UFC rankings updated after UFC on FOX 15: Rockhold, VanZant soar, Holloway shafted

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The official Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) rankings have been updated following the UFC on FOX 15 event, which went down this past weekend (Sat., April 18, 2015) from inside the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

For complete "Machida vs. Rockhold" results and play-by-play click here.

As expected, Luke Rockhold shot up the 185-pound charts -- passing right by the tumbling Lyoto Machida -- thanks to his submission win over "The Dragon" last weekend in "Dirty Jersey" (replay). Likewise for Paige VanZant, who beat the brakes off longtime veteran Felice Herrig (watch it).

Unfortunately, the same can't be said in the featherweight division, as Max Holloway is still ranked behind Cub Swanson. Yes, the same Cub Swanson "Blessed" choked out in the third round to win his sixth straight (video highlights here).

Don't be surprised to see a similar outcome at bantamweight.

Here's what the entire ranking field looks like courtesy of UFC.com. Note: (+/- = movement in rankings, *NR = Not previously ranked).

POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Jon Jones
2 Jose Aldo
3 Demetrious Johnson
4 Chris Weidman
5 Cain Velasquez
6 Ronda Rousey
7 TJ Dillashaw
8 Rafael dos Anjos
9 Robbie Lawler
10 Anderson Silva
11 Anthony Pettis
12 Renan Barao
13 Johny Hendricks
14 Fabricio Werdum
15 Vitor Belfort

FLYWEIGHT
Champion : Demetrious Johnson
1 John Dodson
2 Joseph Benavidez
3 Ian McCall
4 John Moraga
4 Jussier Formiga +1
6 John Lineker
7 Kyoji Horiguchi +1
8 Zach Makovsky -1
9 Henry Cejudo
10 Chris Cariaso
11 Dustin Ortiz
12 Timothy Elliott
13 Wilson Reis
14 Chico Camus
15 Brad Pickett

BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion : TJ Dillashaw
1 Renan Barao
2 Dominick Cruz
3 Urijah Faber
4 Raphael Assuncao
5 Michael McDonald
6 Eddie Wineland +1
7 Takeya Mizugaki -1
8 Johnny Eduardo
9 Bryan Caraway
10 Aljamain Sterling *NR
11 Francisco Rivera
12 Iuri Alcantara -2
13 Frankie Saenz -1
14 Erik Perez
15 Mitch Gagnon -2

FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion : Jose Aldo
1 Chad Mendes
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Conor McGregor
4 Ricardo Lamas
5 Cub Swanson
6 Max Holloway +3
7 Dennis Bermudez -1
8 Nik Lentz -1
9 Charles Oliveira -1
10 Clay Guida
11 Jeremy Stephens
12 Dennis Siver
13 Dustin Poirier
14 Darren Elkins
15 Hacran Dias

LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion : Rafael dos Anjos
1 Anthony Pettis
2 Khabib Nurmagomedov
3 Donald Cerrone
4 Gilbert Melendez
5 Michael Johnson +1
6 Benson Henderson -1
7 Edson Barboza
8 Myles Jury
9 Eddie Alvarez
10 Josh Thomson
11 Bobby Green
12 Tony Ferguson +1
13 Al Iaquinta +1
14 Beneil Dariush *NR
15 Jorge Masvidal

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion : Robbie Lawler
1 Johny Hendricks
2 Rory MacDonald
3 Tyron Woodley
4 Carlos Condit
5 Matt Brown
6 Demian Maia
7 Tarec Saffiedine
8 Dong Hyun Kim
9 Kelvin Gastelum
10 Jake Ellenberger
11 Rick Story
12 Thiago Alves
13 Ryan LaFlare +1
14 Gunnar Nelson -1
15 Neil Magny

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion : Chris Weidman
1 Luke Rockhold +3
2 Jacare Souza +1
3 Vitor Belfort
4 Lyoto Machida -2
5 Anderson Silva
6 Yoel Romero
7 Gegard Mousasi
8 Tim Kennedy
9 Thales Leites
10 Michael Bisping
11 CB Dollaway
12 Costas Philippou
13 Tim Boetsch
14 Brad Tavares
15 Roan Carneiro

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion : Jon Jones
1 Anthony Johnson
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Daniel Cormier
4 Rashad Evans
5 Ryan Bader
6 Glover Teixeira
7 Ovince Saint Preux
8 Jimi Manuwa
9 Mauricio Rua
10 Rafael Cavalcante
11 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
12 Fabio Maldonado +1
13 Patrick Cummins -1
14 Dan Henderson
15 Jan Blachowicz

HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion : Cain Velasquez
1 Fabricio Werdum (Interim Champion)
2 Junior Dos Santos
3 Travis Browne
4 Stipe Miocic
5 Mark Hunt
6 Josh Barnett
7 Andrei Arlovski
8 Alistair Overeem
9 Ben Rothwell
10 Frank Mir
11 Roy Nelson
12 Matt Mitrione +1
12 Antonio Silva
14 Stefan Struve
15 Mirko Cro Cop

WOMEN'S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion : Joanna Jedrzejczyk
1 Carla Esparza
2 Claudia Gadelha
3 Jessica Penne
4 Rose Namajunas
5 Tecia Torres
6 Randa Markos
7 Paige VanZant +5
8 Joanne Calderwood -1
9 Maryna Moroz
10 Aisling Daly
11 Felice Herrig -3
12 Heather Clark -1
13 Juliana Lima
14 Angela Hill
15 Bec Rawlings *NR

WOMEN'S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion : Ronda Rousey
1 Cat Zingano
2 Miesha Tate
3 Alexis Davis
4 Sara McMann
5 Sarah Kaufman
6 Jessica Eye
7 Bethe Correia
8 Amanda Nunes +1
9 Liz Carmouche -1
10 Holly Holm
11 Julianna Pena
12 Marion Reneau
13 Jessica Andrade
14 Germaine de Randamie
15 Raquel Pennington


UFC rankings updated after UFC on FOX 15: Rockhold, VanZant soar; Holloway shafted - MMAmania.com

 

[D241]

What's crazier than Cub being ranked higher than Max still, is Cub's ranking literally didn't drop at all. He was #5, and he's still #5. THAT, is crazy.

I know this b/c on my thread about hypothetical match ups, IWEI was the only one to pick Oliveira over Max and when he did I looked at the rankings(before the weekends fights) and the rankings were Cub 5, Lentz 7, Oliveira 8, and Max 9.

 

[superCalo]

Holloway gets shafted but VanZant dosen't ?

and people ask me why mMa is such a homoerotic sport

 

[Greek777]

That's ridiculous. In no world should Cub be ranked over Max. How the fuck does that make any sense at all? Don't tell me about quality of wins etc. He beat the shit out of the guy. He should not be lower ranked. This ranking system has driven me nuts since they debuted it lol

 

[Wild]

How is Cub still ranked ahead of Max?

And how did PVZ jump 5 spots?

Thank God the UFC is going away from this abortion of a ranking system, to determine sponsorship money.

 

[teamquestnorth]

Lol@ ranking Rockhold over Belfort.

 

[Wild]

Lol@ ranking Rockhold over Belfort.

LOL I didn't even notice that. Think the UFC doesn't have an invisible hand in the "rankings"?

 

[Zeph]

Cub ranked higher than Holloway does not compute.

 

[fsshariq]

LOL @ these rankings period. They almost never make sense.

On another note, i think this is indicative that rockhold gets the next shot as he's #1 now. Then again, the UFC does as it pleases.

 

[Zeph]

8 Joanne Calderwood -1
9 Maryna Moroz

Another crazy one.

 

[Zeph]

OSP should have got some movement for that win over Cummins too.

 

[D241]

rankings used to only be discussed in mma message board forums with no real impact on the sport other than the super fights talked about most.

True story.

 

[teamquestnorth]

The best was when Siver miraculously jumped into the top 10 right before the McGregor fight was announced.

 

[Ministry of Silly Walks]

belfort's fought only henderson since their fight, and rockhold has four wins since then (wrecking ex #2 machida this past weekend). this is why he's ahead of belfort now.

 

[Zeph]

7 Takeya Mizugaki -1

10 Aljamain Sterling *NR

ok...

 

[SongExotic2]

Rashad is ranked 4


Has Rashad had a fight since these rankings were introduced? His highlight reel is in black and white ffs

 

[Wild]

LOL @ these rankings period. They almost never make sense.

On another note, i think this is indicative that rockhold gets the next shot as he's #1 now. Then again, the UFC does as it pleases.

Of course. You know Zuffa sent out a blast email "encouraging" media members to vote him up to #1

 

[teamquestnorth]

belfort's fought only henderson since their fight, and rockhold has four wins since then (wrecking ex #2 machida this past weekend). this is why he's ahead of belfort now.

It's as if Belfort is being punished for "inactivity" when it's his opponent who keeps pulling out.

 

[Ministry of Silly Walks]

It's as if Belfort is being punished for "inactivity" when it's his opponent who keeps pulling out.

true, but you can't fault rockhold for turning into a wrecking machine either. the guy has looked otherworldly in his past four fights.

 

[SongExotic2]

true, but you can't fault rockhold for turning into a wrecking machine either. the guy has looked otherworldly in his past four fights.

His past 5th fight being getting his wig knocked off by the jesus!

 

[La Paix]

View: https://twitter.com/keladian/status/590474391357534208

 

[YammaYoMama]

Well, at least they realized tying the rankings to Reebok $ was a terrible idea.
Holloway would have got screwed royally with the No. 6 ranking for his next fight
if it would have held up.

By the way, whose terrible, poorly thought out idea was that in the first place? Certainly Dana, the fight genius who single handedly forged the UFCs popularity with his greatness as a promoter, never signed off on that!

 

[BJTT-Rizzo]

I didn't want to look as soon as I seen Ronda is still on the men's pound for pound list. That's the craziest thing on all them lists.

 

[MMAHAWK]

Lol@ ranking Rockhold over Belfort.

seriously and Jacare drops with a first round sub.

 

[Jonny Quest]

These fucking lists are no better than they were years ago, and now sponsorship money is on the line. Unfucking real.