July rankings

Day early but oh well. Really struggling to find thing to talk about these days, such a slow period in mma right now.

HEAVYWEIGHT
1. Fedor Emelianenko, 2. Josh Barnett, 3. Frank Mir, 4. Rodrigo Nogueira, 5. Brock Lesnar, 6. Randy Couture, 7. Brett Rogers, 8. Andrei Arlovski, 9. Shane Carwin, 10. Junior dos Santos

*Big shake up over the past month. Rogers crashes the rankings at number 7 after upsetting Arlovski who falls from 3 to 8. With Arlovski dropping, Mir, Nogueira, Lesnar, and Couture all move up one spot. Tim Sylvia drops out of the rankings from the 7 spot due to his loss to Ray Mercer. Frabicio Werdum also exits the rankings due to inactivity. This allows Shane Carwin to debut in the rankings at number 9.

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
1. Lyoto Machida, 2. Rashad Evans, 3. Forrest Griffin, 4. Quinton Jackson, 5. Mauricio Rua, 6. Renato Sobral, 7. Rogerio Nogueira, 8. Luiz Arthur Cane, 9. Rich Franklin, 10. Thiago Silva.

*Wanderlei Silva exits the rankings from the number 6 spot following his loss to Rich Franklin who enters at number 9. Sobral, Nogueira, and Cane all move up one spot.

MIDDLEWEIGHT
1. Anderson Silva, 2. Dan Henderson, 3. Yushin Okami, 4. Demian Maia, 5. Nathan Marquardt, 6. Robbie Lawler, 7. Jorge Santiago, 8. Thales Leties, 9. Kazuo Misaki, 10. Vitor Belfort

*Lawler drops from 4 to 6 following his loss to Jake Shields which allows Maia and Marquardt to move up one spot each.

WELTERWEIGHT
1. Georges St. Pierre, 2. Thiago Alves, 3. Jake Shields, 4. Jon Fitch, 5. Matt Hughes, 6. Karo Parisyan, 7. Paulo Thiago, 8. Josh Koscheck, 9. Martin Kampmann, 10. Mike Swick

*Nick Thompson exits from the 10 spot following his loss to Tim Kennedy. His departure allows Mike Swick to enter the top 10.

LIGHTWEIGHT
1. BJ Penn, 2. Joachim Hansen, 3. Kenny Florian, 4. Tatsuya Kawajiri, 5. Eddie Alvarez, 6. Frankie Edgar, 7. Sean Sherk, 8. Gesias Calvancanti, 9. Hayato Sakurai, 10. Shinya Aoki

FEATHERWEIGHT
1. Mike Thomas Brown, 2. Urijah Faber, 3. Jose Aldo, 4. Leonard Garcia, 5. Wagnney Fabiano, 6. Takeshi Inoue, 7. Akitsohi Tamura, 8. Hatsu Hioki, 9. Dokonjonosuke Mishima, 10. Marlon Sandro

BANTAMWEIGHT
1. Miguel Torres, 2. Shinichi Kojima, 3. Eduardo Dantas, 4. Mamaru Yamaguchi, 5. Masakatsu Ueda, 6. Akitoshi Hokazono, 7. Yuki Shoujou, 8. Yasuhiro Urushitani, 9. So Tazawa, 10. Brian Bowles

POUND-FOR-POUND
1. Anderson Silva, 2. Georges St. Pierre, 3. Fedor Emelianenko, 4. Lyoto Machida, 5. Miguel Torres, 6. BJ Penn, 7. Rashad Evans, 8. Mike Thomas Brown, 9. Forrest Griffin, 10. Quinton Jackson