Ranking Sherdog

Heavyweight

1. Cain Velasquez (9-0)
2. Brock Lesnar (5-2)
3. Fabricio Werdum (14-4-1)
4. Fedor Emelianenko (31-2, 1 NC)
5. Junior dos Santos (12-1)
6. Shane Carwin (12-1)
7. Frank Mir (14-5)
8. Alistair Overeem (33-11, 1 NC)
9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-6-1, 1 NC)
10. Antonio Silva (15-2)

Other contenders: Josh Barnett, Cole Konrad, Roy Nelson, Ben Rothwell, Brendan Schaub.


Light Heavyweight

1. Mauricio Rua (19-4)
2. Rashad Evans (15-1-1)
3 Quinton Jackson (31-8)
4. Lyoto Machida (16-2)
5. Forrest Griffin (17-6)
6. Ryan Bader (12-0)
7. Jon Jones (11-1)
8. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (19-4)
9. Rafael Cavalcante (10-2)
10. Muhammed Lawal (7-1)

Other contenders: Rich Franklin, Matt Hamill, Vladimir Matyushenko, Gegard Mousasi, Thiago Silva.


Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva (27-4)
2. Chael Sonnen (24-11-1)
3. Yushin Okami (26-5)
4. Nate Marquardt (30-10-2)
5. Demian Maia (14-2)
6. Vitor Belfort (19-8)
7. Dan Henderson (26-8)
8. Jorge Santiago (23-8)
9. Ronaldo Souza (13-2, 1 NC)
10. Michael Bisping (20-3)

Other contenders: Alan Belcher, Robbie Lawler, Chris Leben, Hector Lombard, Wanderlei Silva.


Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre (21-2)
2. Jon Fitch (23-3, 1 NC)
3. Thiago Alves (18-7)
4. Jake Shields (26-4-1)
5. Josh Koscheck (15-5)
6. Martin Kampmann (17-4)
7. Carlos Condit (26-5)
8. Dan Hardy (23-8, 1 NC)
9. Nick Diaz (23-7, 1 ND)
10. Paul Daley (26-9-2)

Other contenders: Ben Askren, Jake Ellenberger, John Hathaway, Jay Hieron, Mike Pyle.


Lightweight

1. Frankie Edgar (13-1)
2. Gilbert Melendez (18-2)
3. B.J. Penn (16-7-1)
4. Gray Maynard (10-0, 1 NC)
5. Shinya Aoki (26-5, 1 NC)
6. Eddie Alvarez (21-2)
7. Kenny Florian (14-5)
8. Tatsuya Kawajiri (26-6-2)
9. Sean Sherk (36-4-1)
10. Evan Dunham (11-1)

Other contenders: Benson Henderson, Jim Miller, Anthony Pettis, George Sotiropoulos, Josh Thomson.


Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo (18-1)
2. Manny Gamburyan (11-5)
3. Mike Thomas Brown (24-6)
4. Michihiro Omigawa (12-8-1)
5. Marlon Sandro (17-1)
6. Bibiano Fernandes (8-2)
7. Hatsu Hioki (22-4-2)
8. Josh Grispi (14-1)
9. Joe Warren (6-1)
10. Diego Nunes (15-1)

Other contenders: Raphael Assuncao, L.C. Davis, Mark Hominick, Chad Mendes, Joe Soto.


Bantamweight

1. Dominick Cruz (17-1)
2. Joseph Benavidez (13-2)
3. Brian Bowles (8-1)
4. Urijah Faber (24-4)
5. Scott Jorgensen (11-4)
6. Miguel Torres (38-3)
7. Takeya Mizugaki (13-5-2)
8. Brad Pickett (20-5)
9. Rani Yahya (15-6)
10. Masakatsu Ueda (11-1-2)

Other contenders: Wagnney Fabiano, Demetrious Johnson, Zach Makovsky, Michael McDonald, Eddie Wineland.

* With the entry of eighth-ranked Brad Pickett, previously 10th-ranked Wagnney Fabiano falls to the contenders list.


Flyweight

1. Jussier da Silva (9-0)
2. Yasuhiro Urushitani (17-4-6)
3. Mamoru Yamaguchi (24-5-3)
4. Yuki Shojo (10-5-2)
5. Ryuichi Miki (10-4-3)
6. Kiyotaka Shimizu (6-3-2)
7. Alexis Vila (8-0)
8. Fumihiro Kitahara (9-2-1)
9. Mitsuhisa Sunabe (13-6-4)
10. John Dodson (11-5)

Other contenders: Louis Gaudinot, Ulysses Gomez, Darrell Montague, Alexandre Pantoja, Masaaki Sugawara.