Okay, before posting the starting rankings of the year, I'd like to just take a moment to discuss how much the initial rankings are going to suck. Basically, I'm starting with the year 2007. Fights and rankings before that don't count, at least not here. While these will make the rankings poor at first, as time goes on and more fights are added and people who are actually ranked start fighting each other, it will smooth over. So don't worry too much about these initial rankings, maybe just discuss the method used to get them.
Also, if it's a fighter's first fight in the organization since the start of 2007, the fighters start off in last. Since there are no rankings to start, this first UFN has many of the fighters starting off in second place and vying for the first place spot. Rankings are determined before the UFN and then afterwards, not before each individual fight. So 185 looked like this beforehand:
Rank #2
Ed Herman
Chris Price
Nathan Marquardt
Dean Lister
because there are no rankings yet, but they all start off in last (which is #2) and rank #1 is not given out by default. However, after the event was over, the rankings looked like this:
Rank #2
Ed Herman/Nathan Marquardt (they're tied for 1st/second due to both winning and both being ranked #2 beforehand, I think I will default Herman the spot because he fought first, getting the vacant #1 spot. Opinion says give it to Marquardt, but this is to be an objective ranking)
Rank #5 Dean Lister (loss of 3 places from #2 to #5 due to decision loss)
Rank #7 Chris Price. (loss of 5 places from #2 to #7 due to submission loss).
However, there are no fighters ranked #3, #4, or #6. So post the event the rankings will be as follows:
Rank #2
Ed Herman/Nathan Marquardt
Rank #3
Dean Lister
Rank #4
Chris Price
That said, here are the rankings:
Heavyweights - Jake O' Brien Opponents: Heath Herring (W-D)
- Heath Herring Opponents: Jake O'Brien (L-D)
Light Heavyweights - Rashad Evans Opponents: Sean Salmon (W-KO)
- Sean Salmon Opponents: Rashad Evans (L-KO)
Middleweights - Ed Herman Opponents: Chris Price (W-S)
- Nathan Marquardt Opponents: Dean Lister (W-D)
- Dean Lister Opponents: Nathan Marquardt (L-D)
- Chris Price Opponents: Ed Herman (L-S)
Welterweights- Rich Clementi Opponents: Ross Pointon (W-S)
- Josh Burkman Opponents: Chad Reiner (W-D)
- Chad Reiner Opponents: Josh Burkman (L-D)
- Ross Pointon Opponents: Rich Clementi (L-S)
Lightweights - Din Thomas Opponents: Clay Guida (W-D)
- Hermes Franca Opponents: Spencer Fisher (W-KO)
- Clay Guida Opponents: Din Thomas (L-D)
- Spencer Fisher Opponents: Hermes Franca (L-KO)