UFC light-heavyweight Jon Jones takes the number 2 spot in Yahoo! Sports’ pound-for-pound MMA rankings, stealing it away from long-time welterweight contender Georges St-Pierre.
While middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva still holds the top spot, he is no longer the consensus number one.
Silva recieved 19 first-place votes and one second. Jones recieved one first-place vote, 12 seconds, five thirds, one fourth, and one fifth. GSP recieved seven second-place votes, 12 thirds, and one fourth. Ten points are alloted per first-place vote, and only one for a 10th place vote.
The full results included:
1.Anderson Silva, 199 points (19 first-place votes)
2.Jon Jones, 171 (1)
3.Georges St-Pierre, 166
4.Frankie Edgar, 131
5.Jose Aldo, 127
6.Dominick Cruz, 102
7.Junior Dos Santos, 63
8.Gilbert Melendez, 43
9.Jon Fitch, 32
10.Dan Henderson, 21
