UFC Rankings Report: Strawweight VanZant Makes Moves

UFC Fight Night 69 is in the books and the rankings have been updated! Joanna Jedrzejczyk
 shook up the strawweight division with her dominant performance against Jessica Penne.

Tatsuya Kawajiri defeated Dennis Siver this past Saturday in Berlin, Germany and jumped up three spots to number twelve in the featherweight division as a result!

After almost five months of inactivity, Anderson Silva has slide further down the pound for pound rankings to the thirteenth spot under Renan Barao.

Check out the official rankings below!

Pound-For-Pound

1. Jose Aldo 

2. Chris Weidman
3. Demetrious Johnson
4. Ronda Rousey
5. TJ Dillashaw
6. Fabricio Werdum
7. Rafael dos Anjos 

8. Robbie Lawler 

9. Daniel Cormier 

10. Cain Velasquez
11. Anthony Pettis
12. Renan Barao +1
13. Anderson Silva -1
14. Frankie Edgar
15. Johny Hendricks 



Flyweight
Champion: Demetrious Johnson

1. John Dodson 

2. Joseph Benavidez 

3. Jussier Formiga 

4. Ian McCall 

5. Henry Cejudo
6. John Moraga
7. John Lineker
8. Kyoji Horiguchi
9. Zach Makovsky 

10. Chris Cariaso 

11. Dustin Ortiz 

12. Wilson Reis 

13. Chico Camus
14. Ray Borg
15. Brad Pickett


Bantamweight
Champion: TJ Dillashaw

1. Renan Barao 

2. Dominick Cruz 

3. Raphael Assuncao 

4. Urijah Faber 

5. Michael McDonald 

6. Eddie Wineland 

7. Johnny Eduardo +1
8. Aljamain Sterling -1
8. Takeya Mizugaki 
+1
10. Francisco Rivera
11. Bryan Caraway
12. Iuri Alcantara 

13. Frankie Saenz 

14. Thomas Almeida 

15. Erik Perez

Featherweight
Champion: Jose Aldo

1. Chad Mendes 

2. Frankie Edgar 

3. Conor McGregor 

4. Ricardo Lamas 

5. Max Holloway 

6. Cub Swanson 

7. Dennis Bermudez +1
8. 
Charles Oliveira 
-1
9. Nik Lentz 

10. Clay Guida 

11. Jeremy Stephens 

12. Tatsuya Kawajiri +3
13. 
Dennis Siver -1
14. Hacran Dias -1
15. Darren Elkins -1


Lightweight
Champion: Rafael dos Anjos

1. Anthony Pettis 

2. Donald Cerrone
3. Khabib Nurmagomedov
4. Eddie Alvarez
5. Gilbert Melendez
6. Michael Johnson
7. Benson Henderson
8. Edson Barboza
9. Myles Jury
10. Josh Thomson 

11. Bobby Green 

12. Tony Ferguson 

13. Al Iaquinta 

14. Beneil Dariush 

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. Dong Hyun Kim 

8. Tarec Saffiedine 

9. Jake Ellenberger 

10. 
Rick Story
11. Thiago Alves
 +1
12. 
Neil Magny -1
13. Kelvin Gastelum
14. Ryan LaFlare
15. Gunnar Nelson

Middleweight
Champion: Chris Weidman

1. Luke Rockhold 

2. Jacare Souza 

3. Vitor Belfort 

4. Lyoto Machida -1
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. Dan Henderson
14. Robert Whittaker 

15. Roan Carneiro 



Light Heavyweight
Champion: Daniel Cormier

1. Anthony Johnson 

2. Alexander Gustafsson 

3. Ryan Bader +1
3. Rashad Evans 

5. Glover Teixeira 

6. Ovince Saint Preux 

7. Jimi Manuwa 

8. Mauricio Rua 

9. Rampage Jackson 

10. Rafael Cavalcante 

11. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 

12. Jan Blachowicz 

13. Fabio Maldonado 

14. Patrick Cummins 

15. Gian Villante 



Heavyweight
Champion: Fabricio Werdum
1. Cain Velasquez

2. Junior Dos Santos 

3. Stipe Miocic 

4. Andrei Arlovski 

5. Travis Browne 

6. Josh Barnett 

7. Ben Rothwell
 +1
8. Mark Hunt -1
9. Alistair Overeem
10. Frank Mir
11. Roy Nelson 

12. Antonio Silva 

13. Matt Mitrione 

14. Stefan Struve 

15. Alexey Oliynyk

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. Maryna Moroz +1
8. Paige VanZant 
-1
9. Joanne Calderwood 

10. Felice Herrig 

11. Juliana Lima 

12. Aisling Daly +1
13. Heather Clark -1
14. Valerie Letourneau 

15. Angela Hill 



Women’s Bantamweight
Champion: Ronda Rousey

1. Cat Zingano 

2. Miesha Tate 

3. Alexis Davis 

4. Sara McMann 

5. Jessica Eye 

6. Sarah Kaufman 

7. Bethe Correia 

8. Amanda Nunes 

9. Liz Carmouche 

10. Holly Holm 

11. Marion Reneau 

12. Julianna Pena 

13. Jessica Andrade 

14. Germaine de Randamie 

15. Raquel Pennington

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