MMAWeekly.com's new Top Ten poll system has launched in the form of the MMAWeekly Rankings.

This system ranks the world's top ten MMA fighters in each of the five major weight classes, as voted on by the MMAWeekly staff.

The MMAWeekly Rankings will be updated every other Tuesday as events warrant, and will be your #1 source for the most up-to-date and complete fighter rankings.

Here are the current MMAWeekly Rankings, which are up-to-date as of Tuesday, August 29th. The MMAWeekly Rankings will be updated next on Tuesday, September 12th.


HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (over 205 pounds)

1. Fedor Emelianenko

2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

3. Mirko Cro Cop

4. Josh Barnett

5. Tim Sylvia

6. Andrei Arlovski

7. Fabricio Werdum

8. Sergei Kharitonov

9. Aleksander Emelianenko

10. Mark Hunt

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LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (205-pound limit)

1. Chuck Liddell

2. Wanderlei Silva

3. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

4. Ricardo Arona

5. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

6. Renato "Babalu" Sobral

7. Tito Ortiz

8. Quinton Jackson

9. Alistair Overeem

10. Matt Lindland

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MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185-pound limit)

1. Rich Franklin

2. Anderson Silva

3. Paulo Filho

4. Dan Henderson

5. Denis Kang

6. Jeremy Horn

7. Kazuo Misaki

8. Nathan Marquardt

9. Amar Suloev

10. Murilo Bustamante

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WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170-pound limit)

1. Matt Hughes

2. Georges St. Pierre

3. BJ Penn

4. Diego Sanchez

5. Karo Parisyan

6. Sean Sherk

7. Jake Shields

8. Jon Fitch

9. Nick Diaz

10. Joe Riggs

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LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION (160 pounds and lower)

1. Takanori Gomi

2. Hayato Sakurai

3. Tatsuya Kawajiri

4. Joachim Hansen

5. Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto

6. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro

7. Marcus Aurelio

8. Mitsuhiro Ishida

9. Gilbert Melendez

10. Genki Sudo