Top 10 MMA Fighters Rankings Update (March 2014)
The Top 10 MMA Rankings were released on Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 via MMAWeekly.com World MMA Rankings. The rankings show the Top 10 MMA fighters from across the world in each of the seven most widely accepted men’s weight classes and the Top 10 pound-for-pound women fighters.
(Fighter’s previous ranking is in parenthesis.)
WOMEN’S POUND-FOR-POUND (all weight classes)
1. Ronda Rousey (2)
2. Cris Cyborg Justino (1)
3. Cat Zingano (3)
4. Sarah Kaufman (5)
5. Alexis Davis (9)
6. Jessica Aguilar (6)
7. Jessica Eye (4)
8. Miesha Tate (7)
9. Sara McMann (8)
10. Barb Honchak (10)
HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (over 205 pounds)
1. Cain Velasquez (1)
2. Junior dos Santos (2)
3. Fabricio Werdum (4)
4. Travis Browne (5)
5. Josh Barnett (6)
6. Mark Hunt (7)
7. Alistair Overeem (8)
8. Stipe Miocic (9)
9. Gabriel Gonzaga (10)
10. Vitaly Minakov (n/a)
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (205-pound limit)
1. Jon Jones (1)
2. Alexander Gustafsson (2)
3. Glover Teixeira (3)
4. Rashad Evans (4)
5. Phil Davis (5)
6. Daniel Cormier (n/a)
7. Chael Sonnen (6)
8. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (7)
9. Dan Henderson (10)
10. Jimi Manuwa (9)
MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION (185-pound limit)
1. Chris Weidman (1)
2. Anderson Silva (2)
3. Vitor Belfort (3)
4. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (4)
5. Lyoto Machida (5)
6. Michael Bisping (6)
7. Mark Munoz (7)
8. Luke Rockhold (8)
9. Yushin Okami (9)
10. Tim Kennedy (10)
WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION (170-pound limit)
1. Johny Hendricks (1)
2. Robbie Lawler (6)
3. Rory MacDonald (7)
4. Tyron Woodley (n/a)
5. Carlos Condit (2)
6. Hector Lombard (n/a)
7. Jake Ellenberger (3)
8. Dong Hyun Kim (n/a)
9. Jake Shields (4)
10. Demian Maia (5)
LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION (155-pound limit)
1. Anthony Pettis (1)
2. Benson Henderson (2)
3. Gilbert Melendez (3)
4. TJ Grant (4)
5. Eddie Alvarez (5)
6. Michael Chandler (6)
7. Josh Thomson (7)
8. Khabib Nurmagomedov (8)
9. Nate Diaz (9)
10. Rafael dos Anjos (10)
FEATHERWEIGHT DIVISION (145 pound-limit)
1. Jose Aldo (1)
2. Chad Mendes (2)
3. Ricardo Lamas (3)
4. Cub Swanson (4)
5. Frankie Edgar (5)
6. Chan Sung Jung (6)
7. Dustin Poirier (7)
8. Nik Lentz (8)
9. Pat Curran (n/a)
10. Daniel Straus (9)
BANTAMWEIGHT DIVISION (135 pounds or less)
1. Renan Barão (1)
2. Urijah Faber (2)
3. Raphael Assuncao (4)
4. Michael McDonald (3)
5. Bibiano Fernandes (5)
6. Eddie Wineland (6)
7. TJ Dillashaw (8)
8. Takeya Mizugaki (9)
9. Erik Perez (10)
10. Eduardo Dantas (n/a)
FLYWEIGHT DIVISION (125 pounds or less)
1. Demetrious Johnson (1)
2. Joseph Benavidez (2)
3. John Dodson (3)
4. Ali Bagautinov (4)
5. Ian McCall (5)
6. John Moraga (6)
7. Tim Elliott (7)
8. Jussier da Silva (8)
9. Darrell Montague (9)
10. Zach Makovsky (10)