Updated Fighter Rankings (3/4/14)

Lyoto Machida has climbed his way into the
 P4P mix as well as a middleweight title shot
after dissecting Gegard Mousasi.

Many of February's fights involved a change in weight class which makes rankings a little difficult but here is how I see things:

Men's Pound for Pound:

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

Retirement?  Georges St. Pierre (5)

Heavyweight:

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

Changing weight class: Daniel Cormier (3)

Light Heavywight:

1. Jon Jones (1)
2. Daniel Cormier (3-heavyweight)
3. Glover Teixeira (2)
4. Alexander Gustafsson (3)
5. Rashad Evans (4)
6. Phil Davis (5)
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)

Changing weight class: Gegard Mousasi (6)

Middleweight:

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

Dropping out: Francis Carmont (17)

Welterwight:

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

Retirement? Georges St. Pierre (1)

Lightweight:

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

Dropping out: Abel Trujillo (20)

Featherweight:

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

Changing weight class: Erik Koch (10)

Bantamweight:

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

Flyweight:

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

Women's Pound for Pound:

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