MMA Rankings Updated: May 23, 2016

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Fabricio Werdum

#3 Cain Velasquez

#4 Alistair Overeem

#5 Andrei Arlovski 

#6 Travis Browne 

#7 Junior Dos Santos 

#8 Ben Rothwell 

#9 Josh Barnett 

#10 Mark Hunt

#11 Frank Mir 

#12 Roy Nelson 

#13 Jared Rosholt 

#14 Stefan Struve

#15 Antonio Silva 

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

Anthony Johnson on 3/23/2014
Daniel Cormier on 10/19/2014
Oleksiy Oliynyk on 11/22/2015

Light Heavyweight (205)

#1 Jon Jones 

#2 Daniel Cormier 

#3 Anthony Johnson 

#4 Ryan Bader 

#5 Phil Davis 

#6 Glover Teixeira 

#7 Rashad Evans 

#8 Alexander Gustafsson 

#9 Ovince St Preux 

#10 Mauricio Rua 

#11 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 

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

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 Yoel Romero 

#4 Ronaldo Souza 

#5 Michael Bisping 

#6 Anderson Silva 

#7 Vitor Belfort 

#8 Lyoto Machida 

#9 Kelvin Gastelum 

#10 Robert Whittaker 

#11 Uriah Hall 

#12 Gegard Mousasi 

#13 Derek Brunson 

#14 Roan Carneiro 

#15 Thiago Santos

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

Tim Kennedy on 9/27/2015
Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013
Cung Le on 8/23/2015
Rich Franklin on 6/23/2013
Mark Munoz on 5/16/2016

Welterweight (170)

#1 Robbie Lawler 

#2 Stephen Thompson 

#3 Johny Hendricks 

#4 Rory MacDonald 

#5 Carlos Condit 

#6 Neil Magny 

#7 Kelvin Gastelum 

#8 Tarec Saffiedine 

#9 Jake Ellenberger 

#10 Hector Lombard 

#11 Emil Weber Week +5

#12 Rousimar Palhares -1

#13 Jake Shields -1 

#14 Demian Maia -1

#15 Dong Hyun Kim -1

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

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#2 Eddie Alvarez 

#3 Edson Barboza 

#4 Anthony Pettis 

#5 Donald Cerrone 

#6 Gilbert Melendez

#7 Michael Chiesa +1

#8 Beneil Dariush +1 

#9 Nate Diaz +1 

#10 Michael Johnson +1 

#11 Tony Ferguson +1 

#12 Josh Thomson +1 

#13 Diego Sanchez +1 

#14 Evan Dunham +1 

#15 Gleison Tibau +1

(Nurmagomedov fought at welterweight therefore still inactive)

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 
Shinya Aoki on 5/22/2016
Tatsuya Kawajiri on 7/26/2012
Myles Jury on 1/03/2016 
Bobby Green on 11/22/2015 
BJ Penn on 8/28/2011
Al Iaquinta on 4/04/2016 
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 Thomas Almeida 

#13 Brad Pickett 

#14 Francisco Rivera 

#15 Rob Font 

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

Flyweight (125)

#1 Demetrious Johnson 

#2 Joseph Benavidez 

#3 Ali Bagautinov 

#4 John Dodson 

#5 Zach Makovsky 

#6 Tim Elliott 

#7 Kyoji Horiguchi 

#8 Louis Gaudinot 

#9 Kairat Akhmetov 

#10 Adriano Moraes 

#11 Henry Cejudo 

#12 Jussier Da Silva 

#13 Wilson Reis +1

#14 Dustin Ortiz +1

#15 Justin Scoggins +1

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
John Moraga on 5/23/2016

Women's Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Miesha Tate 

#2 Holly Holm 

#3 Ronda Rousey 

#4 Amanda Nunes 

#5 Valentina Shevchenko

#6 Sarah Kaufman 

#7 Sara McMann 

#8 Julianna Pena 

#9 Jessica Eye 

#10 Leslie Smith 

#11 Raquel Pennington 

#12 Ashlee Evans-Smith 

#13 Marion Reneau 

#14 Jessica Andrade 

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

Cat Zingano on 2/28/2016 
Marloes Coenen on 7/30/2012
Alexis Davis on 4/25/2016
Liz Carmouche on 4/04/2016 

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 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 

#12 Randa Markos 

#13 Tecia Torres

#14 Angela Hill

#15 Livia Renata Souza