Global-MMA Rankings (Outside UFC) - June 2014

Heavyweight
1.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
2.  Alexander Volkov (Bellator)
3.  Damian Grabowski (M-1 Global Champion)
4.  Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global)
5.  Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
6.  Magomed Malikov (M-1 Global)
7.  Satoshi Ishii (IGF Champion)
8.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
9.  Blagoi Ivanov (Bellator)
10. Konstantin Gluhov (M-1 Global)

Other Contenders: Kenny Garner (M-1 Global), Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion), Ken Hasegawa (DEEP Champion), Guram Gugenishvili (IGF), Dmitriy Sosnovskiy (Bellator)

Light Heavyweight
1.  Emanuel Newton (Bellator Champion)
2.  Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (Bellator)
3.  Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (Bellator)
4.  Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (DEEP Champion)
5.  Attila Vegh (Bellator)
6.  Mikhail Zayats (Bellator)
7.  Mike Kyle (WSOF)
8.  Tito Ortiz (Bellator)
9.  Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global Champion)
10. Jason Jones (BAMMA Champion)

Other Contenders: Luiz Cane (SFT), Joey Beltran (Bellator), Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global), Christian M’Pumbu (Bellator), Roger Gracie (Free Agent)

Middleweight
1.  Mamed Khalidov (KSW)
2.  Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator Champion)
3.  Yushin Okami (WSOF)
4.  Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global Champion)
5.  Maiquel Falcao (KSW)
6.  Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global)
7.  Michal Materla (KSW Champion)
8.  Brett Cooper (Bellator)
9.  Doug Marshall (Bellator)
10. Jay Silva (KSW)

Other Contenders: Jesse Taylor (WSOF), Kazuhiro Nakamura (DEEP Champion), Leandro Ataides (ONE FC), Elvis Mutapcic (WSOF), Eun-Su Lee (ROAD FC Champion)

Welterweight
1.  Ben Askren (ONE FC)
2.  Douglas Lima (Bellator Champion)
3.  Rousimar Palhares (WSOF Champion)
4.  Jake Shields (WSOF)
5.  Steve Carl (WSOF)
6.  Andrey Koreshkov (Bellator)
7.  Josh Burkman (WSOF)
8.  Paul Daley (BAMMA)
9.  Jon Fitch (WSOF)
10. Rick Hawn (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Nobutatsu Suzuki (ONE FC Champion), Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion), Michael Page (Bellator), Yasubey Enomoto (Fight Nights), Aslambek Saidov (KSW)

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

Other Contenders: David Rickels (Bellator), Saad Awad (Bellator), Ramazan Esenbaev (IGF), Lowen Tynanes (ONE FC), Nick Newell (WSOF)

Featherweight
1.  Pat Curran (Bellator Champion)
2.  Georgi Karakhanyan (WSOF Champion)
3.  Patricio Freire (Bellator)
4.  Daniel Straus (Bellator)
5.  Kazunori Yokota (DEEP Champion)
6.  Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
7.  Caol Uno (Shooto)
8.  Shinya Aoki (ONE FC)
9.  Koji Oishi (ONE FC Champion)
10. Daniel Romero (Shooto)

Other Contenders: Marat Gafurov (M-1 Global Champion), Hiroyuki Takaya (Shooto), Diego Nunes (Bellator), Magomedrasul Khasbulaev (Bellator), Fabricio de Assis Costa da Silva (Bellator)

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

Other Contenders: Yuta Sasaki (Shooto), Cody Bollinger (WSOF), Kevin Belingon (ONE FC), Tyson Nam (WSOF), Rafael Silva (Bellator)

Flyweight
1.  Ryuichi Miki (Shooto Champion)
2.  Tatsumitsu Wada (DEEP Champion)
3.  Haruo Ochi (DEEP)
4.  Andrew Leone (ONE FC)
5.  Shinichi "BJ" Kojima (ONE FC)
6.  Kentaro Watanabe (Shooto)
7.  Nam Jin Jo (ROAD FC)
8.  Adriano Moraes (ONE FC)
9.  Yuki Motoya (DEEP)
10. Alexandre Pantoja Passidomo (Shooto Brazil)

Other Contenders: Mikihito Yamagami (Shooto), Kiyotaka Shimizu (King of Pancrase), Yasuhiro Urushitani (ONE FC), Hideo Tokoro (Shooto), Dileno Lopes (Shooto Brazil)

Junior Flyweight
1.  Mitsuhisa Sunabe (King of Pancrase)
2.  Rambaa Somdet (PXC)
3.  Shinya Murofushi (Shooto Champion)
4.  Junji Ito (Shooto)
5.  Yoshitaka “Nobita” Naito (Shooto)
6.  Yuki Shojo (Shooto)
7.  Tadaaki Yamamoto (Shooto)
8.  Noboru Tahara (Pancrase)
9.  Hiroyuki Abe (Pancrase)
10. Tatsuya Yamamoto (Shooto)

Other Contenders: Gilberto Dias (Shooto Brazil), Jun Nakamura (Shooto), Akihito Sasao (Shooto), Masayoshi Kato (Shooto), Ryosuke Tanuma (ZST Champion)
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Global-MMA Ranking Update Summary (May 2014)

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

Heavyweight: Tony Lopez, Fedor Emelianenko (Retired), Cole Konrad (Retired), Brett Rogers, Eric Prindle, Todd Duffee (UFC), Alexei Kudin, Soa Palelei (UFC), Levan Razmadze, Shamil Abdurahimov, Rich Hale, Chaban Ka, Rolles Gracie, Jeff Monson, Peter Graham, Alexey Oleinik (UFC), Konstantin Gluhov, Aleksander Emelianenko, Ryan Martinez, Lavar Johnson, Mike Russow, Andrei Arlovski (UFC)

Light Heavyweight: Glover Texeira (UFC), D.J. Linderman, Marcus Vanttinen, Gegard Mousasi (Strikeforce), Jimi Manuwa (UFC), Vinny Magalhaes (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

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

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), Ryan Ford, Shamil Zavurov

Lightweight: Francisco Trinaldo (UFC), Ricardo Tirloni, Koji Oishi, Mizuto Hirota (Strikeforce), Mairbek Taisumov, Zorobabel Moreira, Alexander Sarnavskiy, Rich Clementi, Katsunori Kikuno, Paul Sass, Lloyd Woodard, Antonio McKee (Retired), Dave Jansen, Lewis Gonzales, Satoru Kitaoka, Yui Chul Nam (UFC), Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Kotetsu Boku, Naoyuki Kotani (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

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

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

Junior Flyweight: Junji Ikoma, Takehiro Ishii, Mikihito Yamagami (Division Change), Masakazu Utsugi, Takuya Eizumi
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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.

Where are all the Brazilians??
 

Great job with the rankings as usual. Maybe Cro Cop will crack the top 10 soon  8) 

There's literally been nothing happening in the Flyweight divisions for the past two months, so sorry for the lack of movement.

Golden Age wrote:Where are all the Brazilians??
 

LOL

Golden Age wrote:Great job with the rankings as usual. Maybe Cro Cop will crack the top 10 soon  8) 

Thanks...Yeah, that would be cool if he took out Ishii. It's going to be a tough fight but would be cool to have him in the rankings.

wekka wrote:There's literally been nothing happening in the Flyweight divisions for the past two months, so sorry for the lack of movement.

Any fights for them coming up?

The 1, 3, 6, and 8 all have fights lined up for June, so there could be a lot of noise being made soon.

OMGWTF NOT ENUF BRAZILIANS

iforgotmypassword wrote:OMGWTF NOT ENUF BRAZILIANS

Brazil gets picked clean for the most part and their top guys go all over the world. Look at the UFC Roster alone. Not that they have every single one by themselves. Brazilians with real market value almost always leave Brazil. Sad to say but it's true.

Cd! Great rankings my friend great job, also wekka great job with the lower classes

I think Tito should be dropped to 9th or 10th.

Patricio Freire and Daniel Straus should be ahead of Karakhanyan in FW.

wekka wrote:The 1, 3, 6, and 8 all have fights lined up for June, so there could be a lot of noise being made soon.

Cool.

MR.WILLIE wrote:Cd! Great rankings my friend great job, also wekka great job with the lower classes

Thanks Willie. Some good fights coming up this month.

AudaxSmoke wrote:I think Tito should be dropped to 9th or 10th.

Patricio Freire and Daniel Straus should be ahead of Karakhanyan in FW.

I think Puetz will be fighting soon so he could pass up Tito putting him in 9th.

I wish the Freire/Curran fight would happen soon....That fight will put an end to the Georgi debate.

Cd! I think Ryan ford 22-4 should be in the ww mix!

MR.WILLIE wrote:Cd! I think Ryan ford 22-4 should be in the ww mix!

Yeah, I had him in there then Borys took the KSW title and bumped him off. If he wins his next fight, he'll be top 13. If one of the guys at the lower tier lose, I'll get Ford back in there as well.

I could see a case for Ford being higher ranked than Enomoto and Saidov

wekka wrote:I could see a case for Ford being higher ranked than Enomoto and Saidov

I agree!

If Ford would have fought and won tomorrow I was going to put him above Enomoto, Saidov, and possibly Page if he looked good enough. Sucks his fight is off. Do you know when his next fight is?

CDF47 wrote:If Ford would have fought and won tomorrow I was going to put him above Enomoto, Saidov, and possibly Page if he looked good enough.  Sucks his fight is off.  Do you know when his next fight is?

He got injured for tomorrow!

He will fight in October wsof xlll he is challenging jake shields will see

^Damn that would be a huge fight for him.  Would be cool to see him take out Shields.  That would be bad ass.  I hope they make this fight.  

Great rankings as usual, guys.

Golden Age wrote:Where are all the Brazilians??
 

lol

adam wrote:Great rankings as usual, guys.

Golden Age wrote:Where are all the Brazilians??
 

lol

Thanks adam

I feel like Ishii has certainly done enough to earn a sport higher than Sergei at this point. Sergei isn't active enough anymore to warrant a Top-5 ranking.