MMA Rankings Updated: August 19, 2013

Heavyweight (265)

#1 Cain Velasquez 

#2 Junior Dos Santos

#3 Daniel Cormier

#4 Antonio Silva 

#5 Travis Browne +7

#6 Alistair Overeem -1

#7 Fabricio Werdum -1

#8 Frank Mir -1

#9 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira -1

#10 Josh Barnett -1

#11 Mark Hunt -1

The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Dan Henderson on 7/30/2012
Fedor Emelianenko on 6/21/2013
Brock Lesnar on 12/30/2012
Shane Carwin on 6/11/2012
Randy Couture on 8/28/2011

Light Heavyweight (205)

#1 Jon Jones

#2 Phil Davis 

#3 Lyoto Machida 

#4 Rashad Evans 

#5 Dan Henderson 

#6 Alexander Gustafsson 

#7 Chael Sonnen +7

#8 Mauricio Rua -1

#9 Ryan Bader -1

#10 Glover Teixeira -1 
 
#11 Quinton Jackson -1 

#12 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira -1 

#13 Anderson Silva -1 

The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Forrest Griffin on 7/07/2013 

Middleweight (185)

#1 Chris Weidman 

#2 Anderson Silva 

#3 Cung Le

#4 Rich Franklin

#5 Constantinos Philippou 

#6 Mark Munoz 

#7 Tim Boetsch 

#8 Yushin Okami 

The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013
Nate Marquardt on 3/19/2012
Martin Kampmann on 9/06/2009
Demian Maia on 1/28/2013 

Welterweight (170)

#1 Georges St Pierre 

#2 Johny Hendricks 

#3 Martin Kampmann 

#4 Rory MacDonald 

#5 Jake Ellenberger 

#6 Jake Shields 

#7 Carlos Condit 

#8 Nick Diaz 

#9 Demian Maia 

#10 Josh Burkman 

#11 Jon Fitch 

#12 BJ Penn 

Lightweight (155)

#1 Ben Henderson

#2 TJ Grant 

#3 Gray Maynard 

#4 Gilbert Melendez 

#5 Michael Chandler 

#6 Eddie Alvarez 

#7 Shinya Aoki 

#8 Diego Sanchez 

#9 Anthony Pettis 

#10 Josh Thomson 

#11 Nate Diaz 

The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Frankie Edgar on 8/11/2013 
BJ Penn on 8/28/2011
Tatsuya Kawajiri on 7/26/2012
Sean Sherk on 9/25/2011
Kenny Florian on 8/28/2011
Clay Guida on 6/22/2013 

Featherweight (145)

#1 Jose Aldo 

#2 Chad Mendes

#3 Darren Elkins 

#4 Nik Lentz 

#5 Hacran Dias  

#6 Ricardo Lamas 

#7 Cub Swanson 

#8 Dennis Siver 
 
#9 Diego Nunes 

#10 Manny Gamburyan +2

#11 Tatsuya Kawajiri -1

The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Yuri Alcantara on 6/23/2013 
Kenny Florian on 10/08/2012

Bantamweight (135)

#1 Renan Barao

#2 Urijah Faber

#3 Eddie Wineland

#4 George Roop

#5 Brian Bowles  

#6 Michael McDonald 

#7 Marlon Moraes

#8 Miguel Torres 

#9 Raphael Assuncao 

#10 Brad Pickett 

#11 Mike Easton

#12 Takeya Mizugaki 

#13 TJ Dillashaw 

#14 Hugo Viana 

#15 Reuben Duran 

 The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Dominick Cruz on 10/01/2012
Joseph Benavidez on 8/14/2012
Demetrious Johnson on 10/01/2012
Will Ribeiro on 12/03/2009
Chris Cariaso on 2/25/2013
John Dodson on 12/03/2012 

Flyweight (125)

#1 Demetrious Johnson 

#2 Joseph Benavidez 

#3 Ian McCall

#4 John Lineker 

#5 Yasuhiro Urushitani 

#6 John Dodson 

#7 Jussier Da Silva 

#8 Yosuke Saruta 

#9 Ryuichi Miki 

#9 Kentaro Watanabe 

#10 Nam Jin Jo 

The following fighters were removed from this division's rankings due to inactivity:

Louis Gaudinot on 5/05/2013