UFC Rankings updated following UFC Fight Night 103

By Russell Ess - January 19, 2017

The UFC rankings have been updated to reflect the landscape of all the weight classes in addition to the pound-for-pound list following UFC Fight Night 103.

Yair Rodriguez

The biggest change came in the flyweight division where Sergio Pettis jumped up six spots to the #9 ranking with his win over John Moraga, which dropped Moraga down 5 spots to the #13 ranking.

Sergio Pettis

Yair Rodriguez continues his climb up the featherweight division with his main event win over UFC Hall of Fame legend BJ Penn, jumping up two spots to #8 in the featherweight division.

Check out the updates below from the official UFC rankings:

Note:
*NR – Not Previously Ranked
+ Indicates a move up in ranking
– Indicates a drop in ranking

POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Demetrious Johnson
2 Conor McGregor
3 Daniel Cormier
4 Jose Aldo
5 Cody Garbrandt
6 Joanna Jedrzejczyk +1
7 Stipe Miocic -1
8 Dominick Cruz
9 Tyron Woodley
10 Michael Bisping
11 Amanda Nunes
12 TJ Dillashaw +2
13 Max Holloway -1
14 Khabib Nurmagomedov -1
15 Luke Rockhold

FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 Henry Cejudo
3 Kyoji Horiguchi
4 Jussier Formiga
5 Wilson Reis
6 Ian McCall
7 Ali Bagautinov
8 Dustin Ortiz +1
9 Sergio Pettis +6
10 Ray Borg
11 Brandon Moreno
12 Zach Makovsky
13 John Moraga -5
14 Louis Smolka -1
15 Tim Elliott 1

BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Cody Garbrandt
1 Dominick Cruz
2 TJ Dillashaw
3 John Lineker
4 Raphael Assuncao
5 Bryan Caraway
6 Jimmie Rivera
7 Aljamain Sterling
8 Michael McDonald
9 John Dodson
10 Thomas Almeida
11 Eddie Wineland
12 Johnny Eduardo
13 Pedro Munhoz
14 Rani Yahya
15 Erik Perez

FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Jose Aldo
1 Max Holloway (Interim Champion)
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Ricardo Lamas
4 Cub Swanson
5 Jeremy Stephens
6 Anthony Pettis
7 Charles Oliveira
8 Yair Rodriguez +2
9 Dennis Bermudez -1
10 Brian Ortega -1
11 Dooho Choi
12 Darren Elkins
13 Mirsad Bektic
14 Renan Barao
15 Andre Fili

LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Conor McGregor
1 Khabib Nurmagomedov
2 Tony Ferguson
3 Eddie Alvarez
4 Rafael Dos Anjos
5 Edson Barboza
6 Nate Diaz
7 Michael Johnson
8 Michael Chiesa
9 Beneil Dariush
10 Dustin Poirier
11 Donald Cerrone
12 Gilbert Melendez
13 Francisco Trinaldo
14 Evan Dunham
15 Al Iaquinta

ufc welterweight champion

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Tyron Woodley
1 Stephen Thompson
2 Robbie Lawler
3 Demian Maia
4 Carlos Condit
5 Donald Cerrone
6 Lorenz Larkin
7 Dong Hyun Kim
8 Neil Magny
9 Rick Story
10 Gunnar Nelson
11 Johny Hendricks
12 Jorge Masvidal
13 Tarec Saffiedine
14 Matt Brown
15 Jake Ellenberger

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Michael Bisping
1 Yoel Romero
2 Luke Rockhold
3 Jacare Souza
4 Chris Weidman
5 Gegard Mousasi
6 Robert Whittaker
7 Anderson Silva
8 Derek Brunson
9 Vitor Belfort
10 Kelvin Gastelum
11 Krzysztof Jotko +1
12 Uriah Hall +1
13 Tim Boetsch +1
14 Thales Leites +1
15 Rafael Natal *NR

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Anthony Johnson
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Glover Teixeira
4 Ryan Bader
5 Jimi Manuwa
6 Ovince Saint Preux
7 Mauricio Rua
8 Misha Cirkunov
9 Corey Anderson
10 Nikita Krylov
11 Ilir Latifi
12 Rogerio Nogueira
13 Gian Villante
14 Patrick Cummins
15 Jan Blachowicz

HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Stipe Miocic
1 Fabricio Werdum
2 Cain Velasquez
3 Alistair Overeem
4 Junior Dos Santos
5 Ben Rothwell
6 Mark Hunt
7 Andrei Arlovski
8 Derrick Lewis
9 Travis Browne
10 Francis Ngannou +1
11 Stefan Struve -1
12 Alexander Volkov +1
13 Daniel Omielanczuk +1
14 Aleksei Oleinik *NR
14 Tim Johnson +1

WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Joanna Jedrzejczyk
1 Claudia Gadelha
2 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
3 Carla Esparza
4 Rose Namajunas
5 Jessica Andrade
6 Tecia Torres
7 Michelle Waterson
8 Joanne Calderwood
9 Maryna Moroz
10 Paige VanZant
11 Jessica Aguilar
12 Alexa Grasso
13 Jessica Penne
14 Juliana Lima
15 Valerie Letourneau

Amanda Nunes UFC 207

WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Valentina Shevchenko
2 Julianna Pena
3 Holly Holm
4 Ronda Rousey
5 Raquel Pennington
6 Cat Zingano
7 Sara McMann
8 Liz Carmouche
9 Bethe Correia
10 Germaine de Randamie
11 Alexis Davis +1
12 Ashlee Evans-Smith -1
13 Marion Reneau
14 Jessica Eye
15 Leslie Smith *NR

This article first appeared on 1/19/2017.

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