MMA Prospectus #9: The search for welterweights

The best prospects from around the world fighting this week in mixed martial arts

Recently, as some may have noticed, I complied my Prospectus findings thus far into a series of rankings tables. I’ve been giving fighters a grade all along, so it was no big thing to start stacking them into rankings slots.

Having done so, the (admittedly limited) data already shows a couple obvious trends. It is very, very easy to find lightweight, fea…