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Ringside Report Radio hosts Dave Simon, Kevin “Big Tuna” McKough and Ringside Report. NET writer Julie V, came together on Friday June 4, 2010 to determine Ringside Report’s first ever Top 10 pound-for-pound MMA ranking system and list. The three hosts/judges each came to the show with their own top 10 lists and after a debate reached the following consensus.
Top 10 P4P MMA. June 2010
1. Anderson Silva
2. Georges St-Pierre
3. Fedor Emelianenko
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
6. Jose Aldo
7. B.J. Penn
8. Benson Henderson
9. Lyoto Machida
10. Rashad Evans
Honourable mentions to: Frankie Edgar, Jon Fitch, Jon Jones, Shane Carwin, Jake Shields and Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal.
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Dave, Kevin and Julie also agreed on the following criteria to determine who is worthy of pound-for-pound status:
Win/Loss Record
Quality of opponents and quality wins
Fight Finishing
Win Streak
To let you debate among your friends we will also include Dave, Kevin and Julie’s individual lists.
Dave Simon’s Top 10 P4P
1. Anderson Silva. 2. GSP. 3. Brock Lesnar 4. Fedor Emelianenko 5. Shogun 6. Jose Aldo 7. B.J. Penn 8. Benson Henderson 9. Lyoto Machida 10. Rashad Evans
Kevin “Big Tuna” McKough’s Top 10 P4P
1. GSP 2. Brock Lesnar 3. Fedor 4. Anderson Silva 5. Benson Henderson 6. Shogun 7. Jose Aldo 8. Lyoto Machida 9. B.J. Penn 10. Rashad Evans
Julie V’s Top 10 P4P
1. Anderson Silva 2. Fedor 3. GSP 4. Jose Aldo 5. Shogun 6. B.J. Penn 7. Lyoto Machida 8. Rashad Evans 9. Jake Shields 10. Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos
E-mail your comments, suggestions, hate and love to Dave Simon at dave@ringsidereport.net or Kevin “Big Tuna” McKough at kevin@ringsidereport.net or Julie V at info@metricjulie.com . We will provide an updated and unbiased list with listener and e-mail feedback in the next 6-12 weeks.
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Having Brock in p4p contention at all shows that you aren’t qualified to have that list. Not Brock hate, he could very well become the next best Heavyweight, but he does that with a SIZE ADVANTAGE.
Sean Sherk would lose to Brock in a fight, but even he is better P4P.
Your criteria:
Win/Loss Record – How does Brock beat Fedor here. Brock has a total of 4 opponents, and is 1-1 versus 1 of them
Quality of opponents and quality wins- Brock has fought 4 opponents, Min Soo is 25% and 50% Mir. Again, you fail
Fight Finishing- he has been finished once and finished 3 fights
Win Streak- he’s on a three fight win streak! I can see why you’d put him over Fedor, who has been on about at 27 fight win streak.