Global-MMA Rankings - April 2015

Heavyweight
1. Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global Champion)
2. Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
3. Alexander Volkov (Bellator)
4. Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
5. Damian Grabowski (M-1 Global)
6. Blagoi Ivanov (WSOF)
7. Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion)
8. Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep)
9. Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
10. Smealinho Rama (WSOF Champion)

Other Contenders: Ken Hasegawa (DEEP Champion), Denis Smoldarev (M-1 Global), Bobby Lashley (Bellator), Satoshi Ishii (IGF), Konstantin Gluhov (M-1 Global)

Light Heavyweight
1. Liam McGeary (Bellator Champion)
2. Emanuel Newton (Bellator)
3. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (Bellator)
4. Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (Bellator)
5. Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global Champion)
6. Attila Vegh (KSW)
7. Linton Vassell (Bellator)
8. Teddy Holder (WSOF)
9. Tito Ortiz (Bellator)
10. Thiago Silva (WSOF)

Other Contenders: Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global), Vinny Magalhaes (WSOF), Mike Kyle (WSOF), Mikhail Zayats (Bellator), Maxim Grishin (Fight Nights)

Middleweight
1. Mamed Khalidov (KSW)
2. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global Champion)
3. Brandon Halsey (Bellator Champion)
4. Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator)
5. David Branch (WSOF Champion)
6. Michal Materla (KSW Champion)
7. Yushin Okami (WSOF)
8. Maiquel Falcao (KSW)
9. Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global)
10. Igor Svirid (ONE FC Champion)

Other Contenders: Joe Schilling (Bellator), Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (DEEP Champion), Melvin Manhoef (Bellator), Doug Marshall (Bellator), Tomasz Drwal (KSW)

Welterweight
1. Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion)
2. Rousimar Palhares (WSOF Champion)
3. Douglas Lima (Bellator Champion)
4. Jake Shields (WSOF)
5. Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator)
6. Paul Daley (Bellator)
7. Steve Carl (Free Agent)
8. Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion)
9. Gota Yamashita (King of Pancrase)
10. Yuta Watanabe (DEEP Champion)

Other Contenders: Michael Page (Bellator), Jon Fitch (WSOF), Nobutatsu Suzuki (ONE FC), Luis Santos (ONE FC), Yasubey Enomoto (Fight Nights)

Lightweight
1. Will Brooks (Bellator Champion)
2. Shinya Aoki (ONE FC Champion)
3. Justin Gaethje (WSOF Champion)
4. Michael Chandler (Bellator)
5. Marcin Held (Bellator)
6. Musa Khamanaev (ACB)
7. Patricky Freire (Bellator)
8. Ramazan Esenbaev (IGF)
9. Isao Kobayashi (King of Pancrase)
10. Vuyisile Colossa (ONE FC)

Other Contenders: David Rickels (Bellator), Saad Awad (Bellator), Alexander Sarnavskiy (Bellator), Koji Ando (ONE FC), Dave Jansen (Bellator)

Featherweight
1. Patricio Freire (Bellator Champion)
2. Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
3. Pat Curran (Bellator)
4. Kazunori Yokota (DEEP Champion)
5. Daniel Straus (Bellator)
6. Lance Palmer (WSOF Champion)
7. Rick Glenn (WSOF)
8. Georgi Karakhanyan (Bellator)
9. Jadamba Narantungala (ONE FC Champion)
10. Marat Gafurov (ONE FC)

Other Contenders: Goiti Yamauchi (Bellator), Yoshifumi Nakamura (Shooto), Diego Nunes (Bellator), Caol Uno (Shooto), Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global Champion)

Bantamweight
1. Bibiano Fernandes (ONE FC Champion)
2. Marlon Moraes (WSOF Champion)
3. Marcos Galvao (Bellator Champion)
4. Joe Warren (Bellator)
5. Eduardo Dantas (Bellator)
6. Soo-Chul Kim (ROAD FC)
7. Masakatsu Ueda (ONE FC)
8. Luis Alberto Nogueira (Pancrase)
9. Jonathan Brookins (King of Pancrase)
10. Dae Hwan Kim (ONE FC)

Other Contenders: Kevin Belingon (ONE FC), Shintaro Ishiwatari (Pancrase), Timur Valiev (WSOF), Rafael “Morcego” Silva (Bellator), Mike Richman (Bellator)
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Global-MMA Ranking Update Summary

* Ranked Fighters Removed from All Previous Rankings Dating Back to February 2012:

Heavyweight: Tony Lopez, Fedor Emelianenko (Retired), Cole Konrad (Retired), Eric Prindle, Todd Duffee (UFC), Alexei Kudin, Soa Palelei (UFC), Levan Razmadze, Rich Hale, Chaban Ka, Rolles Gracie, Jeff Monson, Peter Graham, Alexey Oleinik (UFC), Aleksander Emelianenko, Ryan Martinez, Lavar Johnson, Mike Russow, Andrei Arlovski (UFC), Dmitriy Sosnovskiy, Guram Gugenishvilli, Derrick Mehmen, Kenny Garner, Brett Rogers, Magomed Malikov, Konstantin Erokhin (UFC), Shamil Abdurahimov (UFC), Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (UFC)

Light Heavyweight: Glover Texeira (UFC), D.J. Linderman, Marcus Vanttinen, Gegard Mousasi (Strikeforce), Jimi Manuwa (UFC), Roger Hollett (UFC), Richard Hale (Division Change), Mark Godbeer, Maxim Grishin, Travis Wiuff (Division Change), Tomasz Narkun, Sergey Kornev (Retired), Robert Drysdale (UFC), Renato “Babalu” Sobral, Aleksandar Radosavljevic (Retired), Max Nunes, Jacob Noe, Raphael Davis, Jan Blachowicz (UFC), Anthony Johnson (UFC), Paul Buentello, Vladimir Matyushenko (Retired), Moise Rimbon, Christian M’Pumbu, Joey Beltran, Luiz Cane, Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (Division Change), James McSweeney, Jason Jones, Roger Gracie

Middleweight: Nate Marquardt (Strikeforce), Giva Santana, Bryan Baker, Hector Lombard (UFC), Andrei Semenov, Jorge Santiago (Strikeforce), Anthony Johnson (Division Change), Ryuta Sakurai, Magomed Sultanakhmedov (Retired), Antonio Neto (UFC), Thales Leites (UFC), Vitor Vianna, Bruno Santos, Roger Gracie (Division Change), Mario Miranda (Division Change), Arthur Guseinov, Dan Cramer, Eun-Su Lee, Elvis Mutapcic, Jesse Taylor, Leandro Ataides, Jay Silva, Rafael Carvalho, Brett Cooper, Kazuhiro Nakamura (Retired)

Welterweight: Ben Saunders, Gael Grimaud, Bryan Baker, Yuya Shirai, Marius Zaromskis, Lyman Good, Myung Ho Bae, Fabricio Monteiro, Jay Hieron, Karl Amoussou, Akihiro Murayama, Rashid Magomedov (UFC), Albert Tumenov (UFC), Alexander Yakovlev (UFC), Takenori Sato (UFC), Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (Division Change), Shamil Zavurov, Aslambek Saidov, Josh Burkman (UFC), Ryan Ford, Rick Hawn

Lightweight: Francisco Trinaldo (UFC), Ricardo Tirloni, Koji Oishi, Mizuto Hirota (Strikeforce), Mairbek Taisumov, Zorobabel Moreira, Rich Clementi, Katsunori Kikuno, Paul Sass, Lloyd Woodard, Antonio McKee (Retired), Lewis Gonzales, Satoru Kitaoka, Yui Chul Nam (UFC), Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Kotetsu Boku, Naoyuki Kotani (UFC), Nick Newell, Eddie Alvarez (UFC), Leandro Silva (UFC), Luis “Buscape” Firmino, Lowen Tynanes, Melvin Guillard

Featherweight: Ronnie Mann, Mike Corey, Wilson Reis, Joachim Hansen, Mike Richman, Yusuke Kawanago, Takeshi Inoue, Joe Warren (Division Change), Wagnney Fabiano, Shahbulat Shamhalaev, Honorio Banario, Kazuyuki Miyata, Tatsuya Kawajiri (UFC), Doo Ho Choi (UFC), Takumi Nakayama, Marlon Sandro, Matt Bessette, Shinya Aoki (Division Change), Fabricio de Assis Costa da Silva, Hiroyuki Takaya, Daniel Romero, Magomeddrasul Khasbulaev, Koji Oishi (Retired)

Bantamweight: Hiroshi Nakamura, Masakazu Imanari, Hideo Tokoro, Yusup Saadulaev, Antonio Banuelos, Wagnney Fabiano (Division Change), Alexis Vila, Rodolfo Marques Diniz, Travis Marx, Zach Makovsky (Division Change), Kyoji Horiguchi (UFC), Miguel Torres, Leandro Issa (UFC), Pablo Alfonso, Ed West, Anthony Leone, Yuta Sasaki (UFC), Tyson Nam, Cody Bollinger, Takafumi Otsuka, Josh Hill

Flyweight: Taiyo Nakahara, Kentaro Watanabe, Rey Docyogen, Yuki Yasunaga, Ali Bagautinov (UFC), Jose Maria Tome (UFC), Darrell Montague (UFC), Zach Makovsky, Sergio Pettis (UFC), Alexis Vila (Division Change), Will Campuzano (UFC), Joshua Sampo (UFC), Mamoru Yamaguchi, Yoshiro Maeda, Yosuke Saruta, Kentaro Watanabe, Hideo Tokoro, Yasuhiro Urushitani, Yosuke Saruta

Junior Flyweight: Junji Ikoma, Takehiro Ishii, Mikihito Yamagami (Division Change), Masakazu Utsugi, Takuya Eizumi, Ryosuke Tanuma, Tadaaki Yamamoto, Jun Nakamura, Ryuya Fukuda, Akihito Sasao
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Global-MMA Ranking Rules

*This ranking system includes fighters that are not under exclusive contract to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

*Top level fighters that leave the UFC may be ranked in subsequent rankings.

*Fighters that sign exclusively to the UFC will be removed from the rankings.

*Rankings are based on a fighter's overall career results and recent performance.

*A fighter will be ranked number one if he defeats the number one ranked fighter in the weight division except under certain rare circumstances where the number two ranked fighter clearly deserves to move into the number one ranking position.

*Victories over highly ranked fighters and losses against non-ranked opponents have a larger effect on the fighters ranking position.

*A fighter will not necessarily take the place of his opponent in the rankings after a victory or a loss.

* A fighter can move up a maximum of three spots with impressive victories over a fighter ranked below him; however, there is no limit if the fighter earned a title or a tournament championship with the victory.

* An unranked newly crowned champion who earned a title in a major league MMA promotion can enter the top ten even with a victory over an unranked fighter.

*A fighter will drop in the rankings if he does not fight regularly against high level competition.

*A top ten ranked fighter can become ranked in another weight division after one or more wins in his new weight class.

*A fighter can be ranked in two different weight divisions.

*Champions and fighters from prominent promotions will have an advantage over champions and fighters from promotions with lesser competition.

*A fighter will be removed from the rankings if he does not fight for two years.

*Fighters that are signed to multiple promotions will have their promotions listed based on the following criteria: 1) championship held in a promotion, 2) predominant promotion the fighter fights in, 3) promotion
last fought in.

*Rankings will be updated every month.

Denis Goltsov is one of the most impressive fighters atm. He´ll climb into the top 5 if he keeps winning. Only 24 years old and the only man to KO Erokhin.

Golden Age wrote:Denis Goltsov is one of the most impressive fighters atm. He´ll climb into the top 5 if he keeps winning. Only 24 years old and the only man to KO Erokhin.

I agree. He has been really impressive and climbing our rankings quick. He's close to top 5 and could get there real soon.

Bellator picked up Phil Davis. He's coming off a loss against Bader but he has some huge wins. I'm thinking number 2 at 205 for Davis after the Bellator champ Liam since he is coming off that loss.

Would be cool to see him fight Liam. Maybe a Newton fight first for the title shot.

Rampage is fighting at UFC 186 but will remain in the G-MMA rankings since the Bellator lawsuit is ongoing and he is only being allowed to fight at UFC 186.  Rampage could be in breech of contract for this UFC fight, in which case, he may possibly owe money to Bellator for damages in the future. The court will decide on that unless Bellator and Rampage reach a settlement.

The outcome of the UFC 186 fight with Fabio Maldonado could affect his ranking.

CDF47 wrote:Bellator picked up Phil Davis. He's coming off a loss against Bader but he has some huge wins. I'm thinking number 2 at 205 for Davis after the Bellator champ Liam since he is coming off that loss.

Would be cool to see him fight Liam. Maybe a Newton fight first for the title shot.

I would put him at 3. behind Newton

Welterweight
1. Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion)
2. Rousimar Palhares (WSOF Champion)
3. Douglas Lima (Bellator Champion)
4. Jake Shields (WSOF)
5. Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator)
6. Paul Daley (Bellator)
7. Steve Carl (Free Agent)
8. Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion)
9. Gota Yamashita (King of Pancrase)
10. Yuta Watanabe (DEEP Champion)

Why is Askren number 1

also steve carl is on TUF ....so he's zuffa

LEGENDMMA=PRIDEFC wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Bellator picked up Phil Davis.  He's coming off a loss against Bader but he has some huge wins.  I'm thinking number 2 at 205 for Davis after the Bellator champ Liam since he is coming off that loss.  

Would be cool to see him fight Liam.  Maybe a Newton fight first for the title shot.

I would put him at 3. behind Newton

Alright, 3 sounds good to me as well behind Newton. That's where he will go.

stu3ufc wrote:Welterweight
1. Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion)
2. Rousimar Palhares (WSOF Champion)
3. Douglas Lima (Bellator Champion)
4. Jake Shields (WSOF)
5. Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator)
6. Paul Daley (Bellator)
7. Steve Carl (Free Agent)
8. Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion)
9. Gota Yamashita (King of Pancrase)
10. Yuta Watanabe (DEEP Champion)

Why is Askren number 1

also steve carl is on TUF ....so he's zuffa

Askren is no doubt top WW, possibly in the world right now.  Sapo was way under rated going into that fight.  He has been on a tear and I expected a good fight but Sapo impressed beyond what I thought.

Thanks for pointing out Carl on TUF.  I will drop him from the rankings next month.

I honestly would pick Rousimar Palhares over ben askren

what palhares does cannot be stopped by some wrestler.

luis sapo is the shit! I love this guy! I agree people under estimated him and called him a can because people just wanna hate askren

I cant wait to see them rematch

stu3ufc wrote:I honestly would pick Rousimar Palhares over ben askren

what palhares does cannot be stopped by some wrestler.

luis sapo is the shit! I love this guy! I agree people under estimated him and called him a can because people just wanna hate askren

I cant wait to see them rematch

That is a fight I would like to see, Palhares/Askren.  You're right, Palhares is a rare breed leg locking machine.  

Yeah, Sapo was really impressive in that fight.  I hope they make that rematch real soon.