MMA4Real's June Lightweight Rankings
by Kelvin Hunt on Jun 24, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
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1. BJ Penn
2. Eddie Alvarez
3. Tatsuya Kawajiri
4. Kenny Florian
5. Sean Sherk
6. Shinya Aoki
7. Gray Maynard
8. Frankie Edgar
9. Gesias Cavalcante
10. Diego Sanchez
-#1 BJ Penn will take on #4 ranked Kenny Florian at UFC 101 for the UFC lightweight title. #2 Eddie Alvarez just won the inaugural Bellator Fighting Championships tournament, and doesn't have anything else scheduled for now. #3 Tatsuya Kawajiri is coming off a big win against #9 Gesias Cavalcante, and will fight in a K-1 match later this year. #5 Sean Sherk is coming off a loss to #8 Frankie Edgar and doesn't have anything scheduled as of yet. #6 Shinya Aoki is coming off a loss to Mach Sakurai(at a catchweight) and will fight Vitor "Shaolin" Riberio at DREAM 10. #7 Gray Maynard doesn't have a fight scheduled, but I would love to see him face #10 Diego Sanchez in a #1 contenders match to the winner of Florian/Penn. #10 Diego Sanchez moves into the top ten as a LW after battering the always tough Clay Guida at the TUF 9 Finale. Just like in the other weight divisions, there are tons of matchups on the horizon and the rankings could shake up something serious in the next couple of months.
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Aoki shouldn’t have been dropped for losing to Sakurai at welterweight. That fight had no bearing in his weight class whatsoever.
It's not really that
I just don’t think he’s that good…take those pants off(no homo) and he gets destroyed IMO.
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Sherk simply shouldn’t be above Edgar here — it wasn’t a flash KO or anything, it was a 3 round domination.
Bloody hell.
But see, I don’t think a fighter automatically jumps in front of the guy he beats in the rankings all the time…plus he lost to Gray Maynard :)
It’s pretty difficult to rank these guys because one could beat the other on any given night…
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Neither do I — this is one of those cases though. Sherk should probably be behind both.
Bloody hell.
Ehh
I dunno…depends on how he looks in his next fight for me…if he’d get back to his roots he could beat Edgar IMO…but he wants to be a kickboxer for some reason.
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