The MMA News Top Ten Rankings PDF Print E-mail

The following rankings were compiled by the MMANews.com web team on Monday, July 27, 2008. Any fights beyond that date are not taken into account in the below lists. Bold names indicate major title (UFC, Elite XC, Strikeforce, WEC, WAMMA, etc.) holders. Feel free to debate and argue with the MMANews.com team about their top 10 lists by clicking here.

LIGHT WEIGHT DIVISION (155 LBS.)

1. B.J. Penn
2. Takanori Gomi
3. Eddie Alvarez
4. Joachim Hansen
5. Shinya Aoki
6. Gesias Calvancante
7. Tatsuya Kawajiri
8. Josh Thomson
9. Gilbert Melendez
10. Sean Sherk


WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170 LBS.)

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Thiago Alves
4. Matt Hughes
5. Jake Shields
6. Josh Koscheck
7. Diego Sanchez
8. Karo Parisyan
9. Matt Serra
10. Carlos Condit


MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185 LBS.)

1. Anderson Silva
2. Paulo Filho
3. Dan Henderson
4. Matt Lindland
5. Rich Franklin
6. Yushin Okami
7. Robbie Lawler
8. Frank Trigg
9. Nate Marquardt
10. Kazuo Misaki
 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (205 LBS.)

1. Forrest Griffin
2. Quinton Jackson
3. Dan Henderson
4. Lyoto Machida
5. Chuck Liddell
6. Mauricio Rua
7. Wanderlei Silva
8. Keith Jardine
9. Sokoudjou
10. Rashad Evans


HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (up to 265 LBS.)

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
3. Josh Barnett
4. Randy Couture
5. Tim Sylvia
6. Fabricio Werdum
7. Andrei Arlovski
8. Gabriel Gonzaga
9. Mirko CroCop
10. Aleksander Emelianenko


POUND FOR POUND (No Limit)

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Anderson Silva
3. Georges St. Pierre
4. B.J. Penn
5. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
6. Randy Couture
7. Forrest Griffin
8. Quinton Jackson
9. Urijah Faber
10. Kid Yamamoto