It's MMAzing Consensus Staff Rankings for May 2012

**Note: For an explanation of how we came to these rankings, please listen to Episode 11 of It's MMAzing Radio.**

Heavyweight

1. Junior Dos Santos

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2. Cain Velasquez
3. Alistair Overeem
4. Daniel Cormier
5. Frank Mir
6. Fabricio Werdum
7. Shane Carwin
8. Josh Barnett
9. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
10. Mark Hunt

Light Heavyweight

1. Jon Jones
2. Dan Henderson
3. Rashad Evans
4. Mauricio Rua
5. Lyoto Machida
6. Ryan Bader
7. Phil Davis
8. Alexander Gustafsson
9. Quinton Jackson
10. Rafael Cavalcante

Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva
2. Chael Sonnen
3. Mark Munoz
4. Vitor Belfort
5. Michael Bisping
6. Tim Boetsch
7. Yushin Okami
8. Alan Belcher
9. Brian Stann
10. Hector Lombard

Welterweight

1. Georges St-Pierre
2. Carlos Condit
3. Nick Diaz
4. Johny Hendricks
5. Jake Ellenberg

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6. Jon Fitch
7. Josh Koscheck
8. Martin Kampmann
9. Rory MacDonald
10. Ben Askren

Lightweight

1. Benson Henderson
2. Frankie Edgar
3. Gilbert Melendez
4. Nate Diaz
5. Gray Maynard
6. Clay Guida
7. Anthony Pettis
8. Jim Miller
9. Michael Chandler
10. Eddie Alvarez



Featherweight

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1. Jose Aldo
2. Hatsu Hioki
3. Pat Curran
4. Chan Sung Jung
5. Chad Mendes
6. Denis Siver
7. Dustin Poirer
8. Erik Koch
9. Diego Nunes
10. Daniel Straus

Bantamweight

1. Dominick Cruz
2. Urijah Faber
3. Renan Barao
4. Michael McDonald
5. Brian Bowles
6. Scott Jorgensen

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7. Brad Pickett
8. Eduardo Dantas
9. Miguel Torres
10. Bibiano Fernandes

Flyweight

1. Joseph Benavidez
2. Ian McCall
3. Demetrious Johnson
4. Jusserio da Silva
5. Yasuhiro Urushitani
6. John Dodson
7. Mamoru Yamaguchi
8. Louis Gaudinot
9. Darrell Montague
10. Shinichi Kojima