Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Updated Fighter Rankings (7/1/14)


TJ Dillashaw is now #1 at 135 and among the P4P best.
2 months have come and gone since the last time I updated the rankings.  Renan Barao lost his title and many others were involved in huge fights (Soa Palelei and Neil Magny were involved in 2 fights!).  With 2 title fights on the 5th and a stacked Fox card on its way, here is how I see the rankings entering a busy July:

Men's Pound for Pound:
  1. Jose Aldo (1)
  2. Jon Jones (2)
  3. Demetrious Johnson (5)
  4. Chris Weidman (4)
  5. Cain Velasquez (6)
  6. Anderson Silva (7)
  7. Johny Hendricks (8)
  8. Vitor Belfort (9)
  9. Anthony Pettis (10)
  10. Dominick Cruz (11)
  11. TJ Dillashaw (NR)
  12. Renan Barao (3)
  13. Chad Mendes (12)
  14. Junior Dos Santos (13)
  15. Lyoto Machida (14)
  16.  Urijah Faber (15)
  17. Frankie Edgar (16)
  18. Gilbert Melendez (17)
  19. Jacare Souza (18)
  20. Luke Rockhold (19)
Dropping out: Alexander Shlemenko (20)

Heavyweight:
  1. Cain Velasquez (1)
  2. Fabricio Werdum (2)
  3. Junior Dos Santos (3)
  4. Stipe Miocic (4)
  5. Travis Browne (5)
  6. Mark Hunt (6)
  7. Antonio Silva (7)
  8. Josh Barnett (8)
  9. Roy Nelson (9)
  10. Stefan Struve (10)
  11. Alistair Overeem (11)
  12. Gabriel Gonzaga (12)
  13. Ben Rothwell (13)
  14. Frank Mir (15)
  15. Matt Mitrione (17)
  16. Shawn Jordan (18)
  17. Vitaly Minakov (19)
  18. Alexander Volkov (20)
  19. Soa Palelei (16)
  20. Brendan Schaub (14)
Light Heavywight:
  1. Jon Jones (1)
  2. Daniel Cormier (3)
  3. Alexander Gustafsson (2)
  4. Rashad Evans (4)
  5. Glover Teixeira (6)
  6. Anthony Johnson (7)
  7. Ryan Bader (11)
  8. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (8)
  9. Dan Henderson (5)
  10. Emanuel Newton (9)
  11. Rampage Jackson (10)
  12. Ovince St. Preux (19)
  13. Chael Sonnen (12)
  14. Shogun Rua (14)
  15. Phil Davis (15)
  16. Muhammed Lawal (17)
  17. Jimi Manuwa (18)
  18. Tito Ortiz (NR)-Yes, that happened!
  19. Rafael Cavalcante (13)
  20. Ryan Jimmo (20)
New weight class: James Te-Huna (16)

Middleweight:
  1. Chris Weidman (1)
  2. Vitor Belfort (2)
  3. Lyoto Machida (3)
  4. Ronaldo Souza (4)
  5. Anderson Silva (5)
  6. Luke Rockhold (6)
  7. Gegard Mousasi (10)
  8. Tim Kennedy (8)
  9. Yoel Romero (9)
  10. Thales Leites (11)
  11. Yushin Okami (13)
  12. Michael Bisping (14)
  13. Cung Le (15)
  14. Alan Belcher (16)
  15. Alexander Shlemenko (7)
  16. C.B. Dollaway
  17. Mark Munoz (12)
  18. Costa Philippou (18)
  19. Rich Franklin (17)
  20. Nate Marquardt (NR)
Dropping out/Not making with new weight class: Clint Hester (19), Tim Boetsch (20), James Te-Huna (16-light heavyweight)

Welterwight:
  1. Johny Hendricks (1)
  2. Matt Brown (2)
  3. Robbie Lawler (3)
  4. Rory Macdonald (7)
  5. Dong Hyun Kim (5)
  6. Carlos Condit (6)
  7. Ben Askren (9)
  8. Tarec Saffiedine (10)
  9. Demian Maia (13)
  10. Tyrone Woodley (4)
  11. Hector Lombard (11)
  12. Jake Shields (12)
  13. Jake Ellenberger (8)
  14. Martin Kampmann (14)
  15. Nick Diaz (15)
  16. Rousimar Palhares (16)
  17. Josh Burkman (17)
  18. Josh Koscheck (18)
  19. Brandon Thatch (19)
  20. Stephen Thompson (20)
Lightweight:
  1. Anthony Pettis (1)
  2. Gilbert Melendez (2)
  3. Khabib Nurmagomedov (3)
  4. Benson Henderson (4)
  5. Josh Thomson (5)
  6. Donald Cerrone (6)
  7. Jim Miller (7)
  8. TJ Grant (8)
  9. Michael Chandler (9)
  10. Eddie Alvarez (10)
  11. Nate Diaz (11)
  12. Rafael dos Anjos (12)
  13. Rustam Khabilov (16)
  14. Gray Maynard (13)
  15. Joe Lauzon (15)
  16. Bobby Green (17)
  17. Abel Trujillo (18)
  18. Michael Johnson (19)
  19. Edson Barboza (20)
  20. Daron Cruickshank (NR)
Dropping out: Erik Koch (14)

Featherweight:
  1. Jose Aldo (1)
  2. Chad Mendes (2)
  3. Cub Swanson (3)
  4. Dustin Poirier (4)
  5. Frankie Edgar (5)
  6. Ricardo Lamas (8)
  7. Conor McGregor (6)
  8. Chan Sung Jung (7)
  9. Dennis Bermudez (9)
  10. Clay Guida (10)
  11. Shinya Aoki (11)
  12. Dennis Siver (12)
  13. Paticio Freire (13)
  14. Nik Lentz (18)
  15. Jeremy Stephens (14)
  16. Pat Curran (15)
  17. Daniel Straus (16)
  18. Darren Elkins (17)
  19. Charles Oliveira (NR)
  20. Tatsuya Kawajiri (20)
Dropping out: Hatsu Hioki (19)

Bantamweight:
  1. T.J. Dillashaw (6)
  2. Dominick Cruz (2)
  3. Renan Barao (1)
  4. Urijah Faber (3)
  5. Rafael Assuncao (4)
  6. Takeya Mizugaki (11)
  7. Michael McDonald (5)
  8. Iuri Alcantara (13)
  9. Eduardo Dantas (8)
  10. Marlon Moraes (9)
  11. Bibiano Fernandes (10)
  12. Joe Warren (12)
  13. Alex Caceres (15)
  14. Johnny Eduardo (NR)
  15. Eddie Wineland (7)
  16. George Roop (16)
  17. Sergio Pettis (18)
  18. Bryan Caraway (NR)
  19. Erik Perez (14)
  20. Tyson Nam (19)
Dropping out: Mike Easton (17), Francisco Rivera (20)

Flyweight:
  1. Demetrious Johnson (1)
  2. John Dodson (2)
  3. Joe Benavidez (3)
  4. Brad Pickett (5)
  5. Jussier Formiga (6)
  6. Ian McCall (7)
  7. Zack Makovsky (9)
  8. Ali Bagautinov (4)
  9. Dustin Ortiz (11)
  10. Kyoji Horiguchi (20)
  11. John Lineker (12)
  12. Tim Elliot (13)
  13. Louis Gaudinot(14)
  14. John Moraga (10)
  15. Chris Cariaso (15)
  16. Darrel Montague (8)
  17. Scott Jorgensen (18)
  18. Alptekin Ozkilic (16)
  19. Josh Sampo (17)
  20. Danny Martinez (19)
Women's Pound for Pound:
  1. Ronda Rousey (1)
  2. Cristiane Santos (2)
  3. Alexis Davis (3)
  4. Jessica Aguilar (4)
  5. Cat Zingano (5)
  6. Marloes Coenen (6)
  7. Sarah Kaufman (7)
  8. Sara McMann (8)
  9. Barb Honchak (9)
  10. Michelle Waterson (10)
  11. Miesha Tate (11)
  12. Jessica Eye (12)
  13. Jessica Penne (13)
  14. Amanda Nunes (14)
  15. Carla Esparza (15)
  16. Jessica Andrade (16)
  17. Shayna Baszler (17)
  18.  Zoila Gurgel (18)
  19. Tecia Torres (19)
  20. Bethe Correia (20)