Global-MMA Rankings - January 2017

Heavyweight
1. Vitaly Minakov (Bellator)    
2. Blagoi Ivanov (WSOF ) 
3. Fedor Emelianenko (Bellator) 
4. Cheick Kongo (Bellator) 1
5. Javy Ayala(Bellator) 2 
6. Tony Johnson Jr. (Bellator) 2        
7. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović (RIZIN) *NR
8. Fernando Rodrigues Jr. (KSW ) *NR           
9. Sergei Kharitonov (Bellator) 
10. Karol Bedorf (KSW)4

Other Contenders: Brandon Vera (ONE  ), Evgeny Erokhin (WSOF-GC  ) , Siala "Mighty Mo" Siliga (Road FC  ) , Geronimo Dos Santos (MFP), Bobby Lashley (Bellator) 

Light Heavyweight
1. Phil Davis (Bellator )
2. Dave Branch (WSOF )
3. Liam McGeary (Bellator)      
4. Quinton Jackson (Bellator)  
5. Tomasz  Narkun (KSW )     
6. Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global) 
7. Muhammed Lawal (Bellator)    
8. Linton Vassell (Bellator) 
9. Jiří Procházka (RIZIN)   
10. Rashid Yusupov (M-1 Global )          

Other Contenders: Viktor Nemkov  (M-1 Global) , Roger Gracie (ONE ), Valentin Moldavsky (RIZIN), Tito Ortiz (Bellator), Emanuel Newton (EFN)

Middleweight
1. Mamed Khalidov (KSW )  
2. Dave Branch (WSOF ) 
3. Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global  ) 
4. Michał Materla (KSW)   
5. Rafael Carvalho (Bellator )        
6. Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator)  
7. Vitaly Bigdash (ONE  ) 
8.John Salter (Bellator) 2 
9. Ken Hasegawa (DEEP) 1
10. Luis Santos (ONE) 1     

Other Contenders: Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (ACB), Brandon Halsey (Free Agent), Jung Hwan Cha (ROAD FC  ), Hisaki Kato (Bellator), Alessio Sakara (Bellator) 

Welterweight
1. Ben Askren (ONE  )
2. Douglas Lima (Bellator )  
3. Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator) 1
4. Rory MacDonald (Bellator) 1  
5. Jon Fitch (WSOF  ) 4 
6. Michael Page (Bellator)      
7. Borys Mańkowski (KSW ) 1   
8. Paul Daley (Bellator) 1      
9. Jake Shields (WSOF) 5
10. Yushin Okami (DEEP) *NR       

Other Contenders:  Alexey Kunchenko (M-1 Global  ), Rousimar Palhares (KSW), Chidi Njokuani (Bellator), Hiromitsu Miura (King of Pancrase ), Abubakar Nurmagomedov (WSOF)

Lightweight
1. Justin Gaethje (WSOF )
2. Michael Chandler (Bellator ) 
3. Eduard Folayang (ONE ) *N.R 
4. Benson Henderson (Bellator) 
5. Derek Anderson (Bellator)   
6. Shinya Aoki (ONE) 
7. Lowen Tynanes (ONE) 1  
8. Dave Jansen (Free Agent) 1     
9. Satoru Kitaoka (RIZIN) *NR
10. Alexander  (ACB)     

Other Contenders:  Josh Thomson (Bellator), Patricky "Pitbull" Freire (Bellator),Jason High (WSOF), Daron Cruickshank (RIZIN), Brian Foster (WSOF)

Featherweight
1. Daniel Straus (Bellator )
2. Daniel Weichel (Bellator) 1   
3. Marat Gafurov (ONE ) 1  
4. Patricio "Pitbull" Freire (Bellator) 
5. Pat Curran (Bellator)   
6. Lance Palmer (WSOF ) 1
7. Magomed Idrisov (M-1 Global) *N.R 
8. Kazunori Yokota (DEEP )      
9.  Kron Gracie (RIZIN) *N.R
10. Andre Harrison (WSOF) *N.R

Other Contenders: Jadamba Narantungalag (ONE) , Emmanuel Sanchez (Bellator), Bubba Jenkins (Bellator), Alexandre de Almeida (WSOF), Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global )

Bantamweight
1. Bibiano Fernandes (ONE )
2. Marlon Moraes (WSOF )
3. Eduardo Dantas (Bellator ) 
4. Marcos Galvão (Bellator) 
5. Soo Chul Kim (ROAD FC) 1           
6.  Darrion Caldwell (Bellator) *NR            
7. Joe Warren (Bellator) 1    
8.  Timur Valiev (WSOF) *NR
9. Shintaro Ishiwatari (Pancrase ) 1     
10. Tom Duquesnoy (Bamma ) *NR

Other Contenders: Rafael Silva (Pancrase), Takafumi Otsuka (DEEP ),Victor Henry (Pancrase), Masakatsu Ueda (Pancrase), Chris Gutierrez (WSOF) 

Flyweight
1. Kairat Akhmetov (ONE ) 1    
2. Adriano Moraes (Interim ONE ) 1  
3. Tatsumitsu Wada (DEEP ) 2     
4. Chico Camus (RFA)   
5. Yusaku Nakamura (DEEP) 
6. Askar Askarov (ACB ) 1    
7. Pietro Menga (Bellator) 1       
8. Pedro Nobre (Titan FC) *NR      
9. Naoki Inoue (DEEP) *NR    
10. Mamoru Yamaguchi (Pancrase)

Other Contenders: Felipe Efrain (RIZIN), Rany Saadeh (BAMMA),  Rogério Bontorin (Pancrase), Czar Sklavos(RFA), Takeshi Kasugai (Pancrase)

Strawweight
1. Yoshitaka Naito (ONE FC )
2. Mitsuhisa Sunabe (King Of Pancrase  )
3. Jarred Brooks (Pancrase)   
4. Kent Kambe (Pancrase)     
5. Gilberto Dias (Jungle Fight )   
6  Raymison Bruno (Pancrase) 
7. Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke (ONE FC)       
8. Daichi Kitakata (Pancrase) 
9. Sota Kojima (Deep) 
10.  Ryohei Kurosawa  (Shooto ) 

Other Contenders: Marcone Muniz (Aspera FC) ,Marcus Amaral (Free Agent),Ryuto Sawada (Shooto)  ,Eglaudio Tavares (Free Agent),Daniel Lima (Aspera FC)

Women's Featherweight
1. Julia Budd (Bellator) 
2. Alexis Dufresne (Bellator)    
3. Marloes Coenen (Bellator) 
4. Charmaine Tweet (Invicta FC) 
5. Megan Anderson (Invicta FC)    
6. Cindy Dandois (Invicta FC) 2        
7. Pam Sorenson (Invicta FC)      
8. Arlene Blencowe (Bellator)       
9. Daria Ibragimova (Invicta FC)          
10. Sinead Kavanagh (Bamma) 

Other Contenders:Bobbi-Jo Dalziel (CFFC)  ,Faith Van Duin (Invicta FC) ,Jamie Herrington (Legacy FC),Latoya Walker (Invicta FC),Jozette Cotton (Bellator)  

Women's Flyweight
1. Jennifer Maia (Invicta FC )     
2. Julia Berezikova (Fight Nights)   
3. Ariane Lipski (KSW)     
4. Vanessa Porto (Invicta FC) 
5. Simone Duarte (Jungle Fight )     
6. Agnieszka Niedźwiedź  (Invicta FC) 
7. Roxanne Modafferi  (Invicta FC)   
8. Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (Bellator) 
9. Diana Belbiţă (KSW)  
10. Rin Nakai (Pancrase) *NR

Other Contenders: Brogan Walker (PXC) , Iryna Shaparenko (Fight Nights), Rebecca Ruth (Bellator), Jingnan Xiong (Kunlun Fight) , Irina Mazepa (One FC)

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, Denis Smoldarev, Oli Thompson, Alexander Volkov (UFC), Smealinho Rama (Division Change), Kirill Sidelnikov, Matt Mitrione, Shawn Jordan, Denis Goltsov

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, Maxim Grishin, Mikhail Zayats, Mike Kyle, Thiago Silva, Teddy Holder, Goran Reljic, Vadim Nemkov, Shamil Gamzatov, Vinny Magalhaes (Retired), Attila Vegh

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, Yushin Okami (Division Change), Maiquel Falcao, Alessio Sakara, Clifford Starks, Aziz Karaoglu, Anatoly Tokov

Welterweight: Ben Saunders, Gael Grimaud, Bryan Baker, Yuya Shirai, Marius Zaromskis, Lyman Good, Myung Ho Bae, Fabricio Monteiro, Jay Hieron, Karl Amoussou, Rashid Magomedov (UFC), Albert Tumenov (UFC), Alexander Yakovlev (UFC), Takenori Sato (UFC), Shamil Zavurov, 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, Fernando Gonzalez, Shingo Suzuki, Yuta Watanabe, Brennan Ward, Evangelist “Cyborg” Santos, Emil Weber Meek (UFC), Saad Awad, Hisaki Kato (Division Change), Luis Santos (Division Change), Akihiro Murayama, Aslambek Saidov

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, Isao Kobayashi (Division Change), Vuyisile Colossa, Mansour Barnaoui, Koji Ando, Musa Khamanaev, Jason Knight (UFC), Brandon Girtz, Saad Awad, Will Brooks (UFC), David Rickels, Marcin Held (UFC), Alexandr Shabliy, Alexander Butenko, Melvin Guillard, Ramazan Esenbaev

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, Isao Kobayashi, Rick Glenn (UFC), Sheymon da Silva Moraes (WSOF), Hiroyuki Takaya, Goiti Yamauchi (Division Change), Georgi Karakhanyan (Division Change), Rasul Mirzaev

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, Mike Richman, Kevin Belingon, Josh Hill, Jonathan Brookins, Timur Valiev, Sheymon da Silva Moraes (Division Change), Luis Alberto Nogueira (Division Change), Victor Henry, Dae Hwan Kim
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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.

FLW and WMMA rankings and enhanced formatting to follow by KingFedor.  

It's been over one year since KingFedor has been doing the rankings and formatting.  Great job!

Next month will be the 5th year of the G-MMA rankings.

A lot of updates after a great month of MMA in December.

Watch out for BAMMA FW and BW champ Tom Duquesnoy (http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Tom-Duquesnoy-92239) from France.  He is new to the rankings at BW.  He's 14-1 with 11 finishes.  He just defended his BW title in December.  May get him into the FW rankings soon as well.

Cro Cop entered the ranks after 3 straight wins in 2 days to take the Rizin GP title.

Rankings posted at Sherdog below:

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/global-mma-rankings-outside-ufc-january-2017.3438775/

Good Job bro


but You realy rank javy ayala 5 ???
Where is Denis goltsov lol come on he is one of the best hw lol.He is The acb Hw champ and he's ridding a 14 fight win streak lol

Goltsov deserve ranked.
http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/heavyweight-265-lbs/?OrgFilter=-1&NatFilter=&OrgFilter2=&AgeFromFilter=&AgeToFilter=&TeamFilter=&StateFilter=

Kingfedor wrote:Good Job bro


but You realy rank javy ayala 5 ???
Where is Denis goltsov lol come on he is one of the best hw lol.He is The acb Hw champ and he's ridding a 14 fight win streak lol

Goltsov deserve ranked.
http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/heavyweight-265-lbs/?OrgFilter=-1&NatFilter=&OrgFilter2=&AgeFromFilter=&AgeToFilter=&TeamFilter=&StateFilter=

Thanks.

I had to move Javy up in the ranks with his big finish win over Sergei.  Sergei held a top spot for a while and then Javy crushed him.  This is consistent with how I've been doing the rankings.

I had Goltsov ranked for a while but he was pushed out with all the recent HW additions; Rodrigues, GDS, and now Cro Cop.  Rodrigues beat Bedorf, GDS beat Erokhin, and now Cro Cop smashed his way through the Rizin GP.  I agree though, Goltsov is deserving of a spot.  I have him at the top of my list with Mitrione to get a place back in the rankings. HW recently got stacked up over the past couple months.

I think if Blagoy defeats Jordan in February, he should probably take the number 1 spot at HW over Minakov. Tough call.

Kingfedor wrote:Good Job bro


but You realy rank javy ayala 5 ???
Where is Denis goltsov lol come on he is one of the best hw lol.He is The acb Hw champ and he's ridding a 14 fight win streak lol

Goltsov deserve ranked.
http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/heavyweight-265-lbs/?OrgFilter=-1&NatFilter=&OrgFilter2=&AgeFromFilter=&AgeToFilter=&TeamFilter=&StateFilter=

Cro Cop just retired so Goltsov will likely be back in the rankings next month.

KingFedor, the link below is a ranking of undefeated flyweight prospects. May be a good list for FLWs to watch out for:

http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/mattandbennys-undefeated-prospects-2017-2-the-flyweights.3441587/#post-125810375

Tom Duquesnoy signed with UFC. Very good signing. Will be interesting to see how he does against their BWs and possibly FWs. They have a lot of solid fighters in those divisions so will be cool to see how Duquesnoy stacks up. The kid looks good.