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UFC Top 10 Rankings by division



HW

1 Lesnar

2 Carwin

3 Velasquez

4 Dos Santos

5 Mir

6 Nog

7 Gonzaga

8 Kongo

9 Nelson

10 Duffee

LHW

1 Machida

2 Rua

3 Evans

4 Jackson

5 Jones

6 T Silva

7 Couture

8 Franklin

9 Griffin

10 Vera

MW

1 Silva

2 Sonnen

3 Belfort

4 Marquardt

5 Wanderlei

6 Akiyama

7 Maia

8 Bisping

9 Almeida

10 Okami

WW

1 St. Pierre

2 Fitch

3 Alves

4 Koscheck

5 Daley

6 Hardy

7 Thiago

8 Kampmann

9 Condit

10 Johnson

LW

1 Edgar

2 Penn

3 Maynard

4 Florian

5 Sanchez

6 Griffin

7 Diaz

8 Guida

9 Sotropoulus

10 Pelligrino

I always see top 10 lists where we guess how guys from other companies would rank versus UFC fighters.  I thought it would be interesting to see how we think Dana White and Joe Silva would rank the UFC contenders.  For instance, I think if Rua beats Machida at UFC 113, then Anderson Silva will become the number one contender for the LHW belt if he puts on a good performance against Sonnen at UFC 117.  However, if Machida wins, then I think Dana will have no desire to have Anderson beat up any other potential contenders at LHW.  Instead, he will pray that Rampage beats Sugar and then agrees to fight Machida next.  He will want Jon Jones to beat up one more big name before giving him a shot at the title.  At WW, the more convincing victor between the Fitch/Alves and the Kos/Daley fight will get GSP next.  At HW, he will stay moot about Velasquez and Dos Santos in case Lesnar or Carwin get injured and he needs one of them to step up (the former being the first choice).  If the fight looks like it is for sure going to happen, then he has Cain vs. Junior to set up the next number one contender.  Who else wants to play Dana White or Joe Silva (I think I just came up with a new career mode for their 2011 game... play as Dana White and try to rake in the money and put the other companies out of business.)

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