MMA Rankings after UFC 155, UFC on Fox 5 & VTJ 1st

Heavyweight

1. Cain Velasquez +2

2. Junior Dos Santos -1

3. Alistair Overeem -1

4. Daniel Cormier

5. Brock Lesnar

6. Fabricio Werdum

7. Antonio Silva

8. Dan Henderson

9. Shane Carwin

10. Fedor Emelianenko



Light Heavyweight

1. Jon Jones

2. Alexander Gustafsson +7

3. Dan Henderson -1

4. Mauricio Rua -1

5. Lyoto Machida -1

6. Ryan Bader -1

7. Quinton Jackson -1

8. Rashad Evans -1

9. Phil Davis -1

10. Thiago Silva



Middleweight

1. Anderson Silva

2. Costas Philippou +9

3. Chael Sonnen -1

4. Tim Boetsch -1

5. Yushin Okami -1

6. Chris Weidman -1

7. Nate Marquardt -1

8. Mark Munoz -1

9. Michael Bisping -1

10. Jake Shields -1



Welterweight

1. Johny Hendricks

2. Martin Kampmann

3. Georges St. Pierre

4. Jake Ellenberger

5. Jake Shields

6. Carlos Condit

7. Nick Diaz

8. Rory MacDonald +3

9. Jon Fitch -1

10. BJ Penn -1


Bantamweight

1. Renan Barao

2. Dominick Cruz

3. Urijah Faber

4. Joseph Benavidez

5. Eddie Wineland +6

6. Michael McDonald -1

7. Brian Bowles -1

8. Demetrious Johnson -1

9. Marlon Moraes -1

10. Brad Pickett -1



Flyweight

1. Demetrious Johnson

2. John Dodson

3. Ian McCall

4. Jussier Da Silva

5. Joseph Benavidez

6. Louis Gaudinot

7. John Lineker

8. Kentaro Watanabe

9. Nam Jin Jo

10. Darrell Montague +1

Results

Velasquez beat Dos Santos

Gustafsson beat Rua

Philippou beat Boetsch

MacDonald beat Penn

Wineland beat Pickett

Montague beat Yamaguchi

Rankings Update #6: Weichel Wins Tournament

Results over the weekend:


Bellator 119

Daniel Weichel #16 beat Desmond Green by submission (rear-naked choke)









UFC Fight Night 40

Costas Philippou #10 beat Lorenz Larkin #16 by Knockout (punches)

Kyoji Horiguchi beat Darrell Montague #24 by Unanimous Decision

Johnny Eduardo beat Eddie Wineland #3 by Knockout (punches)

Nik Lentz #14 beat Manny Gamburyan #23 by Unanimous Decision

UFC Fight Night 40 & Bellator 119

Preview for Mondays Rankings 6th Edition: six fights that could effect the rankings

Bellator 119

Featherweights: Daniel Weichel #16 vs. Desmond Green 

If Green wins Fabricio Guerreiro and Frodo Khasbulaev will also enter the top 25 featherweight rankings as well since Green lost to Guerreiro and Guerreiro lost to Khasbulaev. If Weichel beats Green everything stays the same.

UFC Fight Night 40

Welterweights: Matt Brown vs. Erick Silva

If Silva wins he could be ranked at #25 if he wins more impressively than Seth Baczynski #25 who submitted Brown for his #25 spot. If Brown beats Silva everything stays the same since Brown lost to Baczynski who is occupying the last spot in the current top 25 welterweight rankings.

Middleweights: Costa Philippou #10 vs. Lorenz Larkin #16 

If Larkin beats Philippou both Brad Tavares #14 and Yoel Romero #13 will benefit from it since Larkin lost to Tavares and Tavares lost to Romero. If Philippou beats Larkin everything stays the same.

Flyweights: Darrell Montague #24 vs. Kyoji Horiguchi

If Horiguchi beats Montague he will enter the top 25 flyweight rankings. If Montague beats Horiguchi everything stays the same. 

Bantamweights: Eddie Wineland #3 vs. Johnny Eduardo

If Eduardo upsets Wineland he will enter the top 25 bantamweight rankings and Raphael Assuncao #23 will benefit from it too since he beat Eduardo. If Wineland beats Eduardo as expected then everything stays the same. 

Featherweights: Nik Lentz #14 vs. Manny Gamburyan #23

If Gamburyan beats Lentz then it will avenge his loss to Diego Nunes #21 who beat him by decision because Lentz beat Nunes. Dennis Siver #15 will also benefit from Gamburyan beating Lentz too since he beat Gamburyan and is currently ranked below Lentz. If Lentz beats Gamburyan everything stays the same.