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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. Aleksander Emelianenko
  7. Mirko Filipovic, Tim Sylvia (tie)
  8. Ben Rothwell
  9. Shane Carwin
  10. Frank Mir

Light Heavyweight (186-205 lbs)

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

Middleweight (171-185 lbs)

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Dan Henderson
  3. Rich Franklin
  4. Robbie Lawler
  5. Yushin Okami
  6. Gegard Mousasi
  7. Nate Marquardt
  8. Paulo Filho
  9. Frank Trigg
  10. Kazuo Misaki

Welterweight (156-170 lbs)

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

Lightweight (146-155 lbs)

  1. BJ Penn
  2. Shinya Aoki
  3. Gesias Cavalcante
  4. Eddie Alvarez
  5. Takanori Gomi
  6. Sean Sherk
  7. Kenny Florian
  8. Tatsuya Kawajiri
  9. Joachim Hansen
  10. Josh Thomson

Featherweight (136-145 lbs)

  1. Mike Brown
  2. Urijah Faber
  3. Norifumi Yamamoto
  4. Wagnney Fabiano
  5. Masakazu Imanari
  6. Hideki Kadowaki
  7. Akitoshi Tamura
  8. Leonard Garcia
  9. Dokonjonosuke Mishima
  10. Hatsu Hioki

Pound-for-Pound

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Fedor Emelianenko
  3. Georges St. Pierre
  4. B.J. Penn
  5. Miguel Torres
  6. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
  7. Lyoto Machida
  8. Urijah Faber
  9. Forrest Griffin
  10. Thiago Alves

Updated on August 13, 2008
See previous rankings (published August 1, 2008)
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