MMA Rankings Updated: August 21, 2017

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Alistair Overeem 

#3 Fabricio Werdum  

#4 Junior Dos Santos 

#5 Josh Barnett 

#6 Francis Ngannou

#7 Vitaly Minakov

#8 Alexander Volkov 

#9 Junior Albini 

#10 Timothy Johnson 

#11 Marcin Tybura 

#12 Andrei Arlovski 

#13 Mark Hunt 

#14 Derrick Lewis 

#15 Alexey Oleinik 

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 Jon Jones 

#2 Daniel Cormier  

#3 Anthony Johnson 

#4 Ryan Bader  

#5 Phil Davis 

#6 Alexander Gustafsson  

#7 Glover Teixeira  

#8 Linton Vassell  

#9 Liam McGeary 

#10 Tito Ortiz 

#11 Chael Sonnen

#12 Volkan Oezdemir 

#13 Jimi Manuwa 

#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
Rashad Evans on 4/16/2017 
Dan Henderson on 5/24/2015
Kelly Anundson on 9/12/2015

Middleweight (185)

#1 Michael Bisping 

#2 Robert Whittaker  

#3 Yoel Romero 

#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 

#10 Demian Maia 

#11 Carlos Condit 

#12 Andrey Koreshkov 

#13 Jorge Masvidal 

#14 Donald Cerrone 

#15 Colby Covington +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
Rick Story on 8/20/2017 

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Khabib Nurmagomedov 

#2 Conor McGregor 

#3 Eddie Alvarez 

#4 Tony Ferguson 

#5 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#6 Edson Barboza 

#7 Anthony Pettis 

#8 Charles Oliveira 

#9 Will Brooks 

#10 Brent Primus 

#11 Michael Chandler  

#12 Ben Henderson 

#13 Al Iaquinta 

#14 Leonardo Santos

#15 Kevin Lee 

(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 
Gilbert Melendez on 7/23/2017 
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 Brian Ortega 

#9 Renato Carneiro 

#10 Jeremy Stephens 

#11 Yair Rodriguez 

#12 Calvin Kattar 

#13 Andre Fili 

#14 Hacran Dias 

#15 Darren Elkins 

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

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 John Dodson 

#12 Eddie Wineland 

#13 Takeya Mizugaki 

#14 Thomas Almeida 

#15 Augusto Mendes 

(Sterling beat Barao at featherweight therefore no movement occured and Barao is still inactive) 

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 
Michael McDonald on 7/13/2017 
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 

#11 John Moraga 

#12 Wilson Reis 

#13 Brandon Moreno 

#14 Dustin Ortiz 

#15 Zach Makovsky 

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 

#9 Alexis Davis 

#10 Sarah Kaufman 

#11 Liz Carmouche 

#12 Ketlen Vieira 

#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
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 Cynthia Calvillo 

#9 Joanne Calderwood 

#10 Cortney Casey 

#11 Jessica Aguilar 

#12 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 

#13 Felice Herrig 

#14 Justine Kish 

#15 Randa Markos 

(Calderwood beat Letourneau at Flyweight therefore no movement occurred)

(Grasso missed weight therefore Markos remains intact)