Lyoto, Shogun and Jacaré move up in UFC ranking update

Machida (photo) takes first place in the light heavyweight rankings. Photo: Josh Hedges

After UFC 157, held last Saturday (23), the Ultimate organization updated the fighter rankings. A curious fact is that, even with the first fight between women in history, there is still no ranking of the women's bantamweight category. Furthermore, some positions were reorganized, through voting by a board of designated journalists, and three Brazilians stood out, two of them without even fighting.

When winning Dan Henderson, Lyoto Machida He assumed the number 1 position in the light heavyweight category and will be the next challenger for the division belt. Even though he last appeared in the octagon in December, Mauritius Shogun, counting on the defeat of Rashad evans for Rogério Minotouro, moved up to sixth place in the light heavyweight division – tied with Evans himself. Finally, Ronaldo Jacare, recently arrived from Strikeforce, appeared for the first time in the middleweight category rankings, occupying tenth place.

Check below how the ranking of UFC fighters was after the latest Ultimate results. In front of the names there is a variation in positions in relation to the last update, if that was the case, and the acronym “N.R” indicates that the athlete did not appear (Not ranked) previously:

Weight for weight

1 Anderson Silva

2 Jon Jones

3 Georges St Pierre

4 José Aldo

5 Benson-Henderson

6 Cain Velazquez

7 Dominick Cruz

8 Demetrious Johnson

9 Renan Barao

10 Frankie Edgar NR

Fly Weight

Champion: Demetrious Johnson

1 Joseph Benavidez

2 John Dodson

3 Ian McCall

4 John Moraga

5 Jussier “Ant”

6 Louis Gaudinot

7 Chris Cariaso

8 Darren Uyenoyama

9 John Lineker

10 Timothy Elliott

rooster weight

Champion: Dominick Cruz

1 Renan Barao (Interim Champion)

2 Urijah faber

3 Michael McDonald

4 Eddie Wineland

5 Brad pickett

6 Rafael Assunção 

7 Scott Jorgensen +1

8. Brian Bowles -1

9 Mike Easton

10 Ivan Menjivar

Feather weight

Champion: José Aldo

1 Chad Mendes

2 Ricardo Lamas

3 Frankie Edgar +1

4. Chan sung jung -1

5 Cub swanson

6 Dennis Siver

7 Dustin poirier

8 Nik lentz +1

9 Clay guida +1

10: Erik Koch -2

light weight

Champion: Benson Henderson

1 Gilbert Melendez

2 Anthony Pettis

3 Gray Maynard

4 Nate diaz

5 Jim Miller

6 Donald Cerrone

7 TJ Grant

8 Rafael dos Anjos

9 Joe lauzon

10 Khabib Nurmagomedov

Welterweight

Champion: Georges St-Pierre

1 John hendricks

2 Carlos Condit

3 Nick Diaz

4 Rory McDonald

5 Demian Maia

6 Jake ellenberger

7 Martin Kampmann

8 Tarec saffiedine +2

9 Josh koscheck -1

10. Robbie Lawler NR

Average weight

Champion: Anderson Silva

1 Chris Weidman

2 Vitor belfort

3 Michael Bisping

4 Yushin Okami

5 Constantine Philippou

6 Luke Rockhold +1

7 Mark Munoz -1

8 Hector Lombard

9 Chael Sonnen +1

10 Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza NR

Light heavyweight

Champion: Jon Jones

1 Lyoto Machida +1

2 Alexander Gustafson +1

3 Dan Henderson -2

4 Glover Teixeira

5 Antônio Rogério “Minotouro” Nogueira

6 Rashad evans

6 Mauricio “Shogun” Rua +1

8 Phil Davis

9 Ryan bader

10 Gegard Mousasi

Heavy weight

Champion: Cain Velazquez

1 Junior “Cigano” dos Santos

2 Fabricio Werdum

3 Daniel Cormier

4 Antônio “Pezão” Silva

5 Frank mir

6 alistair overeem

7 Roy Nelson +1

8 Antônio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira -1

9 Stefan struve

10 Shane carwin

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