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Boston Throwdown's Updated MMA Rankings

The UFC is off until August, and since their organization has more ranked fighters than any other combined, what better time than now to released our updated Boston Throwdown MMA Rankings.  Top 10s in Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight, Middleweight, Welterweight, Lightweight, and Pound-4-Pound.  Check out how they all stack up. 

BOSTON THROWDOWN MMA RANKINGS

Heavyweight

  1. Brock Lesnar                            (5-1)
  2. Shane Carwin                           (12-1)
  3. Cain Velasquez                        (8-0)
  4. Fedor Emelianenko               (31-2)
  5. Alistair Overeem                    (33-11, 1NC)
  6. Fabricio Werdum                   (14-4-1)
  7. Junior Dos Santos                  (11-1)
  8. Frank Mir                                   (13-5)
  9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-6-1)
  10. Roy Nelson                                (15-4)

Light Heavyweight

  1. Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua          (19-4)
  2. Rashad Evans                           (15-1-1)
  3. Lyoto Machida                        (16-1)
  4. Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson (30-8)
  5. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira   (19-3)
  6. Muhammad 'King Mo' Lawal (7-0)
  7. Jon Jones                                     (10-1)
  8. Gegard Mousasi                         (29-3-1)
  9. Forrest Griffin                            (17-6)
  10. Randy Couture                          (18-10)

Middleweight

  1. Anderson Silva                       (25-4)
  2. Jake Shields                             (25-4-1)
  3. Chael Sonnen                           (24-10-1)
  4. Vitor Belfort                            (19-8)
  5. Nate Marquardt                     (29-9-2)
  6. Dan Henderson                      (25-8)
  7. Demian Maia                           (12-2)
  8. Chris Leben                             (21-6)
  9. Alan Belcher                           (16-6)
  10. Robbie Lawler                        (17-5, 1 NC)

Welterweight

  1. Georges St. Pierre                 (20-2)
  2. Thiago Alves                           (16-6)
  3. Nick Diaz                                  (22-7)
  4. Jon Fitch                                  (22-3)
  5. Josh Koscheck                       (15-4)
  6. Martin Kampmann               (18-3)
  7. Dan Hardy                                (23-7)
  8. Matt Hughes                            (44-7)
  9. Ricardo Almeida                   (12-3)
  10. Paulo Thiago                           (13-3)

Lightweight

  1. Frankie Edgar                         (12-1)
  2. BJ Penn                                     (15-6-1)
  3. Eddie Alvarez                         (20-2)
  4. Gilbert Melendez                   (18-2)
  5. Kenny Florian                         (13-4)
  6. Benson Henderson                (12-1)
  7. Shinya Aoki                              (24-5)
  8. Gray Maynard                         (9-0)   
  9. Tatsuya Kawajiri                    (26-5-2)
  10. George Sotiropoulos            (13-2)

Pound-4-Pound

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Georges St. Pierre
  3. Brock Lesnar
  4. Jose Aldo
  5. Shogun Rua
  6. Rashad Evans
  7. Frankie Edgar
  8. BJ Penn
  9. Eddie Alvarez
  10. Jake Shields

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