You beat me to it and said exactly what I was going to say. The guy is 20-1-1, and has victories over Sonnen, Manhoef, Doerksen, Misaki, Chonan, Ninja Rua, Suloev, Kondo, and Minowaman. Had he not gone crazy and left the public eye, he may very well be in the top 10 right now.
Compare that to Wanderlei Silva, who has lost 5 of his last 7 fights, and I have no idea what possible reason you could have for Silva over Filho. Truthfully, after going back on researching this post, I feel like Filho is now underrated in my top 25.
Wanderlei Silva's last 7 opponents ranked worst to best:Keith Jardine, Michael Bisping, Chuck Liddell, Quentin Rampage Jackson,Rich Franklin, Dan Henderson and Mirko Cro Cop. I don't know about you but I don't think anyone should be embarrassed to be 2-5 in their last 7 fights if those where the 7 guys they fought. If Filho's last 7 were against a lineup that stacked how well would he have done.
Hell, according to your own list, amongst Filho's last 7 opponents only Chael Sonnen is ranked in the top 25 in either the middleweight or light heavyweight division. All but two of Wandelei's last 7 are ranked in the top 25 at middleweight or light heavyweight.
Mirko is actually ranked in the heavyweight top 25 (
) while Keith Jardine actually should barely make the top 25 considering he's only lost to top competition while Luis Cane just got KO'ed by Cyrile Diabante (not in your top 25) within 2 minutes of the first round.
And that's just considering their last 7 because I really want to be fair. If you look at Wanderlei's entire resume (fair considering you looked at Filho's entire resume) you would see names like Guy Metzger, Dan Henderson, Quentin Rampage Jackson 2x, Kazaushi Sakuraba 3x, Hidehiko Yoshida, Richardo Arona. Also interesting to note that Silva also beat 2 guys Filho beat (Yuki Kondo and Minowaman). They both combined to last roughly 4 minutes with Silva whereas both Kondo and Minowaman took Filho to decision.
