MMATorch Rankings – January 2018

The following are the MMATorch Rankings as of Jan. 8, 2018 taking into account all events through UFC 219. These rankings are a composite of MMATorch contributors’ rankings in each division. Thanks to MMATorch contributor Michael Hiscoe for compiling the ratings votes from each contributor for this feature.

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Note: Rankings foe women’s featherweight are not included. 

Pound for Pound

1. Demetrious Johnson
2. Stipe Miocic
3. Max Holloway
4. Conor McGregor
5. Daniel Cormier
6. Cris Cyborg
7. Tyron Woodley
8. T.J. Dillashaw
9. Stephen Thompson

t-10.Ryan Bader

t-10. Georges St-Pierre

 

Receiving more than one vote: Tony Ferguson

 

Heavyweight

1. Stipe Miocic
2. Francis N’Gannou
3. Alistair Overeem
4. Fabricio Werdum
5. Mark Hunt
6. Cain Velasquez
7. Junior dos Santos
8. Derrick Lewis
9. Alexander Volkov
10. Marcin Tybura

 

Receiving more than one vote: Curtis Blaydes

 

Light Heavyweight

1. Daniel Cormier
2. Alexander Gustafsson
3. Volkan Oezdemir
4. Ryan Bader
5. Phil Davis
6. Glover Teixeira
7. Jon Jones
8. Jimi Manuwa
9. Ovince Saint Preux
10. Shogun Rua

 

Receiving more than one vote: Misha Cirkunov, Corey Anderson, Ilir Latifi

 

Middleweight

1. Robert Whittaker
2. Yoel Romero
3. Luke Rockhold
4. Ronaldo Souza
5. Gegard Mousasi
6. Chris Weidman
7. Kelvin Gastelum
8. Michael Bisping
9. Georges St-Pierre
10. Derek Brunson

 

Receiving more than one vote: David Branch

 

Welterweight

1. Tyron Woodley
2. Stephen Thompson
3. Rafael dos Anjos
4. Robbie Lawler
5. Colby Covington
6. Demian Maia
7. Rory MacDonald
8. Jorge Masvidal
9. Douglas Lima
10. Neil Magny

 

Receiving more than one vote: Darren Till, Santiago Ponzinibbio

 

Lightweight

1. Tony Ferguson
2. Khabib Nurmagomedov
3. Conor McGregor
4. Eddie Alvarez
5. Edson Barboza
6. Kevin Lee
7. Justin Gaethje
8. Dustin Poirier
9. Nate Diaz
10. Brent Primus

 

Receiving more than one vote: Michael Johnson

 

Featherweight

1. Max Holloway
2. Frankie Edgar
3. Jose Aldo
4. Brian Ortega
5. Cub Swanson
6. Josh Emmett
7. Ricardo Lamas
8. Chan Sung Jung
9. Darren Elkins
10. Jeremy Stephens

 

Receiving more than one vote: Doo Ho Choi, Yair Rodriguez

 

Bantamweight

1. T.J. Dillashaw
2. Cody Garbrandt
3. Jimmie Rivera
4. Dominick Cruz
5. Raphael Assuncao
6. Marlon Moraes
7. John Lineker
8. Kyoji Horiguchi
9. Thomas Almeida
10. John Dodson

 

Receiving more than one vote: Aljamain Sterling, Bryan Caraway, Pedro Munhoz

 

Flyweight

1. Demetrious Johnson
2. Henry Cejudo
3. Ray Borg
4. Joseph Benavidez
5. Jussier Formiga
6. Sergio Pettis
7. Brandon Moreno
8. Wilson Reis
9. Kyoji Horiguchi
10. John Moraga

 

Receiving more than one vote: Ben Nguyen, Dustin Ortiz

 

Women’s Bantamweight

1. Amanda Nunes
2. Valentina Shevchenko
3. Julianna Pena
4. Raquel Pennington
5. Holly Holm
6. Ketlen Vieira
7. Tonya Evinger
8. Sara McMann
9. Ronda Rousey
10. Aspen Ladd

 

Receiving more than one vote: Cat Zingano, Katlyn Chookagian

 

Women’s Flyweight

1. Nicco Montano
2. Roxanne Modafferi
3. Jennifer Maia
4. Sijara Eubanks
5. Lauren Murphy
6. Ilima-Lei MacFarlane
7. Barb Honchak
8. Vanessa Porto
9. DeAnna Bennett
10. Ariane Lipski

 

Receiving more than one vote: Alexis Davis

 

Women’s Strawweight

1. Rose Namajunas
2. Joanna Jedrzejczyk
3. Jessica Andrade
4. Claudia Gadelha
5. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
6. Tecia Torres
7. Carla Esparza
8. Cynthia Calvillo
9. Felice Herrig
10. Michelle Waterson
    

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