EA Sports UFC: 10 Fighter Ratings That Must Be Upgraded
10. Ryan Bader
Overall: 88
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Striking: 86
Ground : 91
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Submissions: 86
Since winning The Ultimate Fighter season 8 in style Ryan Bader has been the almost man of the UFCs light heavyweight division. Bader looks ridiculously impressive against 85% of the 205-lb division but as soon as he takes the step up to a top-ranked opponent he slips up in one way or another. In Baders many dominant wins he has looked so skilled and unrelenting that we believe he deserves to be higher rated. In a game which gives nearly all of its fighters incredibly high ratings, Baders stand-up has been rated as a below average 86. In his two most recent fights against Anthony Perosh and the dangerous Brazilian striker Rafael Cavalcante, the NCAA All-American wrestler has proven that he has made huge progress with his boxing. Prior to these two fights he even successfully rocked former title-contender Glover Teixeira on the feet before being overly zealous in his pursuit of the Brazilian and getting clipped himself. In the past Bader has only ever lost to the best of the best and in every other fight he has looked dominant. A fighter of this calibre certainly deserves to be rated in the 90s when so many other (lesser) names have been.