UFC Rankings News

Tom Taylor - September 20, 2018

The official UFC rankings have been update in the wake of last Saturday’s UFC Moscow card. As expected, these latest UFC rankings feature some interesting changes. At heavyweight, Russia’s Alexey Oleynik has taken a nice trip up the list for his first-round submission defeat of Mark Hunt. He’s now number nine.

Tom Taylor - August 30, 2018

The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of Saturday’s UFC Lincoln card. Interestingly, main event winner Justin Gaethje didn’t move at all for his blistering, first-round knockout of James Vick. Vick, meanwhile, tumbled down two spots in the lightweight rankings.

Tom Taylor - August 2, 2018

The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last weekend’s action-packed UFC Calgary card. As always, these new UFC rankings feature some logical changes, and some that seem to be governed completely by whim. Dustin Poirier, for example, has surged up to the number-three spot in the UFC lightweight rankings as a result of his UFC Calgary knockout of Eddie Alvarez. Yet Conor McGregor, who has not competed in mixed martial arts since August of 2016, has also moved up, surpassing Tony Ferguson to take the number-one spot.

Tom Taylor - July 26, 2018

The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last weekend’s UFC Hamburg card. As expected, these new UFC rankings feature some serious changes in the UFC light heavyweight division, where Anthony Smith and Corey Anderson have surged up the ladder after their wins over Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Glover Teixeira.

Tom Taylor - July 12, 2018

Sorry, Demetrious Johnson. According to the new UFC rankings, which have been updated in the wake of Saturday’s UFC 226 card, Daniel Cormier is the UFC’s new pound-for-pound king. These updated UFC rankings also featured some other interesting changes.

Tom Taylor - June 1, 2018

The latest iteration of the UFC rankings include a number of interesting changes, as Michael Bisping has exited the middleweight rankings in the wake of his retirement, and Darren Till has surged up the welterweight rankings after his controversial UFC Liverpool defeat of Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson. This latter move is rather controversial, given that Till did not make weight for the bout, and therefore it did not technically occur in the welterweight division. Here are the new UFC rankings (via MMAMania) Note: +/- = movement in rankings *NR = Not previously ranked

Tom Taylor - May 17, 2018

UFC 224, which went down in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last Saturday, caused a number of interesting changes to the official UFC rankings. The most interesting of these changes occurred in the strawweight division, where Mackenzie Dern entered the rankings at number 15, despite the fact that her UFC 224 submission win over Amanda Bobby Cooper was preceded by a seven-pound weigh-in miss. UFC 224 also caused a small shakeup at middleweight, where Kelvin Gastelum rose a spot after his split decision win over Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, who dropped three spots. And then, of course, there are the customary, seemingly arbitrary changes to the UFC rankings, which do not seem to be governed by anything other than whim and randomness.

Tom Taylor - April 24, 2018

In the wake of the UFC’s recent stop in Atlantic City, the promotion has updated its official rankings. As expected, Kevin Lee, who took out Edson Barboza in the main event, has moved into the lightweight top 5. Elsewhere in the rankings, Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov have both made seemingly arbitrary moves on the pound-for-pound list, while formerly ranked bantamweight Leslie Smith has removed from the rankings following her controversial UFC release. See the latest UFC rankings below (h/t MMAMania):

Tom Taylor - February 27, 2018

In the wake of last weekend’s action-packed UFC Orlando card, the UFC has updated its official rankings. As expected, featherweight knockout artist Jeremy Stephens has made a big climb up the featherweight ladder for his crushing knockout of Josh Emmett, while light heavyweight contender Ilir Latifi burst into his divisional top-5 for his submission of Ovince Saint Preux. Here are the latest rankings (via MMAMania).

Tom Taylor - February 13, 2018

The UFC has updated its official rankings in the wake of last weekend’s UFC 221 card. As expected, several of the promotion’s divisions have experienced quite a bit of movement. At middleweight, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza rose a spot as the result of Luke Rockhold’s knockout loss to the number-one ranked Yoel Romero. At heavyweight, meanwhile, Curtis Blaydes catapulted into the top-five as the result of his impressive decision defeat of Mark Hunt, while Australia’s Tai Tuivasa entered the rankings, claiming the number-15 spot. Interestingly, Ronda Rousey also dropped a spot at women’s bantamweight, entering a ninth-place tie with Leslie Smith.

Tom Taylor - January 2, 2018

Now that UFC 219 is in the rear-view mirror, the UFC has updated its official rankings to reflect the results of the card. The most notable changes to the UFC rankings occured on the pound-for-pound list, where Khabib Nurmagomedov made his long-awaited debut, a distinction he earned by pounding Edson Barboza into applesauce in the UFC 219 co-main event. UFC 219 main event winner Cris Cyborg also moved up the list in the wake of her thrilling victory of Holly Holm, while Georges St-Pierre and Conor McGregor arbitrarily switched spots on the pound-for-pound list, despite the fact that neither has competed in recent weeks.

Tom Taylor - October 11, 2017

Now that the action-packed UFC 216 is in the rear-view, the UFC has updated its official rankings. As expected, main event interim lightweight title winner Tony Ferguson has entered the UFC pound-for-pound list, and has also usurped the number-one spot at lightweight. The UFC flyweight rankings also experienced a major shakeup thanks to long-time contender Ian McCall’s exit from the UFC roster. Here’s the UFC rankings as they stand:

Tom Taylor - August 9, 2017

Last weekend, the UFC returned to Mexico City, Mexico, with an exciting night of fights. In the main event, flyweight star Sergio Pettis derailed with win-streak of surging prospect Brandon Moreno. In the co-main event, meanwhile, rising strawweight Alexa Grasso picked up a close but impressive win over Randa Markos. As expected, these wins sent both young fighters scooting up their respective divisional UFC rankings. Here are the official UFC rankings as they stand in the wake of UFC Mexico:

Russell Ess - April 13, 2017

UFC 210 took place this past weekend as UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier was able to defend his belt against the knockout specialist Anthony Johnson. Following Cormier’s second round submission win, Johnson surprised the MMA community by announcing his retirement from the sport of mixed martial arts. Johnson said in the post-fight Octagon interview, “I gave my commitment to another job. Something that I have wanted to do for a while. It is not MMA related or anything like that. It is just time for me to move on to something else. I’m tired of getting punched by guys and rolling around on the ground with guys and stuff like that.”

Russell Ess - March 7, 2017

The UFC updated their rankings following UFC 209, which took place over the weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley was able to jump up a spot to the #8 spot in the pound-for-pound ranks with his majority win over Stephen Thompson. Interestingly, TJ Dillashaw went up a rank in the pound-for-pound ranking over Khabib Nurmagomedov with both fighters not competing over the weekend.

Russell Ess - February 17, 2017

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 208 where Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie fought for the inaugural UFC women’s featherweight championship in the main event. Randamie had her hand raised after five rounds while many believed Holm should have won, especially after Randamie hit Holm with some of the hardest shots of the fight after the bell sounded the end of the round.

Russell Ess - January 19, 2017

The UFC rankings have been updated to reflect the landscape of all the weight classes in addition to the pound-for-pound list following UFC Fight Night 103. The biggest change came in the flyweight division where Sergio Pettis jumped up six spots to the #9 ranking with his win over John Moraga, which dropped Moraga down 5 spots to the #13 ranking.

Russell Ess - December 1, 2016

The UFC has updated their rankings following the UFC Fight Night 101 event that took place in Melbourne, Australia over the weekend. Only two divisions were affected in the rankings following the event as Robert Whittaker’s exciting win over Derek Brunson bumped him up to the #6 spot in the middleweight division surging ahead of former UFC middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva.