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Lightweight

Issue Date: 5/16/2012 (Official Release: #253)

Lightweight (150-162 lbs) fighter ranks

The rankings presented are computerized and provided by the FightMatrix ranking system, which utilizes a comprehensive MMA fight database to provide objective rankings. Please note, that these rankings ONLY contain fighters who have had at least one professional fight some time in the 450 days prior to the ranking date.

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Fighter

Record

Points

Ben Henderson	16-2-0	586
Last Fight: 2/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#2 LW] Frankie Edgar
Next Fight: 8/11/2012 [UFC] vs [#2 LW] Frankie Edgar

Frankie Edgar	14-2-1	517
Last Fight: 2/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#1 LW] Ben Henderson
Next Fight: 8/11/2012 [UFC] vs [#1 LW] Ben Henderson

Gilbert Melendez	20-2-0	394
Last Fight: 12/17/2011 [Strike Force] vs [#20 LW] Jorge Masvidal
Next Fight: 5/19/2012 [Strike Force] vs [#24 LW] Josh Thomson

Nate Diaz	16-7-0	339
Last Fight: 5/05/2012 [UFC] vs [#14 LW] Jim Miller

Gray Maynard	10-1-1	317
Last Fight: 10/08/2011 [UFC] vs [#2 LW] Frankie Edgar
Next Fight: 6/22/2012 [UFC] vs [#9 LW] Clay Guida

Michael Chandler	10-0-0	289
Last Fight: 5/04/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#280 LW] Akihiro Gono

Eddie Alvarez	23-3-0	285
Last Fight: 4/20/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#19 LW] Shinya Aoki

Donald Cerrone	18-4-0	222
Last Fight: 5/15/2012 [UFC] vs [#37 LW] Jeremy Stephens

Clay Guida	29-12-0	208
Last Fight: 11/12/2011 [UFC] vs [#1 LW] Ben Henderson
Next Fight: 6/22/2012 [UFC] vs [#5 LW] Gray Maynard

Anthony Pettis	15-2-0	208
Last Fight: 2/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#29 LW] Joe Lauzon

Pat Healy	24-16-0	198
Last Fight: 3/03/2012 [Strike Force] vs [#59 LW] Caros Fodor

TJ Grant	18-5-0	194
Last Fight: 5/15/2012 [UFC] vs [#42 LW] Carlo Prater

Rick Hawn	13-1-0	191
Last Fight: 4/20/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#47 LW] Lloyd Woodard
Next Fight: 5/25/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#28 LW] Brent Weedman

Jim Miller	21-4-0	186
Last Fight: 5/05/2012 [UFC] vs [#4 LW] Nate Diaz

Jadamba Narantungalag	8-2-0	182
Last Fight: 3/30/2012 [Legend Fighting Championship] vs [#125 LW] Yui Chul Nam

Mark Bocek	11-4-0	181
Last Fight: 4/21/2012 [UFC] vs [#51 LW] John Alessio

Gleison Tibau	25-7-0	181
Last Fight: 11/19/2011 [UFC] vs [#21 LW] Rafael dos Anjos
Next Fight: 7/07/2012 [UFC] vs [#52 LW] Khabib Nurmagomedov

Antonio McKee	28-4-2	180
Last Fight: 3/30/2012 [EFWC] vs [#442 LW] Chad Dietmeyer

Shinya Aoki	30-6-0	178
Last Fight: 4/20/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#7 LW] Eddie Alvarez

Jorge Masvidal	22-7-0	168
Last Fight: 12/17/2011 [Strike Force] vs [#3 LW] Gilbert Melendez

Rafael dos Anjos	16-6-0	166
Last Fight: 5/15/2012 [UFC] vs [#92 LW] Kamal Shalorus

Evan Dunham	13-2-0	155
Last Fight: 1/28/2012 [UFC] vs [#66 LW] Nik Lentz

Jacob Volkmann	14-2-0	154
Last Fight: 12/30/2011 [UFC] vs [#114 LW] Efrain Escudero
Next Fight: 5/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#61 LW] Paul Sass

Josh Thomson	19-4-0	152
Last Fight: 3/03/2012 [Strike Force] vs [#46 LW] KJ Noons
Next Fight: 5/19/2012 [Strike Force] vs [#3 LW] Gilbert Melendez

Brian Cobb	19-7-0	148
Last Fight: 1/27/2012 [MaximumFC] vs [#18 LW] Antonio McKee

Matt Wiman	14-6-0	146
Last Fight: 10/01/2011 [UFC] vs [#41 LW] Mac Danzig

Mizuto Hirota	14-4-1	145
Last Fight: 2/18/2012 [DEEP] vs [#157 LW] Seichi Ikemoto

Brent Weedman	21-7-1	142
Last Fight: 4/20/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#126 LW] Thiago Michel Pereira Silva
Next Fight: 5/25/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#13 LW] Rick Hawn

Joe Lauzon	21-7-0	140
Last Fight: 2/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#10 LW] Anthony Pettis
Next Fight: 8/04/2012 [UFC] vs [#232 LW] Terry Etim

Thiago Tavares	17-4-1	137
Last Fight: 1/14/2012 [UFC] vs [#34 LW] Sam Stout
Next Fight: 8/11/2012 [UFC] vs [#32 LW] Dennis Hallman

Michael Johnson	11-6-0	137
Last Fight: 5/05/2012 [UFC] vs [#55 LW] Tony Ferguson

Dennis Hallman	51-14-2	137
Last Fight: 12/10/2011 [UFC] vs [#190 LW] John Makdessi
Next Fight: 8/11/2012 [UFC] vs [#30 LW] Thiago Tavares

Danny Castillo	14-4-0	130
Last Fight: 5/05/2012 [UFC] vs [#96 LW] John Cholish

Sam Stout	17-7-1	128
Last Fight: 1/14/2012 [UFC] vs [#30 LW] Thiago Tavares
Next Fight: 6/22/2012 [UFC] vs [#167 LW] Spencer Fisher

Takanori Gomi	33-8-0	127
Last Fight: 2/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#138 LW] Eiji Mitsuoka

Melvin Guillard	29-11-2	126
Last Fight: 1/20/2012 [UFC] vs [#14 LW] Jim Miller
Next Fight: 7/07/2012 [UFC] vs [#57 LW] Fabricio Camoes

Jeremy Stephens	20-8-0	124
Last Fight: 5/15/2012 [UFC] vs [#8 LW] Donald Cerrone

George Sotiropoulos	14-4-0	122
Last Fight: 7/02/2011 [UFC] vs [#21 LW] Rafael dos Anjos

Justin Salas	10-3-0	116
Last Fight: 2/15/2012 [UFC] vs [#75 LW] Anton Kuivanen
Next Fight: 6/08/2012 [UFC] vs [#64 LW] Tim Means

Ronys Torres	24-4-0	114
Last Fight: 3/31/2012 [Amazon Forest Combat] vs [NR] Ferrid Kheder

Mac Danzig	21-9-1	113
Last Fight: 4/21/2012 [UFC] vs [#114 LW] Efrain Escudero

Carlo Prater	30-11-1	112
Last Fight: 5/15/2012 [UFC] vs [#12 LW] TJ Grant

Gesias Cavalcante	16-4-1	111
Last Fight: 7/30/2011 [Strike Force] vs [#76 LW] Bobby Green
Next Fight: 5/19/2012 [Strike Force] vs [#226 WW] Isaac VallieFlagg

Adriano Martins	23-6-0	108
Last Fight: 3/31/2012 [Jungle Fight] vs Unranked Opponent

Satoru Kitaoka	29-11-9	107
Last Fight: 12/31/2011 [DREAM] vs [#19 LW] Shinya Aoki
Next Fight: 6/15/2012 [10-4 Thunder] vs [#65 LW] Katsunori Kikuno

KJ Noons	11-5-0	107
Last Fight: 3/03/2012 [Strike Force] vs [#24 LW] Josh Thomson

Lloyd Woodard	12-2-0	106
Last Fight: 4/20/2012 [BellatorFC] vs [#13 LW] Rick Hawn

Yves Edwards	41-18-1	106
Last Fight: 12/03/2011 [UFC] vs [#55 LW] Tony Ferguson

Edson Barboza	10-0-0	105
Last Fight: 1/14/2012 [UFC] vs [#232 LW] Terry Etim
Next Fight: 5/26/2012 [UFC] vs [#54 LW] Jamie Varner

Daniel Weichel	28-7-0	104
Last Fight: 11/20/2011 [M-1 Mix-FC] vs [#180 LW] Jose Figueroa

Issue Date: 5/16/2012 (Official Release: #253)

Previous Official Release: 5/12/2012

Fighters who have dropped out: [#272] Bryan Travers*, [#295] Cristiano Marcello*, [#332] Tim Tamaki!, [#364] Mike Byrnes!, [#498] Cengiz Dana!, [#499] Felipe Froes!, [#500] Akhad Mamedov!

Drop out symbols: * = Inactive (450d), + = Moved Divisions (Up), - = Moved Divisions (Down), % = Forced, ! = Results/Other

Comments (192)

192 Comments

UFC's Lightweight Division (Top 20) - Page 3 - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums says:

December 16, 2008 at 6:45 pm

[...] be placed on hold if Penn wins All these tribulations left the division weakened: according to the latest Fightmatrix.com rankings, only 4 of the Top 10 and 8 of the Top 20 lightweights in the world compete in the UFC

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Fight Matrix » Blog Archive » UFC’s Lighweight Division says:

December 16, 2008 at 3:04 pm

[...] these tribulations left the division weakened: according to the latest Fightmatrix.com rankings, only 4 of the Top 10 and 8 of the Top 20 lightweights in the world compete in the UFC’s [...]

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Bloody Elbow October MMA Meta-Rankings: Lightweight says:

October 30, 2008 at 10:03 pm

[...] Fight Magazine, Houston Chronicle/Brawl Sports, HDNet/Inside Fighting, MMA Playground, FightMatrix, Cage Potato, Sherdog, MMA Weekly, 411 Mania, Fighters.com, Total-MMA and MMA/VT [...]

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Bloody Elbow September MMA Meta-Rankings: Lightweight says:

September 30, 2008 at 8:14 pm

[...] MMA 4 Real, Figure 4 Online, Houston Chronicle/Brawl Sports, HDNet/Inside Fighting, MMA Playground, FightMatrix, MMA On Tap, Cage Potato, Sherdog, MMA Weekly, 411 Mania, and MMA/VT [...]

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B.J. Penn ranked #7...WTF? - Page 17 - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums says:

May 25, 2008 at 8:17 pm

[...] weekly rankings suck… these are much better… Fight Matrix Lightweight __________________ No BS info on vitamins, HGH, and crap like that: [...]

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MMAWeekly is on CRACK!!!! - Page 19 - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums says:

May 23, 2008 at 8:55 am

[...] Fight Matrix Lightweight These are better and I think will end up working itself out by the end of the year. 1 Shinya Aoki Last Fight: 4/29/2008 [DREAM] 15-2-0 2 Takanori Gomi Last Fight: 3/5/2008 [WVR] 28-3-0 3 B.J. Penn Last Fight: 1/19/2008 [UFC] 12-4-1 4 Sean Sherk Last Fight: 7/7/2007 [UFC] 32-2-1 5 Gesias Calvancante Last Fight: 4/29/2008 [DREAM] 14-2-1 6 Kenny Florian Last Fight: 4/2/2008 [UFC] 9-3-0 7 Tatsuya Kawajiri Last Fight: 5/11/2008 [DREAM] 22-4-2 8 Caol Uno Last Fight: 5/11/2008 [DREAM] 25-10-4 9 Eddie Alvarez Last Fight: 5/11/2008 [DREAM] 14-1-0 10 Roger Huerta Last Fight: 12/8/2007 [UFC] 20-1-1 11 Mitsuhiro Ishida Last Fight: 5/11/2008 [DREAM] 17-4-1 12 Gilbert Melendez Last Fight: 3/29/2008 [Strike Force] 14-1-0 13 +13 Ryan Schultz Last Fight: 5/16/2008 [IFL] 20-9-1 14 -1 Marcus Aurelio Last Fight: 4/2/2008 [UFC] 16-5-0 15 -1 Tyson Griffin Last Fight: 2/2/2008 [UFC] 11-1-0 Notables—– 16 -1 Vitor Ribeiro Last Fight: 9/17/2007 [K-1] 19-2-0 17 -1 Hermes Franca Last Fight: 7/7/2007 [UFC] 18-6-0 20 -2 Joe Stevenson Last Fight: 1/19/2008 [UFC] 30-8-0 24 -2 Joachim Hansen Last Fight: 5/11/2008 [DREAM] 17-7-1 25 -1 Josh Thomson Last Fight: 9/29/2007 [Strike Force] 14-2-0 29 Yves Edwards Last Fight: 2/16/2008 [EliteXC] 34-13-1 39 +1 KJ Noons Last Fight: 11/10/2007 [EliteXC] 6-2-0 54 Chris Horodecki Last Fight: 4/4/2008 [IFL] 12-1-0 70 -1 Duane Ludwig Last Fight: 3/5/2008 [WVR] 16-8-0 __________________ – "Punch him in the balls, Knee him in the balls, Kick him in the balls, do whatever you like" – Bas "El Guapo" Rutten – WARgiudici <<IFL Supporter>> [...]

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MMAWeekly is on CRACK!!!! - Page 14 - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums says:

May 23, 2008 at 7:15 am

[...] Fight Matrix Lightweight 1 Aoki 2 Gomi 3 Penn 4 Sherk 5 Calvancante 6 Florian 7 Kawajiri 8 Uno 9 Alvarez 10 Huerta You can spin these things many different ways. __________________ http://www.fightmatrix.com – Fight Matrix: The gold standard in software based MMA rankings. – Updated at least once per week and/or after every major event. – Lists up to Top 100 per division! [...]

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Sherk not even top 10? Come on - Page 5 - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums says:

May 7, 2008 at 10:20 am

[...] got Sherk comfortably at #5, almost #4. Fight Matrix Lightweight __________________ http://www.fightmatrix.com – Fight Matrix: The gold standard in software [...]

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Fight Matrix » Blog Archive » Ranks Update says:

December 14, 2007 at 8:36 am

[...] Lightweight (145-155 lbs) [...]

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Fight Matrix » Blog Archive » Introducing FightMatrix.com says:

December 9, 2007 at 8:33 pm

[...] Lightweight (145-155 lbs) [...]

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