What a difference a year makes, especially in MMA. And in this case the welterweight division. With longtime champ, Georges St-Pierre on the shelf for a while, things really started shaking. It was just over a year ago that Dan Hardy was considered the top threat to GSP’s belt. Today, Hardy is walking the aisles [...]
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What a Difference a Year Makes: The Welterweights
Posted: February 21, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Vigilante RankingsTags: S-Cla$$
By the sound of rumblings I’ve heard all week, one of two of these statements is true. A) Nick Diaz is the greatest fighter in history and Carlos Condit is a pussy. Or B) Diaz is a disrespectful cry baby who couldn’t defeat the far superior Condit. There are no gray areas; just these two [...]
With a resounding 1st round win last weekend, Jose moved all the way up to #1 at featherweight. Wait…he was already #1. OK well, with a nice 1st round win last weekend, Vitor Belfort climbed his way into the top 5 at middleweight. Huh? He was already there too? Oh. Well despite some quality matches [...]
Newest MMA Rankings Just Released; Brock, Fitch, Diaz Biggest Movers
Posted: January 3, 2012 in Vigilante RankingsWe just witnessed what we all called one of the “biggest” heavyweight match-ups in the history of the universe. And unfortunately for all of us, it fell flat on its face–for Brock Lesnar at least. Either Alistair Overeem looked incredible, or Lesnar looked ordinary. Or both. The Reem is rewarded for his efforts by jumping [...]
Who’s Number 1? MMA Pound for Pound Rankings
Posted: December 22, 2011 in Commentary/Opinion, Top 10, Vigilante RankingsIs there anything that creates more arguments than a top 10 list? Anytime someone says X is better than Y, half the people will call you crazy. The Pound for Pound rankings have always been about as subjective as it can get. We have our own idea of what P4P should mean. Frankly, it has [...]
Why is the heavyweight division so strange? Mir emphatically beats Nogueira and neither guys budges in the rankings. That doesn’t even make sense. So before I get 200 emails saying we hate Mir and he should have climbed into the top 5, let me explain. He’s not better than any of the guys above him. [...]
VigilanteMMA Never Sleeps; New MMA Rankings Released
Posted: November 22, 2011 in Vigilante RankingsWhile all the other sites are resting on the fact that they just published their rankings last week (so did we), we’re bringing it to you again. We continue to give our fans the most current rankings in the history of the universe. This week you will see plenty of movement. The biggest mover was [...]
UFC on Fox made sure we had some significant movement in the rankings this week. Obviously, Junior Dos Santos should be moved immediately up to the number one heavyweight in the world on everyone’s list. Beneath that, it gets a little murkier. Velasquez, Lesnar and Overeem are in a virtual tie at numbers 2, 3 [...]
New MMA Rankings are Here; Somebody dropped after Winning this Weekend!
Posted: November 2, 2011 in Vigilante RankingsRankings Day at the Vig is like the day you know your magazine is arriving in the mail. The excitement is so high around the office today I can literally feel it. Our Director of HR just gave our Controller a wedgie; and the handsome young shirtless kid who works in the mailroom is eating [...]
What a Difference a Year Makes: The Heavyweights
Posted: February 22, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Vigilante RankingsTags: S-Cla$$
Earlier this week we did a fun feature looking into the dramatic changes the welterweight division has seen in the past year or so. It got enough response that I decided to look at another weight class—the heavyweights. Despite fighters entering the cage as little as once or twice per year, a 12 month period [...]