Power Rankings

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Heavyweight (Over 205 lbs)

  1. Fedor Emelianenko
  2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
  3. Andrei Arlovski
  4. Randy Couture
  5. Josh Barnett
  6. Fabricio Werdum
  7. Mirko Filipovic
  8. Tim Sylvia
  9. Aleksander Emelianenko
  10. Ben Rothwell

Light Heavyweight (186-205 lbs)

  1. Forrest Griffin
  2. Lyoto Machida
  3. Quinton Jackson
  4. Chuck Liddell
  5. Mauricio Rua
  6. Wanderlei Silva
  7. Thiago Silva
  8. Keith Jardine
  9. Vladimir Matyushenko
  10. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Middleweight (171-185 lbs)

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Rich Franklin
  3. Paulo Filho
  4. Dan Henderson
  5. Yushin Okami
  6. Robbie Lawler
  7. (tie) Jason Miller, Frank Trigg
  8. Kazuo Misaki
  9. Matt Lindland
  10. Gegard Mousasi

Welterweight (156-170 lbs)

  1. Georges St. Pierre
  2. Jon Fitch
  3. Jake Shields
  4. Thiago Alves
  5. Josh Koscheck
  6. Diego Sanchez
  7. Matt Hughes
  8. Nick Thompson
  9. Carlos Condit
  10. Hayato Sakurai

Lightweight (146-155 lbs)

  1. BJ Penn
  2. Takanori Gomi
  3. Shinya Aoki
  4. Gesias Calvancante
  5. Sean Sherk
  6. Tatsuya Kawajiri
  7. Vitor Ribeiro
  8. (tie) Roger Huerta, Kenny Florian
  9. Josh Thomson
  10. Mitsuhiro Ishida

Featherweight (136-145 lbs)

  1. Urijah Faber
  2. Norifumi Yamamoto
  3. Hideki Kadowaki
  4. Wagnney Fabiano
  5. Masakazu Imanari

Pound-for-Pound

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Fedor Emelianenko
  3. Georges St. Pierre
  4. B.J. Penn
  5. Urijah Faber
  6. Lyoto Machida
  7. Norifumi Yamamoto
  8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
  9. Forrest Griffin
  10. Takanori Gomi

Updated on July 22, 2008
See previous rankings (published July 7, 2008)
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