Latest MMA Valor Fighter Rankings for March 2013

This past month saw some exciting MMA action and some not so well, but as a whole the month of February produced several meaningful bouts to MMA Rankings. Champions Renan Barao and Eduardo Dantas made successful title defenses this month and Alexander Shlemenko was crowned the new Bellator middleweight champion. The UFC interim bantamweight champion Barao remained as the #2 ranked 135 pound fighter, while Dantas and Shlemenko still find themselves on the outside of their division’s top five.

As always the goal here is to give you the best Rankings that we can provide you with and of course a spot below for you to disagree and complain. So without further ado here is the latest MMAValor.com MMA fighter Rankings:

Key – [C] = Champion, [IC] = Interim Champion

Heavyweight Division (205lbs. – 265lbs.):

1. Cain Velasquez [C], 2. Junior Dos Santos, 3. Fabricio Werdum, 4. Frank Mir, 5. Daniel Cormier

• Knocking on the door: Josh Barnett, Antonios Silva

Light Heavyweight Division (205lbs.):

1. Jon Jones [C], 2. Lyoto Machida, 3. Alexander Gustafsson, 4. Glover Teixeira, 5. Dan Henderson

• Knocking on the door: Phil Davis, Jimi Manuwa, Mauricio Rua, Emanuel Newton, James Te Huna

Middleweight Division (185lbs.):

1. Anderson Silva [C], 2. Luke Rockhold, 3. Chris Weidman, 4. Vitor Belfort, 5. Michael Bisping

• Knocking on the door: Alexander Shlemenko [C], Ronaldo Souza, Yushin Okami, , Mark Munoz

Welterweight Division (170lbs.):

1. Georges St. Pierre [C], 2. Carlos Condit, 3. Nick Diaz, 4. Johny Hendricks, 5. Ben Askren [C]

• Knocking on the door: Rory MacDonald, Jake Ellenberger, Demian Maia, Mike Pyle, Tyron Woodely, Dong Hyun Kim

Lightweight Division (155lbs.):

1. Benson Henderson [C], 2. Gilbert Melendez, 3. Gray Maynard, 4. Michael Chandler [C], 5. Anthony Pettis

• Knocking on the door: Jim Miller, Eddie Alvarez, Nate Diaz, Pat Healy

Featherweight Division (145lbs.):

1. Jose Aldo [C], 2. Pat Curran [C], 3. Chad Mendes, 4. Ricardo Lamas, 5. Chan Sung Jung

• Knocking on the door:  Frankie Edgar, Cub Swanson, Nik Lentz

Bantamweight Division (135lbs.):

1. Dominik Cruz [C], 2. Renan Barao [IC], 3. Urijah Faber, 4. Eddie Wineland, 5. Michael McDonald

• Knocking on the door: Mike Easton, Eduardo Dantas [C], Scott Jorgenson, Raphael Assuncao

Flyweight Division (125lbs.):

1. Demetrious Johnson [C], 2. Joseph Benavides, 3. John Dodson, 4. Louis Gaudinot, 5. Ian McCall

• ·         Knocking on the door: Louis Gaudinot, Darren Uyenoyama, Darrel Montague, John Moraga

Pound 4 Pound Rankings:

1. Anderson Silva, 2. Jon Jones, 3. Georges St. Pierre, 4. Jose Aldo, 5. Benson Henderson

MMA Rankings as of 3/6/2013

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