MMA Rankings Updated: November 7, 2017

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Alistair Overeem 

#3 Fabricio Werdum  

#4 Junior Dos Santos 

#5 Francis Ngannou 

#6 Vitaly Minakov 

#7 Alexander Volkov 

#8 Junior Albini   

#9 Timothy Johnson 

#10 Marcin Tybura 

#11 Andrei Arlovski 

#12 Mark Hunt 

#13 Derrick Lewis 

#14 Curtis Blaydes +2 

#15 Alexey Oleinik -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
Josh Barnett on 9/03/2017 
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 Georges St. Pierre +15 

#2 Michael Bisping +14  

#3 Luke Rockhold -2

#4 Robert Whittaker -2

#5 Yoel Romero -2

#6 Ronaldo Souza -2

#7 Gegard Mousasi -2

#8 Chris Weidman -2

#9 Kelvin Gastelum -2

#10 Tim Kennedy -2

#11 Anderson Silva -2

#12 Derek Brunson -2

#13 Lyoto Machida -2

#14 Uriah Hall -2

#15 Vitor Belfort -2 

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

Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013

Welterweight (170)

#1 Tyron Woodley  

#2 Stephen Thompson 

#3 Robbie Lawler 

#4 Rory MacDonald 

#5 Ben Askren 

#6 Douglas Lima 

#7 Paul Daley 

#8 Lorenz Larkin 

#9 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#10 Neil Magny 

#11 Johny Hendricks 

#12 Colby Covington 

#13 Demian Maia 

#14 Andrey Koreshkov 

#15 Jorge Masvidal 

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

Georges St Pierre on 11/16/2014
Kazuo Misaki on 3/03/2013 
Kelvin Gastelum on 7/09/2017 
Carlos Condit on 8/27/2017 
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 Edson Barboza +1

#6 Anthony Pettis +1

#7 Charles Oliveira +1

#8 Will Brooks +1

#9 Brent Primus +1

#10 Michael Chandler +1 

#11 Patricky Freire +1 

#12 Ben Henderson +1 

#13 Al Iaquinta +1  

#14 Kevin Lee +1

#15 Mike Chiesa +1  

(Alex Oliveira beat Brooks at welterweight therefore not ranked)

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

Radael Dos Anjos on 11/04/2017 
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 
Leonardo Santos on 10/08/2017

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Max Holloway 

#2 Jose Aldo 

#3 Frankie Edgar 

#4 Ricardo Lamas 

#5 Cub Swanson

#6 Brian Ortega 

#7 Renato Carneiro 

#8 Jeremy Stephens 

#9 Yair Rodriguez 

#10 Calvin Kattar 

#11 Andre Fili 

#12 Darren Elkins  

#13 Chan Sung Jung  

#14 Diego Brandao 

#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 
Anthony Pettis 8/27/2017 
Charles Oliveira on 8/27/2017
Nik Lentz on 5/30/2016
Hacran Dias on 10/01/2017 
Iuri Alcantara on 6/23/2013 
Kenny Florian on 8/08/2012 
Dustin Poirier on 9/27/2015 

Bantamweight (135) 

#1 TJ Dillashaw +2  

#2 Cody Garbrandt -1

#3 Dominick Cruz -1

#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 Rustam Kerimov  

#14 Takeya Mizugaki 

#15 Thomas Almeida 

(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 Ketlen Vieira   

#9 Sara McMann 

#10 Alexis Davis 

#11 Sarah Kaufman 

#12 Liz Carmouche 

#13 Sarah Moras 

#14 Ashlee Evans-Smith 

#15 Marion Reneau 

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 Rose Namajunas +15 

#2 Joanna Jedrzejczyk -1

#3 Jessica Andrade -1

#4 Claudia Gadelha -1

#5 Viviane Pereira -1

#6 Valerie Letourneau -1

#7 Carla Esparza -1

#8 Maryna Moroz -1

#9 Cynthia Calvillo -1

#10 Joanne Calderwood -1

#11 Cortney Casey -1

#12 Jessica Aguilar -1 

#13 Karolina Kowalkiewicz -1

#14 Felice Herrig -1

#15 Justine Kish -1

(Calderwood beat Letourneau at Flyweight therefore no movement occurred)

(Grasso missed weight therefore Markos remains intact)