Updated Fighter Rankings (2/4/14)

Renan Barao is dancing himself into
the pound for pound best discussion.

2013 was a great year for MMA and 2014 should be a solid one to follow.  Here is how I have all the divisions stacking up following UFC 169 on February 1st:

Men's Pound for Pound:

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

Heavyweight:

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

Light Heavywight:

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

Middleweight:

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

Dropping out: Lorenz Larkin (20)
 
Welterwight:

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

Lightweight:

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

Dropping out: Pat Healy (20)

Featherweight:

1. Jose Aldo (1)
2. Chad Mendes (2)
3. Cub Swanson (3)
4. Dustin Poirier (5)
5. Frankie Edgar (6)
6. Ricardo Lamas (4)
7. Conor McGregor (7)
8. Chan Sung Jung (8)
9. Shinya Aoki (9)
10. Erik Koch (10)
11. Dennis Siver (11)
12. Paticio Freire (12)
13. Clay Guida (14)
14. Jeremy Stephens (NR)
15. Dennis Bermudez (15)
16. Daniel Straus (16)
17. Pat Curran (17)
18. Darren Elkins (13)
19. Nik Lentz (18)
20. Tatsuya Kawajiri (NR)

Dropping out: Hatsu Hioki (19), Charles Oliveira (20)

Bantamweight:

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

Dropping out: Bryan Caraway (19)

Flyweight:

1. Demetrious Johnson (1)
2. John Dodson (2)
3. Ali Bagautinov (9)
4. Joe Benavidez (4)
5. Ian McCall (6)
6. Jussier Formiga (7)
7. Darrel Montague (8)
8. John Moraga (5)
9. John Lineker (3)
10. Tim Elliot (10)
11. Zack Makovsky (11)
12. Dustin Ortiz (14)
13. Scott Jorgensen (12)
14. Louis Gaudinot (13)
15. Chris Cariaso (NR)
16. Alptekin Ozkilic (15)
17. Phil Harris (NR)
18. Josh Sampo (NR)
19. Danny Martinez (NR)
20. Kyoji Horiguchi (NR)

Women's Pound for Pound:

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

Dropping out:  Rosi Sexton (20)