Miguel Angel Torres was the face of this division for years in World Extreme Cagefighting.  That was before Brian Bowles put a stop to his dominance.  Bowles lasted one fight at the top before losing the WEC title to the current #1 Bantamweight fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championships.

UFC Ranking Breakdown:

The division is new to the Ultimate Fighting Championships, but true mixed martial arts fans know about this division.  The top fighter in the weight class is arguably the #3 pound for pound fighter in the world.

Jose Aldo – 18 – 1 career record

1. Mauricio Rua knocked out unhittable Machida

The former PRIDE stars owns one of the last defeats on Alistair Overeem’s record, made his debut in the UFC against Forrest Griffin September 2007, and got choked out.  He didn’t fight again for nearly 16 months and many fans were worried that he left his skills in Japan.  In the Mark Coleman fight, he looked rusty, but won by TKO in the third round.  He knocked out Chuck Liddell in the first round and was ready for a title shot.  He lost by unanimous decision in one of the worst decisions I have ever seen to Lyoto Machida.  The Ultimate Fighting Championships agreed and gave him a rematch, where he knocked out Machida in the first round to win the title.  We haven’t seen him fight since, but he’s the top guy in the top company in the world.

UFC 127 Preview:

I did a fight preview for this card earlier UFC 127 this week, but the Michael Bisping vs. Jorge Rivera fight has gotten my interest in a big way.  Rivera called out Bisping the night he was supposed to face Alessio Sakara, only to have Sakara pull out just hours before the card.  In a video with kurase.se, Rivera said, “I really want this next fight man.  I not only want the fight, I want to f*** him up.”

MMA Girls Felice “Lil Bulldog” Herrig and Michele “Diablita” Gutierrez in MMA Game

Agoura Hills, CA—February 24, 2011—Global videogame publisher 505 Games and developer Kung Fu Factory have revealed today that real-life female MMA fighters Felice “Lil Dog” Herrig and Michele “Diablita” Gutierrez will appear in Supremacy MMA™. This marks the first playable MMA Girls fighting in the history of MMA games.

Like was said in our post, “Can Women Really Be Part Of The MMA Game“, “Female fighters are not represented in MMA games and face a giant glass ceiling in the fighting world,” said Ricci Rukavina, CEO and Creative Director, Kung Fu Factory. “We’re proud to be a part of raising their profile and giving these tough-as-nails fighters their due in the virtual cage.”

In the latest MMA News the Ultimate Fighting Championships makes its way to the Acer Arena in Sydney Australia this Saturday night for UFC 127.    In the latest MMA news and headlined by a number one contender bout between B.J. Penn and Jon Fitch, this card pales in comparison to the previous show headlined by Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort.

MMA News: Penn vs. Fitch

Like we explained in the post, “4 Martial Arts Moves That Kill” a pressure point is an area on the human body that may produce significant pain or other effects when manipulated in a specific manner.  Expert practitioners in the art of pressure points state that there are hundreds of different pressure points but only a few of them actually work in a self defense or fighting situation.

We focused on the straight forward, functional, basic, use-what –works approach to pressure points!

UFC Ranking: Heavyweight
see: UFC Ranking: Lightweight
see: UFC Ranking: Welterweight

If you look back on the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight division, it was consistently one of the worst as far as UFC ranking weight classes in the company.  If you asked me a couple months back, I would have said it was in the same spot due to injuries and other factors.  The announcement that Junior Dos Santos would fight Brock Lesnar after coaching in The Ultimate Fighter brings the division back, even after losing its champion to injury.

Georges St-Pierre has held the top spot in this division for years.  Even when Matt Serra shocked the world at UFC 69 in April 2007, it was believed that St-Pierre was still the man.

UFC Ranking #1:

This may be the closest UFC ranking that we will see in this column.  The UFC Lightweight division is one of the most stacked in the company.  Led by UFC Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar, it’s hard to see anyone holding the belt for a long period of time.

UFC Ranking#1: Frankie Edgar – 8 – 1 – 1 UFC Record