Global-MMA Rankings - August 2016

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

Other Contenders: Bobby Lashley (Bellator),Smealinho Rama (WSOF),Brandon Vera (ONE ),Oli Thompson (IGF ),Kirill Sidelnikov (RIZIN)

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

Other Contenders: Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Global),Jiří Procházka (RIZIN),Vinny Magalhães (WSOF),Attila Vegh (KSW),Tito Ortiz (Bellator)

Middleweight
1. Mamed Khalidov (KSW )  
2. Dave Branch (WSOF ) 
3. Ramazan Emeev (M-1 Global ) 
4. Rafael Carvalho (Bellator )   
5. Alexander Shlemenko (M-1 Global)    
6. Michał Materla (KSW) 
7. Vitaly Bigdash (ONE ) 
8. John Salter (Bellator) *NR
9. Brandon Halsey (Bellator) 
10. Anatoly Tokov (RIZIN) 

Other Contenders: Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (M-1 Global),Ken Hasegawa (DEEP), Jung Hwan Cha (ROAD FC ), Aziz Karaoglu (KSW), Hisaki Kato (Bellator)

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

Other Contenders: Luis Santos (ONE), Alexey Kunchenko (M-1 Global ), Yushin Okami (DEEP), Akihiro Murayama (King of Pancrase ), Saad Awad (Bellator)

Lightweight
1. Justin Gaethje (WSOF )
2. Michael Chandler (Bellator ) 
3. Shinya Aoki (ONE ) 
4. Marcin Held (Bellator) 
5. Ramazan Esenbaev (ACB) 
6. Lowen Tynanes (ONE) 
7. Derek Anderson (Bellator) 
8. Dave Jansen (Bellator) 
9. Josh Thomson (Bellator)   
10. Patricky "Pitbull" Freire (Bellator)

Other Contenders: Melvin Guillard  (Bellator),  Daron Cruickshank (RIZIN),Jason High (WSOF), Alexander Butenko (M-1 Global ),Murad Machaev (Fight Nights Global)

Featherweight
1. Daniel Straus (Bellator )
2. Patricio "Pitbull" Freire (Bellator)
3. Daniel Weichel (Bellator)
4. Marat Gafurov (ONE ) 
5. Pat Curran (Bellator)   
6. Rick Glenn (Victory FC)   
7. Ivan Buchinger (M-1 Global ) 1 
8. Lance Palmer (WSOF ) *NR   
9. Kazunori Yokota (DEEP)   
10. Jadamba Narantungalag (ONE) *NR

Other Contenders: Alexandre de Almeida (WSOF), Goiti Yamauchi (Bellator), Bubba Jenkins (Bellator)  , Andre Harrison (Titan FC ), Hiroyuki Takaya (RIZIN)

Bantamweight
1. Bibiano Fernandes (ONE )
2. Marlon Moraes (WSOF )
3. Eduardo Dantas (Bellator) 
4. Marcos Galvão (Bellator) 
5. Masakatsu Ueda (Pancrase)      
6. Soo Chul Kim (ROAD FC) 1        
7. Joe Warren (Bellator) 1
8. Joe Taimanglo (Bellator) *NR
9. Dae Hwan Kim (ONE) 
10. Chris Gutierrez (WSOF) 

Other Contenders: Luis Nogueira (Pancrase), Shintaro Ishiwatari (Pancrase ), Sheymon Moraes (WSOF),Victor Henry (Pancrase), Darrion Caldwell (Bellator)

Flyweight
1. Magomed Bibulatov (Akhmat) 1 
2. Kairat Akhmetov (ONE FC ) 3   
3. Adriano Moraes (ONE) 3    
4. Chico Camus (RFA) *NR  
5. Yusaku Nakamura (VTJ) 3
6. Tatsumitsu Wada (DEEP ) 3    
7. Pietro Menga (Bellator) *NR      
8. Velimurad Alkhasov (ACB) *NR    
9. Felipe Efrain (RIZIN) 1  
10. Czar Sklavos(VTJ) 1

Other Contenders: Bruno Menezes (Jungle Fight), Rany Saadeh (BAMMA ), Pedro Nobre  (Titan FC),  Yuki Motoya (DEEP), Takeshi Kasugai (Pancrase)

Strawweight
1. Yoshitaka Naito (Shooto and ONE FC )
2. Mitsuhisa Sunabe (King Of Pancrase )
3. Kent Kambe (Pancrase)
4. Sota Kojima (Deep)   
5. Raymison Bruno (Pancrase)
6  Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke (ONE FC) 
7. Daichi Kitakata (Pancrase) 1     
8. Yukitaka Musashi (Pancrase) 1
9. Hiroyuki Abe (Pancrase) 
10.  Ryohei Kurosawa  (Shooto ) *NR

Other Contenders: Marcone Muniz (Free Agent),Marcus Amaral (Free Agent),Ryuto Sawada (Shooto)  ,Yago Bryan (Shooto Brazil ),Junji Ito (Shooto)

Women's Featherweight
1. Alexis Dufresne (Bellator)1
2. Julia Budd (Bellator)1  
3. Marloes Coenen (Bellator) 1
4. Charmaine Tweet (Invicta FC) 1
5. Megan Anderson (Invicta FC) 3  
6. Arlene Blencowe (Bellator)        
7. Faith Van Duin (Invicta FC)    
8. Cindy Dandois (Invicta FC) 2     
9. Daria Ibragimova (Invicta FC)          
10. Lina Akhtar Lansberg (Free Agent)

Other Contenders:Bobbi-Jo Dalziel (CFFC)  ,Anastasia Plisenkova (Fight Nights),Kelly Faszholz (Legacy FC),Latoya Walker (Invicta FC),Roberta Rovel (Bellator)

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

Other Contenders: Agnieszka Niedźwiedź  (Invicta FC),Iryna Shaparenko (Fight Nights),Rebecca Ruth (Bellator),Poliana Botelho (XFC),Ariane Lipski (KSW)

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., Denis Smoldarev, Oli Thompson

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, Roger Gracie

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

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, 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, Fernando Gonzalez, Shingo Suzuki, Yuta Watanabe, Brennan Ward, Evangelist “Cyborg” Santos, Emil Weber Meek (UFC), Hisaki Kato (Division Change)

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), Alexander Sarnavskiy, Brandon Girtz, Saad Awad, Will Brooks (UFC), Brian Foster, David Rickels

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, Georgi Karakhanyan, Isao Kobayashi

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, Josh Hill, Jonathan Brookins, Timur Valiev
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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, WMMA rankings, and enhanced formatting to follow. King Fedor keep up the great work!

Thank you for your efforts CDF47 and Kingfedor!!! Always Appreciated.

Audax wrote:Thank you for your efforts CDF47 and Kingfedor!!! Always Appreciated.

I love doing them and supporting Johan's Global-MMA site!  Some of the smartest MMA fans in the world, like you Audax, are on this site and I am just glad to be a part of it.

I am glad you like them.

MR.WILLIE wrote:Jared rosholt hw joins Wsof

Ashley gooch Ces MMA hw champ also joins Wsof -possible contender

Tim Elliot joins the tuf to enter the UFC so this might be his last ranked month

Time for Erokhin to move up after beating Richard odoms and Emanuel Newton back to back

Nice signing with Rosholt.  I have him next in line to join HW rankings if someone falls off or if he gets a solid win.

Will be interesting to see how Gooch does in WSOF.  Good to see they are picking up champs from the AXS TV orgs.  They have solid champs in those promotions.

I'm going to watch this upcoming TUF season since they are bringing in champs from orgs. all over the world to compete and the winner fights D. Johnson for the 125 lbs title.  I like this concept and glad to see UFC doing something like this.

I'm thinking top 5 for Erokhin next month following those big wins.

CDF47 wrote:

MR.WILLIE wrote:Jared rosholt hw joins Wsof

Ashley gooch Ces MMA hw champ also joins Wsof -possible contender

Tim Elliot joins the tuf to enter the UFC so this might be his last ranked month

Time for Erokhin to move up after beating Richard odoms and Emanuel Newton back to back

Nice signing with Rosholt.  I have him next in line to join HW rankings if someone falls off or if he gets a solid win.

Will be interesting to see how Gooch does in WSOF.  Good to see they are picking up champs from the AXS TV orgs.  They have solid champs in those promotions.

I'm going to watch this upcoming TUF season since they are bringing in champs from orgs. all over the world to compete and the winner fights D. Johnson for the 125 lbs title.  I like this concept and glad to see UFC doing something like this.

I'm thinking top 5 for Erokhin next month following those big wins.

If erokhin is a top 5. Denis Goltsov deserve to be higher in the ranking. He is on a 13 fight wins streak.

Kingfedor wrote:

CDF47 wrote:

MR.WILLIE wrote:Jared rosholt hw joins Wsof

Ashley gooch Ces MMA hw champ also joins Wsof -possible contender

Tim Elliot joins the tuf to enter the UFC so this might be his last ranked month

Time for Erokhin to move up after beating Richard odoms and Emanuel Newton back to back

Nice signing with Rosholt.  I have him next in line to join HW rankings if someone falls off or if he gets a solid win.

Will be interesting to see how Gooch does in WSOF.  Good to see they are picking up champs from the AXS TV orgs.  They have solid champs in those promotions.

I'm going to watch this upcoming TUF season since they are bringing in champs from orgs. all over the world to compete and the winner fights D. Johnson for the 125 lbs title.  I like this concept and glad to see UFC doing something like this.

I'm thinking top 5 for Erokhin next month following those big wins.

If erokhin is a top 5. Denis Goltsov deserve to be higher in the ranking. He is on a 13 fight wins streak.

Goltsov is on a real good streak and will get a big jump with his next win. Erokhin is coming off some bigger wins recently so he moved up a bit quicker.

Luis Santos is up at MW now with a win over former ONE champion and G-MMA ranked fighter Igor Svirid. If Santos decides to stay above WW I could see him cracking into our top 10 pretty swiftly.

Former KSW WW champ Aslambek Saidov is on a pretty good 4 fight win streak at the moment. I think he should have consideration for Saad Awad's spot at #15 since Awad went back down to LW and lost.

Audax wrote:Luis Santos is up at MW now with a win over former ONE champion and G-MMA ranked fighter Igor Svirid. If Santos decides to stay above WW I could see him cracking into our top 10 pretty swiftly.

That's right Audax. I think 185 is a new home for him so I plan to rank him in top 10 next month. Thanks for the reminder.

Audax wrote:Former KSW WW champ Aslambek Saidov is on a pretty good 4 fight win streak at the moment. I think he should have consideration for Saad Awad's spot at #15 since Awad went back down to LW and lost.

Great call. He'll be in at 15 next month.