MMA pound-for-pound rankings – Only one small transfer in males’s high 10, however voters add new names

The ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings you see beneath are solely barely totally different from the lads’s and girls’s high 10s we printed Aug. 24, the final time our voting panel weighed in.

That ought to come as no shock. There have been solely two UFC combat playing cards and few different main occasions throughout the game within the three weeks since our final replace. No fighter in both of our P4P rankings was in motion.

That isn’t to recommend, nonetheless, that our voters don’t make strikes.

UFC males’s bantamweight champ Aljamain Sterling rises a spot within the males’s rankings, largely as a result of the fighter who was forward of him, males’s flyweight titlist Deiveson Figueiredo, was changed on one voter’s poll. Sterling must defend his top-10 place on the subsequent main UFC occasion, UFC 280 on Oct. 22, when he defends his belt towards former champ TJ Dillashaw.

Past the Sterling enhance, three ESPN voters made strikes of their high 10s, with two of them inserting fighters who weren’t there in our final replace. Marc Raimondi added Ciryl Gane on the power of the heavyweight’s knockout of Tai Tuivasa at UFC Paris on Sept. 3. Jeff Wagenheim reinserted the onetime extremely ranked Demetrious Johnson, who captured the One Championship flyweight title with a KO of Adriano Moraes on Aug. 27.

Gaining added help was former UFC middleweight champ Robert Whittaker, who moved up on Brett Okamoto’s poll after defeating Marvin Vettori on the Gane-Tuivasa undercard.

However none of those fighters garnered sufficient votes to crack the lads’s high 10. And the ladies’s rankings stay the identical.

Observe: Outcomes are present; rankings as of Sept. 13.

Males’s pound-for-pound rankings

1. Alexander Volkanovski  

UFC featherweight champion
Document: 25-1
Final: W (UD) Max Holloway, July 2
Subsequent: TBD

2. Charles Oliveira  

UFC light-weight
Document: 33-8, 1 NC
Final: W (Sub1) Justin Gaethje, Could 7
Subsequent: Oct. 22 vs. Islam Makhachev

3. Israel Adesanya  

UFC middleweight champion
Document: 23-1
Final: W (UD) Jared Cannonier, July 2
Subsequent: Nov. 12 vs. Alex Pereira

4. Kamaru Usman  

UFC welterweight
Document: 20-2
Final: L (KO5) Leon Edwards, Aug. 20
Subsequent: TBD

5. Francis Ngannou  

UFC heavyweight champion
Document: 17-3
Final: W (UD) Ciryl Gane, Jan. 22
Subsequent: TBD

6. Leon Edwards  

UFC welterweight champion
Document: 20-3, 1 NC
Final: W (KO5) Kamaru Usman, Aug. 20
Subsequent: TBD

7. Jiri Prochazka  

UFC mild heavyweight champion
Document: 29-3-1
Final: W (Sub5) Glover Teixeira, June 11
Subsequent: TBD

8. Aljamain Sterling  

UFC bantamweight champion
Earlier rating: T-9
Document: 21-3
Final: W (SD) Petr Yan, April 9
Subsequent: Sept. 10 vs. TJ Dillashaw

T-9. Deiveson Figueiredo  

UFC flyweight champion
Earlier rating: 8
Document: 21-2-1
Final: W (UD) Brandon Moreno, Jan. 22
Subsequent: TBD

T-9. Dustin Poirier  

UFC light-weight
Document: 28-7, 1 NC
Final: L (Sub3) Charles Oliveira, Dec. 11, 2021
Subsequent: Nov. 12 vs. Michael Chandler

Different fighters receiving votes: Robert Whittaker, Max Holloway, Ciryl Gane, Brandon Moreno and Demetrious Johnson.

How our panel voted

Brett Okamoto: 1. Alexander Volkanovski; 2. Israel Adesanya; 3. Charles Oliveira; 4. Kamaru Usman; 5. Robert Whittaker; 6. Francis Ngannou; 7. Deiveson Figueiredo; 8. Dustin Poirier; 9. Aljamain Sterling; 10. Brandon Moreno.

Marc Raimondi: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Adesanya; 3. Oliveira; 4. Usman; 5. Ngannou; 6. Edwards; 7. Sterling; 8. Jiri Prochazka; 9. Ciryl Gane; 10. Poirier.

Carlos Contreras Legaspi: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Oliveira; 3. Usman; 4. Adesanya; 5. Ngannou; 6. Edwards; 7. Prochazka; 8. Figueiredo; 9. Sterling; 10. Moreno.

Megan Anderson: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Oliveira; 3. Adesanya; 4. Usman; 5. Ngannou; 6. Edwards; 7. Prochazka; 8. Max Holloway; 9. Whittaker; 10. Figueiredo.

Eddie Maisonet III: 1. Oliveira; 2. Adesanya; 3. Volkanovski; 4. Usman; 5. Ngannou; 6. Poirier; 7. Figueiredo; 8. Sterling; 9. Prochazka; 10. Edwards.

Jeff Wagenheim: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Ngannou; 3. Oliveira; 4. Adesanya; 5. Usman; 6. Edwards; 7. Prochazka; 8. Poirier; 9. Sterling; 10. Demetrious Johnson.

1. Amanda Nunes  

UFC bantamweight and featherweight champion
Document: 22-5
Final: W (UD) Julianna Peña, July 30
Subsequent: TBD

2. Valentina Shevchenko  

UFC flyweight champion
Document: 22-3
Final: W (SD) Taila Santos, June 11
Subsequent: TBD

3. Cris Cyborg  

Bellator featherweight champion
Document: 26-2, 1 NC
Final: W (UD) Arlene Blencowe, April 23
Subsequent: TBD

T-4. Julianna Peña  

UFC bantamweight
Document: 11-5
Final: L (UD) Amanda Nunes, July 30
Subsequent: TBD

T-4. Zhang Weili  

UFC strawweight
Document: 22-3
Final: W (KO2) Joanna Jedrzejczyk, June 11
Subsequent: Nov. 12 vs. Carla Esparza

6. Carla Esparza  

UFC strawweight champion
Document: 19-6
Final: W (SD) Rose Namajunas, Could 7
Subsequent: Nov. 12 vs. Zhang Weili

7. Rose Namajunas  

UFC strawweight
Document: 11-5
Final: L (SD) Carla Esparza, Could 7
Subsequent: TBD

8. Kayla Harrison  

PFL light-weight champion
Document: 15-0
Final: W (Sub1) Martina Jindrova, Aug. 20
Subsequent: Nov. 25 vs. Larissa Pacheco

9. Jessica Andrade  

UFC flyweight
Document: 23-9
Final: W (Sub1) Amanda Lemos, April 23
Subsequent: TBD

10. Marina Rodriguez  

UFC strawweight
Document: 16-1-2
Final: W (SD) Yan Xiaonan, March 5
Subsequent: TBD

Different fighters receiving votes: Katlyn Chookagian, Holly Holm and Seika Izawa.

How our panel voted

Brett Okamoto: 1. Amanda Nunes; 2. Valentina Shevchenko; 3. Cris Cyborg; 4. Rose Namajunas; 5. Zhang Weili; 6. Julianna Peña; 7. Kayla Harrison; 8. Carla Esparza; 9. Jessica Andrade; 10. Katlyn Chookagian.

Marc Raimondi: 1. Nunes; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Cyborg; 4. Peña; 5. Esparza; 6. Harrison; 7. Namajunas; 8. Weili; 9. Andrade; 10. Seika Izawa.

Carlos Contreras Legaspi: 1. Nunes; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Peña; 4. Harrison; 5. Cyborg; 6. Esparza; 7. Weili; 8. Namajunas; 9. Andrade; 10. Holly Holm.

Megan Anderson: 1. Nunes; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Cyborg; 4. Weili; 5. Namajunas; 6. Esparza; 7. Andrade; 8. Marina Rodriguez; 9. Harrison; 10. Peña.

Eddie Maisonet III: 1. Nunes; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Peña; 4. Weili; 5. Cyborg; 6. Esparza; 7. Andrade; 8. Namajunas; 9. Harrison; 10. Rodriguez.

Jeff Wagenheim: 1. Nunes; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Cyborg; 4. Weili; 5. Andrade; 6. Peña; 7. Esparza; 8. Namajunas; 9. Harrison; 10. Chookagian.