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The following are the MMATorch staff rankings as of April 1, 2014
Pound For Pound
1 Jon Jones
2 Jose Aldo
3 Renan Barao
4 Demetrious Johnson
5 Chris Weidman
6 Anthony Pettis
7 Cain Velasquez
8 Lyoto Machida
9 Johny Hendricks
10 Ben Henderson
11 Alexander Gustafsson
12 Anderson Silva
13 Frankie Edgar
14 Gilbert Melendez
15 Chad Mendes
Others receiving votes: Vitor Belfort, Eddie Alvarez, Daniel Cormier, Michael Chandler, Junior dos Santos, Urijah Faber
Heavyweight
1 Cain Velasquez
2 Junior dos Santos
3 Fabricio Werdum
4 Travis Browne
5 Josh Barnett
6 Antonio Silva
7 Alistair Overeem
8 Mark Hunt
9 Stipe Miocic
10 Frank Mir
11 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
12 Roy Nelson
13 Stefan Struve
14 Brendan Schaub
15 Cheick Kongo
Others receiving votes: Gabriel Gonzaga, Vitaly Minakov
Light Heavyweight
1 Jon Jones
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Rashad Evans
4 Phil Davis
5 Glover Teixeira
6 Daniel Cormier
7 Dan Henderson
8 Ryan Bader
9 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
10 Chael Sonnen
11 Quinton Jackson
12 Anthony Johnson
13 Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
14 Emanuel Newton
15 Ovince St. Preux
Others receiving votes: Jimi Manuwa, Wanderlei Silva, Thiago Silva, James Te Huna
Middleweight
1 Chris Weidman
2 Anderson Silva
3 Vitor Belfort
4 Lyoto Machida
5 Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza
6 Luke Rockhold
7 Michael Bisping
8 Yushin Okami
9 Gegard Mousasi
10 Mark Munoz
11 Tim Kennedy
12 Alexander Shlemenko
13 Francis Carmont
14 Tim Boetsch
15 Alan Belcher
Others receiving votes: Costa Philippou, Cung Le, CB Dollaway, Mamed Khalidov
Welterweight
1 Johny Hendricks
2 Robbie Lawler
3 Tyron Woodley
4 Carlos Condit
5 Rory MacDonald
6 Hector Lombard
7 Ben Askren
8 Jake Ellenberger
9 Jake Shields
10 Demian Maia
11 Matt Brown
12 Dong Hyun Kim
13 Tarec Saffiedine
14 Rousimar Palhares
15 Douglas Lima
1 Anthony Pettis
2 Benson Henderson
3 Gilbert Melendez
4 Eddie Alvarez
5 Michael Chandler
6 TJ Grant
7 Josh Thomson
8 Khabib Nurmagomedov
9 Nate Diaz
10 Rafael dos Anjos
11 Jim Miller
12 Donald Cerrone
13 Bobby Green
14 Rustam Khabilov
15 Michael Johnson
Others receiving votes: Pat Healy, Myles Jury, Erik Koch
Featherweight
1 Jose Aldo
2 Chad Mendes
3 Frankie Edgar
4 Cub Swanson
5 Ricardo Lamas
6 Pat Curran
7 Chan Sung Jung
8 Patricio Friere
9 Daniel Straus
10 Dustin Poirier
11 Dennis Siver
12 Nik Lentz
13 Jeremy Stephens
14 Tatsuya Kawajiri
15 Darren Elkins
1 Renan Barao
2 Urijah Faber
3 Michael McDonald
4 Raphael Assunção
5 Bibiano Fernandes
6 Eddie Wineland
7 Eduardo Dantas
8 Marlon Moraes
9 Takeya Mizugaki
10 T.J. Dillashaw
11 Iuri Alcantara
12 Marcos Galvao
13 Joe Warren
14 Francisco Rivera
15 Alex Caceres
Others receiving votes: Mike Easton, Bryan Caraway, Jimmie Rivera
Flyweight
1 Demetrious Johnson
2 Joseph Benavidez
3 John Dodson
4 Ian McCall
5 Zach Makovsky
6 Ali Bagautinov
7 John Moraga
8 John Lineker
9 Jussier Formiga
10 Josh Sampo
11 Louis Smolka
12 Brad Pickett
13 Tim Elliott
14 Chris Cariaso
15 Alptekin Ozkilic
Others receiving votes: Darren Uyenoyama, Louis Gaudinot
Women's Bantamweight
1 Ronda Rousey
2 Cat Zingano
3 Alexis Davis
4 Sara McMann
5 Jessica Eye
6 Sarah Kaufman
7 Miesha Tate
8 Liz Carmouche
9 Lauren Murphy
10 Amanda Nunes
Others receiving votes: Jessica Andrade, Rin Nakai
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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