Sherdog Top Ten Ranking Votes

[Shooto Panama]

First, thanks to everyone for contribute in the official Sherdog top 10 ranking (10 pts is given for a #1 ranking, down to 1 pt for #10). Under the same line a big thanks to stl_81_99, THE-REALITY, wamrage, Superstyler, jiveturkish and Theagenes for take the time to help me out with the different weight divisions.

Debate about the ranking here:

Heavyweight:

1. Fedor Emelianenko (1403 pts)
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (1189 pts)
3. Mirko Filipovic (1150 pts)
4. Andrei Arlovski (968 pts)
5. Sergei Kharitinov (696 pts)
6. Frank Mir (671 pts)
7. Alexsander Emelianenko (350 pts)
8. Josh Barnett (309 pts)
9. Tim Sylvia (249 pts)
10. Pedro Rizzo (200 pts)

Others who recieved a substantial number of points:

11. Heath Herring (156 pts)
12. Paul Buentello (116 pts)
13. Mark Hunt (76 pts)
14. Ricco Rodriguez (52 pts)
15. Kazuyuki Fujita (48 pts)

Light Heavyweight:

1. Wanderlei Silva (300 pts; 30 1st place votes)
2. Chuck Liddell (266 pts)
3. Randy Couture (220 pts)
4. Mauricio Rua (193 pts)
5. Ricardo Arona (166 pts)
6. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (132 pts)
7. Renato Sobral (118 pts)
8. Quinton Jackson (89 pts)
9. Alistair Overeem (87 pts)
10. Tito Ortiz (45 pts)

Others receiving votes:

11. Igor Vovchanchyn (15 pts)
12. Dan Henderson (9 pts)
13. Yuki Kondo (4 pts)
14. Murilo Rua (3 pts)
15. Hidehiko Yoshida (2 pts)
16. Kazushi Sakuraba (1 pt)
16. Ryoto Machida (1 pt)

Middleweight:

1. Rich Franlkin (1170 pts; 94 1st place votes)
2. Jeremy Horn (824 pts)
3. Evan Tanner (772 pts)
4. Ryo Chonan (736 pts)
5. Matt Lindland (552 pts)
6. Anderson Silva (468 pts)
7. David Terrell (376 pts)
8. Ivan Salaverry (326 pts)
9. BJ Penn (299 pts)
10. Nathan Marquardt (174 pts)

Others to receive votes:

11. David Loiseau (162 pts)
12. Paulo Filho (142 pts)
13. Murillo Bustamante (106 pts)
14. Lee Murray (50 pts)
15. Joey Villasenor (37 pts)
16. Akihiro Gono (29 pts)
17. Kazuo Misaki (21 pts)

Welterweight:

1. Matt Hughes (1070 pts; 89 1st place votes)
2. Georges St.Pierre (897 pts)
3. Frank Trigg (794 pts)
4. Karo Parisyan (689 pts)
5. Sean Sherk (515 pts)
6. Nick Diaz (492 pts)
7. Charuto Verrisimo (344 pts)
8. Akira Kikuchi (258 pts)
9. Jason "Mayhem Miller" (104 pts)
10. Jason Black (68 pts)

Others receiving votes:

Katsuya Inoue, Chris Lytle, Jutaro Nakao, Jake Shields, Duane Ludwig

Lightweights:

1. Takanori Gomi (997 pts; 68 1st place votes)
2. Tatsuya Kawajiri (851 pts)
3. Yves Edwards (786 pts)
4. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro (716 pts)
5. Joachim Hansen (621 pts)
6. Jens Pulver (482 pts)
7. Genki Sudo (448 pts)
8. Josh Thomson (273 pts)
9. Caol Uno (168 pts)
10. Hermes Franca (147 pts)

Others receiving votes:

11. Luiz Azeredo (114 pts)
12. Dokonjonosuke Mishima (49 pts)
13. Luiz Firmino (41 pts)
14. Kotetsu Boku (33 pts)
15. Takashi Nakakura (20 pts)

Featherweight:

1. Alexandre Franca Nogueira "Pequeno" (533 pts)
2. Gilbert Melendez (412 pts)
3. Rumina Sato (334 pts)
4. Norifumi Yamamoto (307 pts)
5. Joao Roque (304 pts)
6. Hiroyuki Takaya (188 pts)
7. Ivan Menjivar (186 pts)
8. Urijah Faber (129 pts)
9. Yoshiro Maeda (102 pts)
10. Jeff Curran (76 pts)

Others recieving votes:

11. Remigijus Morkevicus (69 pts)
12. Stephen Palling (63 pts)
13. Makoto Ishikawa (44 pts)
14. Naoya Uematsu (40 pts)
15. Masakazu Imanari (24 pts)
16. Hiroyuki Abe (21 pts)

Sherdog users favorite fighter:

1) Wanderlei Silva (357 pts)
2) Emilianenko Fedor (324 pts)
3) Mirko Crocop (282 pts)
4) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (233 pts)
5) Randy Couture (222 pts)
5) Kazushi Sakuraba (222 pts)
7) Quinton Jackson (219 pts)
8) George St Pierre (172 pts)
9) Chuck Liddell (152 pts)
10) Genki Sudo (132 pts)

Others recieving votes:

11) Igor Vovchanchyn (131 pts)
12) Andrei Arlovski (121 pts)
13) Takanora Gomi (115 pts)
14) Matt Hughes (110 pts)
15) BJ Penn (101 pts)
16) Rich Franklin (97 pts)
17) Vitor Belfort (80 pts)
18) Ricardo Arona (79 pts)
19) Yves Edwards (67 pts)
19) Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (67 pts)