MMA Rankings Updated: August 29, 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 Brock Lesnar  

#11 Mark Hunt  

#12 Frank Mir  

#13 Derrick Lewis  

#14 Roy Nelson  

#15 Daniel Omielanczuk 

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

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 

#12 Anderson Silva  

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
Forrest Griffin on 7/07/2013

Middleweight (185)

#1 Michael Bisping 

#2 Luke Rockhold  

#3 Chris Weidman 

#4 Yoel Romero 

#5 Ronaldo Souza 

#6 Anderson Silva 

#7 Vitor Belfort 

#8 Robert Whittaker 

#9 Uriah Hall 

#10 Gegard Mousasi 

#11 Derek Brunson 

#12 Roan Carneiro 

#13 Thiago Santos 

#14 Nate Marquardt 

#15 CB Dollaway 

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
Lyoto Machida on 6/27/2016 
Kelvin Gastelum on 6/13/2016 
Cung Le on 8/23/2015
Rich Franklin on 6/23/2013
Mark Munoz on 5/16/2016

Welterweight (170)

#1 Tyron Woodley  

#2 Robbie Lawler 

#3 Stephen Thompson 

#4 Rory MacDonald 

#5 Lorenz Larkin 

#6 Neil Magny 

#7 Kelvin Gastelum 

#8 Johny Hendricks 

#9 Demian Maia +7

#10 Carlos Condit -1 

#11 Donald Cerrone -1 

#12 Rick Story -1 

#13 Tarec Saffiedine -1 

#14 Jake Ellenberger -1 

#15 Hector Lombard -1 

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

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Eddie Alvarez 

#2 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#3 Edson Barboza 

#4 Anthony Pettis 

#5 Donald Cerrone 

#6 Ben Henderson +10

#7 Gilbert Melendez -1   

#8 Michael Chiesa -1 

#9 Beneil Dariush -1 

#10 Nate Diaz -1 

#11 Michael Johnson -1 

#12 Tony Ferguson -1 

#13 Dustin Poirier -1 

#14 Bobby Green -1 

#15 Josh Thomson -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 
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 

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Conor McGregor 

#2 Jose Aldo 

#3 Frankie Edgar 

#4 Chad Mendes 

#5 Max Holloway 

#6 Ricardo Lamas 

#7 Cub Swanson 

#8 Anthony Pettis +8

#9 Charles Oliveira -1 

#10 Jeremy Stephens -1 

#11 Hacran Dias -1 

#12 Darren Elkins -1 

#13 Brian Ortega -1 

#14 Diego Brandao -1 

#15 Dennis Bermudez -1 

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

Nik Lentz on 5/30/2016
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 Raphael Assuncao 

#4 Urijah Faber 

#5 Bryan Caraway 

#6 Aljamain Sterling

#7 Johnny Eduardo 

#8 John Lineker 

#9 Michael McDonald 

#10 Cody Garbrandt 

#11 Takeya Mizugaki 

#12 Eddie Wineland 

#13 Thomas Almeida  

#14 Brad Pickett 

#15 Erik Perez 

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

Renan Barao on 7/25/2016 
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 Matheus Nicolau 

#14 John Moraga 

#15 Wilson Reis 

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 Amanda Nunes 

#2 Miesha Tate 

#3 Valentina Shevchenko 

#4 Holly Holm 

#5 Ronda Rousey 

#6 Julianna Pena  

#7 Cat Zingano  

#8 Sarah Kaufman 

#9 Sara McMann 

#10 Jessica Eye 

#11 Leslie Smith 

#12 Raquel Pennington 

#13 Ashlee Evans-Smith 

#14 Marion Reneau 

#15 Jessica Andrade 

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

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 Carla Esparza 

#4 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 

#5 Rose Namajunas 

#6 Jessica Andrade

#7 Jessica Penne 

#8 Valerie Letourneau  

#9 Maryna Moroz 

#10 Justine Kish  

#11 Cortney Casey 

#12 Randa Markos 

#13 Tecia Torres 

#14 Angela Hill 

#15 Livia Renata Souza 

(Calderwood beat Letourneau at Flyweight therefore no movement occurred)

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

Jessica Aguilar on 8/01/2016
Joanne Calderwood on 7/18/2016