Champs & Rankings
MMATorch Staff Rankings for May 2011
May 5, 2011 - 10:30:13 PM MMATorch Staff Rankings for May 2011

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HEAVYWEIGHT

1. Cain Velasquez (69pts.)
2. Brock Lesnar (57)
3. Junior Dos Santos (54)
4. Fabricio Werdum (44)
5. Shane Carwin (41)
6. Antonio Silva (34)
7. Alistair Overeem (33)
8. Frank Mir (24)
9. Fedor Emelianenko (13)
10. Roy Nelson (9)

Others Receiving Votes: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (2), Mike Russow (2), Brendan Schaub (2), Sergei Kharitonov (1)


LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT

1. Jon Jones (70)
2. Mauricio Rua (58)
3. Rashad Evans (55)
4. Lyoto Machida (50)
5. Quinton Jackson (46)
6. Forrest Griffin (35)
7. Dan Henderson (25)
8. Ryan Bader (22)
9. Phil Davis (10)
10. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (5)


Others Receiving Votes: Rafael Cavalcante (4), Thiago Silva (2), Gegard Mousasi (1), Muhammed Lawal (1), Stephan Bonnar (1)


MIDDLEWEIGHT

1. Anderson Silva (70)
2. Chael Sonnen (63)
3. Yushin Okami (56)
4. Nate Marquardt (47)
5. Demian Maia (40)
6. Ronaldo Souza (30)
7. Michael Bisping (20)
8. Jorge Santiago (19)
9. Vitor Belfort (10)
10. (tie) Hector Lombard (7)
10. (tie) Wanderlei Silva (7)

Others Receiving Votes: Brian Stann (5), Chris Leben (5), Alan Belcher (4), Yoshihiro Akiyama (2)


WELTERWEIGHT

1. Georges St. Pierre (70)
2. Jon Fitch (62)
3. B.J. Penn (52)
4. (tie) Thiago Alves (40)
4. (tie) Jake Shields (40)
6. Josh Koscheck (38)
7. Nick Diaz (29)
8. Carlos Condit (23)
9. Martin Kampmann (12)
10. Diego Sanchez (10)

Others Receiving Votes: Mike Pyle (2), Paul Daley (2), Rick Story (2), Paulo Thiago (1)


LIGHTWEIGHT

1. Frankie Edgar (70)
2. Gray Maynard (59)
3. Gilbert Melendez (58)
4. Eddie Alvarez (44)
5. Kenny Florian (42)
6. Jim Miller (32)
7. Shinya Aoki (29)
8. Melvin Guillard (20)
9. Anthony Pettis (17)
10. Sean Sherk (7)

Others Receiving Votes: Denis Siver (3), Tatsuya Kawajiri (3), Clay Guida (1)


FEATHERWEIGHT

1. Jose Aldo (70)
2. Hatsu Hioki (51)
3. Chad Mendes (48)
4. Mark Hominick (45)
5. Michihiro Omigawa (31)
6. Hiroyuki Takaya (28)
7. Manny Gamburyan (25)
8. Bibiano Fernandes (22)
9. Diego Nunes (19)
10. Joe Warren (18)

Others Receiving Votes: Marlon Sandro (12), Rani Yahya (5), Dustin Poirier (3), Robert Peralta (3), Eric Koch (2), Josh Grispi (1)


BANTAMWEIGHT

1. Dominick Cruz (70)
2. Joseph Benavidez (58)
3. Brian Bowles (57)
4. Urijah Faber (50)
5. Miguel Torres (45)
6. Scott Jorgensen (35)
7. Takeya Mizugaki (22)
8. Brad Pickett (19)
9. Demetrious Johnson (15)
10. Eddie Wineland (5)

Others Receiving Votes: Hiroshi Nakamura (3), Michael MacDonald (2), Masakazu Imanari (2), Zach Makovsky (1), Renan Barao (1)

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