Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently updated its official fighter rankings to reflect the results of its UFC Fight Night 83 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, which took place last Sunday night (Feb. 22, 2016) inside CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Donald Cerrone headlined the event, making a splash in his Welterweight debut by submitting Alex Oliveira in the very first round (see it again here).
The win didn’t do much for Cerrone’s standing in the Lightweight division, however, as he inexplicably dropped four spots down to No. 9. Other than that, there wasn’t any major movement of note this week.
Here’s what the latest ranking field looks like courtesy of UFC.com. Note: (+/- = movement in rankings, *NR = Not previously ranked).
POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Jon Jones
2 Demetrious Johnson
3 Conor McGregor
4 Dominick Cruz +3
4 Rafael dos Anjos
6 Fabricio Werdum -1
7 Luke Rockhold +1
8 Robbie Lawler -2
9 Daniel Cormier +1
10 Jose Aldo -1
11 Chris Weidman
12 TJ Dillashaw
13 Holly Holm
14 Frankie Edgar +1
15 Joanna Jedrzejczyk -1
FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 John Dodson
3 Henry Cejudo
4 Ian McCall
5 Jussier Formiga
6 Kyoji Horiguchi
7 John Moraga
8 Zach Makovsky
9 Wilson Reis
10 Ali Bagautinov
11 Dustin Ortiz
12 Justin Scoggins
13 Louis Smolka
14 Ray Borg
15 Sergio Pettis
BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Dominick Cruz
1 TJ Dillashaw
2 Renan Barao
3 Urijah Faber
4 Raphael Assuncao
5 Aljamain Sterling
6 Michael McDonald
7 Thomas Almeida
8 Bryan Caraway
9 Takeya Mizugaki
10 Johnny Eduardo
11 John Lineker
12 Frankie Saenz
13 Jimmie Rivera
14 Eddie Wineland
15 Francisco Rivera
FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Conor McGregor
1 Jose Aldo
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Chad Mendes
4 Max Holloway
5 Ricardo Lamas
6 Cub Swanson
7 Charles Oliveira
8 Dennis Bermudez
9 Jeremy Stephens
10 Hacran Dias
11 Darren Elkins
12 Brian Ortega +1
13 Tatsuya Kawajiri -1
14 Nik Lentz
15 Clay Guida
LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Rafael dos Anjos
1 Eddie Alvarez
2 Khabib Nurmagomedov
3 Anthony Pettis
4 Tony Ferguson
5 Nate Diaz +1
6 Michael Johnson +1
7 Beneil Dariush +2
8 Edson Barboza
9 Donald Cerrone -4
10 Al Iaquinta
11 Dustin Poirier
12 Bobby Green
13 Michael Chiesa
14 Evan Dunham
15 Rashid Magomedov
WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Robbie Lawler
1 Rory MacDonald
2 Stephen Thompson +1
3 Tyron Woodley -1
4 Carlos Condit
5 Johny Hendricks
6 Demian Maia
7 Matt Brown
8 Dong Hyun Kim
9 Neil Magny
10 Tarec Saffiedine
11 Rick Story
12 Kelvin Gastelum
13 Thiago Alves
14 Albert Tumenov
15 Gunnar Nelson
MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Luke Rockhold
1 Chris Weidman
2 Jacare Souza
3 Vitor Belfort
4 Lyoto Machida
5 Anderson Silva +2
6 Tim Kennedy -1
7 Michael Bisping -1
8 Robert Whittaker
9 Gegard Mousasi
10 Thales Leites
11 Uriah Hall
12 Derek Brunson +1
13 Rafael Natal -1
14 Dan Henderson
15 Roan Carneiro
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Jon Jones
2 Anthony Johnson
3 Alexander Gustafsson
4 Glover Teixeira
5 Ryan Bader
6 Ovince Saint Preux
7 Rashad Evans
8 Mauricio Rua
9 Jimi Manuwa
10 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira +1
11 Patrick Cummins -1
12 Corey Anderson
13 Gian Villante
14 Ilir Latifi
15 Jan Blachowicz
HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Fabricio Werdum
1 Cain Velasquez
2 Stipe Miocic
3 Alistair Overeem
4 Ben Rothwell
5 Junior dos Santos
6 Andrei Arlovski -1
7 Travis Browne
8 Josh Barnett
9 Mark Hunt
10 Frank Mir
11 Roy Nelson
12 Antonio Silva
13 Matt Mitrione
14 Alexey Oliynyk
15 Jared Rosholt
WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Joanna Jedrzejczyk
1 Claudia Gadelha
2 Carla Esparza
3 Rose Namajunas
4 Tecia Torres
5 Jessica Penne
6 Valerie Letourneau
7 Paige VanZant
8 Michelle Waterson +2
9 Maryna Moroz
10 Joanne Calderwood -2
11 Karolina Kowalkiewicz +1
12 Randa Markos -1
13 Jessica Aguilar
14 Juliana Lima
15 Felice Herrig
WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Holly Holm
1 Ronda Rousey
2 Miesha Tate
3 Cat Zingano
4 Amanda Nunes
5 Julianna Pena
6 Sara McMann
7 Jessica Eye
8 Bethe Correia
9 Liz Carmouche
10 Sarah Kaufman
11 Valentina Shevchenko
12 Raquel Pennington +1
13 Germaine de Randamie +1
14 Lauren Murphy *NR
15 Marion Reneau -3
There you have it.
You can expect these standings to change in a week, as UFC Fight Night 84: “Silva vs. Bisping” lights up O2 Arena in London, England, on Sat., Feb. 27, 2016 (for more on that UFC Fight Pass event click here).
Until then, let us know what you think of the latest rankings movement in the comments section below.