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UFC / MMA rankings featured in USA Today for May 2009
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UFC rankings/MMA rankings featured in USA Today for May 2009
Written by Vytas   
Thursday, 28 May 2009

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“The rankings, which will offer a definitive perspective of top MMA fighters across all weight-classes, will be released monthly and published in the Sports section of USA TODAY, online at USATODAY.com and on SB Nation’s MMA commentary and community blog, BloodyElbow.com … The USA TODAY/SB Nation Consensus MMA Rankings are compiled each month by Nate Wilcox and Richard Wade of BloodyElbow.com. The rankings utilize each of the top MMA rankings from multiple unique sources. A weighted-formula is applied to normalize and distill the various rankings into one consensus ranking per weight class.”

Heavyweight:

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Josh Barnett
3. Frank Mir
4. Andrei Arlovski
5. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
6. Brock Lesnar
7. Randy Couture
8. Tim Sylvia
9. Shane Carwin
10. Alistair Overeem

Light Heavyweight:

1. Lyoto Machida
2. Rashad Evans
3. Quinton Jackson
4. Forrest Griffin
5. Mauricio Rua
6. Keith Jardine
7. Wanderlei Silva
8. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
9. Renato Sobral
10. Luis Cane

Middleweight:

1. Anderson Silva
2. Yushin Okami
3. Nate Marquardt
4. Robbie Lawler
5. Dan Henderson
6. Gegard Mousasi
7. Demian Maia
8. Jorge Santiago
9. Thales Leites
10. Vitor Belfort

Welterweight:

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Thiago Alves
3. Jon Fitch
4. Jake Shields
5. Matt Hughes
6. Josh Koscheck
7. Martin Kampmann
8. Carlos Condit
9. Mike Swick
10. Karo Parisyan

Lightweight:

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

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written by lucky13jesse, May 28, 2009
Josh Barnett is second to Fedor in the Heavyweights? i dont think he should be ranked that high. Mir deserves to be higher rank than Barnett.
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written by Aries, May 28, 2009
Quinton jackson is number two, Vitor Belfort is definitly higher in ranking than Jorge Santiago.
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written by Ahj, May 28, 2009
Where's Bisping? Like him or not he's got a stellar record.
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lol !he said bisping!!hahahaha
written by ach, May 28, 2009
i just wanna say that damien maia deserves the second spot (whoever ranked the middleweights must on crack) as well as barnett,and for the record gerard moussassi isn t a middleweight anymore he let souza and miller fight for the belt cose he moved up.when it comes to light heavyweights mauricio in the 2 nd spot is a must .
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written by Quinton, May 28, 2009
How come Dan Henderson isn't up there
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written by Dawid, May 28, 2009
Where's Paulo Filho?
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written by Aries , May 28, 2009
No way Quinton gets push back, Shogun 3 Rampage 2. he's better than before when they fist fought and I forgot about Paulo Fihlo and Demian Maia. Maia is probably 5-6 and Fihlo is below that or equal.
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written by Aries , May 28, 2009
Koscheck is better than Jake Sheilds, no matter how long he trains muay thai, Koscheck is the better striker hands down.
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written by Quinton, May 28, 2009
nevermind on the hendo thing
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written by Bone=Crusher, May 28, 2009
where the hell is chuck liddell he beat wanderlevi and he lost to shogun so he has to be somewhere in the middle just forgot about him.. like he is practically the founder and been with dana white the longest. No Bisping like honestly crazy...No rich Franklin.. wow this a crazy wack survey..
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written by Danny -Boy, May 28, 2009
Mousasi is gettin dogged, he's a legend!
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written by aussie, May 29, 2009
Im a bit sad cos Tyson Griffin is my personal favorite in lightweights and he wasn't up there. and so wasn't Frankie Edgar who just beat Sean Sherk.
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written by Aries, May 29, 2009
I think Chuck is getting written off because he's retiring, he was top 5 for sure but I think they wrote him of for losing four of his last 5 with three knockouts, yes he beat wanderlei but that was one out of the top three guys he fought, Rampage, Shogun, Wanderlei. I was also surprised to see tyson and frankie not up there, but understandable of tyson he lost to sherk and frankie just won aganist sherk so...
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written by aussie, May 29, 2009
written by Aries, May 29, 2009
I think Chuck is getting written off because he's retiring,
"he was top 5 for sure but I think they wrote him of for losing four of his last 5 with three knockouts, yes he beat wanderlei but that was one out of the top three guys he fought, Rampage, Shogun, Wanderlei. I was also surprised to see Tyson and Frankie not up there, but understandable of Tyson he lost to sherk and Frankie just won against sherk so..."

i was also wrecked not to see Tyson and Frankie up there.

Tyson is my favorite fighter and i was upset not to see him in the top 10.
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written by Aries, May 29, 2009
Question if this is going off who beat who, then Rashad fought one good guy and Forest beat two. Forest beat Rampage and Shogun, Rashad beat Chuck, who got K.O. by both those fighters so how is Rashad higher than any of them? I'm not Rashad fan, and yes he won the tittle from Forest but didn't he lose the title after one defense too?
Andre
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written by Andre, June 23, 2009
where the hell is mirko cro cop

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