Notable Info
- Pardon our frequent updates, but this should be the last until the upcoming weekend. We are simply trying to get the women’s data straightened out.
MMA Rankings Updated: 09/19/2010 (Women Division Rankings Debut)
Notable Info
- Rank set originally posted on Saturday was re-run.
- Women’s rankings are now available via the Women link. These are still in the early stages and subject to changes.
Featured Upcoming Bouts (Outside of UFC)
| Saturday, December 13th 2025: PFL Europe 4: 2025 Finals | |||
 [#1
W145] Cristiane
Justino |
 [#3
W145] Sara Collins |
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Last Fight Date: 10/19/2024
[PFL] Last Opponent: [#2 W145] Larissa Pacheco Last 5: W W W W W |
Last Fight Date: 9/14/2024
[BellatorFC] Last Opponent: [#6 W145] Leah McCourt Last 5: W W W W W |
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| Sunday, December 14th 2025: Deep - Tokyo Impact 2025 6th Round | |||
 [#2 SW]
Haruo Ochi |
[#10
SW] Sora Sugiyama |
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Last Fight Date: 3/30/2025 [Rizin Fighting
Federation] Last Opponent: [#42 SW] Nobuyoshi Nakatsukasa Last 5: W W W W W |
Last Fight Date: 9/15/2025 [DEEP] Last Opponent: [#42 SW] Nobuyoshi Nakatsukasa Last 5: - - - W W |
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| Saturday, December 13th 2025: PFL Europe 4: 2025 Finals | |||
 [#8 HW]
Vadim Nemkov |
[#10
HW] Renan Ferreira |
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Last Fight Date: 1/25/2025 [PFL] Last Opponent: [#29 HW] Tim Johnson Last 5: NC W W W W |
Last Fight Date: 10/19/2024
[PFL] Last Opponent: [#3 HW] Francis Ngannou Last 5: W W W W L |
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Featured Fighters
| [#44 WW] |  Seok Hyeon
Ko |
[#18 HW] |  Ante
Delija |
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| [#1 LW] | Islam
Makhachev |
[#2 LW] |  Ilia
Topuria |
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| [#11 FW] |  Steve
Garcia |
[#1 WW] | Jack Della
Maddalena |
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| [#63 WW] | Philip
Rowe |
[#1 MW] |  Khamzat
Chimaev |
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| [#2 HW] |  Tom
Aspinall |
[NR] | Khabib
Nurmagomedov |
Ranking the TUF 12 Contestants
Here’s a preliminary ranking of The Ultimate Fighter Season 12 contestants.
Grey represents an approximate ranking. * means a fighter was not active in the past 450 days, or ranked too low for approximation.
In the House
Michael Johnson [#95 LW]
Nam Phan[#98 FW]
Jonathan Brookins [#117 LW]
Jeffrey Lentz [#120 FW]
Cody McKenzie [#175 LW]
Marc Stevens [#230 WW]
Alex Caceres [#279 FW]
Dane Sayers [#292 WW]
Spencer Paige [#352 LW]
Sevak Magakian [#362 LW]
Aaron Wilkinson [#400 LW]
Kyle Watson [*]
Sako Chivitchiyan [*]
Andy Main [*]
On the Outside, Looking in
The following fighters lost their elimination bouts on Episode 1. However, at least one will make it into the house via a wild-card spot. Keep in mind that sometimes additional fighters who were eliminated return to the house to substitute for a fighter who is injured or otherwise unable to compete.
Pablo Garza [#116 FW]
T.J O’Brien [#122 LW]
Jason Ambrose [#145 LW]
Joseph Duffy [#166 LW]
Ran Weathers [#176 FW]
Mike Budnik [#240 LW]
Michael Richman [#247 LW]
Daniel Head [#420 LW]
Toby Grear [#504 LW]
Steve Magdalino [#587 LW]
Ariel Sexton [#616 LW]
Jason Brenton [#700 LW]
Amir Khillah [#720 LW]
Paul Barrow [*]
MMA Rankings Updated: 09/18/2010
Notable Info
- We may be releasing a few more sets than usual in the near future as we are attempting to put the pieces together to post the women’s divisional rankings. Please bare with us if there are some technical difficulties.
UFN 22 Review
To kick off Season 12 of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ reality series, Ultimate Fighting Championship returned to Texas with another installment of UFC Fight Night. The four-fight televised card was headlined by middleweight contenders Nate Marquardt and Rousimar Palhares trying to climb the rankings to a title shot, and backed up by a trio of lightweight bouts.
Cole Miller vs. Ross Pearson (155 lbs)
Round 1: The fighters circle and exchange. Big reach advantage for Miller and he is finding Pearson’s face with the jab. They trade leg kicks. Pearson connecting with punches but Miller ducks under for a takedown. Pearson defends, he eventually gets dragged to the ground but pops back up. Miller attempts to jump guard but Pearson holds him up against the cage, refusing to go the the ground. Miller lets go and it’s back to trading; Pearson starting to find his range and out-land Miller on strikes. Round 10-9 Miller
Round 2: Pearson resumes his striking attack, landing solid body shots. Miller shoots; Pearson sprawls and Miller ends up on the bottom. Pearson stands up and motions Cole to do the same. Miller jabs, then hurts Pearson with a right cross. Pearson stumbles backwards and Miller runs at him with a flying knee, then floors his stumbling opponent with a hook. Miller quickly takes Pearson’s back and locks in a rear naked choke, forcing a tapout from Ross.
Aftermath: Former ‘Ultimate Fighter: US vs UK’ winner Ross Pearson is handed his first loss inside the Octagon, while Cole Miller improves his UFC record to 6-2 (with hist last four wins coming by submission). Miller next bout should be against Charles Oliveira, and Ross Pearson’s against Efrain Escudero.
Fight Grade: 4/5
Women’s Divisional Rankings Update
We are in the process of expanding our women’s rankings into division-based rankings. To start, they will likely be top 10 lists encompassing six divisions (or so) plus a division dominance list. We’re still pinning down the fine details, but in the meantime, you may notice some odd rating fluctuations and page changes.
MMA Rankings Updated: 09/10/2010 (Special Ray Mercer Release)
Notable Info
- In (what I’m sure will be) a celebratory release, Ray Mercer has fallen out of the rankings due to inactivity. We decided to make a special early ranking release for this occasion.
Bellator Season III Semifinals : How they stack up
Women’s (115 lbs) Tournament
[#3] Megumi Fujii vs. [#14]Lisa Ward
[#19]Jessica Aguilar vs. [#13] Zoila Frausto
Heavyweight Tournament
[#31] Neil Grove vs. [#36] Alexey Oleinik
[#21] Damian Grabowski vs. [#44] Cole Konrad
Bantamweight Tournament
[#35] Jose Vega vs. [#25] Ed West
[#10] Zach Makovsky vs. [#60] Ulysses Gomez
Five long-time ranked fighters who need to step it up.
The following list consists of non-top 10 male fighters who have been ranked, have won at least 5 fights, and have went undefeated for the past two years, but have not moved their rank position more than 25 positions.
1. Nick Penner (Current Rank: #77 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #72 | [5-0-0 2yr])
Talk about a stasis. In this span, his rating went DOWN. Penner has fought two debuting fighters and a 0-1 fighter. In his last two, he’s taken a small jump in quality, but it’s time to move away from Canada and take an increase in competition.
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2. Delson Heleno (Current Rank: #43 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #60 | [6-0-0 2yr])
Heleno has made a career out of bouncing around the minor circuits on a global scale. His losses are pretty respectable, but he has no very good wins. Maybe he’s simply peaked as a fighter.
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3. Brent Weedman (Current Rank: #39 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #57 | [7-0-0 2yr])
On a positive note, he’s gotten noticed and moved onto Bellator from the southeastern US circuit. Time will tell if he can rise up the rankings.
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4. Hector Lombard (Current Rank: #24 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #45 | [10-0-0 2yr])
The most prolific thrasher of mid-level competition in professional mixed martial arts. Shlemenko will be his highest ranked competition (at the time of the bout) since his loss to Akihiro Gono in June 2006. In fact, Shlemenko is ranked higher than Lombard thanks to the Bellator Middleweight tournament. It should be interesting, because Lombard’s two losses, and draw, were to the only three higher ranked fighters (at the time of the bout) that Lombard has faced outside of his pro debut against a 1-0 fighter.
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5. Joe Doerksen (Current Rank: #25 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #58 | [6-0-0 2yr])
After nearly 60 professional fights, I think we know what we’re getting with Doerksen.
All-Time Rankings Updated: 09/01/2010
If you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, you can do see here: All-Time Career Rankings
UFC 118: How they stack up
UFC Lightweight Championship
[#1] Frankie Edgar vs. [#2] BJ Penn
Heavyweight
[#6 LHW] Randy Couture vs. [DEBUT] James Toney
Middleweight
[#8] Demian Maia vs. [#74] Mario Miranda
Lightweight
[#5] Kenny Florian vs. [#8] Gray Maynard
Welterweight
[#30] Nate Diaz vs. [#35] Marcus Davis
Lightweight
[#71] Joe Lauzon vs. [#114] Gabe Ruediger
Lightweight
[#63] Nik Lentz vs. [#82] Andre Winner
Middleweight
[#37] Dan Miller vs. [#48] John Salter
Welterweight
[#121] Nick Osipczak vs. [#174] Greg Soto
Welterweight
[#15] Mike Pierce vs. [#200] Amilcar Alves