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October 3, 2011 Pro Rankings

Here are the latest rankings from Dan, Rick, and myself with the help and advice of our many readers! We threw out a lot of changes in some weight classes as well as kept the status quo in other areas. In many areas of NorthEast MMA rankings, we all must defer to Dan and Rick, as these two gym rats have forgotten more than the rest of us know on the subject at hand. (more…)

AUGUST PRO RANKINGS:
From: Old School

It’s August, and that means it’s time to update our Pro Rankings. Sir Rick is busy this week, so I am filling in on the prelims. (more…)

Amateur Rankings as of July 5th 2011
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It’s that time again fight fans, new rankings are on the way! The last couple times we’ve done rankings, we’ve put out “preliminary rankings” so you guys can voice your opinion, and point out some things we may have missed. This time around, I decided to post the 2010 Final rankings, along with every listed fighter’s activity since the last rankings were posted. It’s really amazing to look at, as some weight classes had almost no activity, and others were littered with it.

As always, rankings aren’t always black and white. For example, a loss like the one Luiz Rodrigues had to Calvin Kattar may actually make his stock rise. He looked great in the loss, and was fighting a guy ranked well above him. Also, Tom Moreau’s loss may not drop him down the rankings as nobody below him had a win over a top ranked guy. I think you guys get the point by now. So let’s get this thing going, here is where we left off, and what’s happened since…how do you have ‘em ranked??

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Hey guys, Rick here. Bonnell posted this for me because I was busy and I wanted to throw in a few words, and wasn’t sure you’d notice if it was buried in the comments. As always, rankings are impossible. This time we ran into the unique issue of “what happens when a guy loses in a weight class above his?” and specifically saw that with Saul losing to Pete Jefferies at 155, with 145 being his “real” weight class, as well as Tom Moreau losing to Brett Oteri at a weight above 170, and Pedro Gonzales losing to Brandao at 145. Tough one to call, and as always, we look at these on a case by case basis…but it’s tough to drop a guy too many spots (if at all) when he takes a tough fight in a higher weight class.

We also ran into what I’ll refer to as “the Jason Bennett issue.” Jason is great, and we all know that…and we always talk about guys who take tough fights, but Jason has fought literally the 4 toughest guys he could have fought at the time. Henrique Bicalho was his first loss, and he was ranked 1 or 2 at the time. Ken Stone and Paul Gorman were losses 2 and 3, and those two guys have been on top of their divisions for as long as I can remember, and Tateki Matsuda was loss #4. So next time one of you guys wants to talk about your friend/training partner/yourself and say “so and so should be higher because he only takes tough fights” I want you re-read this paragraph, because with the exception of Dennis Olson, nobody takes tough fights like Bennett. Shit, the top 2-3 guys don’t even take tough fights like that. So how should he be ranked? Tough call, but I think we made the right choice.

We also added an honorable mention to 155 because it’s absolutely stacked. I said years ago that I wouldn’t rank a top 10 at 135 until we had 10 guys deserving of a ranking, and the fact that there were 10 guys fighting at that weight doesn’t make it a “worthy” top 10…meaning I can’t rank a guy who is 2-4 against average opposition just because he fights at that weight while leaving 5-1 guys off another category because the division is stacked. We all know what a “ranked” fighter looks like…and our current group at 155 is amazing. There are easily 15 guys that are worthy of headlining shows that have fought their balls off and deserve to be ranked…so we did it.

I’m sure there is still a guy or two we missed because rankings are tough, especially when we’ve debated it back and forth 250 times. We can adjust if we need to, but we put some time into these and I think they are solid. Let me know what you guys think.

2010 Final Pro Rankings

Teams with most ranked fighters:
1. Wai Kru – 6
2. Renzo NH – 5
3. Lauzon -5
4. Sityodtong – 4
5. SSSF -4
6. CCFA – 4

135lbs
1. Paul Gorman 9-7 (AMMA)
2. Tateki Matsuda 4-2 (Sityodtong)
3. Pedro Gonzalez 7-4 (DW/SYT north)
4. Matt Smith 7-3 (Renzo NH)
5. Jason Bennett 4-4 (Lions Den)
6. Jose Adriano 5-2 (wai Kru)
7. Joe Cushman 9-4 (Lauzon)
8. Tom Giove 9-6 (SSSF)
9. John McLaughlin 3-0 (Kipps Basement)
10. Barrington Douse 6-9 (AFT)

145lbs
1. Josh LaBerge 7-4 (Lauzon)
2. Justin Homsey 7-1 (Renzo NH)
3. Saul Almeida 7-1 (Dragon Lair)
4. Rodrigo Almeida 6-2 (Wai Kru)
5. Bill Jones 9-3 (Kaos)
6. Chris Grandmaison 9-5 (Renzo NH)
7. Lee Metcalf 5-3 (SSSF)
8. Aguilano Brandao 9-6 (WaiKru)
9. Brian Marino 6-1 (Allaire)
10. Ruben Rey 4-1 (RockStar)

155lbs
1. Dany Lauzon 14-4 (Lauzon)
2. Magno Almeida 5-0 ( Fenix FC)
3. Mike Campbell 8-3 (SitYodTong)
4. Rene Nazare 5-0 (Doomsday)
5. John Benoit 11-2 (Renzo NH)
6. Don Carlo Claus 7-4 (Bombsquad)
7. Hitalo Michado 7-4 (ATT)
8. Calvin Kattar 10-2 (Wai Kru)
9. Matt Bessette 6-2 (Under Dog BJJ)
10. Noah Weisman 4-1 (Rail City MMA)
HM –Glenn Brown 6-3 (GMB)
HM – Anthony Kaponis 4-2 (AFT)
HM – Luis Felix 4-4 (RockStar)
HM – Luiz Rodrigues 5-0 (SitYodTong)
HM – Joey Proctor 4-1 (Lauzon)
HM – Damien Trites 5-4 (Wai Kru)
HM – Pete Jeffrey 4-4 (TriForce)

170lbs

1. Tom Moreau 6-2 (Valor)
2. Chuck O’neil 8-3 (SSSF/SitYodTong)
3. Dennis Olson 11-5 (GBNH)
4. Brett Oteri 6-1 (Connors/Lauzon)
5. Chip Morraza-Pollard 6-2 (CCFA)
6. Matt Lee 12-9-1 (Factory)
7. Chandler Holderness 8-2 (Gamma/WaiKru)
8. Nate LaMotte 11-5 (Burgess)
9. Padriac Thompson 9-2 (SSSF)
10. James Boran 4-0 (Dragon Lair)

185lbs
1. Nate Kittrege 10-1 (GMB)
2. Justin Torrey 8-0 (FAA)
3. Dan Keefe 7-1 (WaiKru)
3. Scott Rehm 5-4 (Pro Elite)
4. Woody Weatherby 8-4 (Renzo NH)
5. Pat Shultz 11-4 (CCFA)
6. Perry Filkins 3-0 (MFS-NH)
7. Gladiator Santos 6-6 (Gladiator)
8. Keith Jeffrey 5-2 (Triforce)
9. Jeff Nader 4-2 ( CCFA)

205
1. Alexandre Moreno 10-2 (Link)
2. Greg Rebello 12-2 (CCFA/SYT)
3. Mark Griffin 3-2-1
4. Ryan Contaldi 7-4-1 (Bombsquad)
5. Mike Mucitelli 1-0 (NY)
6. Steve Skrzat 4-2

HeavyWeight
1. Parker Porter 4-1 (Underdog)
2. Lee Beane 7-2 (Wai Kru)
3. Josh Deikman 11-3
4. Shawn Gallano 5-1 (MAXX TC)
5. Cody Lightfoot 6-1 (Seacoast)

135:

1. Kin Moy 4-0 (Redline)
2. Dave Lachepelle 4-0 (SSSF) 3-0 at 135
3. Colton Blanchette 3-0 (Cage Strikers)
4. Dat Tran 3-1 (Sityodtong)
5. Josh Bourque 3-3 (Cage Strikers/Renzo) 3-1 at 135
6. Rico DiSciullo 2-0 (Sityodtong)
7. Jacob Smith 3-0 (NESF)
8. Josh Lopez 3-0 (AFT)
9. Anthony Carmenatti 4-5 (Ind)
10. Dan Cormier 3-1 (Rockstar)
HM-Heath England 2-0 (LRVT)
HM-Jared Sarno 2-0 (SSSF)
HM- Tom Benjamin 2-3 (Kaos)
HM- John Santos 2-4 (Fury)

145:

1. Andre Soukamthout 3-0 (United/Muay Lao)
2. Frank Sforza 3-0 (SSSF)
3. Erik Lee 3-1 (Blue Devil)
4. Ibrahim Tody 4-1 (Wai Kru)
5. Brandon Fleming 2-0 (SSSF)
6. Sergio Cabrera 2-0 (BMAC)
7. Devin Lenfest 2-0 (Valor)
8. Eddie Lee 2-0 (Sityodtong)
9. Ethan Connelly 2-0 (Wai Kru)
10. Evan Scott 2-1 (Lauzon)

155:

1. Aaron Smith 5-0 (Seacoast)
2. Bobby Flynn 4-1 (Pro Elite) 4-0 at 155
3. John Derusha 3-0 (SSSF)
4. Joe Pingatore 6-2 (Rockstar)
5. Mike Filipone 4-2 (AFAA)
6. Will Chan 3-0 (SSSF)
7. Than Stimson 3-0 (Peter Rogers CT)
8. Devin Powell 3-1 (Seacoast)
9. Tyler Nau 3-1 (Anubis)
10. Taylor Trayhan 6-4 (Atlas)
HM- Sam Nadeau 4-3-1 (AFT)
HM -Anthony Loycano 2-0 (Warriors Pride)
HM- Ali Corbett 2-0 (Wai Kru)
HM- Mike Donovan 2-2 (Lauzon)
HM- James Grant 2-2 (Renzo)

170:

1. Tyson Chartier 7-1 (Sityodtong)
2. Ricardo Georges 4-1 (Pradel Serey)
3. Leon Davis 5-1 (FAA)
4. Jay Bakanowski 3-1 (Wai Kru)
5. Damien Malon 4-0 (Lions Den)
6. Brandon Cyr 3-0 (Team Dow)
7. Ozzie Diaz 3-0 (Seacoast)
8. Seth Larue 5-1 (AFT)
9. Juan Maldonado 3-1 (Seacoast)
10. Peter San Antonio 3-1 (Warriors Pride)
HM- Kemron Lachinov 4-2 (AFT)
HM- Keegan Hornstra 3-4 (Kaos)
HM- Zack Costello 2-0 (MAXX)
HM- Nick Rivera 2-1 (Renzo)
HM- Keenan Raymond 2-0 (Rockstar)

185:

1. Joe Lamoureaux 4-1 (SSSF)
2. Joe Palazio 3-1 (Allaire)
3. Mike Commander 3-0 (NESF)
4. Fran Collins 2-0 (The Factory)
5. Nick Olson 2-0 (Gracie Barra)
HM- Lowell Zangri 2-1 (Valor)