Updated Fighter Rankings (11/1/13)

John Dodson (pictured) didn't move in
the rankings, but he likely will get a title
shot with his big win over Montague.

October saw a lot of mixed martial arts action.  Most notably, Cain Velasquez won the trilogy against JDS and Lyoto Machida saw his middleweight debut at 185 go perfectly.  But also WSOF crowned its first champion, Bibiano Fernandes unified the ONE FC Bantamweight title, Shinya Aoki made a successful debut at featherweight, and a legend in women's MMA, Megumi Fujii, retired.  Bellator also held a few events, but it is the November 2nd card that I am really concerned about as far as my rankings go.  Here is how I see things after a very busy October, heading into an equally busy November:

Men's Pound for Pound:

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

Heavyweight:

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

Light Heavywight:

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

Changing weight: Lyoto Machida

Middleweight:

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

Dropping out: Lorenz Larkin (20)

Welterwight:

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

Dropping out: Nate Marquardt (17), Erick Silva (20)

Lightweight:

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

Changing weight: Shinya Aoki

Featherweight:

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

Dropping out: Steven Siler (19), Mike Brown (20)

Bantamweight:

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

Flyweight:

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

Women's Pound for Pound:

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

Dropping out: Tara LaRosa (20)

Retired: Megumi Fujii (17)