August 2010 MMA Rankings

Just like almost everyone else who covers this sport, I have my own set of rankings that I update each month as well. Starting next month, I'll have parenthesis to show where a fighter was ranked the previous month, if they were ranked at all that is.

Notable new inclusions this month include rising light heavyweight sensation Jon Jones, who cracks my light heavyweight rankings after his quick domination of Vladimir Matyushenko and UFC hall-of-fame member Matt Hughes, who submitted Ricardo Almeida this past weekend at UFC 117.

Heavyweight

1. Brock Lesnar
2. Fedor Emelianenko
3. Fabricio Werdum
4. Cain Velasquez
5. Shane Carwin
6. Frank Mir
7. Junior Dos Santos
8. Alistair Overeem
9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
10. Josh Barnett

Light Heavyweight

1. Mauricio Rua
2. Lyoto Machida
3. Rashad Evans
4. Quinton Jackson
5. Forrest Griffin
6. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
7. Muhammed Lawal
8. Gegard Mousasi
9. Rich Franklin
10. Jon Jones

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva
2. Chael Sonnen
3. Jake Shields
4. Nate Marquardt
5. Dan Henderson
6. Demian Maia
7. Vitor Belfort
8. Yushin Okami
9. Jorge Santiago
10. Ronaldo Souza

Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre
2. Jon Fitch
3. Thiago Alves
4. Dan Hardy
5. Josh Koscheck
6. Martin Kampmann
7. Paulo Thiago
8. Paul Daley
9. Nick Diaz
10. Matt Hughes

Lightweight

1. Frankie Edgar
2. B.J. Penn
3. Gilbert Melendez
4. Shinya Aoki
5. Eddie Alvarez
6. Kenny Florian
7. Gray Maynard
8. Tatsuya Kawajiri
9. Ben Henderson
10. Evan Dunham

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo
2. Manny Gamburyan
3. Mike Brown
4. Urijah Faber
5. Bibiano Fernandes
6. Michihiro Omigawa
7. Hatsu Hioki
8. Marlon Sandro
9. Josh Grispi
10. Diego Nunes

Bantamweight

1. Dominick Cruz
2. Brian Bowles
3. Joseph Benavidez
4. Miguel Torres
5. Scott Jorgensen
6. Damacio Page
7. Takeya Mizugaki
8. Shuichiro Katsumura
9. Masakatsu Ueda
10. Charlie Valencia