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1. Brock Lesnar (70pts.)
2. Cain Velasquez (54)
3. Fabricio Werdum (49)
4. Junior Dos Santos (44)
5. Shane Carwin (43)
6. Fedor Emelianenko (41)
7. Frank Mir (28)
8. Alistair Overeem (25)
9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (19)
10. Roy Nelson (10)
Others Receiving Votes: Antonio Silva (1), Mike Russow (1)
Light-Heavyweight
1. Mauricio Rua (70)
2. Lyoto Machida (62)
3. Rashad Evans (56)
4. Quinton Jackson (45)
5. Jon Jones (37)
6. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (35)
7. Forrest Griffin (34)
8.(tie) Rich Franklin (14)
8.(tie) Muhammed Lawal (14)
10. Thiago Silva (10)
Others Receiving Votes: Gegard Mousasi (6), Ryan Bader (2)
Middleweight
1. Anderson Silva (70)
2. Chael Sonnen (63)
3. Nate Marquardt (52)
4. Yushin Okami (46)
5. Dan Henderson (35)
6. Vitor Belfort (31)
7. Demian Maia (28)
8. Chris Leben (24)
9. Alan Belcher (15)
10. Ronaldo Souza (9)
Others Receiving Votes: Wanderlei Silva (6), Hector Lombard (4), Michael Bisping (1), Jorge Santiago (1)
Welterweight
1. Georges St. Pierre (70)
2. Jon Fitch (61)
3. Jake Shields (50)
4. Josh Koscheck (49)
5. Nick Diaz (34)
6. Martin Kampmann (33)
7. Thiago Alves (26)
8.(tie) Paulo Thiago (20)
8.(tie) Paul Daley (20)
10. Dan Hardy (14)
Others Receiving Votes: Carlos Condit (6), Matt Hughes (2)
Lightweight
1.(tie) Frankie Edgar (64)
1.(tie) B.J. Penn (64)
3.(tie) Gilbert Melendez (49)
3.(tie) Kenny Florian (49)
5. Gray Maynard (42)
6. Eddie Alvarez (40)
7.(tie) George Sotiropoulos (20)
7.(tie) Shinya Aoki (20)
9. Ben Henderson (19)
10. Evan Dunham (13)
Others Receiving Votes: Jim Miller (2), Tatsuya Kawajiri (2), Takanori Gomi (1)
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