Featherweight Rankings Post UFC 168

1. Jose Aldo 
2. Frankie Edgar 
3. Ricardo Lamas
4. Chad Mendes
5. Cub Swanson
6. Chan Sung Jung
7. Daniel Straus
8. Pat Curran
9. Patricio Freire
10. Nik Lentz
11. Dustin Poirier
12. Darren Elkins
13. Clay Guida 
14. Hatsu Hioki
15. Dennis Siver

UFC Featherweight Roster UFC 168

Rules for the UFC Roster Rankings:

1. Fighters can only rank in one weight class
2. Fighters who decide to change their weight class will still be ranked in their previous weight class until they have fought at their new weight class
3. Since MMA judging is often unreliable, wins and losses will be determined by mmadecisions.com
4. Fighters on quasi-retirement will be ineligible
5. Suspended fighters are still eligible to be ranked
6. Fighters must make their UFC debut before being ranked, however, returning UFC fighters who've been re-signed to the UFC can be ranked immediately 
7. The L's represent the losses they have to avenge in order to be ranked higher any irrelevant losses are no longer listed

1. Jose Aldo
2. Frankie Edgar – L Aldo
3. Ricardo Lamas –
4. Chad Mendes – L Aldo
5. Cub Swanson – L Mendes, L Lamas, L Aldo
6. Chan Sung Jung – L Aldo
7. Nik Lentz –  L Mendes
8. Dustin Poirier – L Sung Jung, L Swanson 
9. Darren Elkins – L Mendes
10. Hatsu Hioki – L Elkins, L Lamas 
11. Clay Guida – L Hioki, L Mendes
12. Erik Koch – L Poirier, L Mendes, L Lamas
13. Dennis Siver – L Swanson
14. Jeremy Stephens –  
15. Charles Oliveira – L Swanson, L Edgar
16. Conor McGregor – 
17. Tom Niinimaki
18. Rani Yahya – L Niinimaki, L Mendes
19. Hacran Dias – 
20. Manny Gamburyan – L Siver, L Aldo
21. Max Holloway – L McGregor, L Poirier
22. Diego Brandao – L Elkins, L Poirier 
23. Dennis Bermudez – L Brandao, L Holloway
24. Steven Siler – L Bermudez, L Elkins, L Mendes 
25. Marcus Brimage – L McGregor
26. Jimmy Hettes – L Brimage
27. Rony Jason – L Stephens
28. Josh Clopton – L Siler, L Yahya
29. Mike Brown – L Siler, L Gamburyan, L Yahya, L Aldo 
30. Cole Miller – L Siler, L Gamburyan
31. Andy Ogle – L Miller
32. Akira Corassani – L Ogle
33. Robbie Peralta – L Corassani
34. Kevin Souza –
35. Felipe Arantes – L Souza
36. Maximo Blanco – L Brimage
37. Eddie Yagin –
38. Sam Sicilia – L Blanco, L Jason
39. Matt Grice – L Bermudez, L Lamas
40. Rodrigo Damm – L Blanco
41. Andre Fili –
42. Estevan Payan  – L Peralta, L Stephens 
43. Mike Wilkinson – L Jason
44. Daniel Pineda – L Brown, L Brandao
45. Rob Whiteford – L Hettes
46. Godofredo Pepey – L Sicilia, L Arantes, L Jason
47. Jeremy Larsen – L Fili 

• Doo Ho Choi - yet to debut 
• Will Chope - yet to debut 
• Tatsuya Kawajiri - yet to debut 
• Sean Soriano - yet to debut 
• Bekbulat Magomedov - yet to debut 
• Zubair Tuhugov - yet to debut 

MMA Rankings After UFC 162 Silva vs. Weidman

(Pictured HW contender Gonzaga)

Heavyweight

1. Cain Velasquez - UFC Champion
2. Junior Dos Santos
3. Daniel Cormier
4. Antonio Silva
5. Alistair Overeem
6. Fabricio Werdum
7. Frank Mir
8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
9. Josh Barnett
10. Andrei Arlovski 

Other Contenders: Mark Hunt, Travis Browne, Stipe Miocic, Roy Nelson, Gabriel Gonzaga

Sergei Kharitonov is ineligible for inactivity. He'll be re eligible once he returns from layoff.

(Pictured UFC LH Champion #1 Jones)

Light Heavyweight

1. Jon Jones - UFC Champion
2. Lyoto Machida
3. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
4. Rashad Evans
5. Alexander Gustafsson
6. Dan Henderson
7. Mauricio Rua
8. Phil Davis
9. Glover Teixeira
10. Ryan Bader

Other Contenders: Quinton Jackson, Thiago Silva, Wanderlei Silva, Rafael Cavalcante, Gegard Mousasi


Middleweight

(Pictured, the New UFC MW
Champion #1 Chris Weidman)

1. Chris Weidman +2 - UFC Champion
2. Anderson Silva -1
3. Vitor Belfort -1
4. Michael Bisping
5. Yushin Okami
6. Mark Munoz +2 
7. Constantinos Philippou -1
8. Hector Lombard -1
9. Tim Boetsch
10. Luke Rockhold

Other Contenders: Ronaldo Souza, Brian Stann, Tim Kennedy, Cung Le, Rich Franklin

(Pictured UFC WW
Champion #1 St. Pierre)

Welterweight

1. Georges St. Pierre - UFC Champion
2. Johny Hendricks
3. Carlos Condit
4. Nick Diaz
5. Martin Kampmann
6. Jake Ellenberger
7. Jake Shields
8. Demian Maia
9. Rory Macdonald
10. Robbie Lawler


Other Contenders: Josh Koscheck, Josh Burkman, Jon Fitch, BJ Penn, Erick Silva

(Pictured UFC LW
Champion #1 Henderson)

Lightweight

1. Ben Henderson - UFC Champion
2. Gilbert Melendez
3. TJ Grant
4. Gray Maynard
5. Michael Chandler - Bellator Champion 
6. Eddie Alvarez 
7. Shinya Aoki - One FC Champion 
8. Anthony Pettis
9. Josh Thomson
10. Nate Diaz

Other Contenders: Donald Cerrone, Jim Miller, Takanori Gomi, Diego Sanchez, Joe Lauzon

Pat Healy is ineligible for his suspension. He'll be re eligible once he fights once after his suspension. 

(Pictured #2 FW Edgar)

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo - UFC Champion
2. Frankie Edgar
3. Ricardo Lamas
4. Chad Mendes
5. Pat Curran - Bellator Champion 
6. Cub Swanson
7. Hatsu Hioki
8. Clay Guida
9. Dustin Poirier
10. Nik Lentz

Other Contenders: Erik Koch, Dennis Siver, Diego Nunes, Patricio Freire, Daniel Straus

Chan Sung Jung is ineligible for inactivity. He'll be re eligible once he returns from layoff. 

(Pictured UFC BW Interim Champion
#1 Barao)

Bantamweight

1. Renan Barao - Interim Champion
2. Urijah Faber
3. Eddie Wineland
4. Michael McDonald
5. Bibiano Fernandes - One FC & Dream Champion  
6. Scott Jorgensen
7. Brad Pickett
8. George Roop
9. Marlon Moraes 
10. Miguel Torres 

Other Contenders: Tyson Nam, Eduardo Dantas, Marcos Galvao, Travis Marx, Raphael Assuncao

UFC Champion Dominick Cruz is ineligible for inactivity. He'll be re eligible once he returns from layoff.

Brian Bowles is ineligible for his suspension. He'll be re eligible once he fights once after his suspension.  

(Pictured FLY contender
Yamagami)

Flyweight


1. Demetrious Johnson - UFC Champion
2. Joseph Benavidez
3. Ian McCall
4. John Dodson
5. Jussier Da Silva
6. John Lineker
7. Yasuhiro Urushitani 
8. Yosuke Saruta 
9. Kentaro Watanabe 
10. Shinichi Kojima

Other Contenders: Ryuichi Miki, Haruo Ochi, John Moraga, Darrell Montague, Mikihito Yamagami 

Louis Gaudinot is ineligible for inactivity. He'll be re eligible once he returns from layoff. 

Mikihito Yamagami enters the contenders list with a win over Mamoru Yamaguchi 


Pound 4 Pound

(Pictured #5 Weidman floors #6 Silva)

1. George St. Pierre +1
2. Jose Aldo +1
3. Jon Jones +1
4. Renan Barao +1
5. Chris Weidman +6
6. Anderson Silva -5
7. Cain Velasquez -1
8. Demetrious Johnson -1
9. Ben Henderson -1
10. Frankie Edgar -1

Other Contenders: Gilbert Melendez, Junior Dos Santos, Johny Hendricks, Daniel Cormier, Joseph Benavidez

Chris Weidman enters the pound 4 pound top 10 list with his knock out win over Anderson Silva. 

UFC Champion Dominick Cruz is ineligible for inactivity. He'll be re eligible once he returns from layoff.