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May 20 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings
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Pound 4 Pound rankings
For now, at least, Silva is shelving any superfight talk and insists he's focused solely on his UFC 162 meeting with Chris Weidman. If he gets through that test, a career-defining contest could come next.
Change: -- | Record: 33 - 6 - 0
What looked like a gruesome toe injury turned out to be a dislocation and may heal quicker than expected. Could Anderson Silva and a big-money fight await?
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 1 - 0
St-Pierre's next move hasn't officially been announced, but he's suggesting Johny Hendricks makes the most sense. He's also teased a potential move to lightweight.
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 2 - 0
Aldo eventually wants to move from featherweight to lightweight, but the champ's current division has never been deeper.
Change: -- | Record: 24 - 1 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Rustam "Tiger" Khabilov | Jun 07, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 42: Henderson vs. Khabilov
Henderson will have an eye on UFC 160 this weekend. UFC officials said the champ will get the T.J. Grant vs. Gray Maynard winner next.
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 3 - 0
Cruz has been on the sidelines for 19 months due to a knee injury. Unfortunately for fight fans, their constant complaints about the layoff aren't making him heal any quicker.
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 1 - 0
The UFC's first flyweight champion will have home-field advantage when he meets up-and-comer John Moraga in Seattle at July's UFC on FOX 8 event.
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 2 - 1
Up next for Velasquez is a rematch with Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva, whom he's defeated once before, this weekend at UFC 160. It's not the sexiest rematch, but it's justified.
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 1 - 0
Barao is likely out of a UFC 161 headliner with Eddie Wineland due to an injury, which is another setback for the division.
Change: -- | Record: 32 - 1 - 0
Welterweight kingpin St-Pierre insists he doesn't fear the beard, but Hendricks' ample facial hair and punching power put top contenders Martin Kampmann and Jon Fitch to sleep. Can Hendricks do the same to the champ?
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 2 - 0
This weekend's UFC 160 co-headliner with fellow striker Mark Hunt is good to go now that the New Zealand native has his visa issues resolved.
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 3 - 0
Benavidez lost a recent shot at the flyweight belt, but he's still clearly the top fighter in the 125-pound division behind champ Demetrious Johnson.
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 4 - 0
Machida needs an opponent, as does fellow contender Alexander Gustafsson. They both want it, too. Let's get it booked, UFC.
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 4 - 0
Cormier looked respectable, if not necessarily flashy, in his UFC debut. Now "DC" needs to decide if his future lies with the big boys at heavyweight or down one division at 205 pounds.
Change: -- | Record: 14 - 0 - 0
"Showtime" could have been the UFC's No. 1 contender at lightweight but elected instead to drop down to 145 pounds for a guaranteed shot at Jose Aldo, a fight that could very well look like a video-game kung-fu contest.
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 2 - 0
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 24 - 10 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 30 - 11 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 3 - 0
Heavyweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 14 - 0 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 37 - 13 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 5 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 33 - 7 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 5 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 9 - 8 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 34 - 9 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 2 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 9 - 2
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 6 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Junior "Cigano" Dos Santos | May 31, 2014 - TUF Brazil 3 Finale: dos Santos vs. Miocic
Change: -- | Record: 11 - 1 - 0
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 15 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 10 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 3 - 0
Light-Heavyweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 30 - 11 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 3 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 7 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson | May 17, 2014 - Bellator 120: Alvarez vs. Chandler III
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 3 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Mark "The Filipino Wrecking Machine" Munoz | May 31, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 41: Munoz vs. Mousasi
Change: -- | Record: 34 - 4 - 2
Upcoming Fight: vs. Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal | May 17, 2014 - Bellator 120: Alvarez vs. Chandler III
Change: -- | Record: 34 - 11 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Nate "The Great" Marquardt | Jun 28, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 43: Te Huna vs. Marquardt
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 6 - 0
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 23 - 7 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 29 - 5 - 2
Middleweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 33 - 6 - 0
With a violent knockout of former Strikeforce champ Luke Rockhold, Belfort leapfrogs upcoming title challenger Chris Weidman and takes the No. 2 spot.
Change: +1 | Record: 24 - 10 - 0
Change: -1 | Record: 11 - 0 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 30 - 8 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 24 - 6 - 0
Despite his loss to surging Vitor Belfort, Rockhold's positioning doesn't change in the rankings.
Change: -- | Record: 11 - 2 - 0
Thanks to a dominant victory over Chris Camozzi at UFC on FX 8, Souza moves up a spot this week.
Change: +1 | Record: 20 - 3 - 0
Change: -1 | Record: 13 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 8 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 34 - 4 - 1
Upcoming Fight: vs. Tito "The People's Champ" Ortiz | May 17, 2014 - Bellator 120: Alvarez vs. Chandler III
Change: -- | Record: 50 - 7 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 29 - 7 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 35 - 12 - 1
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 9 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 6 - 0
Welterweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 29 - 7 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 29 - 8 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 26 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 0 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 7 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 6 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 8 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 2 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 15 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 9 - 1
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 11 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 0 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 26 - 5 - 0
Lightweight rankings
Upcoming Fight: vs. Rustam "Tiger" Khabilov | Jun 07, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 42: Henderson vs. Khabilov
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 2 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 11 - 3 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 9 - 0
Despite his UFC 159 win over Jim Miller being overturned due to a failed marijuana test, Healy maintains the No. 8 spot.
Change: -- | Record: 29 - 17 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 23 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 23 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 36 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 23 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 5 - 0
With dos Anjos' narrow (and some say controversial) win over Evan Dunham, the two fighters swap spots.
Change: +1 | Record: 20 - 7 - 0
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 14 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 0 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 28 - 9 - 0
Featherweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 24 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 5 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Jeremy "Lil' Heathen" Stephens | Jun 28, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 44: Swanson vs. Stephens
Change: -- | Record: 20 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 33 - 8 - 2
Upcoming Fight: vs. Daron "Detroit Superstar" Cruickshank | May 10, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 40: Brown vs. Silva
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 2 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Manny "The Anvil" Gamburyan | May 10, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 40: Brown vs. Silva
With his UFC on FX 8 win, Lentz is now 3-0 since dropping to featherweight and wants a top 10 guy next.
Change: +2 | Record: 24 - 6 - 2
Change: -1 | Record: 16 - 3 - 0
Change: -1 | Record: 26 - 7 - 2
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 18 - 8 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 4 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 31 - 14 - 0
Bantamweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 32 - 1 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 30 - 7 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 9 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 24 - 8 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 15 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 14 - 9 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 22 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 10 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 3 - 0
Upcoming Fight: vs. Thomas "The Die Hard Kidd" Vasquez | May 02, 2014 - Bellator 118: Dantas vs. Warren
Change: -- | Record: 15 - 6 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 9 - 2 - 0
Alcantara looked fantastic in a first-round finish of Iliarde Santos at UFC on FX 8, but he needs to face ranked opponents if he hopes to climb the ladder.
Change: -- | Record: 29 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 4 - 0
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 25 - 11 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 4 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 17 - 3 - 1
Flyweight rankings
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 2 - 1
Change: -- | Record: 19 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 15 - 6 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 12 - 4 - 1
Upcoming Fight: vs. John "The Magician" Dodson | Jun 07, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 42: Henderson vs. Khabilov
Change: -- | Record: 14 - 2 - 0
Formiga used his smothering jiu-jitsu skills to stifle No. 10 Cariaso before surviving a game third-round comeback attempt.
Change: -- | Record: 16 - 3 - 0
Lineker assaulted Russian prospect Azamat Gashimov from the opening bell at UFC on FX 8 before finishing the fight with a brutal second-round body shot.
Change: +2 | Record: 23 - 7 - 0
Change: -1 | Record: 13 - 3 - 0
Change: +1 | Record: 10 - 4 - 1
Upcoming Fight: vs. Louis "Da Last Samurai" Smolka | May 10, 2014 - UFC Fight Night 40: Brown vs. Silva
Cariaso tumbles a bit after his loss to No. 6 Formiga. Still, his career record shows he generally only loses to elite-level fighters.
Change: -2 | Record: 16 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 8 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 7 - 3 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 5 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 21 - 6 - 6
Change: -- | Record: 11 - 3 - 0
Honorable Mentions
Change: -- | Record: 13 - 5 - 5
Change: -- | Record: 14 - 4 - 0
Change: -- | Record: 26 - 7 - 3
May 20 USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA Rankings
But he wasn’t the only winner whose ranking improved. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, Rafael dos Anjos, Nik Lentz and John Lineker also saw some movement.
And don’t forget: Next week’s rankings will get a major shakeup with Saturday’s UFC 160 event, where four of the world’s top heavyweights clash.
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The rankings take into account a fighter's wins/losses, quality of competition, finishing rate/dominance and frequency of fights.
Fighters are no longer eligible to be ranked after they've been inactive for 24 months, either due to injuries, drug/conduct suspensions, contract disputes or self-imposed hiatuses.
Fighters serving drug/conduct suspensions are eligible to be ranked, so long as they're not inactive for more than 24 months.
To the best of our ability, fighters will be ranked in their primary weight class. Catchweight fights and bouts outside the fighter's primary weight class can have a positive or negative impact on the ranking. However, fighters can be ranked in only one weight class at a given time, and in most cases, they won't be ranked in a new weight class until they've had their first fight at that weight.
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