MMA Rankings Updated: August 25, 2014

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Cain Velasquez 

#2 Junior Dos Santos

#3 Daniel Cormier

#4 Fabricio Werdum 

#5 Travis Browne 

#6 Josh Barnett 

#7 Mark Hunt 

#8 Antonio Silva 

#9 Alistair Overeem  

#10 Frank Mir 

#11 Stipe Miocic 

#12 Roy Nelson 

#13 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 

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 Vitor Belfort 

#3 Anthony Johnson 

#4 Phil Davis 

#5 Rashad Evans 

#6 Daniel Cormier 

#7 Dan Henderson 

#8 Alexander Gustafsson 

#9 Chael Sonnen 

#10 Mauricio Rua  

#11 Glover Teixeira 

#12 Ryan Bader 

#13 Quinton Jackson   

#14 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 

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

Lyoto Machida on 8/03/2014
Anderson Silva on 10/13/2013

Middleweight (185)

#1 Chris Weidman 

#2 Anderson Silva 

#3 Luke Rockhold  

#4 Lyoto Machida    

#5 Gegard Mousasi 

#6 Ronaldo Souza  

#7 Tim Kennedy +9

#8 Michael Bisping +8

#9 Cung Le +7

#10 Mark Munoz -3

#11 CB Dollaway -3

#12 Thales Leites +4

#13 Francis Carmont -4

#14 Constantinos Philippou -4  

#15 Tim Boetsch -4

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

Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013
Vitor Belfort on 5/18/2014  
Rich Franklin on 11/10/2013 

Welterweight (170)

#1 Georges St Pierre 

#2 Johny Hendricks 

#3 Rory MacDonald 

#4 Tyron Woodley  

#5 Carlos Condit 

#6 Martin Kampmann 

#7 Robbie Lawler 

#8 Jake Ellenberger 

#9 Hector Lombard 

#10 Jake Shields 

#11 Demian Maia 

#12 Dong Hyun Kim 

#13 Matt Brown 

#14 Ben Askren 

#15 Douglas Lima 

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

Nick Diaz on 3/16/2014

Lightweight (155)

#1 Anthony Pettis 

#2 Khabib Nurmagomedov +14

#3 Rafael Dos Anjos +13

#4 Ben Henderson -2

#5 Gilbert Melendez -2   

#6 Eddie Alvarez -2

#7 Shinya Aoki -2

#8 Bobby Green -2

#9 Josh Thomson -2

#10 Nate Diaz -2

#11 Myles Jury -2

#12 Diego Sanchez -2

#13 Ross Pearson -2

#14 Gray Maynard -2

#15 Will Brooks -2

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

Frankie Edgar on 8/11/2013 
TJ Grant on 5/25/2014 
Tatsuya Kawajiri on 7/26/2012
BJ Penn on 8/28/2011

Featherweight (145)

#1 Jose Aldo 

#2 Chad Mendes

#3 Ricardo Lamas 

#4 Cub Swanson 

#5 Jeremy Stephens 

#6 Darren Elkins 

#7 Nik Lentz 

#8 Hacran Dias 

#9 Dennis Siver 

#10 Pat Curran 

#11 Daniel Straus  

#12 Patricio Freire 

#13 Daniel Weichel 

#14 Matt Bessette 

#15 Diego Nunes 

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 Raphael Assuncao  

#2 TJ Dillashaw  

#3 Renan Barao 

#4 Urijah Faber  

#5 Johnny Eduardo 

#6 Eddie Wineland  

#7 Michael McDonald  

#8 Takeya Mizugaki  

#9 Francisco Rivera 

#10 Rob Font 

#11 George Roop 

#12 Marlon Moraes 

#13 Yves Jabouin 

#14 Mike Easton 

#15 Aljamain Sterling 

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
Chris Cariaso on 2/25/2013
Brian Bowles on 5/25/2014
Demetrious Johnson on 10/01/2012
Miguel Torres on 11/03/2013
Will Ribeiro on 12/03/2009
Brad Pickett on 8/17/2014
John Dodson on 12/03/2012

Flyweight (125)

#1 Demetrious Johnson 

#2 Joseph Benavidez 

#3 Ian McCall

#4 Ali Bagautinov 

#5 Tim Elliott 

#6 Louis Gaudinot 

#7 John Lineker 

#8 Adriano Moraes 

#9 Yasuhiro Urushitani 

#10 John Dodson 

#11 Jussier Da Silva 

#12 John Moraga 

#13 Dustin Ortiz 

#14 Justin Scoggins 

#15 Will Campuzano