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MMATorch rankings as of June 1 are now up. The top 10 for the lightweight-heavyweight divisions as voted on by MMATorch staff and contributors are below:
HEAVYWEIGHT
1. Fedor Emelianenko (99pts.)
2. Brock Lesnar (91)
3. Shane Carwin (78)
4. Cain Velasquez (70)
5. Junior Dos Santos (57)
6. Frank Mir (47)
7. Alistair Overeem (41)
8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (37)
9. Fabricio Werdum (14)
10. Roy Nelson (10)
Others Receiving Votes: Antonio Silva (6)
LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT
1. Mauricio Rua (99)
2. Lyoto Machida (90)
3. Rashad Evans (81)
4. Quinton Jackson (69)
5. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (51)
6. Forrest Griffin (50)
7. Thiago Silva (30)
8. Jon Jones (26)
9. Muhammed Lawal (23)
10.(tie) Randy Couture (12)
10.(tie) Gegard Mousasi (12)
Others Receiving Votes: Rich Franklin (6), Ryan Bader (1)
Others Receiving Votes: Alan Belcher (5), Yoshihiro Akiyama (5), Hector Lombard (2), Ronaldo Souza (2), Michael Bisping (1)
WELTERWEIGHT
1. Georges St. Pierre (100)
2. Jon Fitch (86)
3. Thiago Alves (72)
4. Josh Koscheck (67)
5. Nick Diaz (62)
6. Paulo Thiago (52)
7. Dan Hardy (34)
8. Paul Daley (30)
9. Martin Kampmann (19)
10. Matt Hughes (10)
Others Receiving Votes: Carlos Condit (8), Mike Swick (7), Ricardo Almeida (3)
LIGHTWEIGHT
1. Frankie Edgar (94)
2. B.J. Penn (89)
3.(tie) Gilbert Melendez (72)
3.(tie) Kenny Florian (72)
5. Eddie Alvarez (61)
6. Gray Maynard (54)
7. Ben Henderson (27)
8. Shinya Aoki (26)
9. Tatsuya Kawajiri (25)
10. Tyson Griffin (17)
Others Receiving Votes: Sean Sherk (5), Josh Thomson (3), George Sotiropoulos (2), Jim Miller (2), Donald Cerrone (1)
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