MMA Rankings Updated: November 5, 2018

Heavyweight (265) 

#1 Daniel Cormier 

#2 Stipe Miocic 

#3 Derrick Lewis 

#4 Francis Ngannou 

#5 Curtis Blaydes 

#6 Alistair Overeem  

#7 Vitaly Minakov 

#8 Alexander Volkov 

#9 Fabricio Werdum 

#10 Tai Tuivasa 

#11 Shamil Abdurakhimov 

#12 Andrei Arlovski 

#13 Alexey Oleinik 

#14 Junior Albini 

#15 Mark Hunt  


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 
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 Daniel Cormier

#2 Phil Davis +1

#3 Linton Vassell +1

#4 Jiri Prochazka +1 

#5 Karl Albrektsson +1 

#6 Vadim Nemkov +1 

#7 Liam McGeary +1 

#8 Anthony Smith +1

#9 Volkan Oezdemir +1

#10 Jan Blachowicz +1  

#11 Jimi Manuwa +1

#12 Corey Anderson +1

#13 Glover Teixeira +1

#14 Rashad Evans +1

#15 Ilir Latifi +1 


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

Jon Jones on 7/30/2018 
Vitor Belfort on 11/09/2014
Anthony Johnson on 4/08/2018 
Lyoto Machida on 8/03/2014
Alexander Gustafsson on 5/28/2018 
Abdul Kerim Edilov on 9/02/2018 
Kelly Anundson on 9/12/2015  
Dan Henderson on 5/24/2015  
Tito Ortiz on 1/21/2018 
Chael Sonnen on 6/24/2018

Middleweight (185)

#1 Kelvin Gastelum +1 

#2 Michael Bisping +1  

#3 Luke Rockhold +1   

#4 Robert Whittaker +1 

#5 Yoel Romero +1 

#6 Ronaldo Souza +1

#7 Gegard Mousasi +1 

#8 Chris Weidman NEW 

#9 Israel Adesanya NEW 

#10 Derek Brunson -1  

#11 Lyoto Machida -1 

#12 Paulo Costa -1 

#13 Uriah Hall -1  

#14 Vitor Belfort -1  

#15 Antonio Carlos Junior -1  

(Romero missed weight therefore still ranked below Rockhold) 

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

Georges St. Pierre 11/04/2018 
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 

#6 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 Conor McGregor   

#3 Dustin Poirier  

#4 Eddie Alvarez  

#5 Tony Ferguson  

#6 Edson Barboza  

#7 Anthony Pettis  

#8 Paul Felder  

#9 Charles Oliveira  

#10 David Teymur  

#11 Nik Lentz 

#12 Will Brooks

#13 Rashid Magomedov   

#14 Michael Chandler  

#15 Patricky Freire 

(Alex Oliveira beat Brooks at welterweight therefore not ranked)

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

Rafael Dos Anjos on 11/04/2017 
Donald Cerrone on 12/19/2016
Brent Primus on 6/24/2018 

Featherweight (145) 

#1 Max Holloway 

#2 Jose Aldo 

#3 Brian Ortega 

#4 Frankie Edgar 

#5 Chad Mendes 

#6 Mirsad Bektic 

#7 Ricardo Lamas 

#8 Renato Carneiro    

#9 Cub Swanson  

#10 Jeremy Stephens  

#11 Yair Rodriguez NEW 

#12 Calvin Kattar -1 

#13 Michael Johnson -1  

#14 Andre Fili -1 

#15 Alex Volkanovski -1  

(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
Hacran Dias on 10/01/2017 

Bantamweight (135) 

#1 TJ Dillashaw 

#2 Cody Garbrandt 

#3 Raphael Assuncao 

#4 John Lineker 

#5 Brian Kelleher 

#6 Patrick Mix  

#7 Andre Ewell  

#8 Renan Barao 

#9 Jimmie Rivera 

#10 Cody Stamann  

#11 Aljamain Sterling 

#12 Bryan Caraway 

#13 Marlon Moraes  

#14 Alejandro Perez  

#15 Matthew Lopez  

(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