MMA Rankings Updated: September 8, 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 Ben Rothwell +6

#10 Alistair Overeem -1  

#11 Frank Mir -1

#12 Stipe Miocic -1

#13 Roy Nelson -1

#14 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira -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 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 Ronaldo Souza +1

#6 Gegard Mousasi -1

#7 Tim Kennedy 

#8 Michael Bisping 

#9 Cung Le 

#10 Mark Munoz 

#11 CB Dollaway 

#12 Thales Leites 

#13 Francis Carmont 

#14 Constantinos Philippou 

#15 Tim Boetsch 

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 Robbie Lawler 

#7 Jake Ellenberger 

#8 Hector Lombard 

#9 Jake Shields 

#10 Demian Maia 

#11 Dong Hyun Kim 

#12 Matt Brown 

#13 Ben Askren 

#14 Douglas Lima 

#15 Rousimar Palhares 

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

Martin Kampmann on 8/28/2014 
Nick Diaz on 3/16/2014

Lightweight (155)

#1 Khabib Nurmagomedov 

#2 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#3 Ben Henderson 

#4 Gilbert Melendez 

#5 Eddie Alvarez 

#6 Shinya Aoki 

#7 Bobby Green 

#8 Josh Thomson 

#9 Nate Diaz 

#10 Myles Jury 

#11 Diego Sanchez 

#12 Ross Pearson 

#13 Gray Maynard 

#14 Will Brooks 

#15 Michael Chandler 

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

Anthony Pettis on 8/31/2014
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 Patricio Freire +2

#11 Pat Curran -1

#12 Daniel Straus -1  

#13 Daniel Weichel 

#14 Scott Cleve +2

#15 Matt Bessette -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 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