Don’t Blame Me For Chuck: The Light Heavyweight “ZUFFA” Rankings Following UFC 141

Only two weight classes left, and they both have heavyweight in their name (groundbreaking stuff here). Let’s have a quick refresher before getting down to business: This is the latest in a series of posts I’ve done over the past couple days ranking the various UFC weight classes based on the equation/algorithm/time waster I detailed here. Yesterday, I covered the bantamweights here, the featherweights here, the lightweights here, and the welterweights here. Today, I added the middleweights, and now, the light heavyweights.

Well, in a moment the light heavyweights. First, I’d like to draw attention to the fact that Chuck Liddell is still listed on the active roster on the UFC web site. That’s why he’s ranked here. That’s the best way I have of keeping track of the UFC roster for the purpose of this exercise. I know he’s retired. I am also somewhat perplexed that Royce Gracie appears on the UFC active roster, but hey, whatever.

Sorry to get all defensive on you. Here, have some more rankings as a peace offering:

RANK	FIRST	LAST	FIGHTS	VALUE
1	Jon	Jones	10	9282
2	Rashad	Evans	6	3090
3	Mauricio	Rua	7	2925
4	Lyoto	Machida	8	2566
5	Alexander	Gustafsson	6	2141
6	Quinton	Jackson	7	1949
7	Phil	Davis	5	1672
8	Antonio Rogerio	Nogueira	5	1469
9	Dan	Henderson	2	1417
10	Stephan	Bonnar	6	1405
11	Ryan	Bader	8	1371
12	Forrest	Griffin	6	1321
13	Matt	Hamill	9	1156
14	Vladimir	Matyushenko	6	1060
15	Tito	Ortiz	6	1031
16	Anthony	Perosh	2	961
17	Thiago	Silva	5	864
18	Krzysztof	Soszynski	9	846
19	Stanislav	Nedkov	1	831
20	Igor	Pokrajac	6	796
21	Rich	Franklin	4	735
22	Randy	Couture	3	713
23	Kyle	Kingsbury	6	617
24	Luiz	Cane	7	578
25	James	Te-Huna	3	523
26	Brandon	Vera	8	513
27	Cyrille	Diabate	4	357
28	Aaron	Rosa	1	128
29	Fabio	Maldonado	2	96
29	Karlos	Vemola	2	96
31	Vinicius	Magalhaes	2	0
31	Chuck	Liddell	3	0