MMA Rankings Updated: July 10, 2017

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Alistair Overeem +2 

#3 Fabricio Werdum -1 

#4 Junior Dos Santos +1 

#5 Josh Barnett +1

#6 Francis Ngannou +1

#7 Vitaly Minakov +1

#8 Alexander Volkov +1

#9 Timothy Johnson +1

#10 Marcin Tybura +1

#11 Andrei Arlovski +1

#12 Mark Hunt +2

#13 Derrick Lewis +2

#14 Alexey Oleinik +2

#15 Travis Browne +1 

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

Cain Velasquez on 7/09/2017 
Anthony Johnson on 3/23/2014
Daniel Cormier on 10/19/2014
Ben Rothwell on 4/10/2017
Stephen Puetz on 5/02/2016
Brock Lesnar on 7/09/2017 
Frank Mir on 3/20/2017  

Light Heavyweight (205)

#1 Daniel Cormier 

#2 Anthony Johnson 

#3 Ryan Bader 

#4 Phil Davis 

#5 Alexander Gustafsson 

#6 Glover Teixeira 

#7 Linton Vassell 

#8 Liam McGeary 

#9 Tito Ortiz 

#10 Chael Sonnen 

#11 Jimi Manuwa 

#12 Volkan Oezdemir 

#13 Ovince St Preux 

#14 Mauricio Rua 

#15 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 

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

Jon Jones on 4/23/2017 
Vitor Belfort on 11/09/2014
Lyoto Machida on 8/03/2014
Rashad Evans on 4/16/2017 
Dan Henderson on 5/24/2015
Kelly Anundson on 9/12/2015
Quinton Jackson on 5/17/2015

Middleweight (185)

#1 Michael Bisping 

#2 Robert Whittaker +1 

#3 Yoel Romero -1

#4 Ronaldo Souza 

#5 Gegard Mousasi 

#6 Chris Weidman 

#7 Kelvin Gastelum 

#8 Tim Kennedy 

#9 Anderson Silva 

#10 Derek Brunson 

#11 Uriah Hall 

#12 Vitor Belfort 

#13 Antonio Carlos Junior 

#14 Eric Spicely 

#15 Thiago Santos 

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

Luke Rockhold on 6/04/2017 
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 Ben Askren 

#6 Douglas Lima 

#7 Lorenz Larkin 

#8 Neil Magny 

#9 Johny Hendricks +1

#10 Demian Maia +1

#11 Carlos Condit +1

#12 Andrey Koreshkov +1

#13 Jorge Masvidal +1

#14 Donald Cerrone +1

#15 Rick Story +1

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

Georges St Pierre on 11/16/2014
Kelvin Gastelum on 7/09/2017 
Martin Kampmann on 8/28/2014 
Nick Diaz on 3/16/2014
Ben Henderson on 4/22/2017

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Khabib Nurmagomedov 

#2 Conor McGregor 

#3 Eddie Alvarez 

#4 Tony Ferguson 

#5 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#6 Edson Barboza 

#7 Anthony Pettis +9

#8 Charles Oliveira -1

#9 Will Brooks -1  

#10 Brent Primus -1

#11 Michael Chandler -1 

#12 Ben Henderson -1

#13 Gilbert Melendez -1

#14 Al Iaquinta -1

#15 Leonardo Santos -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 

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Max Holloway 

#2 Jose Aldo 

#3 Frankie Edgar 

#4 Ricardo Lamas 

#5 Cub Swanson

#6 Anthony Pettis 

#7 Charles Oliveira

#8 Renato Carneiro 

#9 Jeremy Stephens 

#10 Yair Rodriguez 

#11 Andre Fili 

#12 Hacran Dias 

#13 Darren Elkins 

#14 Chan Sung Jung 

#15 Diego Brandao  

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
Brian Ortega on 6/04/2017

Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Cody Garbrandt

#2 Dominick Cruz 

#3 TJ Dillashaw 

#4 Raphael Assuncao 

#5 Jimmie Rivera 

#6 Urijah Faber   

#7 Aljamain Sterling

#8 Matthew Lopez 

#9 Johnny Eduardo 

#10 John Lineker 

#11 Michael McDonald 

#12 John Dodson 

#13 Eddie Wineland    

#14 Takeya Mizugaki 

#15 Thomas Almeida 

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
Bryan Caraway on 5/29/2017 
Chris Cariaso on 2/25/2013

Flyweight (125)

#1 Demetrious Johnson 

#2 Joseph Benavidez 

#3 Kyoji Horiguchi 

#4 Tyson Nam 

#5 Yoni Sherbatov 

#6 Ali Bagautinov   

#7 Henry Cejudo 

#8 Ray Borg 

#9 Jussier Da Silva 

#10 Sergio Pettis +1

#11 John Moraga +1

#12 Wilson Reis +1

#13 Brandon Moreno +1

#14 Dustin Ortiz +1

#15 Zach Makovsky +1

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 
Matheus Nicolau on 7/08/2017 

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 Sara McMann +1 

#9 Alexis Davis +1

#10 Sarah Kaufman +1

#11 Liz Carmouche +1

#12 Ketlen Vieira +1

#13 Ashlee Evans-Smith +1

#14 Marion Reneau +1

#15 Bethe Correia +1

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

Jessica Rakoczy on 11/30/2014
Cat Zingano on 7/09/2017 
Marloes Coenen on 7/30/2012
Kerry Vera on 11/20/2010

Women's Strawweight (115)

#1 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 

#2 Claudia Gadelha 

#3 Jessica Andrade 

#4 Viviane Pereira 

#5 Valerie Letourneau 

#6 Carla Esparza 

#7 Maryna Moroz 

#8 Joanne Calderwood 

#9 Cortney Casey 

#10 Jessica Aguilar 

#11 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 

#12 Felice Herrig 

#13 Justine Kish 

#14 Randa Markos 

#15 Rose Namajunas 

(Calderwood beat Letourneau at Flyweight therefore no movement occurred)