MMA Rankings Updated: February 1, 2016

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Fabricio Werdum 

#2 Cain Velasquez  

#3 Stipe Miocic 

#4 Andrei Arlovski 

#5 Travis Browne 

#6 Alistair Overeem 

#7 Junior Dos Santos 

#8 Ben Rothwell +4

#9 Josh Barnett -1

#10 Frank Mir -1

#11 Mark Hunt -1

#12 Antonio Silva -1

#13 Fedor Emelianenko 

#14 Roy Nelson 

#15 Jared Rosholt 

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

Daniel Cormier on 10/19/2014
Anthony Johnson on 3/23/2014
Dan Henderson on 7/30/2012
Brock Lesnar on 12/30/2012
Shane Carwin on 6/11/2011
Oleksiy Oliynyk on 11/22/2015

Light Heavyweight (205)

#1 Daniel Cormier 

#2 Anthony Johnson 

#3 Ryan Bader 

#4 Phil Davis 

#5 Rashad Evans 

#6 Alexander Gustafsson 

#7 Glover Teixeira 

#8 Ovince St Preux 

#9 Mauricio Rua 

#10 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 

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

Jon Jones on 1/03/2016 
Vitor Belfort on 11/09/2014
Lyoto Machida on 8/03/2014
Dan Henderson on 5/24/2015
Chael Sonnen on 11/16/2014
Quinton Jackson on 5/17/2015
Anderson Silva on 10/13/2013
Forrest Griffin on 7/07/2013

Middleweight (185)

#1 Luke Rockhold 

#2 Chris Weidman 

#3 Vitor Belfort +1

#4 Yoel Romero +1

#5 Lyoto Machida +1

#6 Ronaldo Souza +1

#7 Kelvin Gastelum +1

#8 Robert Whittaker +1

#9 Uriah Hall +1

#10 Gegard Mousasi +1

#11 Michael Bisping +1

#12 Roan Carneiro +1

#13 Mark Munoz +1 

#14 Nate Marquardt +1

#15 CB Dollaway +1

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

Anderson Silva on 1/31/2016 
Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013
Tim Kennedy on 9/27/2015
Cung Le on 8/23/2015
Rich Franklin on 6/23/2013

Welterweight (170)

#1 Robbie Lawler 

#2 Johny Hendricks 

#3 Rory MacDonald 

#4 Carlos Condit +1

#5 Neil Magny +1

#6 Kelvin Gastelum +1

#7 Stephen Thompson +1

#8 Tarec Saffiedine +9

#9 Jake Ellenberger 

#10 Rousimar Palhares 

#11 Jake Shields 

#12 Demian Maia 

#13 Dong Hyun Kim 

#14 Matt Brown 

#15 Ben Askren 

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

Georges St Pierre on 11/16/2014
Tyron Woodley on 1/31/2016 
Martin Kampmann on 8/28/2014 
Nick Diaz on 3/16/2014
Hector Lombard on 1/03/2016 

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#2 Eddie Alvarez 

#3 Anthony Pettis 

#4 Donald Cerrone 

#5 Gilbert Melendez 

#6 Shinya Aoki 

#7 Beneil Dariush 

#8 Nate Diaz 

#9 Michael Johnson 

#10 Tony Ferguson 

#11 Edson Barboza 

#12 Josh Thomson 

#13 Al Iaquinta 

#14 Evan Dunham 

#15 Gleison Tibau 

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

Khabib Nurmagomedov on 4/19/2015 
Ben Henderson on 1/18/2016 
Frankie Edgar on 8/11/2013 
TJ Grant on 5/25/2014 
Tatsuya Kawajiri on 7/26/2012
Myles Jury on 1/03/2016 
Bobby Green on 11/22/2015 
BJ Penn on 8/28/2011
Diego Sanchez on 6/07/2015 
Sean Sherk on 9/25/2011 

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Conor McGregor 

#2 Jose Aldo 

#3 Frankie Edgar 

#4 Chad Mendes 

#5 Ricardo Lamas 

#6 Max Holloway 

#7 Cub Swanson 

#8 Charles Oliveira 

#9 Jeremy Stephens 

#10 Nik Lentz 

#11 Hacran Dias 

#12 Darren Elkins 

#13 Brian Ortega 

#14 Diego Brandao 

#15 Dennis Bermudez 

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

Iuri Alcantara on 6/23/2013
Kenny Florian on 10/08/2012
Chan Sung Jung on 8/03/2014
Dustin Poirier on 9/27/2015

Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Dominick Cruz 

#2 TJ Dillashaw 

#3 Renan Barao 

#4 Urijah Faber 

#5 Aljamain Sterling 

#6 Johnny Eduardo 

#7 Michael McDonald 

#8 Takeya Mizugaki 

#9 Bryan Caraway 

#10 Eddie Wineland 

#11 John Lineker 

#12 Francisco Rivera 

#13 Rob Font 

#14 George Roop 

#15 Marlon Moraes 

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

Raphael Assuncao on 10/04/2015
Joseph Benavidez on 8/14/2012
Chris Cariaso on 2/25/2013
Brian Bowles on 5/25/2014
Demetrious Johnson on 10/01/2012

Flyweight (125)

#1 Demetrious Johnson 

#2 Joseph Benavidez 

#3 Ali Bagautinov +1

#4 John Dodson +1

#5 Zach Makovsky +1

#6 Tim Elliott +1

#7 Kyoji Horiguchi +1

#8 Louis Gaudinot +1

#9 Kairat Akhmetov +1

#10 Adriano Moraes +1

#11 Henry Cejudo +1

#12 Jussier Da Silva +1

#13 John Moraga +1

#14 Wilson Reis +2

#15 Dustin Ortiz 

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

Ian McCall on 1/31/2016 
John Lineker on 7/16/2015 
Yasuhiro Urushitani on 3/14/2015

Women's Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Holly Holm 

#2 Ronda Rousey 

#3 Cat Zingano 

#4 Miesha Tate 

#5 Alexis Davis 

#6 Valentina Shevchenko 

#7 Sarah Kaufman 

#8 Liz Carmouche 

#9 Amanda Nunes 

#10 Sara McMann 

#11 Julianna Pena 

#12 Jessica Eye 

#13 Leslie Smith 

#14 Marion Reneau 

#15 Raquel Pennington 

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

Marloes Coenen on 7/30/2012

Kerry Vera on 11/20/2010

Jessica Rakoczy on 11/30/2014

Women's Strawweight (115)

#1 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 

#2 Claudia Gadelha 

#3 Jessica Aguilar  

#4 Carla Esparza 

#5 Rose Namajunas

#6 Jessica Penne 

#7 Valerie Letourneau 

#8 Maryna Moroz 

#9 Joanne Calderwood 

#10 Justine Kish 

#11 Livia Renata Souza 

#12 DeAnna Bennett 

#13 Katja KanKaanpaa 

#14 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 

#15 Randa Markos 

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

Stephanie Eggink on 9/06/2015