MMA Rankings Updated: October 3, 2016

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Fabricio Werdum

#3 Cain Velasquez

#4 Alistair Overeem

#5 Junior Dos Santos 

#6 Ben Rothwell 

#7 Josh Barnett 

#8 Andrei Arlovski 

#9 Travis Browne 

#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 Derek Brunson 

#10 Uriah Hall 

#11 Gegard Mousasi 

#12 Roan Carneiro 

#13 Eric Spicely 

#14 Thiago Santos 

#15 Nate Marquardt 

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 

#10 Carlos Condit 

#11 Donald Cerrone 

#12 Rick Story 

#13 Tarec Saffiedine 

#14 Jake Ellenberger 

#15 Hector Lombard 

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 

#7 Gilbert Melendez    

#8 Michael Chiesa  

#9 Beneil Dariush  

#10 Nate Diaz 

#11 Michael Johnson  

#12 Tony Ferguson  

#13 Dustin Poirier  

#14 Bobby Green  

#15 Josh Thomson  

(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 

#9 Charles Oliveira  

#10 Jeremy Stephens  

#11 Yair Rodriguez +5 

#12 Andre Fili +4 

#13 Hacran Dias -2 

#14 Darren Elkins -2

#15 Brian Ortega -2  

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 Jimmie Rivera 

#5 Urijah Faber 

#6 Bryan Caraway 

#7 Aljamain Sterling 

#8 Johnny Eduardo 

#9 John Lineker 

#10 Michael McDonald 

#11 Cody Garbrandt 

#12 Takeya Mizugaki 

#13 Eddie Wineland 

#14 Thomas Almeida 

#15 Brad Pickett 

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 Zach Makovsky 

#5 Tim Elliott 

#6 Kyoji Horiguchi 

#7 Louis Gaudinot 

#8 Kairat Akhmetov 

#9 Adriano Moraes 

#10 Henry Cejudo 

#11 Jussier Da Silva 

#12 Matheus Nicolau 

#13 John Moraga 

#14 Wilson Reis 

#15 Dustin Ortiz

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

Ian McCall on 1/31/2016 
John Dodson on 9/05/2016
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 Bethe Correia 

#11 Jessica Eye 

#12 Leslie Smith 

#13 Raquel Pennington 

#14 Ashlee Evans-Smith 

#15 Marion Reneau 

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
Jessica Andrade on 9/05/2016 

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 Joanne Calderwood 

#11 Justine Kish 

#12 Cortney Casey 

#13 Randa Markos 

#14 Tecia Torres 

#15 Angela Hill 

(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