MMA Rankings Updated: June 18, 2018

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Stipe Miocic 

#2 Francis Ngannou 

#3 Curtis Blaydes  

#4 Alistair Overeem 

#5 Vitaly Minakov 

#6 Alexander Volkov 

#7 Fabricio Werdum 

#8 Tai Tuivasa   

#9 Andrei Arlovski 

#10 Alexey Oleinik 

#11 Junior Albini 

#12 Timothy Johnson 

#13 Mark Hunt 

#14 Derrick Lewis 

#15 Marcin Tybura 

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
Junior Dos Santos on 5/13/2018 
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 

Light Heavyweight (205)

#1 Jon Jones 

#2 Daniel Cormier  

#3 Ryan Bader 

#4 Phil Davis 

#5 Glover Teixeira    

#6 Anthony Smith 

#7 Rashad Evans 

#8 Linton Vassell 

#9 Abdul Kerim Edilov 

#10 Jiri Prochazka 

#11 Karl Albrektsson 

#12 Vadim Nemkov 

#13 Liam McGeary 

#14 Chael Sonnen 

#15 Volkan Oezdemir 

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

Vitor Belfort on 11/09/2014
Anthony Johnson on 4/08/2018 
Lyoto Machida on 8/03/2014
Alexander Gustafsson on 5/28/2018 
Dan Henderson on 5/24/2015
Tito Ortiz on 1/22/2018 
Kelly Anundson on 9/12/2015

Middleweight (185)

#1 Georges St. Pierre 

#2 Kelvin Gastelum 

#3 Michael Bisping  

#4 Luke Rockhold   

#5 Robert Whittaker 

#6 Yoel Romero 

#7 Ronaldo Souza 

#8 Gegard Mousasi 

#9 Chris Weidman 

#10 Derek Brunson

#11 Lyoto Machida 

#12 Uriah Hall 

#13 Vitor Belfort 

#14 Antonio Carlos Junior 

#15 Gerald Meerschaert 

(Romero missed weight therefore still ranked below Rockhold) 

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

Tim Kennedy on 12/10/2017 
Anderson Silva on 2/11/2018
Chael Sonnen on 7/07/2013
Cung Le on 8/23/2015 
Rich Franklin 12/11/2013 
Roan Carneiro 2/21/2017 
Mark Munoz 5/16/2016

Welterweight (170)

#1 Tyron Woodley  

#2 Stephen Thompson 

#3 Colby Covington 

#4 Rafael Dos Anjos 

#5 Robbie Lawler 

#5 Rory MacDonald 

#7 Ben Askren 

#8 Douglas Lima 

#9 Kamaru Usman 

#10 Demian Maia  

#11 Jon Fitch 

#12 Paul Daley  

#13 Lorenz Larkin  

#14 Neil Magny 

#15 Andre Koreshkov  

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 
Johny Hendricks on 12/30/2017 

Lightweight (155) 

#1 Khabib Nurmagomedov 

#2 Eddie Alvarez 

#3 Tony Ferguson 

#4 Edson Barboza 

#5 Dustin Poirier 

#6 Anthony Pettis 

#7 Paul Felder 

#8 Charles Oliveira 

#9 David Teymur 

#10 Nik Lentz 

#11 Will Brooks 

#12 Brent Primus 

#13 Michael Chandler 

#14 Patricky Freire 

#15 Ben Henderson 

(Alex Oliveira beat Brooks at welterweight therefore not ranked)

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

Conor McGregor on 11/13/2017
Rafael Dos Anjos on 11/04/2017 
Donald Cerrone on 12/19/2016 

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Max Holloway 

#2 Jose Aldo 

#3 Brian Ortega 

#4 Frankie Edgar 

#5 Mirsad Bektic  

#6 Ricardo Lamas  

#7 Cub Swanson 

#8 Renato Carneiro 

#9 Jeremy Stephens  

#10 Calvin Kattar 

#11 Andre Fili  

#12 Darren Elkins 

#13 Dennis Bermudez  

#14 Doo Ho Choi  

#15 Thiago Tavares 

(Emmett missed therefore not ranked) 

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
Yair Rodriguez on 5/14/2018 
Hacran Dias on 10/01/2017 
Iuri Alcantara on 6/23/2013 
Kenny Florian on 8/08/2012 
Chan Sung Jung on 2/04/2018 
Dustin Poirier on 9/27/2015 
Diego Brandao on 5/27/2018 

Bantamweight (135) 

#1 TJ Dillashaw 

#2 Cody Garbrandt 

#3 Raphael Assuncao 

#4 John Lineker 

#5 Brian Kelleher 

#6 Renan Barao 

#7 Jimmie Rivera 

#8 Cody Stamann 

#9 Bryan Caraway 

#10 Marlon Moraes 

#11 Aljamain Sterling 

#12 Alejandro Perez 

#13 Matthew Lopez 

#14 Rustam Kerimov 

#15 Timur Valiev 

(Sterling beat Barao at featherweight therefore no movement occured) 

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

Dominick Cruz on 12/30/2017 
Urijah Faber on 12/17/2017 
Joseph Benavidez on 8/14/2012

Flyweight (125)

#1 Demetrious Johnson 

#2 Sergio Pettis 

#3 Joseph Benavidez

#4 Rijigala Amu 

#5 Zhifa Shang 

#6 Josiel Silva 

#7 Kurban Gadzhiev 

#8 Shyngys Kairanov 

#9 Aleksander Doskalchuk 

#10 Arman Ashimov 

#11 Mikael Silander 

#12 Vitali Branchuk 

#13 Tagir Ulanbekov 

#14 Vartan Asatryan 

#15 Zhalgas Zhumagalov 

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

Ian McCall on 1/31/2016 
Kyoji Horiguchi on 4/16/2018 
Asulan Toktarbaev on 7/31/2016 

Women's Bantamweight (135) 

#1 Amanda Nunes
  
#2 Valentina Shevchenko 

#3 Raquel Pennington 

#4 Ketlen Vieira -1

#5 Cat Zingano -1

#6 Lucie Pudilova -1

#7 Sarah Moras -1

#8 Ashlee Evans-Smith -1

#9 Marion Reneau -1

#10 Sara McMann -2

#11 Alexis Davis -2

#12 Sarah Kaufman -2

#13 Leslie Smith -2

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

Julianna Pena on 01/28/2018 
Jessica Rakoczy on 11/30/2014
Miesha Tate on 11/20/2017
Holly Holm on 6/17/2018 
Ronda Rousey on 12/30/2017
Marloes Coenen on 7/30/2012
Bethe Correia on 6/17/2018 
Liz Carmouche 11/12/2017
Kerry Vera on 11/20/2010
Jessica Eye on 9/10/2017

Women's Strawweight (115)

#1 Rose Namajunas  

#2 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 

#3 Jessica Andrade 

#4 Claudia Gadelha 

#5 Tatiana Suarez 

#6 Viviane Pereira 

#7 Carla Esparza 

#8 Karolina Kowalkiewicz

#9  Felice Herrig 

#10 Justine Kish 

#11 Ronda Markos 

#12 Tecia Torres 

#13 Nina Ansaroff 

#14 Angela Hill 

#15 Maryna Moroz

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

Valerie Letourneau on 12/10/2017