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Nordic MMA Ranking

By Asgard • Feb 16th, 2007 • Category: Nordic MMA Ranking

Do you find your name here? I have been thinking long time to assemble fighters in one ranking list and see what honorable capital we have in Scandinavia. This newly made ranking has been born in 4 Scandinavian countries cooperated with Fightermagazine Finland, MMA Reporter Denmark, TBJJA Norway and Asgard MMA, studied not only the fight record but also carefully scored the quality of the opponents. We hope you to understand the purpose of this ranking as 1.To work for the fighters and fans to indicate what he is and where he is as the pilot lamp to show the way. 2.Also to make quality matchups to activate and support MMA. If you find yourself in the wrong place in the ranking or inappropriate scoring, let’s rock’n roll and change this rank.

1.) The ranking includes only professional MMA fighters* of nordic origin**
2.) The ranking includes only active fighters in the last 12 months.
3.) The ranking is based solely upon the fighters’ professional mma record****

[professional MMA fighters]: Fighters who have fought at least one bout with rules that allow striking on the ground

[Nordic origin]: Fighters who have established themselves in one of the nordic countries

[Professional MMA record]: Fight record which includes all the bouts contested under rules which allow striking on the ground

NORDIC MMA RANKING 31.1.2007 Published in cooperation with:

www.fightermag.fi www.asgardmma.com www.mmareporter.dk www.surf.to/tbjja

Bantamweight: -60.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. Musse Hasselvall SWE 2-0-0 Alain Magot W TKO, David Lejenäs W UD
2. Joar Palm SWE 2-1-0 Heikki Tiilikka W SUB, David Lejenäs L SUB
3. Heikki Tiilikka FIN 0-1-0 Joar Palm L SUB

Featherweight: -65.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. Tom Niinimäki FIN 9-5-1 Tristen Yunker L SUB, Hatsu Hioki L TSUB
2. Tchavdar Pavlov SWE 5-2-0 Mikael Taipalus W SUB, Jarkko Latomäki L TKO
3. Matteus Lähdesmäki FIN 4-2-3 Navid Yousefi W SUB, Un Sik Song L SUB
4. Navid Yousefi SWE 1-2-2 Matteus Lähdesmäki L SUB, Takeshi Inoue L SUB
5. David Lejenäs SWE 2-2-0 Toni Talvitie W SUB, Ryota Matsune L SUB
6. Timo Hakkarainen FIN 2-1-0 Matteus Lähdesmäki L SUB, Jurij Boreiko W SUB
7. Olli Hartikainen FIN 0-0-2 Arash Mawlayi D, Matteus Lähdesmäki D
8. Petri Järvinen SWE 3-1-0 Tchavdar Pavlov L TKO, Blazej Macieszonek W UD
9. Arash Mawlayi SWE 0-0-1 Olli Hartikainen D
10. Daniel Westerberg SWE 0-2-0 Jerry Kvarnström L SUB, Billy Malm L SUB

Lightweight: -70.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. Joachim Hansen NOR 14-5-1 Shinya Aoki L SUB, Luiz Azeredo W KO
2. Per Eklund SWE 8-2-1 Tatsuya Kawajiri L TKO, David Baron W UD
3. Jarkko Latomäki FIN 11-3-0 Tomonari Kanomata L SUB, Ian Butlin W SUB
4. Jerry Kvarnström FIN 6-0-0 Masayuki Okude W SUB, Mohamed Gur W SUB
5. Thomas Hytten NOR 7-6-1 Jarkko Latomäki L UD, Sergei Goliaev L UD
6. Jani Lax SWE 8-6-0 John Mahlow W SD, Alexandre Izidro L SUB
7. Pasi Maliniemi FIN 6-2-0 Sergejs Gulakovs W SUB, Kristian Hacklou W SUB
8. Sonny Nielsen DK 5-5-0 Kristian Hacklou W TKO, Camara Bouna L TKO
9. Henning Svendsen NOR 3-1-0 Sergiu Ghilescu W UD, Jim Wallhead L TKO
10. Ville Manninen FIN 1-0-0 Reza Madadi W UD

Welterweight: -77.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. David Bielkheden SWE 10-5-0 Mitsuhiro Ishida L UD, Phil Norman L UD
2. Kenneth Rosfort DK 5-2-0 Manuel Garcia W TKO, Vaclav Stastny W TKO
3. Diego Gonzalez SWE 6-3-0 Arni Isaksson W UD, Dan Hardy L TKO
4. Janne Tulirinta FIN 5-1-0 Ã…ke Bergvall W KO, Eduardas Norkeliunas W TKO
5. Ole Laursen DK 0-2-0 Caol Uno L SUB, Genki Sudo L UD
6. Jasse Junkkari FIN 6-1-0 Jani Karkiainen W SUB, Alberto Pengel W TKO
7. Anton Kuivanen FIN 3-2-0 Marius Liuakevicius L TKO, Hiroki Kotani L SUB
8. Wasim ul Masi FIN 3-0-0 Martin Ahlberg W SUB, Kristian Helde W SUB
9. Christian Dellevåg SWE 1-2-0 Kenneth Rosfort L MD, Guilon Emmanuel W TKO
10. Reza Madadi SWE 1-1-0 Christian Johansson W UD, Ville Manninen L UD

Middleweight: -84.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. Martin Kampmann DK 11-1-0 Thales Leites W UD, Crafton Wallace W SUB
2. August Wallen SWE 1-0-0 Paulo Boiko W SUB
3. Lars Besand DK 14-7-1 Andre Balschmieter W TKO, Bohumil Lungrik W SUB
4. Joni Kyllönen FIN 5-4-0 Rimgaudas Kutkaitis W TKO, Valerius Golubovskis L SUB
5. Timo Suhonen FIN 5-0-1 Tomas Pakutinskas W SUB, Aleksandr Sukhonosov D
6. Johan Antonsson SWE 4-4-0 Laurent Bonafoux W TKO, Alberto Pengel W TKO
7. Mikko Suvanto FIN 3-2-0 Matti Mäkelä W UD, Matti Mäkelä L MD
8. Kristian Lexell SWE 4-2-0 Rafael Silva L SUB, Mikko Koivumäki W SUB
9. Matti Mäkelä SWE 7-3-0 Ahmed Metto W TKO, Mikko Suvanto L UD
10. Tuomas Simola FIN 5-1-0 Teemu Inkeroinen W SUB, Joni Kyllönen L SUB

Light heavyweight: -93.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. Mikko Rupponen FIN 15-4-2 Rodney Faverus L TKO, Yukiya Naito W KO
2. Jacob Lovstad NOR 9-3-0 Henrique Nogueira W SUB, Michael Bisping L SUB
3. Klas Ã…kesson SWE 3-1-0 Martin Wojcik W SUB, Alexei Vezelozorov L UD
4. Juha Saarinen FIN 1-1-0 Egidijus Valavicius L TKO, Martin Wojcik W SUB
5. Martin Wojcik SWE 2-2-0 Klas Ã…kesson L SUB, Juha Saarinen L SUB
6. Tor Troéng SWE 2-0-1 Fernando Soares W TKO, Martin Wojcik D
7. Jon Henrik Ludvigsen NOR 3-0-0 Johan Wedenius W TKO, Henrik Lauritsen W SUB
8. Markus Halkosaari FIN 4-3-0 Ruben Vazquez W SUB, Pawel Witek L SUB
9. Nikolai Koubti DK 1-0-0 Henrik Olsen W UD
10. Muhammed Misagi SWE 0-2-0 Jon Henrik Ludvigsen L TKO, Tor Troéng L TKO

Heavyweight: +93.0 kg Ranking Name Country Pro record Latest fights

1. John-Olav Einemo NOR 6-1-0 James Thompson W SUB, Fabricio Werdum L UD
2. Marcus Vänttinen FIN 6-0-0 Atte Backman W TKO, Andrejs Zozulja W SUB
3. Toni Valtonen FIN 10-6-0 Lucio Linhares L KO, Romualds Garkulis W UD
4. Atte Backman FIN 8-6-0 Konstantin Ghulov L TKO, Marcus Vänttinen L SUB
5. Kalle da Silva FIN 2-1-0 Egidijus Petrushkevicius W UD, Marcus Vänttinen L TKO
6. Jarno Nurminen FIN 1-0-0 Sang Su Lee W UD
7. Jevgeni Smirnov FIN 1-0-0 Jaakko Korpela W TKO
8. Jaakko Korpela FIN 4-2-1 Jevgeni Smirnov L TKO, Juha Laine W SUB
9. Johan Wedenius SWE 1-3-0 Fredrik Wester W TKO, Martin Wojcik L TKO
10. Ilkka Semi FIN 0-1-1 Juha Laine L SUB, Jaakko Korpela D

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10 Responses »

  1. Hywel Teague on February 17th, 2007 at 10:55 pm:

    I think you should include Icelandic fighter Arni Isaksson as a welterweight.

  2. Asgard on February 18th, 2007 at 1:57 am:

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  3. Frodi Hansen on February 25th, 2007 at 8:59 pm:

    Hi my name is Frodi Hansen. MMA-record 2-2-0. I am an mma fighter from Denmark. I have had 4 mma fights since may 2005. My first fight was at Upcomingfighters may05, where I after only 3 months training fought Leo Neves BJJ blackbelt living in Sweden. 2 and third fight where in Mixedbattle 3 and 5. These first 3 fights where with B-SHOOTO rules. My last fight was a A-SHOOTO fight in Junglefight 6, against Danilo Indio from BRAZILIAN TOP TEAM, in Manaus Brazil apr06. From now on I will only fight A fights and it is difficult fore me to get A fights here. My next fight will be May 21 2007 in SHOOTO-BRAZIL in Rio De Janeiro. I have not been to good in making marceting fore myself untill now, I have been busy training and fighting. But in future I will get better. I write to you so you can put my name in your ranking. I have three fights in -83kg and one in -76 kg, but my next fight in Rio will be in 76kg and I will fight in this weight in future.

  4. Asgard on February 28th, 2007 at 2:09 am:

    Thank you for the message and your cooperation. Your record will be taken in the next examination. Please wait for a moment.

  5. Ian Dean on March 4th, 2007 at 11:13 pm:

    Come on guys, Diego Gonzalez has to be ranked number 2 and Arni should also be up there with the Welterweights.

    Good rankings though, just shows how many talented Scandy fighters there are right now.

  6. Mike Wall on March 12th, 2007 at 8:15 pm:

    Come on, didnt Mattias Awad make it to top ten in Welterweight: -77.0 kg ?

  7. Tuomas Murdoch on March 27th, 2007 at 8:46 pm:

    I’m replying on my own behalf as one of the persons who maintains the rankings. Thank you for all the comments.

    Arni Isaksson was a question mark when the first version of the ranking was made. Does he only have parents from Iceland? I was under the impression that he lives and trains in Ireland. Am I correct? If so, for how long has he been doing so?

    Thank you for leaving a post, Frodi. You will be considered in the upcoming rankings. Same goes for Ian’s comment on Diego. He has been doing well lately and that will reflect in the rankings.

    Mike: Mattias definately would be in the welterweight top ten. It’s just that he fought the last time in 2005. If a fighter is included in the ranking, he must have fought in the preceding 12 months.

    More comments and opinions are welcome.

  8. Ian Dean on April 15th, 2007 at 1:14 am:

    Tuomas,

    As far as i know Arni moved to Ireland to train with John Kavanagh, but before that he trained in Iceland, and was learnign the ground game at SBG Ireland. But he is an Icelandic national and as far as i know he is currently back there now whilst he is inactive.

    I can double check this to be sure if you want.

    But i do think the rankings are pretty good and reflect the talent that is out there.

    Ian

  9. Roy on July 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm:

    Dan Evensen got a 10 - 2 card. And got a fight in UFC.

  10. Stefan on September 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm:

    Alexander Gustavsson in -93???

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