MMA Rankings Updated: January 25, 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 Josh Barnett 

#9 Frank Mir 

#10 Mark Hunt 

#11 Antonio Silva 

#12 Ben Rothwell 

#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 Anderson Silva 

#4 Vitor Belfort 

#5 Yoel Romero 

#6 Lyoto Machida 

#7 Ronaldo Souza 

#8 Kelvin Gastelum 

#9 Robert Whittaker 

#10 Uriah Hall 

#11 Gegard Mousasi 

#12 Michael Bisping 

#13 Roan Carneiro 

#14 Mark Munoz 

#15 Nate Marquardt

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

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 Tyron Woodley

#5 Carlos Condit 

#6 Neil Magny 

#7 Kelvin Gastelum 

#8 Stephen Thompson 

#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
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 +1

#6 Shinya Aoki +1

#7 Beneil Dariush +1

#8 Nate Diaz +1

#9 Michael Johnson +1

#10 Tony Ferguson +1

#11 Edson Barboza +1

#12 Josh Thomson +1

#13 Al Iaquinta +1

#14 Evan Dunham +1

#15 Gleison Tibau +1

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 Ian McCall

#4 Ali Bagautinov

#5 John Dodson 

#6 Zach Makovsky 

#7 Tim Elliott 

#8 Kyoji Horiguchi 

#9 Louis Gaudinot 

#10 Kairat Akhmetov 

#11 Adriano Moraes 

#12 Henry Cejudo 

#13 Jussier Da Silva 

#14 John Moraga 

#15 Dustin Ortiz 

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

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