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MMA Rankings

** Updated February 16th, 2012**

*Note: These rankings, like many others, are subjective in nature and are simply an opinion based on fighters performances, past record of competition and various hypothesis, facts, etc. Don’t take them personally.

Men’s Divisional Rankings

Heavyweight Rankings (206 to 265 lbs.)

  1. Junior dos Santos
  2. Cain Velasquez
  3. Alistair Overeem
  4. Frank Mir
  5. Fabricio Werdum
  6. Shane Carwin
  7. Josh Barnett
  8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
  9. Daniel Cormier
  10. Roy Nelson

Light Heavyweight Rankings (186 to 205 lbs.)

  1. Jon Jones
  2. Rashad Evans
  3. Dan Henderson
  4. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
  5. Quinton Jackson
  6. Lyoto Machida
  7. Forrest Griffin
  8. Phil Davis
  9. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
  10. Alexander Gustafsson

Middleweight Rankings (171 to 185 lbs.)

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Chael Sonnen
  3. Yushin Okami
  4. Mark Munoz
  5. Michael Bisping
  6. Chris Weidman
  7. Demian Maia
  8. Vitor Belfort
  9. Luke Rockhold
  10. Nathan Marquardt

Welterweight Rankings (156 to 170 lbs.)

  1. Georges St. Pierre
  2. Carlos Condit
  3. Nick Diaz
  4. Jake Ellenberger
  5. Jon Fitch
  6. Jake Shields
  7. Josh Koscheck
  8. Anthony Johnson
  9. Johny Hendricks
  10. Charlie Brenneman

Lightweight Rankings (146 to 155 lbs.)

  1. Frankie Edgar
  2. Gray Maynard
  3. Gilbert Melendez
  4. Ben Henderson
  5. Jim Miller
  6. Clay Guida
  7. Nate Diaz
  8. Anthony Pettis
  9. Michael Chandler
  10. Eddie Alvarez

Featherweight Rankings (136 to 145 lbs.)

  1. Jose Aldo
  2. Chad Mendes
  3. Hatsu Hioki
  4. Chan Jung Sung
  5. Mark Hominick
  6. Kenny Florian
  7. Pat Curran
  8. Marlon Sandro
  9. Diego Nunes
  10. Bart Paleszewski

Bantamweight Rankings (126 to 135 lbs.)

  1. Dominick Cruz
  2. Joseph Benavidez
  3. Urijah Faber
  4. Brian Bowles
  5. Demetrius Johnson
  6. Miguel Torres
  7. Renan Barao
  8. Scott Jorgensen
  9. Takeya Mizugaki
  10. Masakatsu Ueda

Men Pound For Pound Rankings

Note: These rankings are fictional, and the basis surrounding them are if the athletes were all the same weight ( i.e. 185 lbs), how would they perform against one another.

  1. Anderson Silva
  2. Jon Jones
  3. Georges St-Pierre
  4. Frankie Edgar
  5. Jose Aldo
  6. Rashad Evans
  7. Dan Henderson
  8. Dominick Cruz
  9. Junior dos Santos
  10. Gray Maynard

Women Pound For Pound Rankings

  1. Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos
  2. Miesha Tate
  3. Marloes Coenen
  4. Zoila Frausto
  5. Megumi Fujii
  6. Sarah Kaufmann
  7. Liz Carmouche
  8. Rhonda Rousey
  9. Tara Larosa
  10. Rosi Sexton

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