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October 2009 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 October 2009.









 

World Rankings

Rank

Fighter

Movement

Consecutive Months in Top 15





HW




1

Fedor Emelianenko


6

2

Brock Lesnar


6

3

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira


6

4

Frank Mir


6

5

Cain Velasquez

6

6

Alistair Overeem

6

7

Shane Carwin

6

8

Josh Barnett

6

9

Junior dos Santos

6

10

Fabricio Werdum


6

11

Brett Rogers


4

12

Andrei Arlovski


6

13

Gabriel Gonzaga


4

14

Cheick Kongo


6

15

Tim Sylvia


6





LHW




1

Lyoto Machida


6

2

Mauricio Rua

6

3

Rashad Evans


6

4

Quinton Jackson

6

5

Anderson Silva


3

6

Gegard Mousasi

4

7

Forrest Griffin

6

8

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira


6

9

Thiago Silva


6

10

Luis Cane


6

11

Dan Henderson


6

12

Jon Jones


3

13

Renato Sobral

6

14

Rich Franklin


6

15

Keith Jardine

6





MW




1

Anderson Silva


6

2

Nate Marquardt


6

3

Dan Henderson


6

4

Vitor Belfort

6

5

Jorge Santiago


6

6

Yoshihiro Akiyama

6

7

Chael Sonnen

5

8

Demian Maia


6

9

Yushin Okami

6

10

Robbie Lawler

6

11

Kazuo Misaki

6

12

Jake Shields


2

13

Ronaldo Souza

4

14

Hector Lombard


3

15

Patrick Cote

3





WW




1

Georges St. Pierre


6

2

Jon Fitch


6

3

Thiago Alves


6

4

Josh Koscheck

6

5

Mike Swick

6

6

Carlos Condit

6

7

Martin Kampmann

6

8

Jake Shields

6

9

Paul Daley


6

10

Marius Zaromskis

3

11

Dustin Hazelett

4

12

Matt Hughes

6

13

Nick Diaz


3

14

Dan Hardy


4

15

Anthony Johnson

-





LW




1

BJ Penn


6

2

Shinya Aoki


6

3

Eddie Alvarez


6

4

Tatsuya Kawajiri


6

5

Gray Maynard

6

6

Joachim Hansen

6

7

Frankie Edgar

5

8

Kenny Florian

6

9

Diego Sanchez


5

10

Gesias Cavalcante


6

11

Gilbert Melendez


3

12

Satoru Kitaoka


6

13

Mizuto Hirota


2

14

Tyson Griffin


2

15

Sean Sherk

-





FW




1

Mike Brown


6

2

Jose Aldo

6

T3

Urijah Faber


6

T3

Hatsu Hioki


6

5

Wagnney Fabiano

6

6

Takeshi Inoue


6

7

Leonard Garcia


6

8

Bibiano Fernandes

6

9

Rafael Assuncao

6

10

Josh Grispi


4

11

Marlon Sandro

5

12

Masanori Kanehara


3

13

Yuji Hoshino

4

14

Joe Soto

4

15

Dokonjonosuke Mishima

6





BW




1

Brian Bowles


6

2

Miguel Torres


6

3

Masakatsu Ueda


6

4

Takeya Mizugaki


6

5

Akitoshi Tamura


6

6

Dominick Cruz


3

7

Damacio Page


6

8

Joseph Benavidez


6

9

Rani Yahya

5

10

Joe Warren

5

11

Koetsu Okazaki

6

12

Hiromasa Ogikubo

6

13

Jeff Curran

5

14

Manny Tapia

6

15

Yoshiro Maeda

-

 

UFC Rankings


Rank

Fighter

Movement

Consecutive Months in Top 15





HW




1

Brock Lesnar


6

2

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira


6

3

Frank Mir


6

4

Cain Velasquez

6

5

Shane Carwin

6

6

Junior dos Santos


6

7

Gabriel Gonzaga


6

8

Cheick Kongo


6

9

Todd Duffee

2

10

Mirko Cro Cop


3

11

Stefan Struve

2

12

Heath Herring

6

13

Mike Russow

3

14

Ben Rothwell

-

15

Pat Barry

-





LHW




1

Lyoto Machida

 

6

2

Mauricio Rua

6

3

Rashad Evans


6

4

Quinton Jackson

6

5

Anderson Silva


6

6

Forrest Griffin


6

7

Thiago Silva


6

8

Luis Cane

 

6

9

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

-

10

Dan Henderson

6

11

Jon Jones

6

12

Rich Franklin

 

4

13

Keith Jardine

6

14

Brandon Vera

6

15

Vladimir Matyushenko

3





MW




1

Anderson Silva


6

2

Nate Marquardt


6

3

Dan Henderson


6

4

Vitor Belfort

-

5

Yoshihiro Akiyama

 

6

6

Demian Maia

 

6

7

Chael Sonnen

4

8

Yushin Okami

6

9

Michael Bisping


6

10

Nate Quarry

5

11

Alan Belcher

5

12

Patrick Cote

6

13

Denis Kang

3

T14

Jake Rosholt

-

T14

Wilson Gouveia

3





WW




1

Georges St. Pierre


6

2

Jon Fitch

 

6

3

Thiago Alves

 

6

4

Josh Koscheck


6

5

Mike Swick


6

6

Carlos Condit


6

7

Martin Kampmann


6

8

Paul Daley

 

2

9

Matt Hughes

 

6

10

Dustin Hazelett

 

6

11

Dan Hardy

 

5

12

Anthony Johnson

6

13

Karo Parisyan

6

14

Dong Hyun Kim

4

15

Marcus Davis


6





LW




1

B.J. Penn


6

2

Gray Maynard

6

3

Kenny Florian

6

4

Frankie Edgar


6

5

Diego Sanchez


6

6

Tyson Griffin

6

7

Sean Sherk

6

8

Joe Stevenson

6

9

Clay Guida

6

10

Jim Miller

5

11

Nate Diaz

6

12

Roger Huerta


2

13

Caol Uno

3

14

Spencer Fisher

3

15

Kurt Pellegrino

3

 

P4P Rankings

 

Rank

Fighter

Movement

Consecutive Months in Top 15





1

Anderson Silva


6

2

Fedor Emelianenko


6

3

Georges St. Pierre


6

4

BJ Penn


6

5

Lyoto Machida


6

6

Mike Brown


6

7

Mauricio Rua

-

8

Shinya Aoki


6

9

Gegard Mousasi

3

10

Brian Bowles

3

11

Dan Henderson


6

12

Miguel Torres


6

13

Jose Aldo

3

14

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

-

15

Quinton Jackson

6