Champs & Rankings
MMATorch Staff Rankings: Updated top 10 lists for May 2010
May 3, 2010 - 2:15:43 PM MMATorch Staff Rankings: Updated top 10 lists for May 2010

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HEAVYWEIGHT

1. Fedor Emelianenko (70pts.)
2. Brock Lesnar (63)
3. Shane Carwin (55)
4. Cain Velasquez (49)
5. Junior Dos Santos (42)
6. Frank Mir (34)
7. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (29)
8. Brett Rogers (19)
9.(tie) Fabricio Werdum (10)
9.(tie) Roy Nelson (10)

Others Receiving Votes: Alistair Overeem (4)


LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT

1. Lyoto Machida (68)
2. Mauricio Rua (65)
3. Rashad Evans (54)
4. Quinton Jackson (50)
5. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (39)
6. Forrest Griffin (28)
7. Thiago Silva (25)
8. Muhammed Lawal (17)
9. Jon Jones (15)
10. Gegard Mousasi (8)

Others Receiving Votes: Randy Couture (6), Rich Franklin (6), Ryan Bader (3), Vladimir Matyushenko (1)


MIDDLEWEIGHT

1. Anderson Silva (70)
2.(tie) Chael Sonnen (57)
2.(tie) Jake Shields (57)
4. Nate Marquardt (46)
5. Vitor Belfort (42)
6. Dan Henderson (36)
7. Yushin Okami (21)
8. Demian Maia (20)
9. Robbie Lawler (14)
10. Yoshihiro Akiyama (9)

Others Receiving Votes: Wanderlei Silva (6), Alan Belcher (3), Ronaldo Souza (3), Tim Kennedy (1)


WELTERWEIGHT

1. Georges St. Pierre (70)
2. Jon Fitch (58)
3. Thiago Alves (50)
4. Nick Diaz (46)
5. Josh Koscheck (42)
6. Paulo Thiago (37)
7. Dan Hardy (30)
8. Paul Daley (27)
9. Martin Kampmann (13)
10. Carlos Condit (7)

Others Receiving Votes: Mike Swick (4), Tyron Woodley (1)


LIGHTWEIGHT

1. Frankie Edgar (62)
2. BJ Penn (61)
3. Kenny Florian (52)
4. Gilbert Melendez (47)
5. Gray Maynard (40)
6. Eddie Alvarez (39)
7. Ben Henderson (25)
8. Tatsuya Kawajiri (24)
9. Tyson Griffin (13)
10. Shinya Aoki (10)

Others Receiving Votes: Sean Sherk (7), Josh Thomson (2), Jim Miller (2), George Sotiropoulos (1)



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