2. Guga Noblat (O Globo) – Guga Noblat left me questioning what criteria, if any, had to be met in order to be an approved UFC rankings panelist. For starters, Noblat — like Kenai Andrews before him — left Yoel Romero off his middleweight rankings, but had Luke Rockhold ranked above Anderson Silva, Tim Kennedy, Gegard Mousasi, Costas Philippou, Michael Bisping and Mark Munoz, in that order…scared yet?
Noblat’s lowlights include ranking Brad Pickett in the wrong weight class, while ranking Scott Jorgensen as the #8 and #9 bantamweight AND flyweight! Josh Koscheck shows up the #9 welterweight, in spite of his three fight losing streak and year of inactivity. Noblat also ranked Gray Maynard and Diego Sanchez as the #7 and #10 lightweights; despite Maynard’s string of knockout losses and Sanchez’s unofficial four-fight losing streak.
What earned Noblat’s place as the second-worst panelist came from his absolutely baffling decision to rank Brian Bowles and Dustin Pague as the #9 and #10 bantamweights. As a reminder, Brian Bowles hasn’t fought in the UFC for almost two years. After losing two in a row to Urijah Faber and George Roop, Bowles tested positive for elevated testosterone; he was handed a nine-month suspension and hasn’t been heard of since.
Pague on the other hand was an Ultimate Fighter season 14 alumni, losing his debut to underdog John Albert by TKO in the first. Pague followed this up with a win over Jared Papazian, before dropping four straight and receiving his walking papers. His release mind you, happened nine months ago.
Finally, there is one more outrageous ranking from Mr. Noblat. As Noblat’s #10 ranked light-heavyweight, this fighter has a record of 1-3 with one no-contest in the last three years, with his last fight occurring just over a year ago…Igor Pokrajac. Yup. Three official losses plus a NC against Joey Beltran (who beat Pokrajac by decision before testing positive for steroids) is what gets you into the UFC’s light-heavyweight top ten in Noblat’s books.
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