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UFC releases 1st set of official rankings
UFC releases 1st set of official rankings - Mixed Martial Arts News

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

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 Ulysses Gomez

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

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

Lightweight
Champion : Benson Henderson
1 Gilbert Melendez
2 Anthony Pettis
3 Gray Maynard
4 Nate Diaz
5 Jim Miller
6 Donald Cerrone
7 TJ Grant
8 Rafael dos Anjos
9 Joe Lauzon
10 Khabib Nurmagomedov

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

Middleweight
Champion : Anderson Silva
1 Chris Weidman
2 Vitor Belfort
3 Michael Bisping
4 Yushin Okami
5 Mark Munoz
6 Constantinos Philippou
7 Luke Rockhold
8 Hector Lombard
9 Alan Belcher
10 Tim Boetsch

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

Heavyweight
Champion : Cain Velasquez
1 Junior dos Santos
2 Fabricio Werdum
3 Daniel Cormier
4 Antonio Silva
5 Frank Mir
6 Alistair Overeem
7 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
8 Roy Nelson
9 Stefan Struve
10 Shane Carwin

*Michael Bisping still at 3rd in the MW div? Wow.

[Leucoethiops]

*Starts reading*

"Pound-for-Pound
1 Anderson Silva
2 Jon Jones"

*Stops reading*

[Sakara=Excitement]

Shane Carwin 10?!?!?!?!???????????????????????????????????????? ??

[rspier]

I think pound for pound lists are pointless anyway... I'm not offended by jones being ahead of st. Pierre because I think he's proven himself against as good of competition if not better. It's an abstract concept anyway, it not fully governed by stats or facts so its open to opinion and speculation. That's just my 2c. Pound for pound lists are pointless

[Repenter]

how is bisping that high?

how is carwin in the top ten?

and how in hell in ellenberger ranked higher than kampmann?

[Fedorlei Gomipierre]

No Eddie???

[SOOFNUN]

Sonnet where's Sonnen?

UFC promo, " the number 2 ranked pound for pound fighter is fighting the number.......well some dude. We thought he was ranked by how he talked and even assured us that he was a champion already." Lol

[Spoon]

Vitor #2? He's only had 3 MW UFC fights.

[Flynnja]

I also get a kick out of how Sonnen isn't listed at all, MW or LHW, and he's the next title challenger XD

[rivethead]

Originally Posted by Leucoethiops

*Starts reading*

"Pound-for-Pound
1 Anderson Silva
2 Jon Jones"

*Stops reading*

Stops reading, starts laughing.

Originally Posted by Flynnja

I also get a kick out of how Sonnen isn't listed at all, MW or LHW, and he's the next title challenger XD

sonnen can't be ranked at LHW, he has zero wins at 205. He's not fighting at MW anymore, so he can't be ranked at MW.

I guess we should be happy that whomever came up with the list didn't cross that line and start ranking Evans as a top 3 MW, Pettis as a top 3 FW, etc.

But the list itself is hilarious.

rh