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The following are the MMATorch staff rankings as of May 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 Johny Hendricks
9 Lyoto Machida
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 Stipe Miocic
9 Frank Mir
10 Mark Hunt
11 Roy Nelson
12 Stefan Struve
13 Brendan Schaub
14 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
15 Vitaly Minakov
Others receiving votes: Gabriel Gonzaga, Alexander Volkov
Light Heavyweight
1 Jon Jones
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Rashad Evans
4 Anthony Johnson
5 Glover Teixeira
6 Daniel Cormier
7 Phil Davis
8 Dan Henderson
9 Ryan Bader
10 Chael Sonnen
11 Quinton Jackson
12 Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
13 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
14 Emanuel Newton
15 Jimi Manuwa
1 Anthony Pettis
2 Benson Henderson
3 Gilbert Melendez
4 Eddie Alvarez
5 Michael Chandler
6 Josh Thomson
7 Khabib Nurmagomedov
8 TJ Grant
9 Nate Diaz
10 Jim Miller
11 Rafael dos Anjos
12 Donald Cerrone
13 Bobby Green
14 Rustam Khabilov
15 Myles Jury
Others receiving votes: Michael Johnson, Pat Healy, 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 Nik Lentz
12 Dennis Siver
13 Jeremy Stephens
14-tie Shinya Aoki
14-tie Clay Guida
Others receiving votes: Darren Elkins, Dennis Bermudez, Tatsuya Kawajiri
Bantamweight
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 T.J. Dillashaw
10 Takeya Mizugaki
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 Jussier Formiga
9 John Lineker
10 Josh Sampo
11 Louis Smolka
12 Brad Pickett
13 Chris Cariaso
14 Tim Elliott
15 Alptekin Ozkilic
Others receiving votes: Darren Uyenoyama, Louis Gaudinot
Women's Bantamweight
1 Ronda Rousey
2 Alexis Davis
3 Cat Zingano
4 Sara McMann
5 Sarah Kaufman
6 Jessica Eye
7 Miesha Tate
8 Lauren Murphy
9-tie Liz Carmouche
9-tie Jessica Andrade
Others receiving votes: Amanda Nunes, Rin Nakai
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
(mmatorcheditor@gmail.com)
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