MMA Rankings Updated: April 10, 2017

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Fabricio Werdum

#3 Cain Velasquez

#4 Alistair Overeem

#5 Josh Barnett +2

#6 Francis Ngannou +2

#7 Andrei Arlovski +2

#8 Derrick Lewis +2

#9 Travis Browne +2

#10 Brock Lesnar +2

#11 Mark Hunt +2

#12 Roy Nelson +2 

#13 Stefan Struve +2

#14 Timothy Johnson +2

#15 Daniel Omielanczuk +2

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

Anthony Johnson on 3/23/2014
Junior Dos Santos 4/10/2017
Daniel Cormier on 10/19/2014
Ben Rothwell on 4/10/2017
Frank Mir on 3/19/2017 

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 Liam McGeary 

#10 Tito Ortiz 

#11 Chael Sonnen 

#12 Jimi Manuwa   

#13 Volkan Oezdemir 

#14 Ovince St Preux 

#15 Mauricio Rua 

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
Kelly Anundson on 9/12/2015

Middleweight (185)

#1 Michael Bisping 

#2 Luke Rockhold  

#3 Yoel Romero

#4 Ronaldo Souza +1

#5 Gegard Mousasi +6

#6 Chris Weidman -2

#7 Kelvin Gastelum -1

#8 Tim Kennedy -1  

#9 Anderson Silva -1 

#10 Robert Whittaker -1  

#11 Derek Brunson -1  

#12 Uriah Hall 

#13 Vitor Belfort 

#14 Eric Spicely 

#15 Thiago Santos 

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

Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013
Lyoto Machida on 6/27/2016 
Cung Le on 8/23/2015
Rich Franklin on 6/23/2013
Roan Carneiro on 2/21/2017 
Mark Munoz on 5/16/2016

Welterweight (170)

#1 Tyron Woodley  

#2 Stephen Thompson 

#3 Robbie Lawler 

#4 Rory MacDonald 

#5 Lorenz Larkin 

#6 Neil Magny 

#7 Kelvin Gastelum 

#8 Johny Hendricks 

#9 Demian Maia 

#10 Carlos Condit 

#11 Douglas Lima 

#12 Andrey Koreshkov 

#13 Ben Henderson 

#14 Jorge Masvidal  

#15 Donald Cerrone 

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
Ben Askren on 4/24/2016

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Khabib Nurmagomedov 

#2 Conor McGregor 

#3 Eddie Alvarez 

#4 Tony Ferguson 

#5 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#6 Edson Barboza 

#7 Anthony Pettis 

#8 Charles Oliveira +8

#9 Will Brooks -1

#10 Michael Chandler -1 

#11 Ben Henderson -1

#12 Gilbert Melendez -1

#13 Michael Chiesa -1 

#14 Beneil Dariush -1 

#15 Michael Johnson -1  

(Alex Oliveira beat Brooks at welterweight therefore not ranked)

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

Donald Cerrone on 12/19/2016 
Frankie Edgar on 8/11/2013 
TJ Grant on 5/25/2014 
Myles Jury on 1/03/2016 
Nate Diaz on 12/19/2016

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Jose Aldo

#2 Frankie Edgar 

#3 Max Holloway 

#4 Ricardo Lamas 

#5 Cub Swanson

#6 Anthony Pettis 

#7 Charles Oliveira

#8 Jeremy Stephens 

#9 Yair Rodriguez 

#10 Andre Fili 

#11 Hacran Dias 

#12 Darren Elkins

#13 Chan Sung Jung 

#14 Brian Ortega 

#15 Dennis Bermudez 

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

Conor McGregor on 12/12/2016 
Chad Mendes on 12/11/2016 
Nik Lentz on 5/30/2016
Iuri Alcantara on 6/23/2013
Kenny Florian on 10/08/2012
Dustin Poirier on 9/27/2015
Diego Brandao on 1/02/2017

Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Cody Garbrandt

#2 Dominick Cruz 

#3 TJ Dillashaw 

#4 Raphael Assuncao 

#5 Jimmie Rivera 

#6 Urijah Faber  

#7 Bryan Caraway  

#8 Aljamain Sterling 

#9 Johnny Eduardo 

#10 John Lineker 

#11 Michael McDonald 

#12 Eddie Wineland 

#13 Takeya Mizugaki

#14 Thomas Almeida 

#15 Augusto Mendes 

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 Kyoji Horiguchi 

#4 Ali Bagautinov   

#5 Henry Cejudo 

#6 Ray Borg 

#7 Jussier Da Silva 

#8 Matheus Nicolau 

#9 Sergio Pettis 

#10 John Moraga 

#11 Wilson Reis 

#12 Dustin Ortiz 

#13 Zach Makovsky 

#14 Tim Elliott 

#15 Adriano Moraes  

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 
Louis Gaudinot on 3/19/2017 
John Lineker on 7/16/2015 
Kairat Akhmetov on 11/21/2016 

Women's Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Amanda Nunes
  
#2 Valentina Shevchenko 

#3 Julianna Pena 

#4 Raquel Pennington 

#5 Miesha Tate 

#6 Holly Holm 

#7 Ronda Rousey 

#8 Cat Zingano 

#9 Sara McMann 

#10 Alexis Davis 

#11 Sarah Kaufman

#12 Liz Carmouche 

#13 Ashlee Evans-Smith 

#14 Marion Reneau 

#15 Bethe Correia 

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

Jessica Rakoczy on 11/30/2014
Marloes Coenen on 7/30/2012
Kerry Vera on 11/20/2010

Women's Strawweight (115)

#1 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 

#2 Claudia Gadelha 

#3 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 

#4 Justine Kish 

#5 Randa Markos 

#6 Carla Esparza 

#7 Rose Namajunas 

#8 Jessica Andrade 

#9 Jessica Penne 

#10 Viviane Pereira 

#11 Valerie Letourneau 

#12 Maryna Moroz 

#13 Joanne Calderwood 

#14 Cortney Casey 

#15 Tecia Torres 

(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