Higgest ranking Irish mma fighters

reganreggie

I know we have some very well respected Irish fighters fighting on the international scene and what I was wondering is who are the higgest ranking in their weight classes.

Bagels90

a quick answer would be

LW joseph duffy
WW cathal pendred
MW chris fields
LHW maybe john sheil???we'll see after the next cage contender
HW not a clue

fightireland

Marcus Davis - WW/LW

Martin Walker

Very hard to say. There isnt really a difinitive ranking system out there and the many that there are vary alot. Plus would you consider fighters from the North as Irish or British? That makes a bit of a difference. McVeigh for example. Irish or British?

John Ferguson

Flyweight - Neil Seery

Bantamweight - Paul McVeigh

Featherweight - Owen Roddy

Lightweight - Norman Parke (Joe Duffy left Ireland when he was 9 months old)

Welterweight - Cathal Pendred

Middleweight - Chris Fields

Light Heavyweight - JMS

Heavyweight - Colin Robinson

gary s

Lw Greg loughran

DrPhilG

Womens MMA may not be as high profile as the rest, but did I not read that Aisling Daly was ranked top 10 in her class?

Jason McCabe

DrPhilG wrote: »

Womens MMA may not be as high profile as the rest, but did I not read that Aisling Daly was ranked top 10 in her class?

Here here, ais gets very little mention in these talks.

Patrick houlihan is still unbeaten and ppl with worse records have had shots at UFC titles.


Pardon my ignorance on Mcveigh did he train here? Or did he learn his trade at the griphouse?

theboxingclinic

Lightweight - Norman Parke (Joe Duffy left Ireland when he was 9 months old)

Joe Duffy was born in Ireland which means he is Irish, which means he would be the highest rank. Doesn't matter that his family moved to Wales, his place of birth is Ireland.

Richy06

Jason McCabe wrote: »

Here here, ais gets very little mention in these talks.

Patrick houlihan is still unbeaten and ppl with worse records have had shots at UFC titles.


Pardon my ignorance on Mcveigh did he train here? Or did he learn his trade at the griphouse?

I know McVeigh trained at SBG for a time but I could't tell you for how long to be honest.

I think Ais wins this hands down but there's definitely going to be afew from the current crop that will make a splash Stateside at some point in my opinion.

Kent Brockman

On Tuf McVeigh said he was the no.1 ranked fighter in Europe for years.....

Richy06

In his weight class he would be one of them certainly.

kainer2

Kent Brockman wrote: »

On Tuf McVeigh said he was the no.1 ranked fighter in Europe for years.....

Outside of Pickett, who hasn't fought in Europe for a while now (until next month)

McVeigh is easily the best BW in Europe

http://www.groundandpound.de/mma/rankings/european-top-ten/bantamgewicht-135lb-61kg/