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By: Kelvin Hunt

Kelvin Hunt — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:08:00 +0000

I guess the better question would be…which sport offers their own set of rankings? Usually it’s an independent party…

USA Today/SBN have consensus rankings….I used to contribute to it…basically it’s the average of about 20 MMA internet sites…does a good job of averaging out outliers…of course all rankings are subjective…but I don’t see the benefit of the UFC putting out THEIR rankings….it would need to be independent of the promotion IMO…no?

By: Rhadi

Rhadi — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:03:00 +0000

I cannot refute any of that except for this. What sport hides their ranking system? :-/

By: Kelvin Hunt

Kelvin Hunt — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:02:00 +0000

lol..you know I have to bust your chops on this….you put boxing and fairness in the same paragraph…if it were fair and perfect…Mayweather and Pac-Man would have fought by now ..but that’s another discussion :)

The UFC does have a ranking system…WE(general public) just don’t know what it is..and if it were public…we’d still criticize it the same way a lot of people do now and accuse them of setting the rankings up so that they are most beneficial to them in regards to PPV, etc(which they kind of do already)….after each event we pretty much know the short list of people that are in line for title shots anyways….of course injuries to champions GSP/Cruz throw monkey wrenches into things.

And come on now…you and I both now Menjivar wasn’t really close to getting a title shot…I love Mike Easton…but he needs to beat at least one of the following fighters to get in the title conversation:

Jorgensen, Pickett, McDonald, Bowles, or even Miguel Torres