Official UFC Rankings Updated: Lightweight division gets a face lift

There were some pretty significant shifts in the rankings following this past Saturday’s UFC event. Considering Chael Sonnen wasn’t ranked to begin with in the Light-heavyweight division and Jon Jones was already the champion, neither fighter moved at all.

There was however a serious shake up in the Lightweight division. With Josh Thompson delivering Nate Diaz his first career knockout he shoots himself up 4 spots to #4 in the Lightweight rankings, whil Diaz dropped to #7.

While I agree with Thompson moving up I disagree with Diaz being ranked below fighters like Donald Cerrone and TJ Grant, especially when he just recently defeated Cerrone prior to his loss and has accomplished much more than Grant especially when considering he just went 5 rounds with the current Lightweight champion.

Some other notably significant shifts were Jim Miller dropping 4 spots to #8 while Pat Healy who was previously unranked breaks into the top 10 with a spot at #9. With his win over Cheick Kongo, Roy Nelson moves up to tie for 5th place with Alistair Overeem in the Heavyweight division rankings.

And in the womens Bantamweight division Sara McMann moves up two spots to #4 while Liz Carmouche, Alexis Davis, Germaine de Randamie and Sheila Gaff all drop 1 spot to #5, #6, #9 and #10 respectively.

Official updated rankings are below. Let us know what you think Lowkickers:

Pound-for-Pound
1 Anderson Silva
2 Jon Jones
3 Georges St. Pierre
4 Jose Aldo
5 Benson Henderson
6 Cain Velasquez
7 Demetrious Johnson
8 Renan Barao
9 Dominick Cruz
10 Frankie Edgar

Flyweight
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 John Dodson
3 Ian McCall
4 John Moraga
5 Jussier Da Silva
6 Louis Gaudinot
7 Chris Cariaso
8 John Lineker
9 Darren Uyenoyama
10 Timothy Elliott

Bantamweight
Champion: Dominick Cruz
1 Renan Barao (Interim Champion)
2 Urijah Faber
3 Michael McDonald
4 Eddie Wineland
5 Brad Pickett
6 Rafael Assuncao
7 Scott Jorgensen
8. Brian Bowles
9 Mike Easton
10 Ivan Menjivar

Featherweight
Champion: Jose Aldo
1 Chad Mendes
2 Ricardo Lamas
3 Frankie Edgar
4. Chan Sung Jung
5 Cub Swanson
6 Dennis Siver
7 Dustin Poirier
8 Clay Guida
9 Erik Koch
10: Nik Lentz

Lightweight
Champion: Benson Henderson
1 Gilbert Melendez
2 Anthony Pettis
3 Gray Maynard
4 Josh Thomson +4
5 Donald Cerrone
6 T.J. Grant +1
7 Nate Diaz -1
8 Jim Miller -4
9 Pat Healy NR
10 Rafael Dos Anjos -1

Welterweight
Champion: Georges St-Pierre
1 Johny Hendricks
2 Carlos Condit
3 Rory MacDonald
4. Jake Ellenberger
5 Demian Maia
6 Nick Diaz
7 Martin Kampmann
8 Tarec Saffiedine
9 Robbie Lawler
10 Josh Koscheck

Middleweight
Champion: Anderson Silva
1 Chris Weidman
2 Vitor Belfort
3 Yushin Okami
4 Michael Bisping
5. Luke Rockhold
6. Constantinos Philippou
7 Mark Munoz
8 Ronaldo Souza
9 Chael Sonnen
10 Tim Boetsch NR

Light Heavyweight
Champion: Jon Jones
1 Lyoto Machida
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Dan Henderson
4 Glover Teixeira
5 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
6 Rashad Evans
7 Mauricio Rua
8 Phil Davis
9 USAsi”>Gegard MoUSAsi
10 Ryan Bader

Heavyweight
Champion: Cain Velasquez
1 Junior dos Santos
2 Daniel Cormier
3 Fabrecio Werdum
4 Antonio Silva
5 Alistair Overeem
5 Roy Nelson +1
7 Frank Mir
8 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
9 Mark Hunt
10 Travis Browne

Women’s Bantamweight
Champion: Ronda Rousey
1 Cat Zingano
2 Sarah Kaufman
3 Miesha Tate
4 Sara McMann +2
5 Liz Carmouche -1
6 Alexis Davis -1
7 Amanda Nunes
8 Julie Kedzie
9 Germaine de Randamie +1
10 Sheila Gaff -1