Champs & Rankings
MMATORCH STAFF RANKINGS: Updated Post UFC 100
By By Matt Pelkey, MMATorch Columnist
Jul 17, 2009 - 10:59:51 AM

We're back once again with the MMATorch staff rankings, post-UFC 100. We'll next update these after UFC 102, with it being the last in a string of shows in successive weeks that will shake up the rankings significantly. The voting panel consisted of Torch Editor Jamie Penick and Torch Columnists/Contributors Shawn Ennis, Alex Williams, Frank Hyden and myself, Matt Pelkey.


HEAVYWEIGHT

1. Fedor Emelianenko (50 pts.)
2. Brock Lesnar (44)
3. Josh Barnett (38)
4. Frank Mir (34)
5. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera (30)
6. Randy Couture (23)
7. Shane Carwin (20)
8.(tie) Brett Rogers (9)
8.(tie) Cain Velasquez (9)
10. Alistair Overeem (7)

Others receiving votes: Andrei Arlovski (4), Mirko Filipovic (4), Junior Dos Santos (3)

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LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT

1. Lyoto Machida (50)
2. Quinton Jackson (43)
3. Rashad Evans (42)
4. Forrest Griffin (35)
5. Mauricio Rua (30)
6. Luiz Cane (18)
7. Antonio Rogerio Noguiera (16)
8. Keith Jardine (13)
9.(tie) Rich Franklin (9)
9.(tie) Renato Sobral (9)

Others receiving votes: Gegard Mousasi (7), Chuck Liddell (2), Vladimir Matyushenko (1)


MIDDLEWEIGHT

1. Anderson Silva (50)
2. Dan Henderson (43)
3. Nate Marquardt (39)
4. Yushin Okami (35)
5. Demian Maia (28)
6. Robbie Lawler (22)
7. Vitor Belfort (19)
8. Jorge Santiago (17)
9. Thales Leites (6)
10.(tie) Michael Bisping (4)
10.(tie) Yoshihiro Akiyama (4)

Others receiving votes: Matt Lindland (3), Chris Leben (2), Patrick Cote (1), Kazuo Misaki (1), Chael Sonnen (1)


WELTERWEIGHT

1. Georges St. Pierre (50)
2. Jon Fitch (41)
3. Jake Shields (39)
4. Thiago Alves (38)
5. Martin Kampmann (23)
6. Josh Koscheck (22)
7. Carlos Condit (17)
8. Brock Larson (13)
9. Mike Swick (10)
10. Paulo Thiago (9)

Others receiving votes: Nick Diaz (6), Matt Hughes (5), Dan Hardy (1), Hayato Sakurai (1)


LIGHTWEIGHT

1. BJ Penn (50)
2. Shinya Aoki (41)
3. Kenny Florian (38)
4. Eddie Alvarez (34)
5. Frankie Edgar (23)
6. Tatsuya Kawajiri (19)
7. Joachim Hansen (18)
8. Gray Maynard (12)
9. Sean Sherk (10)
10. Satoru Kitaoka (9)

Others receiving votes: Diego Sanchez (6), Josh Thomson (6), Gesias Cavalcante (5), Takanori Gomi (4)


Pelkey's Poll Analysis: Its weird to do a rankings with no Tim Sylvia, Andrei Arlovski, Matt Hughes, Chuck Liddell, or Takanori Gomi in their respective top-tens. The times they are a changing, my friends. In the case of a tie, I listed the fighter with the highest single vote first. For instance, Brett Rogers received a seventh place vote, while Velasquez wasn't higher than eighth on anyone's ballot, thus I put Rogers' name first. Feel free to email me at matt6buckeye@hotmail.com to tell me how right or wrong we were.

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