#2 Chael Sonnen
#3 Tim Boetsch
#4 Yushin Okami
#5 Mark Munoz
#8 Demian Maia
#9 Brian Stann
#10 Luke Rockhold
#11 Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza
#12 Tim Kennedy
#13 Hector Lombard
#15 Vitor Belfort
The following fighters were removed from this division’s rankings due to inactivity:
Wanderlei Silva from #8 on 2/20/2011
Jake Shields from #3 on 4/17/2011
Dan Henderson from #4 on 4/17/2011
Nate Marquardt from #6 on 3/19/2012.
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noticing a trend of prisoner of the moment. Boetsch was losing his fight and doesn't have the resume to be 3rd.
We prioritize wins (and losses) over depth of resume. Regardless of how the fight was going, Boetsch beat Okami (who beat Munoz), and has no losses at 185. If he's unworthy, it will play out as he fights. In the meantime it doesn't make sense to have him ranked below someone he just beat when there is no conflicting losses, at least according to our methodology (http://blog.mmaratings.net/2011/06/men-divisional-fighter-rankings.html).