What the hell is Ray Mercer STILL doing in the rankings?!?!
For those of you who are not familiar with how we do the consensus rankings: we do not add any subjective opinion to the rankings. Instead they are a compilation and averaging of the top ranking sites and our select panel of MMA writers. The goal is not to create an subjective ranking of who is the best fighter but rather to objectively document which fighters are considered to be the best by the MMA community. Ray Mercer busts into our top 25 because he is ranked at #13 by FightMatrix.com a computer-based objective rankings system. They assign points to fighters strictly based on the rankings of the opponents those fighters have beaten. When Ray Mercer beat Tim Sylvia, Sylvia was ranked in the top 13. By FightMatrix’ protocols that caused Mercer to leapfrog above Sylvia even as Sylvia dropped. We have modified our rankings panel this month to address the issues with our methodology that the Mercer situation has brought to light. Based on the premise that all MMA rankings are subjectiv
