UFC Rankings Update: Conor McGregor Drops Five Spots On Pound-For-Pound List

Reigning UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor had a rough night at UFC 196 this past weekend (March 5, 2016), coming up short in his move up to 170-pounds where he met usual lightweight Nate Diaz. After a tremendous amount of trash talk, the “Notorious” one would end up suffering a rear naked choke loss in

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Reigning UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor had a rough night at UFC 196 this past weekend (March 5, 2016), coming up short in his move up to 170-pounds where he met usual lightweight Nate Diaz.

After a tremendous amount of trash talk, the “Notorious” one would end up suffering a rear naked choke loss in the second round to Diaz.

After the defeat, McGregor has dropped five spots in the pound-for-pound rankings, now sitting at No. 8.

Miesha “Cupcake” Tate also upset Holly Holm in the co-main event of the evening, becoming the new women’s bantamweight championship as well as breaking into the pound-for-pound rankings at No. 15.

Check out the fully updated rankings below courtesy of UFC.com:

Pound-For-Pound

  1. Jon Jones
  2. Demetrious Johnson
  3. Luke Rockhold +2
  4. Dominick Cruz
  5. Fabricio Werdum +1
  6. Rafael dos Anjos +1
  7. Robbie Lawler +1
  8. Conor McGregor -5
  9. Daniel Cormier
  10. Jose Aldo
  11. Chris Weidman
  12. Frankie Edgar +2
  13. TJ Dillashaw -1
  14. Joanna Jedrzeczyk +1
  15. Miesha Tate *NR

Flyweight

Champion: Demetrious Johnson

  1. Joseph Benavidez
  2. Henry Cejudo +1
  3. Jon Dodson -1
  4. Jussier Formiga
  5. Ian McCall
  6. Kyoji Horiguchi
  7. John Moraga
  8. Zach Makovsky
  9. Wilson Reis
  10. Dustin Ortiz
  11. Ali Bagautinov
  12. Justin Scoggins
  13. Luis 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. Jimmie Rivera
  12. John Lineker
  13. Frankie Saenz
  14. Eddie Wineland
  15. Cody Garbrandt

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 Diaz
  11. Darren Elkins
  12. Brian Ortega
  13. Tatsuya Kawajiri
  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
  6. Michael Johnson
  7. Beneil Dariush
  8. Edson Barboza
  9. Donald Cerrone
  10. Dustin Poirier
  11. Al Iaquinta -1
  12. Bobby Green
  13. Evan Dunham
  14. Michael Chiesa
  15. Rashid Magomedov

Welterweight

Champion: Robbie Lawler

  1. Rory MacDonald
  2. Stephen Thomson
  3. Tyron Woodley
  4. Carlos Condit
  5. Johny Hendricks
  6. Demian Maia
  7. Matt Brown
  8. Dong Hyun Kim
  9. Neil Magny
  10. Tarec Saffiedine
  11. Rick Stroy
  12. Kelvin Gastelum
  13. Hector Lombard
  14. Albert Tumenov +1
  15. Thiago Alves -1

Middleweight

Champion: Luke Rockhold

  1. Chris Weidman
  2. Jacare Souza
  3. Vitor Belfort
  4. Michael Bisping
  5. Lyoto Machida
  6. Anderson Silva
  7. Tim Kennedy
  8. Robert Whittaker
  9. Gegard Mousasi
  10. Uriah Hall
  11. Derek Brunson
  12. Thales Leites
  13. Rafael Natal
  14. Dan Henderson
  15. CB Dolloway

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
  11. Patrick Cummins
  12. Corey Anderson
  13. Ilir Latifi *NR
  14. Nikita Krylov +1
  15. Gian Villante -2

Heavyweight

Champion: Fabricio Werdum

  1. Cain Velasquez
  2. Stipe Miocic
  3. Alistair Overeem
  4. Ben Rothwell
  5. Junior Dos Santos
  6. Andrei Arlovski
  7. Travis Browne
  8. Josh Barnett
  9. Mark Hunt
  10. Frank Mir
  11. Roy Nelson
  12. Antonio Silva
  13. Matt Mitirone
  14. Ruslan Magomedov
  15. Alexey Oliynyk -1

Women’s Strawweight

Champion: Joanna Jedrzeczyk

  1. Claudia Gadelha
  2. Carla Esparza
  3. Rose Namajunas
  4. Tecia Torres
  5. Jessica Penne
  6. Valerie Letourneau
  7. Paige VanZant
  8. Michelle Waterson
  9. Maryna Moroz
  10. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
  11. Joanne Calderwood
  12. Randa Markos
  13. Jessica Aguilar
  14. Julianna Lima
  15. Felice Herrig

Women’s Bantamweight

Champion: Miesha Tate

  1. Holly Holm -1
  2. Ronda Rousey -1
  3. Cat Zingano
  4. Amanda Nunes
  5. Julianna Pena
  6. Sara McMann
  7. Jessica Eye
  8. Bethe Correia
  9. Liz Carmouche
  10. Sarah Kaufman +1
  11. Valentina Schevchenko -1
  12. Raquel Pennington
  13. Germaine de Randamie
  14. Lauren Murphy
  15. Marion Reneau

 

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