UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Pound for Pound: Oct 9/17

There is constant debate about the “official” UFC fighter rankings, which are based on voting from a panel of journalists. Such is the case with something as subjective as voting – it’s totally based on voter’s opinion, and biases are bound to seep through, whether intentional or no. So to try to put a fresh, objective, data-driven spin on rankings, The MMA Manifesto has come up with a performance based ranking system, solely based on how a fighter has performed in the cage. Next up: Pound for Pound

*stipulations: 1) any fighter currently suspended or 2) inactive for at least 12 months (without an upcoming fight scheduled) are excluded from the rankings

Scoring based on a fighter’s past 10 UFC performances (we use a seven year time limit, so if they have fought less than 10 times in past seven years, only the fights within that time frame are counted)
Points based on a fighter’s opponent’s UFC win/loss record (ie strength of schedule – the more successful a vanquished opponent is, the more points awarded), extra points given for finishes, extra points given for title fight wins.
Points are weighed so most recent fights are worth more (ie most recent fight counts the most, 10th most recent fight the least)
No points awarded for a loss

(first column performance based ranking, second column is last ranking, last column is official UFC ranking from UFC.com)

Stats	Last	UFC		Total
Rank	Rank	Rank
1	2	8	Tyron Woodley	553.5
2	1		Jon Jones	546
3	3	1	Demetrious Johnson	524
4	7	5	Daniel Cormier	488
5	4	4	Stipe Miocic	475
6	5		Robbie Lawler	460
7	7	10	Jose Aldo	421
8	9		Chris Weidman	411
9	10	2	Conor McGregor	406
10	6		Cain Velasquez	390.5
11	22	13	Tony Ferguson	384
12	11	15	Robert Whittaker	373.5
13	NR		Georges St-Pierre	371
14	12	3	Max Holloway	370
15	14		T.J. Dillashaw	361
16	15	12	Michael Bisping	358
17	13		Luke Rockhold	346
18	16	7	Joanna Jedrzejczyk	319.5
18	23		Rafael dos Anjos	319.5
20	17	9	Dominick Cruz	299
21	18		Yoel Romero	295
22	20		Alistair Overeem	293
22	25	14	Amanda Nunes	293
24	21		Ronda Rousey	289.5
25	19		Fabricio Werdum	268
26	24		Al Iaquinta	258
27	28	6	Cody Garbrandt	235.5
28	29		Jorge Masvidal	235
29	30		Anthony Pettis	229
30	31		Frankie Edgar	224
31	32		Demian Maia	223.5
32	33		Stephen Thompson	219.5
33	26		Kevin Lee	212.5
34	34		Dustin Poirier	207
35	35		Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza	204
36	36		Ricardo Lamas	203
37	37		Mark Hunt	201
38	39		Kelvin Gastelum	193
39	40		Tim Boetsch	190
40	41		Anderson Silva	185
41	42		Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone	183
42	43		Colby Covington	181
43	44		Beneil Dariush	180
44	46		Santiago Ponzinibbio	177.5
45	47		Michael Chiesa	177
46	48		Glover Teixeira	172
47	49		Eddie Alvarez	171.5
48	50		Michael Johnson	171
49	51		Khabib Nurmagomedov	170
50	52		Brian Ortega	168
51	53		Alex Oliveira	167.5
52	54		Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua	166
53	55		Francis Ngannou	165
54	56		Chan Sung Jung	160
55	57		Junior dos Santos	159
56	58		John Lineker	154
57	156		Ovince Saint Preux	152.5
58	59		James Vick	151
59	111		Kamaru Usman	149.5
60	NR		Carlos Condit	148
60	60		Darren Elkins	148
60	45		Neil Magny	148
63	67		Alexander Gustafsson	147.5
64	63		Derek Brunson	147
64	63		Gunnar Nelson	147
64	114		Sam Alvey	147
67	82		Brad Tavares	146
68	66		Edson Barboza	144.5
69	62		Jimi Manuwa	138
69	90		Volkan Oezdemir	138
71	63		Thiago Santos	133.5
72	70		Holly Holm	132
73	71		Dan Kelly	131
74	73		Jimmie Rivera	129.5
75	74		Renan Barao	127.5
76	67		Antonio Rogerio Nogueira	127
76	75		Derrick Lewis	127
78	77		Aljamain Sterling	126
79	78		Joe Soto	121
80	79		Charles Oliveira	120
81	100		Mairbek Taisumov	119
82	80		Francisco Trinaldo	117
83	NR		Lyoto Machida	115
83	72		Vitor Belfort	115
85	83		Islam Makhachev	114.5
86	84	11	Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino	113.5
87	85		Joseph Benavidez	112.5
88	86		Rose Namajunas	111
89	87		Myles Jury	110.5
90	180		Uriah Hall	110
91	88		Jake Ellenberger	109
92	69		Thales Leites	108
93	89		Paul Felder	107.5
94	90		Evan Dunham	106.5
94	75		Misha Cirkunov	106.5
96	92		Charles Oliveira	106
96	92		Eddie Wineland	106
98	95		Marcin Tybura	105
99	97		Alex Garcia	102
100	98		Aleksei Oleinik	101.5
100	98		Leonardo Santos	101.5
102	107		Leon Edwards	101
103	81		Jeremy Stephens	97
104	103		Chas Skelly	96
105	133		Mike Perry	95
106	104		Dong Hyun Kim	94.5
106	104		Raphael Assuncao	94.5
108	189		Niko Price	94
109	107		Germaine de Randamie	93.5
109	106		Warlley Alves	93.5
111	371		Alexander Volkov	92.5
112	109		Jim Miller	92
113	102		Rustam Khabilov	91.5
113	109		Tim Means	91.5
115	95		Bryan Barberena	91
116	112		Sean Strickland	89
117	114		Joe Lauzon	88.5
118	116		Cub Swanson	88
119	117		Abel Trujillo	87.5
120	118		Rob Font	86
121	119		Doo Ho Choi	85
121	92		Stefan Struve	85
123	113		Alberto Mina	84.5
124	120		Matt Brown	83
125	122		Mickey Gall	82.5
125	123		Raquel Pennington	82.5
125	123		Ryan LaFlare	82.5
125	123		Yair Rodriguez	82.5
129	253		Henry Cejudo	82
130	127		Diego Sanchez	81.5
130	123		Peter Sobotta	81.5
130	131		Andrei Arlovski	80.5
133	133		Jason Knight	80
134	137		C.B. Dollaway	77.5
134	101		Krzysztof Jotko	77.5
136	156		Keita Nakamura	77
136	138		Pedro Munhoz	77
138	139		B.J. Penn	75
139	140		Dennis Bermudez	74
139	155		Jessica Andrade	74
139	140		Vitor Miranda	74
142	142		Brandon Moreno	73
142	142		Carla Esparza	73
142	164		Ilir Latifi	73
142	121		Sara McMann	73
142	142		Stevie Ray	73
142	127		Valentina Shevchenko	73
148	191		Anthony Smith	72
149	146		Alan Patrick	70.5
150	147		Jake Matthews	70
150	130		Ray Borg	70
150	147		Travis Browne	70
150	136		Yancy Medeiros	70
154	196		Marion Reneau	69.5
154	150		Rani Yahya	69.5
156	131		Adriano Martins	69
157	159		Elias Theodorou	68.5
157	127		Sergio Moraes	68.5
159	225		Gilbert Burns	67.5
160	152		Louis Smolka	67
161	153		Sergio Pettis	66.5
162	147		Zak Cummings	66
163	213		Michel Prazeres	65.5
164	142		David Branch	65
164	154		Erick Silva	65
164	133		Hector Lombard	65
167	159		Johny Hendricks	64.5
167	159		Ryan Hall	64.5
167	159		Thomas Almeida	64.5
170	156		Jordan Mein	64
171	164		John Dodson	63.5
171	164		Rony Jason	63.5
173	167		Brian Kelleher	63
173	167		Marcos Rogerio de Lima	63
175	163		Omari Akhmedov	61.5
176	170		Ed Herman	61
176	170		Gadzhimurad Antigulov	61
176	228		John Moraga	61
176	226		Jussier Formiga	61
176	334		Siyar Bahadurzada	61
176	169		Thiago Alves	61
182	173		Paige VanZant	59.5
183	170		Ben Saunders	58.5
183	174		Godofredo Pepey	58.5
185	176		Alex Caceres	58
186	178		Iuri Alcantara	57
186	NR		Yushin Okami	57
188	266		Gregor Gillespie	56
188	184		Olivier Aubin-Mercier	56
190	189		Antonio Carlos Junior	55
191	181		Drew Dober	54.5
191	181		Felipe Arantes	54.5
193	183		Dan Hooker	54
194	184		Jon Tuck	53
194	370		Ketlen Vieira	53
194	184		Michelle Waterson	53
194	174		Vicente Luque	53
198	184		James Krause	52.5
198	371		Kajan Johnson	52.5
200	191		Felice Herrig	52
200	191		Magomed Mustafaev	52
200	191		Nate Marquardt	52
200	151		Rashad Evans	52
204	196		Dustin Ortiz	51
204	196		Hacran Dias	51
204	264		Jack Hermansson	51
204	177		Tony Martin	51
208	196		Eric Spicely	50
208	201		Eryk Anders	50
210	203		Ben Nguyen	49.5
211	206		Julianna Pena	49
212	208		Cynthia Calvillo	48.5
212	208		Marlon Vera	48.5
214	179		Gilbert Melendez	48
214	210		Matthew Lopez	48
216	211		David Teymur	47.5
217	213		Mike Pyle	47
218	220		Danny Roberts	46.5
218	213		Mitch Gagnon	46.5
220	201		Magnus Cedenblad	46
220	216		Ryan Benoit	46
220	216		Tecia Torres	46
220	184		Ulka Sasaki	46
224	219		Chris Wade	45.5
224	195		Walt Harris	45.5
226	220		Bobby Green	45
226	200		Claudia Gadelha	45
226	220		Dennis Siver	45
226	216		Jack Marshman	45
226	226		Randy Brown	45
226	220		Russell Doane	45
232	228		Li Jingliang	43.5
233	228		Alexander Yakovlev	43
233	235		Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	43
233	228		Joseph Duffy	43
233	228		Leslie Smith	43
237	233		Arnold Allen	42.5
237	206		Jason Saggo	42.5
239	220		Cezar Ferreira	42
239	239		Nordine Taleb	42
241	238		Gian Villante	41.5
242	203		Wilson Reis	41
243	241		Shane Burgos	40.5
244	254		Chad Laprise	40
244	242		Deiveson Figueiredo	40
244	242		Justin Gaethje	40
247	212		Alan Jouban	39.5
247	245		Mirsad Bektic	39.5
249	247		Andre Fili	39
250	249		Vinc Pichel	38.5
251	250		Damian Stasiak	38
251	250		Joanne Calderwood	38
251	250		Nik Lentz	38
254	233		Luis Henrique	37.5
255	275		Belal Muhammad	37
256	255		Alexis Davis	36.5
256	255		Gabriel Benitez	36.5
256	255		Makwan Amirkhani	36.5
259	258		Joaquim Silva	36
259	258		Lando Vannata	36
261	260		John Makdessi	35.5
261	260		Renato Moicano	35.5
263	235		Gerald Meerschaert	35
263	264		Johnny Case	35
263	247		Tyson Pedro	35
266	266		Drakkar Klose	34.5
266	266		Marc Diakiese	34.5
268	242		Hyun Gyu Lim	34
269	270		Frankie Saenz	33.5
270	271		Chris Holdsworth	32.5
270	271		Jared Cannonier	32.5
270	271		Jose Alberto Quinonez	32.5
270	271		Kyung Ho Kang	32.5
270	330		Shinsho Anzai	32.5
275	275		Clay Guida	32
275	280		Joe Proctor	32
275	275		Paul Craig	32
275	275		Steve Bosse	32
275	275		Will Brooks	32
280	408		Alex White	31.5
280	292		Justin Ledet	31.5
282	280		Diego Rivas	31
282	297		Tarec Saffiedine	31
284	283		Corey Anderson	30.5
284	283		Hector Sandoval	30.5
284	283		Sage Northcutt	30.5
287	288		Alejandro Perez	30
287	260		Henrique da Silva	30
287	288		Humberto Bandenay	30
287	288		Junior Albini	30
287	288		Marco Polo Reyes	30
287	297		Teruto Ishihara	30
293	292		Alexandre Pantoja	29.5
293	411		Dong Hyun Kim	29.5
293	292		Khalil Rountree	29.5
293	292		Liz Carmouche	29.5
293	239		Paulo Borrachinha	29.5
298	297		Ion Cutelaba	29
298	297		Justin Scoggins	29
298	431		Sarah Moras	29
298	301		Cortney Casey	28
298	301		Enrique Barzola	28
298	301		Jimy Hettes	28
304	304		Aleksandra Albu	27.5
304	304		Chase Sherman	27.5
304	304		Patrick Cummins	27.5
307	283		Ashlee Evans-Smith	27
307	356		Darren Till	27
307	307		Luke Sanders	27
307	307		Patrick Williams	27
311	309		Bethe Correia	26.5
311	309		Maryna Moroz	26.5
313	314		Bojan Velickovic	26
313	311		Johnny Eduardo	26
313	311		Karolina Kowalkiewicz	26
316	314		Damir Hadzovic	25
316	448		Daniel Spitz	25
316	314		Dominick Reyes	25
316	314		Galore Bofando	25
316	NR		Gokhan Saki	25
316	314		Jake Collier	25
316	314		Jared Gordon	25
316	314		Jeremy Kimball	25
316	314		Jesse Taylor	25
316	314		Jordan Rinaldi	25
316	314		Joseph Morales	25
316	314		Luan Chagas	25
316	NR		Mara Romero Borella	25
316	314		Tatiana Suarez	25
316	314		Trevin Giles	25
316	NR		Zabit Magomedsharipov	25
332	331		Zak Ottow	24.5
333	331		Erik Koch	24
333	331		Scott Holtzman	24
333	335		Tom Breese	24
336	292		Brad Scott	23.5
337	280		Gray Maynard	23
338	336		Abdul Razak Alhassan	22.5
338	347		Antonio Braga Neto	22.5
338	336		Ian Entwistle	22.5
338	336		Lauren Murphy	22.5
338	336		Martin Bravo	22.5
338	336		Teemu Packalen	22.5
338	336		Timothy Johnson	22.5
338	314		Tom Duquesnoy	22.5
346	314		Andrew Holbrook	22
346	343		Artem Lobov	22
346	343		Douglas Silva de Andrade	22
346	343		Tae Hyun Bang	22
350	346		Tim Elliott	21.5
351	336		Alex Morono	20.5
351	348		Court McGee	20.5
353	NR		Aleksandar Rakic	20
353	348		Alvaro Herrera	20
353	352		Max Griffin	20
353	348		Ross Pearson	20
357	352		Jan Blachowicz	19
357	352		Jordan Johnson	19
357	352		Viviane Pereira	19
360	348		Desmond Green	18
360	356		Jeremy Kennedy	18
360	356		Kiichi Kunimoto	18
360	361		Lyman Good	18
360	314		Marco Beltran	18
360	356		Marvin Vettori	18
360	356		Mizuto Hirota	18
367	384		Dominique Steele	17.5
367	361		Henry Briones	17.5
367	361		Randa Markos	17.5
370	364		Josh Emmett	17
371	365		Nick Hein	16.5
371	365		Trevor Smith	16.5
373	367		Jonathan Wilson	16
374	411		Cody Stamman	14.5
374	411		Rick Glenn	14.5
376	371		Alexander Volkanovski	14
376	371		Devin Clark	14
376	371		Scott Askham	14
379	376		Andrew Sanchez	13
379	376		Curtis Blaydes	13
379	368		Francimar Barroso	13
382	379		Damien Brown	12.5
383	381		Jessica Eye	12
384	382		Bec Rawlings	11
384	382		Juliana Lima	11
386	384		Adam Milstead	10
386	384		Calvin Kattar	10
386	384		Devin Clark	10
386	384		Emil Meek	10
386	384		Guido Cannetti	10
386	448		Matt Schnell	10
386	409		Sultan Aliev	10
393	392		Brett Johns	9.5
393	392		Danielle Taylor	9.5
395	394		Alex Chambers	9
395	394		Augusto Mendes	9
395	394		Cyril Asker	9
395	384		Jason Gonzalez	9
395	394		Katlyn Chookagian	9
395	394		Kyle Bochniak	9
395	384		Magomed Bibulatov	9
395	394		Marcel Fortuna	9
395	379		Takanori Gomi	9
404	400		Justine Kish	8.5
404	400		Shamil Abdurakhimov	8.5
406	402		Angela Hill	8
406	402		Charles Rosa	8
406	402		Frankie Perez	8
406	402		Joachim Christensen	8
406	402		Marcelo Guimaraes	8
406	402		Oluwale Bamgbose	8
412	409		Kailin Curran	7
412	411		Nico Musoke	7
414	NR		Abdul-Kerim Edilov	5
414	411		Aiemann Zahabi	5
414	NR		Arjun Bhullar	5
414	245		Daichi Abe	5
414	411		Danny Henry	5
414	411		Darrell Horcher	5
414	411		Jarred Brooks	5
414	411		JJ Aldich	5
414	411		Jonathan Meunier	5
414	411		Justin Willis	5
414	411		Lina Lansberg	5
414	411		Lucie Pudilova	5
414	411		Mark Godbeer	5
414	411		Naoki Inoue	5
414	411		Nina Ansaroff	5
414	NR		Poliana Botelho	5
414	411		Ricardo Ramas	5
414	431		Sheldon Westcott	5
414	NR		Syuri Kondo	5
414	448		Thibault Gouti	5
434	431		Albert Morales	4.5
434	431		Alessio Di Chirico	4.5
434	431		Alexa Grasso	4.5
434	431		Amanda Cooper	4.5
434	431		Chris Gruetzemacher	4.5
434	431		Davey Grant	4.5
434	411		Felipe Silva	4.5
434	411		Gavin Tucker	4.5
434	431		Jamie Moyle	4.5
434	431		Jenel Lausa	4.5
434	431		Jessin Ayari	4.5
434	411		Luke Jumeau	4.5
434	445		Nathan Coy	4.5
447	442		Heather Jo Clark	4
447	442		Josh Stansbury	4
447	442		Ryan Janes	4
450	448		Dhiego Lima	3.5
450	445		Jessica Penne	3.5
452	447		Josh Burkman	3
453	NR		Alex Reyes	0
453	448		Amanda Lemos	0
453	448		Andre Soukhamthath	0
453	448		Angela Magana	0
453	448		Ashkan Mokhtarian	0
453	448		Ashley Yoder	0
453	448		Bobby Nash	0
453	448		Bojan Mihajlovic	0
453	448		Brian Camozzi	0
453	448		Carls John de Tomas	0
453	448		Chan-Mi Jeon	0
453	448		Charlie Ward	0
453	448		Chris De La Rocha	0
453	448		Christian Colombo	0
453	448		Claudio Puelles	0
453	448		Cody Bochnovic	0
453	448		Damian Grabowski	0
453	448		Daniel Teymur	0
453	448		Darren Stewart	0
453	448		Davi Ramos	0
453	448		Devin Powell	0
453	448		Dmitrii Smolyakov	0
453	448		Eric Shelton	0
453	448		Frank Camacho	0
453	448		Gina Mazany	0
453	448		Irene Aldana	0
453	448		James Mulheron	0
453	448		Jarjis Danho	0
453	448		Jessica Aguilar	0
453	448		Ji Yeon Kim	0
453	448		Jim Wallhead	0
453	NR		Kalindra Faria	0
453	448		Keith Berish	0
453	448		Kwan Ho Kwak	0
453	NR		Mads Burnell	0
453	448		Marcin Held	0
453	448		Marlon Moraes	0
453	448		Michael McBride	0
453	448		Michel Quinones	0
453	NR		Mike Santiago	0
453	448		Norifumi ‘Kid’ Yamamoto	0
453	448		Oliver Enkamp	0
453	448		Pearl Gonzalez	0
453	448		Rashad Coulter	0
453	NR		Rob Wilkinson	0
453	448		Roberto Sanchez	0
453	448		Rolando Dy	0
453	448		Sabah Homasi	0
453	448		Saparbek Safarov	0
453	NR		Talita Bernardo	0
453	448		Terrion Ware	0
453	448		Tina Hanninen-Lahdemaki	0
453	NR		Tom Gallicchio	0
453	448		Tonya Evinger	0
453	448		Veronica Macedo	0
453	NR		Zu Anyanwu	0

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Heavyweights
Light Heavyweights
Middleweights
Welterweights
Lightweights
Featherweights
Bantamweights
Flyweights
Women’s Featherweights/Bantamweights
Women’s Flyweights/Strawweights

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UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Pound for Pound: Oct 9/17

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