We’ve made a couple changes to the rankings. Instead of doing them monthly and having everyone complain because guys have lost, or have just won a fight shortly after the ranking period, we’ve now included all fights up until the day the rankings get released, and we are now doing the rankings basically whenever we feel there have been enough fights to warrant change.

We skipped December because there was only 1 or 2 shows and not many ranked fighters fought. This may mean rankings get updated after 2 or 3 slow months, or 2 or 3 BIG weeks. We will now update the rankings every few shows. These rankings were closer than they ever have been, with several ties in score and several guys 1 point (the equivilant of one writer moving them up or down 1 spot) from moving either up or down.  So here are the rankings that include all action through 2/22/07.

    1451    Dan Ferrer2    Tatu Escobar3    Joe Cushman4    Rafael Rebello5    Josh Grispi6    Henrique Bicalho7    Matt Martin8   Paul Gorman9    Aguilano Brandao9   Ben Manseau    1551    Joe Lauzon2    Kenny Florian3    Bobby McMasters4    Matt Lee5    Matt Perry6    Dan Lauzon6    Spencer Paige8    Chris Grandmaison9    Jack Wilmarth10    Anthony Leate    1701    Marcus Davis2    Alex Karalexis3    Tamdan McCrory4    Jay Jack5    Nuri Shakir6    Rich Moskowitz6   Woody Weatherby8    Matt Fletcher8    Justin Hammerstrum10    Mike Varner    1851    Jorge Rivera2    Alexander “Vaca” Moreno3    Lance Everson4    John Howard5    Mandela Kponou6    Erik Charles7    Craig Buckley8    Bellaton Frederic9    Phil McIntyre10    Mike Laliberte    2051    Pat Schultz2    Jesse Rebell3    John Clarke4    Nate Kitteredge5    Cesar Barros6    Karolis Uskinsas7    Pat Thompson8    Eric Brown9    Jerry Spiegel10    Ed Medeiros    205+1   Josh Diekman2    Brian Olsen3    Roger Brackett4    Jared Palmer5    Eric Magee6    Deron Adams7    John Champa8    Dana Blouin9    Eddie Saldana10    Jason Cadima