Updated Fighter Rankings: (9-1-13)

Jose Aldo (left) and Renan Barao (right)
 are training partners and 2 of the top
10 best fighters on the planet today.

For the second month in a row, a new champion has been crowned.  It is kind of funny that it was Benson Henderson, since I dropped him out of the pound for pound rankings to make room for Chris Weidman, and now he is definitely out.  Or is he??  I am now doing the top 20 instead of top 10 because so many divisions have a bunch of fighters on the cusp of the top 10.  It is almost as if they move in with a win, then fall out when another guy wins.  So top 20 it is! (except for flyweight)

Men's Pound for Pound:

1. Jose Aldo (1)
2. Jon Jones (2)
3. Georges St. Pierre (3)
4. Anderson Silva (4)
5. Chris Weidman (5)
6. Demetrious Johnson (6)
7. Dominick Cruz (7)
8. Cain Velasquez (8)
9. Renan Barao (10)
10. Anthony Pettis (NR)
11. Junior Dos Santos (NR)
12. Urijah Faber (NR)
13. Vitor Belfort (NR)
14. Johny Hendricks (NR)
15. Chad Mendes (NR)
16. Joe Benavidez (NR)
17. Michael McDonald (NR)
18. Benson Henderson (NR)
19. Frankie Edgar (NR)
20. Gilbert Melendez (NR)

Heavyweight:

1. Cain Velasquez (1)
2. Junior Dos Santos (2)
3. Travis Browne (5)
4. Fabricio Werdum (3)
5. Daniel Cormier (4)
6. Mark Hunt (6)
7. Stipe Miocic (7)
8. Josh Barnett (NR)
9.  Roy Nelson (9)
10. Antonio Silva (10)
11. Stefan Struve (NR)
12. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (NR)
13. Frank Mir (8)
14. Alistair Overeem (NR)
15. Gabriel Gonzaga (NR)
16. Ben Rothwell (NR)
17. Shawn Jordan (NR)
18. Alexander Volkov (NR)
19. Cheick Kongo (NR)
20. Soa Palelei (NR)

Light Heavywight:

1. Jon Jones (1)
2. Alexander Gustafsson (3)
3. Glover Teixeira (4)
4. Phil Davis (5)
5. Lyoto Machida (2)
6. Rashad Evans (6)
7. Dan Henderson (7)
8. Gegard Mousasi (9)
9. Ryan Bader (10)
10. Chael Sonnen (NR)
11. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (NR)
12. Shogun Rua (8)
13. Emanuel Newton (NR)
14. Muhammed Lawal (NR)
15. Attila Vegh (NR)
16. Rampage Jackson (NR)
17. Thiago Silva (NR)
18. James Te-Huna (NR)
19. Ryan Jimmo (NR)
20. Rafael Cavalcante (NR)

Middleweight:

1. Chris Weidman (1)
2. Anderson Silva (2)
3. Vitor Belfort (3)
4. Yushin Okami (4)
5. Ronaldo Souza (5)
6. Mark Munoz (6)
7. Michael Bisping (7)
8. Costa Philippou (8)
9. Luke Rockhold (9)
10. Tim Boetsch (10)
11. Tim Kennedy (NR)
12. Cung Le (NR)
13. Alexander Shlemenko (NR)
14. Thales Leites (NR)
15. Alan Belcher (NR)
16. Rich Franklin (NR)
17. Tom Watson (NR)
18. Yoel Romero (NR)
19. Francis Carmont (NR)
20. Lorenz Larkin (NR)

Welterwight:

1. Georges St. Pierre (1)
2. Johny Hendricks (2)
3. Rory Macdonald (3)
4. Carlos Condit (5)
5. Matt Brown (7)
6. Demian Maia (4)
7. Dong Hyun Kim (6)
8. Jake Ellenberger (8)
9. Robbie Lawler (9)
10. Ben Askren (NR)
11. Jake Shields (NR)
12. Josh Burkman (NR)
13. Josh Koscheck (NR)
14. Martin Kampmann (10)
15. Nick Diaz (NR)
16. Tarec Saffiedine (NR)
17. Nate Marquardt (NR)
18. Jon Fitch (NR)
19. Tyrone Woodley (NR)
20. Erick Silva (NR)

Lightweight:

1. Anthony Pettis (4)
2. TJ Grant (2)
3. Gilbert Melendez (3)
4. Michael Chandler (5)
5. Benson Henderson (1)
6. Josh Thomson (6)
7. Pat Healy (7)
8. Gray Maynard (8)
9. Khabib Nurmagomedov (9)
10. Rafael dos Anjos (NR)
11. Eddie Alvarez (NR)
12. Jim Miller (NR)
13. Nate Diaz (NR)
14. Donald Cerrone (10)
15. Shinya Aoki (NR)
16. Melvin Guillard (NR)
17. Edson Barboza (NR)
18. Jorge Masvidal (NR)
19. Joe Lauzon (NR)
20. Tatsuya Kawajiri (NR)

Featherweight:

1. Jose Aldo (1)
2. Chad Mendes (3)
3. Cub Swanson (2)
4. Ricardo Lamas (4)
5. Frankie Edgar (6)
6. Dustin Poirier (9)
7. Pat Curran (7)
8. Conor McGregor (10)
9. Chan Sung Jung (5)
10. Erik Koch (8)
11. Dennis Siver (NR)
12. Nik Lentz
13. Darren Elkins (NR)
14. Clay Guida (NR)
15. Hatsu Hioki (NR)
16. Charles Oliveira (NR)
17. Paticio Freire (NR)
18. Manvel Gamburyan (NR)
19. Steven Siler (NR)
20. Mike Brown (NR)

Bantamweight:

1. Dominick Cruz (1)
2. Renan Barao (2)
3. Urijah Faber (3)
4. Michael McDonald (6)
5. Eddie Wineland (4)
6. Rafael Assuncao (7)
7. Brad Pickett (5)
8. T.J. Dillashaw (8)
9. Scott Jorgensen (9)
10. George Roop (10)
11. Bibiano Fernandes (NR)
12. Yuri Alcantara (NR)
13. Mike Easton (NR)
14. Marlon Moraes (NR)
15. Takeya Mizugaki (NR)
16. Tyson Nam (NR)
17. Eduardo Dantas (NR)
18. Erik Perez (NR)
19. Joe Warren (NR)
20. Bryan Caraway (NR)

Flyweight:

1. Demetrious Johnson (1)
2. Joe Benavidez (2)
3. John Dodson (3)
4. Jussier Formiga (4)
5. John Moraga (5)
6. Darrel Montague (6)
7. John Lineker (9)
8. Ian McCall (7)
9. Tim Elliot (NR)
10. Louis Gaudinot (8)

Women's Pound for Pound:

1. Ronda Rousey (1)
2. Cristiane Santos (2)
3. Sara McMann (3)
4. Cat Zingano (4)
5. Jessica Aguilar (5)
6. Miesha Tate (6)
7. Alexis Davis (7)
8. Sarah Kaufman (8)
9. Liz Carmouche (9)
10. Marloes Coenen(10)
11. Michelle Waterson (NR)
12. Jessica Eye (NR)
13. Jessica Penne (NR)
14. Amanda Nunes (NR)
15. Carla Esparza (NR)
16. Zoila Gurgel (NR)
17. Megumi Fujii (NR)
18. Rosi Sexton (NR)
19. Shayna Baszler (NR)
20. Tara LaRosa (NR)