European Top Ten

Fighter Rankings

By Groundandpound.de

June, 2007

The good folks over at www.groundandpound.de have updated their exclusive European Top Ten fighter

rankings. As stated on their website: "To be considered for this list, active European fighters have to have

fought here at least once in the last 12 months or have a scheduled fight coming up here in the next month.

Non-European fighters will only make the list, when they actually live here and fight actively." To view all the

fighter information which includes their performance in their last five fights plus their overall record (not to

mention fighters you need to keep your eye on), visit: www.groundandpound.de. Special Thanks go out to

Ulrich Huppertz (Groundandpound.de) for the following rankings:

Featherweight -65kg

1. Danny Batten (England)

2. Robbie Olivier (England)

3. Alex Owen (England)

4. Brad Pickett (England)

5. Augusto Frota (Brazil \ Switzerland)

6. Ronnie Mann (England)

7. Tchavdar Pavlov (Sweden)

8. Emmanuel Fernandez (France)

9. Paul McVeigh (Ireland)

10. Michal Hamrsmid (Czech Republic) - In

Lightweight -70kg

1. Per Eklund (Sweden)

2. Vladimir Zenin (Russia)

3. Abdul Mohamed (England)

4. Erikas Petraitis (Lithuania)

5. Jarkko Latomaki (Finland)

6. Samy Schiavo (France)

7. Terry Etim (England)

8. Franco De Leonardis (Germany) - up 1 spot

9. Furdjel de Windt (Netherlands) - up 1 spot

10. Mario Stapel (Germany) - down 2 spots

Welterweight -77kg

1. Paul Daley (England)

2. David Baron (France)

3. Dan Hardy (England) - up 1 spot

4. Fabricio Nascimento (Brazil) - down 1 spot

5. Jess Liaudin (France)

6. Paul Taylor (England)

7. Daniel Weichel (Germany)

8. David Bielkheden (Sweden)

9. Dennis Siver (Germany)

10. Diego Gonzalez (Sweden)

Middleweight -85kg

1. Gegard Mousasi (Armenia)

2. Amar Suloev (Armenia) - up 1 spot

3. Melvin Manhoef (Netherlands) - down 1 spot

4. Jordan Radev (Bulgaria)

5. Zelg Galesic (Croatia)

6. Gregory Bouchelaghem (France)

7. Mark Weir (England) - up 1 spot

8. Kestutis Smirnovas (Lithuania) - down 1 spot

9. Xavier Foupa-Pokam (France) - up 1 spot

10. Petras Morkevicius (Lithuania) - down 1 spot

Light Heavyweight -93kg

1. Michael Bisping (England)

2. Mikko Rupponen (Finland)

3. Moise Rimbon (France) - up 1 spot

4. Tomasz Drwal (Poland) - down 1 spot

5. Cyrille Diabate (France)

6. Antonio Mendes (Brazil) - In

7. Michal Materla (Poland) - down 1 spot

8. James Zikic (England) - down 1 spot

9. Alessio Sakara (Italy) - down 1 spot

10. Martin Zawada (Germany) - down 1 spot

Heavyweight +93kg

1. Fedor Emelianenko (Russia)

2. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovich (Croatia)

3. Andrei Arlovski (Belarus)

4. Fabricio Werdum (Spain\Brazil)

5. Aleksander Emelianenko (Russia)

6. Roman Zentsov (Russia)

7. Bazigit Atajev (Russia)

8. Tengiz Tedoradze (Georgia)

9. Gilbert Yvel (Netherlands)

10. Cheick Kongo (France)

(6/20/07)