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  January 8, 2009

  Forrest Ranks #3 on SportsIllustrated.com's Top MMA Fighters List

  Forrest Griffin ranked #3 on SportsIllustrated.com's list of top MMA fighters, behind Rashad Evans and Quinton Jackson. Others in the light heavyweight list include (in order): Lyoto Machida, Dan Henderson, Chuck Liddell, Wanderlei Silva, Keith Jardine, Vladimir Matyushenko, and Thiago Silva.

  The article also notes that 60% of the 70 fighters on the list compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship or World Extreme Cagefighting. Also noteworthy is that 40 of the fighters are from the U.S.; for the time being, it appears that America is the leading manufacturer of top mixed martial artists.

  Source: SportsIllustrated.com / MMA Rankings

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