Historical Scores - Lightweights

Friday, 10 July 2009 00:22

Now it's time for the Lightweight category.
Several people submitted list of fighters that they would like to see in LW diagram.
Since we had too many names, we had to create two diagrams.

In the first diagram we have all the best fighters that this category is offering.
Since there are 12 fighters, it is a little bit crowded.

Here are some interesting pointers for this diagram:

1. We can see how undeveloped LW category was before 2003. None of the LW fighters were able to score above 600.

That is because at that time they didn't have quality fighters.
2.   Today, they don't have dominating fighter like we have in other categories.
3.   Now we have a group of 6 fighters around 650 points, then another group of 5 around 580 and then everybody else.
4.   There are only two fighters (Gomi and Ribeiro) that were able to maintain high level (over 600) for a longer period of time.
5.   Diego just recently moved down to this category, but he is now established top contender.
6.   Japanese fighters were more dominant earlier, but they still have some good fighters.

HistScore_LW_a

Few words about second diagram.

First we have a whole group of fighters that are currently around 500 points.
Then we have some that are slowly going up.
And then finally we have Kwon. He is here just as an example of the career that is not going anywhere.

HistScore_LW_b