Power Rankings

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Heavyweight (206-265 lbs)

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Brock Lesnar
3. Frank Mir
4. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
5. Josh Barnett
6. Junior Dos Santos
7. Alistair Overeem 
8. Shane Carwin 
9. Cain Velasquez 
10. Fabricio Werdum 

Light Heavyweight (186-205 lbs)

1. Lyoto Machida
2. Quinton Jackson
3. Rashad Evans
4. Mauricio Rua
5. Anderson Silva
6. Gegard Mousasi
7. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
8. Forrest Griffin
9. Thiago Silva
10. Rich Franklin

Middleweight (171-185 lbs)

1. Anderson Silva
2. Dan Henderson
3. Nate Marquardt
4. Vitor Belfort
5. Jake Shields
6. Demian Maia
7. Chael Sonnen
8. Yushin Okami
9. Mamed Khalidov
10. Yoshihiro Akiyama

Welterweight (156-170 lbs)

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Jake Shields
4. Thiago Alves
5. Josh Koscheck
6. Matt Hughes
7. Nick Diaz
8. Dan Hardy
9. Mike Swick
10. Marius Zaromskis

Lightweight (146-155 lbs)

1. BJ Penn
2. Shinya Aoki
3. Eddie Alvarez
4. Kenny Florian
5. Tatsuya Kawajiri
6. Joachim Hansen
7. Diego Sanchez
8. Frank Edgar
9. Gray Maynard
10. Gilbert Melendez

Featherweight (136-145 lbs)

1. Jose Aldo
2. Mike Brown
3. Urijah Faber
4. Hatsu Hioki
5. Marlon Sandro
6. Norifumi Yamamoto
7. Bibiano Fernandes
8. Rafael Assuncao
9. Wagnney Fabiano
10. Michihiro Omigawa

Pound-for-Pound

1. Anderson Silva
2. Fedor Emelianenko
3. Georges St. Pierre 
4. BJ Penn 
5. Lyoto Machida 
6. Gegard Mousasi 
7. Jose Aldo
8. Jake Shields 
9. Miguel Torres
10. Quinton Jackson

Women P4P

1. Megumi Fujii
2. Tara LaRosa
3. Cristiane "Cris Cyborg" Santos
4. Yuka Tsuji
5. Sarah Kaufman

Referees

1. Herb Dean
2. "Big" John McCarthy
3. Yves Lavigne
4. Mario Yamasaki
5. Josh Rosenthal

Updated last on December 20, 2009