Saturday, December 6, 2008

WEC Rankings

New WEC Featherweight (145lbs) Rankings
  1. Mike Brown
  2. Leonard Garcia
  3. Urijah Faber
  4. Jens Pulver
  5. Wagnney Fabiano
  6. Akitoshi Tamura
  7. Jose Aldo
  8. Cub Swanson
  9. Hiroyuki Takaya
  10. Josh Grispi
  11. Micah Miller
  12. Diego Nunes
  13. Cole Province
  14. Jonathon Brookins
Cub Swanson moves from #10 to #8 with his win over Hiroyuki Takaya @ WEC 37
As a result, Hiroyuki Takaya moves down from #7 to #9
Jens Pulver moves back up from #8 to #4 due to me coming to my senses about him and remembering his destruction of Cub Swanson...I realize that Pulver's good stand-up skills are still enough to overwhelm most of the weight class and combining that with the fact that he's solid on the ground and his wealth of experience caused me to bump him up.
Any other changes are just a result of these three changes...
Note: Wagnney Fabiano and Akitoshi Tamura's positions would have stayed the same without Pulver's move up -- both guys showed that they belong in the upper half of the rankings but didn't show me enough for me to justify a move up.

My first WEC Bantamweight (135lbs) Rankings
  1. Miguel Torres
  2. Jeff Curran
  3. Brian Bowles
  4. Manny Tapia
  5. Will Ribeiro
  6. Chase Beebe*
  7. Yoshihiro Maeda
  8. Rani Yahya
  9. Joseph Benavidez
  10. Dominick Cruz
  11. Charlie Valencia
  12. Damacio Page
  13. Danny Martinez
*=#6 Chase Beebe is not currently fighting in the WEC but he's a former WEC Champ and I wanted to include him b/c I feel like he might be back in the promotion following a good showing at UWC: Man O War in February

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