In Defense of the WAMMA Rankings
(I’m sure it looks great on the wall next to Fedor’s prized "Wizard of Oz" commemorative plates.)
As you would have noticed if you weren’t so busy watching videos of midgets fighting on the internet, “MMA Live” has begun incorporating rankings from WAMMA recently. This has the guys from Bloody Elbow in a twist because they just partnered with USA Today to feature their “meta-rankings,” and because they generally hate WAMMA.
I’m one of WAMMA’s rankings pollsters, so I can understand some frustration and confusion with some of WAMMA’s moves. Naming Shinya Aoki champion, for instance? I love the Man in Tights as much as anyone, but he’s not the world’s best lightweight and everbody knows it.
WAMMA seems intent on giving out fairly meaningless titles to the best fighters not in the UFC, and that’s kind of dumb but it’s also not really hurting anybody. And just because WAMMA’s executives make some stupid decisions and appear in hilarious photos from time to time, it’s not any reason to invalidate the actual rankings, which the executives have nothing to do with.
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