By Michael David Smith
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November has been an odd month for middleweights.
The UFC's middleweight division is basically taking the month off, with the undisputed No. 1 middleweight in the world, UFC champion
Anderson Silva, nursing an elbow injury and hinting that he doesn't think any of the UFC's other top middleweights are worthy opponents.
Meanwhile, two big middleweight fights happened in other promotions, but they didn't quite go according to plan:
Jake Shields beat
Jason "Mayhem" Miller to win the Strikeforce middleweight title in a fight that left the crowd booing, while Mamed Khalidov shocked Sengoku middleweight champion
Jorge Santiago.
And the guy who's probably the best middleweight after Silva --
Dan Henderson -- doesn't have a contract at the moment and isn't sure if he'll be fighting for the UFC or Strikeforce in 2010. So my list of the Top 10 middleweights in MMA shows a division in flux.
Top 10 Middleweights in MMA1. Anderson Silva
2. Dan Henderson
3. Nate Marquardt
4. Vitor Belfort
5. Jake Shields
6. Demian Maia
7. Chael Sonnen
8. Yoshihiro Akiyama
9. Yushin Okami
10. Mamed Khalidov
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