highlander,

that was one of my original ideas. it didn't make the final draft for a few reasons.

1. i would have to take every active fighter and get their full records.

2. it would take years for ray sefo to catch up to hoost, not to mention bob sapp at all. an old fading fighter would stay on top too long. look at roger's rankings above. hoost has 87 wins and mirko doesn't even have 87 fights.

3. in response to [2], i tried a limited number of fights but that had its own problems. last year, lebanner was picking up easy wins against goodridge and frye.

4. in response to [3], i tried a limited time period but that was unfair to guy who couldn't get k-1 fights. someone like matt skelton would slide down the rankings because ishii didn't want him on his show. how fair is that?

5. i wanted to give more points for beating hoost than for beating musashi. even if musashi went down in dazzling KO fashion.

6. i wanted a lineal champion.

7. i didn't want 2 different systems of ranking, one for #1 and another for #2-200.

a point system would make absolutely no sense, i'm afraid. if you read the comments above or on other threads, one common complaint is "fighter A beat fighter B, why is he ranked lower?"


do you remember when mirko limped to the ring to fight bernardo? there is no way in this world i will ever accept semi or final tournament rounds. both fighters must be fresh.

i was actually thinking of starting a second ranking list, purely subjective. what i would do is ask the winner of the most recent pool to give his top 10 and replace it with the next winners ranking. pool winners in a sense earn the title "expert". they predict the future better than fossum or schafer could. it would also be a good laugh.