Poll results: Anderson Silva best of '09
Anderson Silva is already considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, and Fightin' Words readers re-echoed that thought in the results from the latest poll.
Here was the question: Who is the pound-for-pound best fighter in MMA at year's end?
Here are the results
31% - Anderson Silva
24% - Fedor Emelianenko
21% - Georges St-Pierre
10% - BJ Penn
3% - Lyoto Machida
1% - Someone else
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