#3 Gray Maynard
#7 Clay Guida
#9 Jim Miller
#10 Shinya Aoki
#11 Joe Lauzon
#12 Nate Diaz
#13 Donald Cerrone
#14 Melvin Guillard
#15 Gleison Tibau
The following fighters were removed from this division’s rankings due to inactivity:
Sean Sherk from #5 on 9/25/2011
BJ Penn from #4 on 8/28/2011
Kenny Florian from #7 on 8/28/2011
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Pretty good but Barboza and some SF guys should be sprinkled in the 10-15 range. You're in love with athletic potential aren't you? 😀 Do you remember that both Guillard and Anthony Johnson were subbed by Rich Clementi?
"athletic potential"isn't a factor for these rankings, just wins and losses. Guillard is always tough to rank, as is Clementi, because the have losses to guys ranked lower than guys they have wins over. Makes it very messy, but in those situations we start to look at recency and decisiveness of wins.
The thing with Barboza is he doesn't have wins to warrant a top 15 ranking. Who do you suggest from SF, who isn't already there?