Global-MMA Rankings - May 2015

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

Other Contenders: Cheick Kongo (Bellator), Smealinho Rama (WSOF Champion), Ken Hasegawa (DEEP Champion), Denis Smoldarev (M-1 Global), Satoshi Ishii (IGF)

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

Other Contenders: Thiago Silva (WSOF), Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global), David Branch (WSOF), Vinny Magalhaes (WSOF), Mike Kyle (WSOF)

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

Other Contenders: Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (DEEP Champion), Rafael Carvalho (Bellator), 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.  Borys Mankowski (KSW Champion)
8.  Gota Yamashita (King of Pancrase)
9.  Yuta Watanabe (DEEP Champion)
10. Michael Page (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Jon Fitch (WSOF), Nobutatsu Suzuki (ONE FC), Luis Santos (ONE FC), Yasubey Enomoto (Fight Nights), Beslan Isaev (M-1 Global)

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.  Vuyisile Colossa (ONE FC)
10. David Rickels (Bellator)

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

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), Isao Kobayashi (Pancrase), Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global Champion), Yoshifumi Nakamura (Shooto), Diego Nunes (Bellator)

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), Konstantin Gluhov, Bobby Lashley

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, Maxim Grishin, Mikhail Zayats

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

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, Steve Carl (UFC)

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)

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), Caol Uno

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.  

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*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.

W00T!!! Phil Davis is on the list now!!!!  

I still say Rampage and Tito should be removed.  Replace them with prelim fighters for all I care.  If you can only beat other aging veterans you do not belong on a top ten list.

Hamilcar wrote:W00T!!! Phil Davis is on the list now!!!!  

I still say Rampage and Tito should be removed.  Replace them with prelim fighters for all I care.  If you can only beat other aging veterans you do not belong on a top ten list.

Have to wait to see how court case with Rampage turns out before dropping him. Tito got there mainly with his catch weight win over Shlemenko.

Puetz should have both belts. Sergei shouldn't be fighting Garner again. They should have him fight for the title or at least fight Grabowski.

1. Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion) LOL after sapo rkt him

when palhares beats sheilds he should be number 1 imo!

NorthWestMex wrote:Puetz should have both belts. Sergei shouldn't be fighting Garner again. They should have him fight for the title or at least fight Grabowski.

I agree, makes no sense at all that Puetz doesn't have both belts. If he moves permanently back to LHW, I will take him out of the HW rankings.

Sergei should definitely be fighting for the title next and should be against Puetz.

stu3ufc wrote:
1. Ben Askren (ONE FC Champion) LOL after sapo rkt him

when palhares beats sheilds he should be number 1 imo!

Sapo was impressive but the fight ended in an NC so it can't really affect the rankings. Palhares is right up there. Maybe we will have a vote on here for the top spot at WW if Palhares wins his next fight.

Stephan Puetz is #1 P4P atm

Golden Age wrote:Stephan Puetz is #1 P4P atm

Yeah, P4P, I'd have to agree holding the LHW title and then finishing the M-1 HW champ. That's impressive.

Are we going to add Strawweight now that ONE has a champion for the division?

Hamilcar wrote:Are we going to add Strawweight now that ONE has a champion for the division?

Not at the time. We had to drop the lower weight classes for now.