Fedor dropped from top 10 P4P ranking
For seven and a half years, Fedor Emelianenko was a fixture in the rarified air of pound-for-pound lists. Not anymore….
For seven and a half years, Fedor Emelianenko was a fixture in the rarified air of pound-for-pound lists. Not anymore.
Emelianenko’s shocking June 26 loss to Fabricio Werdum radically resculpted the face of the heavyweight division and also the pound-for-pound list. For the first time since its inception, the Sherdog.com P4P rankings now feature no heavyweights. Perhaps none too surprisingly, the vast majority of the list now represents MMA’s deepest and most competitive weight classes. In fact, six of the 10 entrants are fixtures at 155, 170 or 205 pounds. Furthermore, middleweights Anderson Silva and Jake Shields have recent accomplishments at 205 and 170 pounds respectively.
And while the coming month of July will be a quiet one, the month of August won’t be. Half of the pound-for-pound top-10 will see August action, including Anderson Silva defending the pound-for-pound mantle when he meets Chael Sonnen, Jon Fitch renewing his rivalry with Thiago Alves in a high-stakes welterweight rematch and lightweight entrants B.J. Penn and Frankie Edgar settling their score with the UFC lightweight title on the line.