upsets throw off the thinking of people who are use to things a certain way. Just because it's an upset doesn't make it a fluke and 1 top 10 win can be worth more than a dozen record padding cans. The FW division was tough because the perceived top FWs were spread out among a bunch of different Orgs. As the UFC brings more and more fighters we will get a clearer idea of where people belong.
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02.02.2011 | 12:05 PM ET
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02.02.2011 | 12:41 PM ET
The fact is that when you beat one guy in a new weight class and haven't done anything in another weight class to prove your a top fighter there is no way you spring board to the top 5 by beating a guy who is 22 years old and had no time to prepare for you. Grispi still in the bottom half of the top ten would make sense, Poirier top 5 doesn't. I have Grispi at 12 right now and think Poirier is ranked only one spot ahead of him despite beating him. It was a fight that had odd circumstances and moving a guy from unranked having never fought in the division to top 5 off of one fight against an ill prepared 22 year old just doesn't make sense to me.
I still think the best way to determine who is better is actual fights between guys, so Poirer does move just ahead of Grispi, but Grispi takes a nice fall from around the 5 or so spot he had to about the 10-15 spot and Poirier stays in that same area with him.
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