1. Anderson Silva (40)
2. Dan Henderson (36)
3. Nate Marquardt (32)
4. Yushin Okami (25)
5. Demian Maia (21)
6. Robbie Lawler (19)
7.(tie) Vitor Belfort (14)
7.(tie) Jorge Santiago (14)
9.(tie) Michael Bisping (4)
9.(tie) Yoshihiro Akiyama (4)
Others receiving votes: Chael Sonnen (3), Matt Lindland (3), Kazuo Misaki (2), Chris Leben (2), Patrick Cote (1)
Welterweight
1. Georges St. Pierre (40)
2. Jon Fitch (33)
3. Jake Shields (32)
4. Thiago Alves (29)
5. Josh Koscheck (22)
6. Martin Kampmann (16)
7.(tie) Brock Larson (12)
7.(tie) Carlos Condit (12)
9. Mike Swick (7)
10.(tie) Nick Diaz (6)
10.(tie) Paulo Thiago (6)
Others receiving votes: Matt Hughes (5)
Lightweight
1. BJ Penn (40)
2. Shinya Aoki (34)
3.(tie) Kenny Florian (28)
3.(tie) Eddie Alvarez (28)
5. Frankie Edgar (21)
6.(tie) Tatsuya Kawajiri (12)
6.(tie) Joachim Hansen (12)
8. Diego Sanchez (11)
9. Gray Maynard (9)
10. Sean Sherk (6)
Pelkey's Analysis: Another rankings, another set of unanimous #1's. We have two consensus #2's now as well with Hendo and Brock Lesnar. As always, in case of a tie I list the fighter with the highest single ranking first, but that was pretty near impossible with Rashad and Rampage. Both had two second and two third place votes, putting them in an actual deadlock. So why was Rashad listed first? Because I was one of the voters who had him second. Deal with it.
I held my ground on not ranking Diego Sanchez in my top ten, but I was the only one. You got your wish readers. Diego is in the top ten.
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how is alan belcher not on the top 10 for middle weights or at least the
other votes. He had a very close fight with Akiyama, and in my opinion got
robbed so he should at least be tied with him
mma
04 Sep 2009, 19:04
how did Chris Leben get two votes and Rosholt not get any?
kc57
07 Sep 2009, 23:07
Two things... Until Fedor fights real competition, don't rank him as the
#1 fighter in the Hvywt Division.
Secondly, how is Forest ranked so high in the light heavyweight division?
Is this because of default?
