Monday, September 21, 2009

The Sports Brief's MMA Rankings (9/21/09)


Heavyweight:


1. Fedor Emelianenko

2. Brock Lesnar

3. Josh Barnett

4. Frank Mir

5. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

6. Alistair Overeem

7. Shane Carwin

8. Randy Couture

9. Cain Velasquez

10. Brett Rogers


Junior Dos Santos, Chiek Kongo, Andrei Arlovski, Gabriel Gonzaga, Ben Rothwell, Fabricio Werdum, Heath Herring, Aleksander Emelianenko, Mirko Cro Cop


Light Heavyweight:


1. Lyoto Machida

2. Quinton Jackson

3. Rashad Evans

4. Anderson Silva

5. Forrest Griffin

6. Gegard Mousasi

7. Maurcio ‘Shogun’ Rua

8. Luiz Cane

9. Thiago Silva

10. Babalu Sobral


Rich Franklin, Keith Jardine, Brandon Vera, Chuck Liddell, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, Tito Ortiz, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, Vladimir Matyushenko, Jon Jones


Middleweight:


1. Anderson Silva

2. Dan Henderson

3. Vitor Belfort

4. Yushin Okami

5. Nathan Marquardt

6. Robbie Lawler

7. Jorge Santiago

8. Yoshihiro Akiyama

9. Demian Maia

10. Cung Le


Michael Bisping, Thales Leites, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Matt Lindland, Denis Kang, Chael Sonnen, Paulo Filho, Patrick Cote, Nick Diaz, Kazuo Misaki, Ronaldo Souza, Jake Rosholt


Welterweight:


1. Georges St. Pierre

2. Jake Shields

3. Jon Fitch

4. Thiago Alves

5. Josh Koscheck

6. Mike Swick

7. Paul Daley

8. Martin Kampmann

9. Matt Hughes

10. Paulo Thiago


Marius Zaromskis, Jay Hieron, Nick Thompson, Dan Hardy, Karo Parisyan, Matt Serra, Carlos Condit, Marcus Davis, Drew Fickett, Frank Trigg, Ricardo Almeida


Lightweight:


1. BJ Penn

2. Shinya Aoki

3. Eddie Alverez

4. Joachim Hansen

5. Tatsuya Kawajiri

6. Kenny Florian

7. Diego Sanchez

8. Frankie Edgar

9. Gilbert Melendez

10. JZ Cavalcante


Gray Maynard, Mizuto Hirota, Satoru Kitaoka, Sean Sherk, Josh Thomson, Takanori Gomi, KJ Noons, Nate Diaz, Victor Ribero, Joe Stevenson, Roger Huerta


Pound 4 Pound


1. Anderson Silva

2. Fedor Emelianenko

3. Georges St. Pierre

4. BJ Penn

5. Lyoto Machida

6. Mike Brown

7. Quinton Jackson

8. Brian Bowles

9. Gegard Mousasi

10. Brock Lesnar

-The Sports Brief

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