Lightweight

Rankings as of May 1, 2011

Rank	Prev. Rank	Fighter	Record	Promotion
1	1	Frankie Edgar	13-1-1	UFC
2	2	Gray Maynard	10-0-1, 1 NC	UFC
3	3	Gilbert Melendez	19-2	Strikeforce
4	4	Shinya Aoki	27-5, 1 NC	Strikeforce
5	5	Eddie Alvarez	22-2	Bellator
6	6	Jim Miller	20-2	UFC
7	7	Kenny Florian	13-5	UFC
8	8	Tatsuya Kawajiri	27-7-2	Strikeforce
9	9	Anthony Pettis	13-1	UFC
10	10	George Sotiropoulos	14-3	UFC
11	11	Josh Thomson	18-4, 1 NC	Strikeforce
12	12	Melvin Guillard	27-8-2, 1 NC	UFC
13	13	Sean Sherk	36-4-1	UFC
14	14	Clay Guida	28-11	UFC
15	15	Dennis Siver	18-7	UFC
16	16	Evan Dunham	11-2	UFC
17	17	Ben Henderson	13-2	UFC
18	18	Takanori Gomi	32-7, 1 NC	UFC
19	19	Nik Lentz	21-3-2	UFC
20	20	Kurt Pellegrino	16-6	UFC
21	21	Gesias Cavalcante	15-4-1, 1 NC	Strikeforce
22	22	Mac Danzig	20-8-1	UFC
23	23	Satoru Kitaoka	28-10-9	Freelance
24	24	Tyson Griffin	14-5	UFC
25	25	Yves Edwards	40-16-1	UFC

Lightweight Fight Results – May 2011

Pancrase Impressive Tour 4 (5/3/2011)

• Lightweight Title: Koji Oishi (NR) d. Daisuke Hanazawa (NR)
• Lightweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Isao Kobayashi (NR) d. Yukinari Tamura (NR)
• Lightweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Kota Okazawa (NR) d. Katsuya Inoue (NR)
• Lightweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Kazuki Tokudome (NR) d. Hiroki Aoki (NR)

NAFC – Mayhem (5/6/2011)

• Danny Downes (NR) d. Tory Bogguess (NR)

Tachi Palace Fights 9 (5/6/2011)

• Fabricio Camoes (NR) d. Efrain Escudero (NR)

Bellator 43 (5/7/2011)

• Michael Osborn (NR) d. Mike Schatz (NR)

WAFC – Mayor’s Cup 2011 (5/7/2011)

• Alexander Sarnavskiy (NR) d. Douglas Evans (NR)

XFO 39 (5/13/2011)

• Jamie Varner (NR) d. Tyler Combs (NR)

Bellator 44 (5/14/2011)

• Lightweight Tournament Finals: Michael Chandler (NR) d. Patricky Freire (NR)

FFW 3 (5/20/2011)

• Brian Cobb (NR) d. Radley Martinez (NR)

Superior Cage Combat (5/20/2011)

• Justin Buchholz (NR) d. Steve Lopez (NR)
  

BAMMA 6 (5/21/2011)

• Leonardo Santos (NR) d. Jason Ball (NR)

Belator 45 (5/21/2011)

• Rene Nazare (NR) d. Kelvin Hackney (NR)

Shooto – Gig Tokyo 6 (5/28/2011)

• Kenichiro Togashi (NR) d. Shin Kochiwa (NR)

UFC 130 (5/28/2011)

• Gleison Tibau (NR) d. Rafaello Oliveira (NR)

DREAM Fight for Japan Bantamweight Tournament (5/29/2011)

• Shinya Aoki (No. 4 LW) d. Rich Clementi (NR)
• Katsunori Kikuno (NR) d. Daisuke Nakamura (NR)