Edgar moves to #4 in top p4p
UFC president Dana White believes UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar is the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in MMA today. Pollsters,…
UFC president Dana White believes UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar is the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in MMA today.
Pollsters, though, weren’t ready to declare the recently victorious champ the runner-up to Anderson Silva’s top-dog status.
In the latest Yahoo! Sports pound-for-pound rankings, in which 22 top MMA journalists vote, Edgar moved up two spots to a No. 4 ranking. But the No. 2 slot still belongs to Georges St-Pierre.
1. Anderson Silva, 220 points (22 first-place votes)
2. Georges St-Pierre, 198 (22 second-place votes)
3. Jon Jones, 160
4. Frankie Edgar, 153
5. Jose Aldo, 140
6. Dominick Cruz, 112
7. Cain Velasquez, 77
T-8. Jon Fitch, 37
T-8. Gilbert Melendez, 37
10. Rashad Evans, 17
Other receiving votes: Gray Maynard (13), Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (9), Dan Henderson (8), Nick Diaz (7), Jake Shields (6), Junior Dos Santos (5), B.J. Penn (5), Chael Sonnen (2), Lyoto Machida (2)
