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January 2010 Rankings

Our rankings are contributed, discussed, and determined by a committee composed of our writers and knowledgable community members, ensuring that they accurately reflect our consensus views of divisional fighter standings. These are our rankings for January 2010.











World Rankings

Rank

Fighter

Movement

Consecutive Months in Top 15





HW




1

Fedor Emelianenko


9

2

Brock Lesnar


9

3

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira


9

4

Frank Mir


9

5

Cain Velasquez


7

6

Junior dos Santos

4

7

Shane Carwin

8

8

Alistair Overeem

9

9

Fabricio Werdum


6

10

Josh Barnett


9

11

Brett Rogers


5

12

Andrei Arlovski


5

13

Gabriel Gonzaga


5

14

Cheick Kongo


5

15

Antonio Silva

-



Dropped Out:
#15 Tim Sylvia

Others Receiving Votes:
Tim Sylvia
Shane del Rosario
Stefan Struve
Ben Rothwell



LHW




1

Lyoto Machida


9

2

Mauricio Rua

 

9

3

Rashad Evans


9

4

Quinton Jackson


9

5

Anderson Silva


6

6

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

 

9

7

Gegard Mousasi


6

8

Forrest Griffin


9

9

Thiago Silva


5

10

Dan Henderson

5

11

Jon Jones

5

12

Luis Cane

5

13

Randy Couture


2

14

Keith Jardine

9

15

Brandon Vera

-



Dropped Out:
#14 Renato Sobral

Others Receiving Votes:
Renato Sobral
Rich Franklin
Mo Lawal
Vladimir Matyushenko
Rafael Cavalcante



MW




1

Anderson Silva


9

2

Nate Marquardt


9

3

Dan Henderson


9

4

Vitor Belfort


9

5

Yoshihiro Akiyama

 

9

6

Chael Sonnen

 

5

7

Demian Maia


5

8

Jake Shields

4

9

Jorge Santiago

9

10

Robbie Lawler


9

11

Yushin Okami

9

12

Ronaldo Souza

5

13

Kazuo Misaki

7

14

Hector Lombard


5

15

Michael Bisping


2



Others Receiving Votes:
Melvin Manoef
Alan Belcher
Nick Diaz
Patrick Cote



WW




1

Georges St. Pierre


9

2

Jon Fitch


9

3

Thiago Alves


9

4

Josh Koscheck

 

9

5

Dan Hardy

 

5

6

Paul Daley

4

7

Carlos Condit

9

8

Martin Kampmann


9

9

Mike Swick


9

10

Marius Zaromskis


6

11

Jake Shields


9

12

Nick Diaz

 

5

13

Matt Hughes

9

14

Anthony Johnson

3

15

Dustin Hazelett

5



Others Receiving Votes:
Dan Hornbuckle
Jay Hieron
Ben Saunders
Paulo Thiago
Jake Ellenberger



LW




1

BJ Penn


9

2

Shinya Aoki


9

3

Eddie Alvarez


9

4

Tatsuya Kawajiri

9

5

Gray Maynard

 

8

6

Kenny Florian

9

7

Joachim Hansen

9

8

Frankie Edgar


8

9

Gilbert Melendez

7

10

Diego Sanchez

6

11

Tyson Griffin

5

12

Benson Henderson

-

13

Gesias Cavalcante

9

14

Josh Thomson

-

15

Sean Sherk

2



Dropped Out:
#11 Mizuto Hirota
#15 Jamie Varner

Others Receiving Votes:
Mizuto Hirota
Jamie Varner
Donald Cerrone
Joe Stevenson
Jim Miller
Kurt Pellegrino



FW




1

Jose Aldo

 

9

2

Mike Brown


9

3

Urijah Faber


9

4

Hatsu Hioki


9

5

Bibiano Fernandes

5

6

Takeshi Inoue

9

7

Rafael Assuncao

9

8

Marlon Sandro

5

9

Michihiro Omigawa

2

10

Masanori Kanehara

5

11

Josh Grispi

6

12

Leonard Garcia

9

13

Manny Gamburyan

2

14

Mackens Semerzier

2

15

Joe Soto

-



Dropped Out:
#5 Wagnney Fabiano
(Due To Change in Weight)

Others Receiving Votes:
Deividas Taurosevicius
L.C. Davis
Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Joe Warren
Hiroyuki Takaya
Diego Nunes



BW




1

Brian Bowles


9

2

Miguel Torres


9

3

Masakatsu Ueda


9

4

Dominick Cruz

6

5

Damacio Page

9

6

Takeya Mizugaki

9

7

Joseph Benavidez

9

8

Akitoshi Tamura

9

9

Rani Yahya


5

10

Scott Jorgensen

-

11

Koetsu Okazaki

5

12

Masakazu Imanari

2

13

Jeff Curran

5

14

Hiromasa Ogikubo

5

15

Yoshiro Maeda

3


Dropped Out:
#13 Joe Warren

Others Receiving Votes:
Charlie Valencia
Antonio Banuelos
Wagnney Fabiano
Atsushi Yamamoto
Eduardo Dantas



 

UFC Rankings

Rank

Fighter

Movement

Consecutive Months in Top 15





HW




1

Brock Lesnar


9

2

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira


9

3

Frank Mir


9

4

Cain Velasquez


9

5

Junior dos Santos

9

6

Shane Carwin

9

7

Gabriel Gonzaga


9

8

Cheick Kongo


9

9

Mirko Cro Cop

6

10

Stefan Struve

4

11

Todd Duffee

4

12

Ben Rothwell

3

13

Mike Russow


5

14

Heath Herring


3

15

Pat Barry


3





LHW




1

Lyoto Machida


9

2

Mauricio Rua


9

3

Rashad Evans


9

4

Quinton Jackson


9

5

Anderson Silva


6

6

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira


3

7

Forrest Griffin


9

8

Thiago Silva


9

9

Jon Jones

5

10

Luis Cane

9

11

Randy Couture

2

12

Keith Jardine

9

13

Brandon Vera

5

14

Rich Franklin

7

15

Vladimir Matyushenko

-





MW




1

Anderson Silva


9

2

Nate Marquardt


9

3

Vitor Belfort


6

4

Yoshihiro Akiyama

9

5

Chael Sonnen

7

6

Demian Maia


9

7

Yushin Okami

9

8

Michael Bisping

9

9

Alan Belcher

5

10

Nate Quarry


5

11

Patrick Cote


9

12

Dan Miller

2

13

Rousimar Palhares

-

14

Aaron Simpson

-

15

Kendall Grove

-





WW




1

Georges St. Pierre


9

2

Jon Fitch


9

3

Thiago Alves


9

4

Josh Koscheck


9

5

Dan Hardy


5

6

Paul Daley

4

7

Carlos Condit

9

8

Martin Kampmann


9

9

Mike Swick


9

10

Matt Hughes

9

11

Anthony Johnson

5

12

Dustin Hazelett

9

13

Dong Hyun Kim


5

14

Ben Saunders


2

15

Marcus Davis


5





LW




1

B.J. Penn


9

2

Gray Maynard


9

3

Kenny Florian


9

4

Frankie Edgar


9

5

Diego Sanchez


9

6

Tyson Griffin


9

7

Sean Sherk


9

8

Joe Stevenson


9

9

Jim Miller

5

10

Clay Guida

9

11

Kurt Pellegrino

5

12

Nate Diaz

5

13

Spencer Fisher


6

14

Gleison Tibau

-

15

Roger Huerta

4

 

P4P Rankings

Rank

Fighter

Movement

Consecutive Months in Top 15





1

Fedor Emelianenko


9

2

Georges St. Pierre


9

3

Anderson Silva


9

4

BJ Penn


9

5

Jose Aldo

5

6

Gegard Mousasi


6

7

Lyoto Machida


9

8

Mauricio Rua


3

9

Brian Bowles


6

10

Dan Henderson

5

11

Shinya Aoki

9

12

Mike Brown


8

13

Miguel Torres


5

14

Quinton Jackson

8

15

Jake Shields

-



Dropped Out:
#14 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Others Receiving Votes:
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Nick Diaz
Thiago Alves
Nate Marquardt
Eddie Alvarez
Jussier da Silva
Urijah Faber
Brock Lesnar