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[Warchief]

The latest MMAWeekly World MMA Rankings were released on Wednesday, February 20. This system ranks the top ten MMA fighters from all across the world in each of the six largest weight classes, as voted on by MMAWeekly.

We take into consideration a fighter's performance in addition to his win-loss record, head-to-head and common opponents, difficulty of opponents, and numerous other factors in what is the most comprehensive rankings system in the sport.

As always, fighters who are currently serving drug-related suspensions are not eligible for top ten consideration until they have fought one time after the completion of their suspension.

Fighters must also have competed within the past 12 months in order to be eligible for top ten consideration.

Here are the current MMAWeekly World MMA Rankings, which are up-to-date as of February 20.

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HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (over 205 pounds)

#1 Heavyweight Fighter in the World: Fedor Emelianenko

2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

3. Randy Couture

4. Tim Sylvia

5. Andrei Arlovski

6. Fabricio Werdum

7. Gabriel Gonzaga

8. Mirko Cro Cop

9. Aleksander Emelianenko

10. Cheick Kongo

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LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (205-pound limit)

#1 Light Heavyweight Fighter in the World: Quinton Jackson

2. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

3. Dan Henderson

4. Chuck Liddell

5. Lyoto Machida

6. Keith Jardine

7. Forrest Griffin

8. Wanderlei Silva

9. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

10. Ricardo Arona

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MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185-pound limit)

#1 Middleweight Fighter in the World: Anderson Silva

2. Paulo Filho

3. Rich Franklin

4. Denis Kang

5. Robbie Lawler

6. Nathan Marquardt

7. Kazuo Misaki

8. Yushin Okami

9. Frank Trigg

10. Yoshihiro Akiyama

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WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170-pound limit)

#1 Welterweight Fighter in the World: Georges St. Pierre

2. Matt Serra

3. Matt Hughes

4. Jon Fitch

5. Josh Koscheck

6. Karo Parisyan

7. Jake Shields

8. Diego Sanchez

9. Carlos Condit

10. Marcus Davis

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LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION (160-pound limit)

#1 Lightweight Fighter in the World: Takanori Gomi

2. Tatsuya Kawajiri

3. Shinya Aoki

4. Gesias "JZ" Calvancante

5. Mitsuhiro Ishida

6. Gilbert Melendez

7. B.J. Penn

8. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro

9. Joe Stevenson

10. Joachim Hansen

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FEATHERWEIGHT DIVISION (145 pounds and under)

#1 Featherweight Fighter in the World: Akitoshi Tamura

2. Urijah Faber

3. "Lion" Takeshi Inoue

4. Antonio Carvalho

5. Masakazu Imanari

6. Hatsu Hioki

7. Jeff Curran

8. Tenkei Fujimiya

9. Rafael Assuncao

10. Hideki Kadowaki

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Why the hell Bj Penn is in #7 spot? lol.

[mauladala]

Originally Posted by Warchief

Why the hell Bj Penn is in #7 spot? lol.

Totally. And no Kid in Featherweight???

[Ramma]

Those LW rankings are awful.

HW seems to be the only division I pretty much agree with.


EDIT: Wait a minute, where the hell is Josh Barnett in the HW rankings? Take Kongo off and slide Barnett into #4.

[Warchief]

Originally Posted by mauladala

no Kid in Featherweight???

No Kids allowed i think.

[AJL416AZ]

KID has not fought at 145 in a long time. his fight with Rani Yahya was at 135, and before that he spent a long time at 155.

i would be pissed if BJ was above number 5, IMO. who has he beaten at LW in the last 2 years? Jens Pulver and Joe Stevenson, neither of whom have been top 10 for some time, or ever in Joe's case.
even beating Sherk shouldnt give him the number 1 spot over the winner of the DREAMS GP, because that is 2 unranked and 1 maybe kind of ranked fighters, since Sherk has only had 2 fights at 155 ever.

but Gomi, even though hes my favorite, needs to get dropped. dude is fighting soon, but it has been over a year, that mandates a drop in rankings

[tapper]

too many to argue with, but at least fedor is still on top. how is gomi still #1, and shouldn't hendo be in a different weight class.

[Dork8503]

Originally Posted by Ramma

Those LW rankings are awful.

HW seems to be the only division I pretty much agree with.

Randy at number 3 LOL.

and no one mentions that Gabe loses 2 in a row an still is number 7 or some shit, thats horse shit.

[mcptfc2007]

i dont see how shogun can be above hendo, hendo lost a close decision 2 rampage and shogun got beaten up by a non top 10, yet he is above hendo, i would swap them, rest of lhw looks ok,

hw looks ok 2 me, im happy josh barrnett is not 2nd or 3rd anymore although i would have him somewhere near 8 or 9th,

lw is a mess, how is bj 7th he should be 1st or 2nd

ww looks good

mw looks good

[mauladala]

Originally Posted by AJL416AZ

KID has not fought at 145 in a long time. his fight with Rani Yahya was at 135, and before that he spent a long time at 155.

Dude I'm pretty sure they fought at 145, not 135. He used to fight at 145 in Shooto, then went up to 155. This was his first fight at featherweight since Shooto. He deserves to be ranked in featherweight, esp. when people like Faber call him out.

Originally Posted by Warchief

No Kids allowed i think.

lol

[AJL416AZ]

i wasnt sure about that, since KID can easily make 135, and Yahya fought his last one at 35.