MMA Valor Fighter Rankings for February 2014
As last year ended we promised that we would be adding Women’s rankings to the monthly updates of the MMA Fighter Rankings and we are very pleased to finally bring them to you. Along with the top five fighter rankings in the Men’s Flyweight – Heavyweight divisions you can now get the Women’s top five from the Atomweight – Featherweight divisions.
Besides the addition of the Women’s fighter rankings, there were only two noticeable* changes that occurred this month. In the heavyweight division, Stipe Miocic moved into the #5 spot now that Daniel Cormier is moving down to light heavyweight. The other change happened in the flyweight division as John Moraga replaced John Lineker, who lost at this past weekends UFC 169. (* = Benson Henderson dropped to #4 in the lightweight division despite winning at UFC on FOX 10)
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
Men’s Fighter Rankings:
Heavyweight Division (205lbs. – 265lbs.):
1. Cain Velasquez [C], 2. Junior Dos Santos, 3. Fabricio Werdum, 4. Travis Browne, 5. Stipe Miocic
- Knocking on the door: Alistair Overeem
Light Heavyweight Division (205lbs.):
1. Jon Jones [C], 2. Glover Teixeira, 3. Alexander Gustafsson, 4. Rashad Evans, 5. Phil Davis
- Knocking on the door: Jimi Manuwa, Emanuel Newton[IC], Daniel Cormier
Middleweight Division (185lbs.):
1. Chris Weidman [C], 2. Vitor Belfort, 3. Ronaldo Souza, 4. Anderson Silva, 5. Luke Rockhold
- Knocking on the door: Alexander Shlemenko [C], Lyoto Machida
Welterweight Division (170lbs.):
1. Johny Hendricks, 2. Carlos Condit, 3. Ben Askren, 4. Robbie Lawler, 5. Rory MacDonald
- Knocking on the door: Dong Hyun Kim, Matt Brown, Jake Shields, Hector Lombard, Brandon Thatch, Tyron Woodley
Lightweight Division (155lbs.):
1. Anthony Pettis [C], 2.Gilbert Melendez, 3. Eddie Alvarez [C], 4. Benson Henderson, 5. Michael Chandler
- Knocking on the door: TJ Grant, Edson Barboza, Rafael Dos Anjos, Khabib Numagomedov, Nate Diaz, Donald Cerrone
Featherweight Division (145lbs.):
1. Jose Aldo [C], 2. Chad Mendes, 3. Ricardo Lamas, 4. Cub Swanson, 5. Daniel Straus [C]
- Knocking on the door: Frankie Edgar, Chan Sung Jung, Nik Lentz, Patricio Fiere, Dustin Poirier, Jeremy Stephens
Bantamweight Division (135lbs.):
1. Renan Barao [C], 2. Urijah Faber, 3. Michael McDonald, 4. Raphael Assuncao , 5. Bibiano Fernandes [C]
- Knocking on the door: Eduardo Dantas [C], Eddie Wineland, Takeya Mizugaki
Flyweight Division (125lbs.):
1. Demetrious Johnson [C], 2. John Dodson, 3. Joseph Benavides, 4. Ian McCall, 5. John Moraga
- Knocking on the door: Zach Makovsky, Ali Bagautinov
Women’s Fighter Rankings:
Courtesy of Women’s MMA Today, to see #6 – #15 of each division click here.
Featherweight Division (145lbs.):
1.Cris Justino [C], 2. Marloes Coenen, 3. Julia Budd, 4. Faith Van Duin, 5. Pannie Kianzad
Bantamweight Division (135lbs.):
1. Ronda Rousey [C], 2. Alexis Davis, 3. Cat Zingano, 4. Jessica Eye, 5. Sarah Kaufman
Flyweight Division (125lbs.):
1. Barb Honchak [C], 2. Vanessa Porto, 3. Leslie Smith, 4. Jennifer Maia, 5. Kalindra Faria
Strawweight Division (115lbs.):
1. Jessica Aguilar [C], 2. Carla Esparza, 3. Claudia Gadelha, 4. Joanne Calderwood, 5. Ayaka Hamasaki
Atomweight Division (105lbs.):
1. Michelle Waterson [C], 2. Jessica Penne, 3. Seo Hee Ham, 4. Naho Sugiyama, 5. Amber Brown
MMA Fighter Rankings as of 2/2/2014
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