All Time Heavyweight Rankings

I've been doing tons of current rankings lately, recently did an all time top 3 for each division, and have done a couple of current p4p lists. I don't think I've ever done a top 10, or higher, all time heavyweight list.

These will mostly be in order, but don't hate on me yet. I'm going to be typing these out from memory, and may make significant changes with further thought.

Fedor
Nogueira
Filipovic
Josh Barnett
Randy Couture
Pedro Rizzo
Cain Velasquez
Fabricio Werdum
JDS
Brock Lesnar
Shane Carwin
Frank Mir
Tim Sylvia
Ricco Rodriguez
Mark Coleman
Kevin Randleman
Pete Williams
Arlovski
Maurice Smith
Mark Kerr

This may take me a while to sort out the list I'm willing to stand by. Please remind me of any names I may be leaving out. I don't know if I'm stopping at 10, doing a top 20, or taking this to 25.

 

Thanks

 

I haven't got my order completely set yet, and may change it; but I'll go ahead and see if I can offer some food for thought.

Sylvia defeated Arlovski 2 out of 3. Mir defeated Sylvia, and Mir lost to Carwin and Lesnar. Cain beat Lesnar and Nogueira. Nogueira defeated Sylvia as well. Mir also defeated Nogueira. I think that the Nogueria fights occurred when he was past his best, hence his being rated way higher than this bunch. I think that the Nogueira that defeated Sylvia is not any better than the Nog that lost to Cain.

There are a lot of difficult things to weigh out when generating a list. Maurice Smith beat Coleman, but does he have enough on his resume to rank higher than Coleman? Same challenge is given concerning Pete Williams.

 

Can you mother****ers not read? It clearly states that I'm not done. So if you guys want to criticize the order, please wait until I'm finished.

The top 3 are set, though, so I'll respond to this complaint.

Who would you place above him besides Fedor and Nog? Barnett? Cro Cop is 3-0 against a prime Barnett, ko'd a prime Coleman, and split fights with prime Randleman, and defeated a prime Herring. Has wins against Wanderlei and Vovchanchyn.

 

How can Mir be above Cain, when Mir lost to Lesnar and Carwin? Lesnar split fights with Mir, and defeated Carwin. Carwin defeated Mir. So not only does Lesnar have the win over Mir, he beat someone else with a recent victory over Mir. Cain beat Lesnar. How can I put Mir ahead of Cain or Lesnar?

Mir defeated Sylvia, and also beat Nogueira after Nogueira defeated Sylvia. I think that puts Mir above Sylvia.

 

If this is your opinion, I must be going in the right direction.

 

Or when a fighter goes on a 7 fight win streak that includes knocking out the man who submitted Fedor.