Power Rankings

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Heavyweight (Over 205 lbs)

  1. Fedor Emelianenko
  2. Randy Couture
  3. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
  4. Andrei Arlovski
  5. Tim Sylvia
  6. Fabricio Werdum
  7. Ben Rothwell
  8. Mirko Filipovic
  9. Josh Barnett
  10. Aleksander Emelianenko

Light Heavyweight (186-205 lbs)

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

Middleweight (171-185 lbs)

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Rich Franklin
  3. Paulo Filho
  4. Kazuo Misaki
  5. Dan Henderson
  6. Yushin Okami
  7. Robbie Lawler
  8. Frank Trigg
  9. Jason Miller
  10. Matt Lindland

Welterweight (156-170 lbs)

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

Lightweight (146-155 lbs)

  1. B.J. Penn
  2. Takanori Gomi
  3. Sean Sherk
  4. Shinya Aoki
  5. Gesias Calvancanti
  6. Mitsuhiro Ishida
  7. Gilbert Melendez
  8. Tatsuya Kawajiri
  9. Vitor Ribeiro
  10. (tie)Roger Huerta, Kenny Florian

Featherweight (136-145 lbs)

  1. Urijah Faber
  2. Norifumi Yamamoto
  3. Masakazu Imanari
  4. Takeshi Inoue
  5. Hideki Kadowaki

Pound-for-Pound

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Georges St. Pierre
  3. Fedor Emelianenko
  4. B.J. Penn
  5. Urijah Faber
  6. Quinton Jackson
  7. Randy Couture
  8. Lyoto Machida
  9. Norifumi Yamamoto
  10. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Updated on May 1, 2008
See previous rankings (published April 25, 2008)