Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently wrapped its UFC 207: “Nunes vs. Rousey” pay-per-view (PPV) event, taking place last Friday night (Dec. 30, 2016) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Get full results here.
Some fighters experienced the highest of highs, like newly-crowned bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt. “No Love” knocked around Dominick Cruz for five rounds to capture the division crown (watch it). Others, however, were mired in the lowest of lows, like former women’s 135-pound titleholder Ronda Rousey. “Rowdy” is nearly out of the top five after suffering her second consecutive knockout loss (replay).
Then there’s the free-falling Johny Hendricks.
Here’s what the latest rankings field looks like courtesy of UFC.com. Note: (+/- = movement in rankings, *NR = Not previously ranked).
POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Demetrious Johnson
2 Conor McGregor
3 Daniel Cormier +1
4 Jose Aldo +1
5 Cody Garbrandt *NR
6 Stipe Miocic
7 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
8 Dominick Cruz -5
9 Tyron Woodley -1
10 Michael Bisping -1
11 Amanda Nunes
12 Max Holloway -2
13 Khabib Nurmagomedov
14 TJ Dillashaw
15 Luke Rockhold *NR
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 John Moraga
9 Dustin Ortiz
10 Ray Borg +3
11 Brandon Moreno -1
12 Zach Makovsky -1
13 Louis Smolka -1
14 Tim Elliott +1
15 Sergio Pettis -1
BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Cody Garbrandt
1 Dominick Cruz -1
2 TJ Dillashaw -1
3 John Lineker -1
4 Raphael Assuncao -1
5 Bryan Caraway +1
6 Jimmie Rivera -2
7 Aljamain Sterling
8 Michael McDonald
9 John Dodson
10 Thomas Almeida
11 Eddie Wineland +2
12 Johnny Eduardo
13 Pedro Munhoz +1
14 Rani Yahya +1
15 Erik Perez *NR
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 Dennis Bermudez -1
9 Brian Ortega
10 Yair Rodriguez
11 Dooho Choi
12 Darren Elkins +1
13 Mirsad Bektic -1
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
WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Tyron Woodley
1 Stephen Thompson
2 Robbie Lawler
3 Demian Maia
4 Carlos Condit
5 Donald Cerrone
6 Lorenz Larkin +1
7 Dong Hyun Kim +2
8 Neil Magny
9 Rick Story +1
10 Gunnar Nelson +1
11 Johny Hendricks -5
12 Jorge Masvidal +1
13 Tarec Saffiedine -1
14 Matt Brown +1
15 Jake Ellenberger -1
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 -1
10 Kelvin Gastelum
11 Tim Kennedy +1
12 Krzysztof Jotko -1
13 Uriah Hall
14 Tim Boetsch +1
15 Thales Leites -1
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 +1
14 Patrick Cummins -1
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 +1
7 Andrei Arlovski +1
8 Derrick Lewis +1
9 Travis Browne +1
10 Stefan Struve +1
11 Francis Ngannou
12 Alexander Volkov +1
13 Daniel Omielanczuk +1
14 Tim Johnson +1
15 Luis Henrique *NR
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 -1
11 Jessica Aguilar
12 Alexa Grasso +2
13 Jessica Penne -1
14 Juliana Lima +1
15 Valerie Letourneau -2
WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Valentina Shevchenko +1
2 Julianna Pena +1
3 Holly Holm +1
4 Ronda Rousey -3
5 Raquel Pennington
6 Cat Zingano
7 Sara McMann
8 Liz Carmouche
9 Bethe Correia
10 Germaine de Randamie +1
11 Ashlee Evans-Smith +1
12 Alexis Davis +2
13 Marion Reneau
14 Jessica Eye +1
15 Leslie Smith *NR
There you have it.
You can expect these standings to change in about two weeks — particularly in the featherweight division — when UFC Fight Night 103: “Rodriguez vs. Penn” takes place on Jan. 15, 2017, inside Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona (details).
Until then, let us know what you think of the latest rankings movement in the comments section below.