Hardboss Official UFC Rankings

While the UFC’s roster is full of exciting and talented fighters, only a choice few rise to the top as the best of their weight class. Champions are easily identified by the belt around their waist, but top contenders aren’t always so easy to spot.

In an effort to clear the fog, Hardboss has decided to compile our very own divisional rankings, including our top contender picks. Taking into account win streaks, overall win percentage, popularity and the many intangibles that shape a mixed martial artist’s career we will try to separate the best from the rest after every UFC event and pinpoint those who most deserve a crack at the belt in each weight class.

Editor’s note: Keep in mind these rankings are solely for UFC fighters and not those who compete in other promotions. Feel free to pencil in Fedor at the top of the HW list…

Hardboss UFC Rankings and Top Contenders
(Updated: April 7 2010)

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Cancer Bats – Inhale the Dream

Toronto’s hard hitting Cancer Bats are ready to destroy you by any means necessary. Whether it’s ripping out your ear drums with their latest album, Hail Destroyer, or making you break your neck during one their intense live shows, this band knows its strengths.

Having just returned home from a few months in Europe, lead singer Liam Cormier exchanged tour stories, details on the new album and his love for all things Toronto with Hardboss.

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The Underwhelming Celebrity of Sloan

One would think being part of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands of the last twenty years would be a hell of a lot of fun. It’s not crazy to think there might be throngs of beautiful groupies knocking on your hotel door from Kokanee to Truro, or perhaps even a free meal in Trois-Rivieres when your tour comes through.  You’d think being a national rock legend would have its perks.

Turns out, that’s all bullshit.

At least if you ask Sloan…

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“We’re just a working band,” says Chris Murphy in a bitter tone. He is dressed in almost the exact same way as his bandmate of 17 years Jay Ferguson; an old leather jacket, faded jeans and with a wavy mop of hair.

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USS: The Science of Smoothies

Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (USS) are a hard band to classify. They are a mash-up of genres that could be both described as “Nirvana Unplugged at the Science Centre,” or “Bob Marley in a lab coat”. Either way you call it, the band members definitely have an amazing chemistry that creates a high-energy atmosphere of beep-driven ballads and whizzy drum n’ bass beats that make you shake your butt.

It’s no wonder they were the big winners at the 2008 CASBYs, sweeping up awards for ‘Best New Song’ (“Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole”), and more impressively, walking away with the CASBY championship belt, the ‘Best New Artist’ award.  Before the Toronto duo’s victorious fate was revealed that evening, Hardboss was fortunate enough to catch Ashley Boo-Schultz and Jason Parsons (a.k.a. Human Kebab) for an interview to discuss the important matters of nerds, smoothies and fitting in.

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