Global-MMA Rankings (Outside UFC) - January 2015

Heavyweight
1.  Marcin Tybura (M-1 Global Champion)
2.  Vitaly Minakov (Bellator Champion)
3.  Sergei Kharitonov (M-1 Global)
4.  Alexander Volkov (Bellator)
5.  Damian Grabowski (M-1 Global)
6.  Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (IGF Champion)
7.  Cheick Kongo (Bellator)
8.  Blagoi Ivanov (Bellator)
9.  Karol Bedorf (KSW Champion)
10. Smealinho Rama (WSOF Champion)

Other Contenders: Denis Goltsov (Tech-Krep), Ken Hasegawa (DEEP Champion), Bobby Lashley (Bellator), Satoshi Ishii (IGF), Shamil Abdurahimov (M-1 Global)

Light Heavyweight
1.  Emanuel Newton (Bellator Champion)
2.  Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (Bellator)
3.  Thiago Silva (Free Agent)
4.  Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (Bellator)
5.  Stephan Puetz (M-1 Global Champion)
6.  Attila Vegh (Free Agent)
7.  Liam McGeary (Bellator)
8.  Tito Ortiz (Bellator)
9.  Mikhail Zayats (Bellator)
10. Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global)

Other Contenders: Linton Vassell (Bellator), Vinny Magalhaes (TFC), Maxim Grishin (Fight Nights), Roger Gracie (ONE FC), Mike Kyle (WSOF)

Middleweight
1.  Mamed Khalidov (KSW)
2.  Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global Champion)
3.  Brandon Halsey (Bellator Champion)
4.  David Branch (WSOF Champion)
5.  Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator)
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.  Steve Carl (Free Agent)
7.  Paul Daley (Bellator)
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.  Pat Curran (Bellator)
3.  Daniel Straus (Bellator)
4.  Kazunori Yokota (DEEP Champion)
5.  Lance Palmer (WSOF Champion)
6.  Rick Glenn (WSOF)
7.  Georgi Karakhanyan (Bellator)
8.  Caol Uno (Shooto)
9.  Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
10. Jadamba Narantungala (ONE FC Champion)

Other Contenders: Marat Gafurov (ONE FC), Koji Oishi (ONE FC), Goiti Yamauchi (Bellator), Diego Nunes (Bellator), Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global Champion)

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

Other Contenders: Kevin Belingon (ONE FC), Shintaro Ishiwatari (Pancrase), Rafael “Morcego” Silva (Bellator), Mike Richman (Bellator), Josh Hill (WSOF)

Flyweight
1.  Yuki Motoya (DEEP Champion)
2.  Adriano Moraes (ONE FC Champion)
3.  Haruo Ochi (DEEP)
4.  Andrew Leone (ONE FC)
5.  Tatsumitsu Wada (DEEP)
6.  Nam Jin Jo (ROAD FC Champion)
7.  B.J. Kojima (ONE FC)
8.  Alexandre Pantoja (RFA Champion)
9.  Hiromasa Ogikubo (Shooto)
10. Czar Sklavos (Shooto)

Other Contenders: Ryuichi Miki (Shooto Champion), Dileno Lopes (Free Agent), Mikihito Yamagami (ROAD FC), Kiyotaka Shimizu (King of Pancrase), Pietro Menga (BAMMA)

Junior Flyweight
1.  Mitsuhisa Sunabe (King of Pancrase)
2.  Yoshitaka Naito (Shooto Strawweight Champion)
3.  Rambaa Somdet (PXC)
4.  Shinya Murofushi (Shooto)
5.  Junji Ito (Shooto)
6.  Yuki Shojo (Shooto)
7.  Ryo Hatta (ZST Champion)
8.  Gilberto Dias (Shooto Brazil)
9.  Yukitaka Musashi (Pancrase)
10. Ryohei “Ken Asuka” Kurosawa (Shooto)

Other Contenders: Noboru Tahara (Pancrase), Takuya Eizumi (Pancrase), Hiroyuki Abe (Pancrase), Atsushi Takeuchi (Shooto), Masayoshi Kato (Shooto)
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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), Konstantin Gluhov

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

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

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

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.

Hey Johan or Dag. Can you link this up at the top?

Thiago Silva didnt fought since October of 2013 so... should he be dropped? Maybe next month King Mo and Thiago could switch places? And should Rampage be on list?

LEGENDMMA=PRIDEFC wrote:Thiago Silva didnt fought since October of 2013 so... should he be dropped?  Maybe next month King Mo and Thiago could switch places? And should Rampage be on list?

Yeah, good point, it has been a long time since Thiago fought, despite the circumstances. I'll move him below King Mo next month.

I left Rampage on there because he is still officially under contract with Bellator and he has not yet been released.

CDF47 wrote:Hey Johan or Dag.  Can you link this up at the top?

Done

Golden Age wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Hey Johan or Dag.  Can you link this up at the top?

Done

Thanks Johan

Shamil Abdurahimov signed with the UFC.  Will replace him next month.  Thinking Smoldarev as a replacement unless there are other suggestions.

CDF47 wrote:Shamil Abdurahimov signed with the UFC.  Will replace him next month.  Thinking Smoldarev as a replacement unless there are other suggestions.

Good choice to replace him but sad to hear the UFC signed another top HW

NorthWestMex wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Shamil Abdurahimov signed with the UFC.  Will replace him next month.  Thinking Smoldarev as a replacement unless there are other suggestions.

Good choice to replace him but sad to hear the UFC signed another top HW

Sadly, the UFC will continue to leech off any company that has a good prospect and the fighters are no better since they sign without thinking twice. Sadly, with the UFC trying to go to Russia this year, I have the feeling more signings will be coming.

NorthWestMex wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Shamil Abdurahimov signed with the UFC.  Will replace him next month.  Thinking Smoldarev as a replacement unless there are other suggestions.

Good choice to replace him but sad to hear the UFC signed another top HW

Thanks...So will go Smoldarev. Yeah, Shamil was a good signing for them. Was hoping to see him compete more in M-1.

Rocksoldier84 wrote:

NorthWestMex wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Shamil Abdurahimov signed with the UFC.  Will replace him next month.  Thinking Smoldarev as a replacement unless there are other suggestions.

Good choice to replace him but sad to hear the UFC signed another top HW

Sadly, the UFC will continue to leech off any company that has a good prospect and the fighters are no better since they sign without thinking twice. Sadly, with the UFC trying to go to Russia this year, I have the feeling more signings will be coming.

They have been picking up a lot of Russians. I think they will be signing more as well.

since rampage is back in the ufc shouldn't he be off the list ?

westcott123 wrote:since rampage is back in the ufc shouldn't he be off the list ?

Rampage can't fight in the ufc because he was under contact from bellator.coker will try to get him back .

westcott123 wrote:since rampage is back in the ufc shouldn't he be off the list ?

He still has not been officially released by Bellator from last I read.