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The Last Emperor has fallen and a new king has taken over the heavyweight division.

With his shocking first round loss to Fabricio Werdum, Fedor Emelianenko gave up his stranglehold amongst heavyweights in favour of UFC champion Brock Lesnar. In his first title defence since his illness, Lesnar survived a first round flurry from challenger Shane Carwin and emerged victorious.

Find out where the rest of the world's best fighters stand in the August edition of the TSN.ca mixed martial arts rankings.



Heavyweight

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

Didn't Make The Cut: Brett Rogers, Andrei Arlovski, Roy Nelson, Josh Barnett, Ben Rothwell

Light Heavyweight

1) Mauricio (Shogun) Rua
2) Lyoto Machida
3) Rashad Evans
4) Quinton (Rampage) Jackson
5) Jon Jones
6) Muhammed (King Mo) Lawal
7) Gegard Mousasi
8 ) Forrest Griffin
9) Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
10)Thiago Silva

Didn't Make The Cut: Randy Couture, Ryan Bader, Rich Franklin, Renato (Babalu) Sobral

Middleweight

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

Didn't Make The Cut: Wanderlei Silva, Ronaldo Souza, Hector Lombard, Alan Belcher

Welterweight

1) Georges St. Pierre
2) Jon Fitch
3) Thiago Alves
4) Josh Koscheck
5) Dan Hardy
6) Jake Shields
7) Martin Kampmann
8 ) Paulo Thiago
9) Nick Diaz
10) Carlos Condit

Didn't Make The Cut: Paul Daley, Matt Hughes, Jay Hieron, Rory MacDonald, John Hathaway

Lightweight

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

Didn't Make The Cut: Takanori Gomi, Ben Henderson, Jim Miller, Josh Thomson, Tyson Griffin

Chris

Aug 6 2010, 04:17 AM

Fedor Emalienko is a pussy. He could've gone to the UFC to really prove himself as the world's best heavyweight, but he didn't want any competition. He should be number one on that list.