Global-MMA Rankings - February 2016

Heavyweight
1.  Fedor Emelianenko (RIZIN)   
2.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator )
3.  Sergei Kharitonov (Bellator)
4.  Tony Johnson Jr. (Bellator) 1
5.  Blagoi Ivanov (WSOF ) 1
6.  Karol Bedorf (KSW )
7.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
8.  Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep)
9.  Alexander Volkov (M-1 Global)
10. Evgeny Erokhin (WSOF-GC)

Other Contenders: Denis Smoldarev (M-1 Global), Bobby Lashley (Bellator), Smealinho Rama (WSOF), Brandon Vera (ONE ), Oli Thompson (IGF )

Light Heavyweight
1.  Liam McGeary (Bellator )
2.  Phil Davis (Bellator)
3.  Emanuel Newton (Bellator)
4.  Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (Bellator)
5.  Muhammed Lawal (Bellator)
6.  Dave Branch (WSOF )
7.  Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global )
8.  Tomasz  Narkun (KSW )
9.  Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global)
10. Jiří Procházka (RIZIN) 

Other Contenders: Attila Vegh (KSW), Tito Ortiz (Bellator), Vinny Magalhães (WSOF), Vadim Nemkov (RIZIN), Shamil Gamzatov (WSOF)

Middleweight
1.  Mamed Khalidov (KSW )  
2.  Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global )
3.  Rafael Carvalho (Bellator )
4.  Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global)
5.  Brandon Halsey (Bellator)
6.  Dave Branch (WSOF )
7.  Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator)
8.  Vitaly Bigdash (ONE )
9.  Michał Materla (KSW)
10. Aziz Karaoglu (KSW) 

Other Contenders:   Yushin Okami (WSOF),   Ken Hasegawa (DEEP), Anatoly Tokov (RIZIN), Maiquel Falcão (KSW), Jung Hwan Cha (Road FC )

Welterweight
1.  Ben Askren (ONE )
2.  Rousimar Palhares (WSOF)
3.  Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator )
4.  Douglas Lima (Bellator)
5.  Benson Henderson (Bellator) *N.R
6.  Jake Shields (WSOF) 1
7.  Paul Daley (Bellator) 
8.  Borys Mańkowski (KSW ) 2
9.  Michael Page (Bellator) 1
10. Jon Fitch (WSOF) 1

Other Contenders: Brennan Ward (Bellator), Shingo Suzuki (King Of Pancrase ), Luis Santos (ONE), Yuta Watanabe (DEEP), Fernando Gonzalez (Bellator) 

Lightweight
1.  Will Brooks (Bellator )
2.  Shinya Aoki (ONE )
3.  Justin Gaethje (WSOF )
4.  Michael Chandler (Bellator)
5.  Marcin Held (Bellator)
6.  Ramazan Esenbaev (M-1 Global)
7.  Dave Jansen (Bellator)
8.  Lowen Tynanes (ONE)
9.  Derek Anderson (Bellator) 
10. Patricky "Pitbull" Freire (Bellator) *N.R

Other Contenders: Josh Thomson (Bellator) , Brian Foster (WSOF), David Rickels (Bellator), Saad Awad (Bellator), Alexander Sarnavskiy (Free Agent)

Featherweight
1.  Daniel Straus (Bellator )
2.  Patricio "Pitbull" Freire (Bellator)
3.  Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
4.  Pat Curran (Bellator)
5.  Rick Glenn (WSOF) 
6.  Kazunori Yokota (DEEP ) 
7.  Goiti Yamauchi (Bellator) 
8.  Marat Gafurov (ONE ) 
9.  Alexandre de Almeida (WSOF ) 
10. Ivan Buchinger(M-1 Global ) 

Other Contenders: Lance Palmer (WSOF), Georgi Karakhanyan (Bellator), Jadamba Narantungalag (ONE), Isao Kobayashi (Bellator), Hiroyuki Takaya (RIZIN)

Bantamweight
1.  Bibiano Fernandes (ONE )
2.  Marlon Moraes (WSOF )
3.  Marcos Galvão (Bellator )
4.  Joe Warren (Bellator)
5.  Masakatsu Ueda (Pancrase) 2  
6.  Soo Chul Kim (ROAD FC) 1  
7.  Eduardo Dantas (Bellator) 1
8.  Dae Hwan Kim (ONE)
9.  Timur Valiev (WSOF)
10. Luis "Betão" Nogueira (Pancrase)

Other Contenders: Jonathan Brookins (Pancrase), Shintaro Ishiwatari (King of Pancrase ), Victor Henry (Pancrase), Darrion Caldwell (Bellator), Josh Hill (WSOF)

Flyweight
1. Alexandre Pantoja (RFA ) 
2. Tim Elliott (Titan FC )   
3. Hiromasa Ogikubo (VTJ ) 
4. Kairat Akhmetov (ONE ) 
5. Czar Sklavos(VTJ) 
6. Adriano Moraes (ONE) 
7. Yuki Motoya (DEEP ) 
8. Pedro Nobre (Titan FC)
9. Yusaku Nakamura (VTJ)
10. Magomed Bibulatov (WSOF )

Other Contenders: Bruno Menezes (Jungle Fight), Rany Saadeh (BAMMA ), Felipe Efrain (RIZIN), Tatsumitsu Wada (DEEP), Darren Uyenoyama (PXC)

Strawweight
1. Mitsuhisa Sunabe (King Of Pancrase )
2. Yoshitaka Naito (Shooto )
3. Kent Kambe (Pancrase)
4. Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke (ONE )
5. Raymison Bruno (Pancrase)
6  Yukitaka Musashi (Pancrase)
7. Junji Ito (Shooto)
8. Shinya Murofushi (Pancrase)
9. Hiroyuki Abe (Pancrase)
10. Daichi Kitakata (Pancrase) *N.R

Other Contenders: Marcone Muniz (Free Agent), Tulio Vasconcelos (Free Agent), Ryuto Sawada (Shooto), Yago Bryan (Shooto Brazil ), Masayoshi Kato (Grandslam)

Women's Featherweight
1. Cristiane Justino (Invicta FC )
2. Marloes Coenen (Bellator)
3. Julia Budd (Bellator)
4. Latoya Walker (Invicta FC)
5. Arlene Blencowe (Bellator)1
6. Faith Van Duin (Invicta FC) 1  
7. Charmaine Tweet (Invicta FC) 1
8. Daria Ibragimova (Fight Nights) 3 
9. Megan Anderson (Invicta FC) *N.R 
10. Cindy Dandois (Invicta FC) 1

Other Contenders: Peggy Morgan (Invicta FC), Anastasia Plisenkova (Fight Nights), Kelly Faszholz (Legacy FC), Fallon Fox (XFO), Roberta Rovel (Bellator)

Women's Flyweight
1. Barb Honchak (Invicta FC )
2. Vanessa Porto (Invicta FC)
3. Julia Berezikova (Fight Nights)
4. Jennifer Maia (Free Agent)
5. Katlyn Chookagian (CFFC ) 2
6. Cristina Stanciu (RXF) 
7. Isabelly Varela (CFFC) 2
8. Roxanne Modafferi  (Invicta FC) 
9. Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (Bellator) 1  
10. Kate Jackson (Free Agent) 1

Other Contenders: Andrea Lee (Legacy FC), Iryna Shaparenko (Fight Nights), Tara LaRosa (FREE AGENT), Poliana Botelho (XFC), Jin Tang(KUNLUN)

Global-MMA Ranking Update Summary

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

Heavyweight: Tony Lopez, 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), Konstantin Gluhov, Stephan Puetz (Division Change), Damian Grabowski (UFC), Ken Hasegawa (Division Change), Marcin Tybura (UFC), Satoshi Ishii, Fernando Rodrigues Jr.

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), 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, Maxim Grishin, Mikhail Zayats, Mike Kyle, Thiago Silva, Teddy Holder, Linton Vassell, Goran Reljic

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, Brett Cooper, Kazuhiro Nakamura (Retired), Joe Schilling, Tamdan McCrory (UFC), Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, Doug Marshall, Kendall Grove, Young Choi, Tomasz Drwal, Melvin Manhoef

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), Shamil Zavurov, Aslambek Saidov, Josh Burkman (UFC), Ryan Ford, Rick Hawn, Steve Carl (UFC), Beslan Isaev, Yasubey Enomoto, Gota Yamashita, Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (UFC), Nobutatsu Suzuki, Murad Abdulaev

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, Melvin Guillard, Isao Kobayashi (Division Change), Vuyisile Colossa, Mansour Barnaoui, Koji Ando, Musa Khamanaev, Jason Knight (UFC)

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, Daniel Romero, Magomeddrasul Khasbulaev, Koji Oishi (Retired), Caol Uno, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Diego Nunes, John Teixeira da Conceicao, Yutaka Saito

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, Rafael Silva, Mike Richman, Kevin Belingon

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

Strawweight: Junji Ikoma, Takehiro Ishii, Mikihito Yamagami (Division Change), Masakazu Utsugi, Takuya Eizumi, Ryosuke Tanuma, Tadaaki Yamamoto, Jun Nakamura, Ryuya Fukuda, Akihito Sasao

Women's Featherweight: Talita Nogueira

Women's Flyweight: N/A
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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.

New Women's FLW division added by King Fedor this month!

Excellent as always wonderful work fellas !!!

fka wrote:Excellent as always wonderful work fellas !!!  

Thanks fka

Fedor being #1 is questionable imo hes goat and everything but he hasnt beaten anyone really since unretiring.

fka wrote:Fedor being #1 is questionable imo hes goat and everything but he hasnt beaten anyone really since unretiring.

Yeah, Fedor was a tough call. He was number 1 before retiring and then was out of the sport for 3 1/2 years and took a tune up fight as a first fight back. He is MMA GOAT though. This was a pretty unique situation so we did a vote on this site and most agreed he should still be number 1. He should take on the top competition now that he had the tune-up fight.

Liam McGeary (Bellator)
2.Phil Davis (Bellator)
3.King Mo (Bellator)
4.David Branch(WSOF)
5. Emmanuel Newton (Bellator)
6.Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global)
7.Tomasz Narkun (KSW)
8.Stephan Puetz(M-1 Global)
9.Jiri Prochazka(Rizin)
10.Quinton Jackson (Bellator)


Heres my reasoning.....

Davis is likely the next title challenger for bellator title,also he won the one night tourney which is a nice feather in his cap.

King Mo just won the Rizin Tourney and is close to title shot but one step behind davis imo.

Branch is #4 because while being champ and winning a tournament it was in a lesser promotion.


Quintin is 10 cuz he isnt active much and everybody else has been.

Ive discussed rankings with a few guys and only criticism comes at hw which i agree fedor should be around #6.

fka wrote:Liam McGeary (Bellator)
2.Phil Davis (Bellator)
3.King Mo (Bellator)
4.David Branch(WSOF)
5. Emmanuel Newton (Bellator)
6.Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global)
7.Tomasz Narkun (KSW)
8.Stephan Puetz(M-1 Global)
9.Jiri Prochazka(Rizin)
10.Quinton Jackson (Bellator)


Heres my reasoning.....

Davis is likely the next title challenger for bellator title,also he won the one night tourney which is a nice feather in his cap.

King Mo just won the Rizin Tourney and is close to title shot but one step behind davis imo.

Branch is #4 because while being champ and winning a tournament it was in a lesser promotion.


Quintin is 10 cuz he isnt active much and everybody else has been.

Some good reasoning. I could see King Mo being higher with the RIZIN wins but I left him behind Newton and Rampage since his losses to them were fairly recent. I also have Rampage up there above Mo due to his win over him.

Branch did win the tournament at 205 and is doing great at 185. He could move up quick at both 185 and 205 with his next fights, especially at 185 where he has some big wins. He is new at 205 with the tournament but could move up quickly there as well.

fka wrote:Ive discussed rankings with a few guys and only criticism comes at hw which i agree fedor should be around #6.

There were a lot of disagreements with the Fedor ranking at Sherdog last month as well. Some felt the number 1 was justified and others usually thought 2 would be good. The poll on here had number 1 with the most votes and number 2 with the second most if I remember right. I voted 1 since he was number 1 three years ago and is MMA GOAT and I can understand 1 tune up fight. If he doesn't fight better competition though, he could drop down the rankings in the future. I hope his next fight is a big one which could determine this. It is a pretty unique circumstance.

The other main comment I get is that Branch should be higher at MW. If Branch wins his fight coming up at 185 he could move to top 3 or so at MW.

I think mo should be above rampage and newton.....

Rampage went back to zuffa which in my eyes blanks his slate since being back out of zuffa he hasnt fought....to me activity outweighs past wins especially since mo has been in 2 tourneys and has been on a tear.

Very rarely would i rank a guy abive the guy he lost to twice but again in mma its a "what have you done fir ne recently attitude ",and recently newton has been getting finished while mo literally won a tourney with the top guys from around the world.

Also in mens straw weight division


The only fighter I would add here is Jarred Brooks (8-0). He recently finished #7 Ito very recently at WSOF Global. That's probably why he's not on the list. Also that last fight was his debut at 115lbs.

fka wrote:Also in mens straw weight division


The only fighter I would add here is Jarred Brooks (8-0). He recently finished #7 Ito very recently at WSOF Global. That's probably why he's not on the list. Also that last fight was his debut at 115lbs.

His fight was feb 7th so he is not in the ranking this month.
I will add him in the March ranking.

fka wrote:I think mo should be above rampage and newton.....

Rampage went back to zuffa which in my eyes blanks his slate since being back out of zuffa he hasnt fought....to me activity outweighs past wins especially since mo has been in 2 tourneys and has been on a tear.

Very rarely would i rank a guy abive the guy he lost to twice but again in mma its a "what have you done fir ne recently attitude ",and recently newton has been getting finished while mo literally won a tourney with the top guys from around the world.

Some good points fka.  In April it will be one year since Page last fought.  So next month it will be 11 months of inactivity so I will drop Page two spots next month (he will be behind Mo and Branch). May drop him more in future months if he does not fight and if he does not fight for two years total, he will be removed entirely which would be April next year.

Ok very cool buddy just trying to give feedback bro.

fka wrote:Ok very cool buddy just trying to give feedback bro.

It was great feedback fka.  Please keep sending it when you see things you disagree with.

Right on im going to post these on the other site i visit i Will bring over any constructive criticism i encounter there.

fka wrote:Right on im going to post these on the other site i visit i Will bring over any constructive criticism i encounter there.

Sounds good.  It is always good to get the feedback.  I make a lot of adjustments based on the comments, usually as fights occur.  Many times the updates are not made immediately, but often, over time they are implemented.  

The fighter recommendation type comments are always good as well.  I keep a list on my PC to track the recommended fighters to bring into the rankings after they win their next fight or bring them in if other fighters are dropped. I like these type comments so I can keep a ready list of who is next in line which is helpful since the rankings are changing all the time.

Right on i will do my part to bring as much as i can buddy cheers.

March update complete - Archive