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Who is the Best Welterweight Fighter in the Ufc?

While the UFC has certainly upped it's talentdefeating Georges St Pierre at UFC 69. He
pool with the addition of many fighters fromnot only defeated Georges St Pierre, but
the Pride Fighting Championships, the UFChumiliated him with a first round knockout.
welterweight division has always been deep inThis is the first time that Serra has shown
talent.really aggressive, effective striking in the
Octagon; I hope it continues. One thing
In fact, our top two fighters each hold winsSerra has shown is brilliant Brazilian
over each other and our #3 fighter holds theJiu-Jitsu. He's used those skills in wins
title. Hold on for a bumpy ride as I try toover Chris Lytle, Yves Edwards and near
justify my top five UFC welterweightdecision losses to "The Prodigy", BJ Penn and
rankings.Din  Thomas.
5. Jon Fitch is #5 on my top UFC2. Matt Hughes is the former UFC
welterweight list. While the UFC marketingwelterweight champion. He lost his belt to
machine has been busy promoting Diego SanchezGeorges St Pierre, but not before he had a
and Josh Koscheck, Jon Fitch has been slowlychance to build up wins over Goerges St
building what is the best record in thePiere, Sean Sherk, Frank Trigg, BJ Penn,
welterweight division. In fact, Fitch hasCarlos Newton and another MMA legend you may
not been defeated since 2002. He's beatenhave  heard  of,  Royce  Gracie.
Luigi Fioravanti, Thiago Alves, Josh Burkman,
Jeff Joslin and Shonie Carter on route to his1. Georges St Pierre has lost to both the #2
current thirteen fight winner streak.and #3 ranked fighters on this list, so how
Unfortunately Fitch has yet to fight any ofcan I justify ranking Georges #1? Call it
the fighters in our top 4, something thatgut feeling, call it favoritism, I don't know
will be corrected at UFC 76 when he meets ourbut what I do know is that Georges St Pierre
#4  fighter,  Diego  Sanchez.is the best welterweight fighter in the UFC.
Georges does not only have wins over Frank
4. Diego Sanchez has a near perfect mixedTrigg and Sean Sherk, but dominant, one sided
martial arts record. He's gone 20 wins withwins. While Matt Hughes struggled with these
only one defeat. That defeat came at theguys early, Georges just steam rolled them.
hands of Josh Koscheck at UFC 69. Diego wasThe same can be said of his second fight with
going through some health problems at theHughes where St Pierre's striking and take
time, it turned out to be a staph infectiondown defense made it a one sided match up.
in his leg, and probably didn't fight up toSt Pierre has also defeated BJ Penn, in a
his potential. Wins over Nick Diaz, Karoclose decision, Karo Parisyan and most
Parisyan, Joe Riggs and Kenny Florian putrecently Georges surprised the MMA community
Diego up near the big boys in the 170lbby out wrestling Josh Koscheck on way to a
weight  class.decisive victory. Georges is back on track
and ready to face the winner of Hughes vs
3. Matt Serra is the current UFCSerra.
welterweight kingpin. He earned his crown by



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