MMAOddsBreaker Rankings Update: Spring 2019

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With it being a slow weekend, I figured it was a nice time to update the MMAOddsBreaker fighter rankings, which hadn’t been updated in over 11 months. Because there has been so much fluctuation in the rankings due to the high turnover in the sport, I’m not going to explain all the changes, but I will show how far up up from last position or down down from last position a fighter has moved, as well as whether a fighter had previously not been in the rankings (NR).

I’ll try to update these more regularly moving forward.

Pound-for-Pound

1. Jon Jones up from last position 1
2. Khabib Nurmagomedov up from last position 3
3. Daniel Cormier up from last position 5
4. Henry Cejudo NR
5. Amanda Nunes up from last position 8
6. Max Holloway down from last position 3
7. Robert Whittaker up from last position 3
8. Demetrious Johnson down from last position 7
9. Tony Ferguson up from last position 2
10. Kamaru Usman NR
11. Dustin Poirier NR
12. Israel Adesanya NR
13. Valentina Shevchenko NR
14. Conor McGregor down from last position 7
15. Stipe Miocic down from last position 9

Heavyweight

1. Daniel Cormier NR
2. Stipe Miocic down from last position 1
3. Francis Ngannou down from last position 1
4. Junior dos Santos up from last position 6
5. Curtis Blaydes down from last position 1
6. Alistair Overeem down from last position 1
7. Alexander Volkov down from last position 1
8. Derrick Lewis
9. Cain Velasquez down from last position 6
10. Tai Tuivasa up from last position 3
11. Shamil Abdurakhimov NR
12. Marcin Tybura
13. Alexey Oleinik NR
14. Blagaoi Ivanov NR
15. Walt Harris NR

Light Heavyweight

1. Jon Jones
2. Daniel Cormier
3. Alexander Gustafsson
4. Thiago Santos NR
5. Anthony Smith NR
6. Dominick Reyes NR
7. Ryan Bader NR
8. Jan Blackowicz NR
9. Corey Anderson up from last position 4
10. Glover Teixeira down from last position 3
11. Volkan Oezdemir down from last position 7
12. Ilir Latifi down from last position 4
13. Johnny Walker NR
14. Phil Davis NR
15. Nikita Krylov NR

Middleweight

1. Robert Whittaker
2. Yoel Romero
3. Israel Adesanya NR
4. Gegard Musasi down from last position 1
5. Kelvin Gastelum
6. Jack Hermansson NR
7. Luke Rockhold
8. Jacare Souza down from last position 2
9. Chris Weidman down from last position 5
11. Paulo Costa up from last position 1
12. Jared Cannonier NR
13. Brad Tavares
14. Derek Brunson down from last position 6
15. Ian Heinisch NR

Welterweight

1. Kamaru Usman up from last position 2
2. Colby Covington
3. Tyron Woodley down from last position 2
4. Rafael dos Anjos
5. Santiago Ponzinibbio up from last position 4
6. Jorge Masvidal up from last position 5
7. Leon Edwards NR
8. Ben Askren NR
9. Stephen Thompson down from last position 2
10. Rory MacDonald down from last position 5
11. Douglas Lima up from last position 3
12. Elizeu Zoleski NR
13. Robbie Lawler down from last position 5
14. Darren Till down from last position 8
15. Vicente Luque NR

Lightweight

1. Khabib Nurmagomedov
2. Tony Ferguson up from last position 1
3. Conor McGregor down from last position 1
4. Dustin Poirier up from last position 2
5. Justin Gaethje up from last position 5
6. Donald Cerrone NR
7. Al Iaquinta up from last position 5
8. Edson Barboza down from last position 3
9. Kevin Lee down from last position 1
10. Gregor Gillespie up from last position 3
11. Charles Oliveira NR
12. Mairbek Taisumov down from last position 3
13. Alexander Hernandez NR
14. Islam Makhachev NR
15. Dan Hooker NR

Featherweight

1. Max Holloway
2. Alexander Volkanovski NR
3. Jose Aldo
4. Brian Ortega down from last position 2
5. Renato Moicano NR
6. Zabit Magomedshapirov NR
7. Frankie Edgar down from last position 3
8. Jeremy Stephens down from last position 3
9. Mirsad Bektic
10. Yair Rodriguez down from last position 1
11. Josh Emmett down from last position 4
12. Chan Sung Jung
13. Patricio Pitbull  up from last position 2
14. Arnold Allen NR
15. Ricardo Lamas down from last position 5

Bantamweight

1. TJ Dillashaw
2. Marlon Moraes up from last position 2
3. Rafael Assuncao up from last position 2
4. Aljamain Sterling up from last position 5
5. Pedro Munhoz up from last position 8
6. Cody Garbrandt down from last position 4
7. Dominick Cruz down from last position 4
8. Jimmie Rivera down from last position 2
9. Peter Yan NR
10. Cory Sandhagen NR
11. Kyoji Horiguchi NR
12. John Lineker down from last position 5
13. Cody Stamann down from last position 3
14. Ricky Simon NR
15. Rob Font down from last position 1

Flyweight

1. Henry Cejudo up from last position 1
2. Demetrious Johnson down from last position 1
3. Joseph Benavidez up from last position 2
4. Jussier Formiga up from last position 3
5. Alexandre Pantoja up from last position 7
6. Deiveson Figueredo NR
7. Dustin Ortiz  up from last position 3
8. Wilson Reis  up from last position 6
9. John Moraga  up from last position 2
10. Ali Bagaotinov NR
11. Rogerio Bontorin NR
12. Matheus Nicolau  up from last position 3
13. Brandon Moreno
14. Jordan Espinoza NR
15. Kai Kara-France NR

Women’s Bantamweight

1. Amanda Nunes
2. Ketlen Vieira
3. Germaine de Randamie up from last position 2
4. Holly Holm down from last position 1
5. Raquel Pennington down from last position 1
6. Aspen Ladd up from last position6
7. Yana Kunitzkaya NR
8. Julianna Pena down from last position 1
9. Cat Zingano
10. Sara McMann
11. Marion Reneau down from last position 3
12. Irene Aldana NR
13. Maci Chiasson NR
14. Tonya Evinger down from last position 6
15. Bethe Correia down from last position 1

Women’s Flyweight

1. Valentina Shevchenko
2. Jessica Eye NR
3. Ilima-Lei Macfarlana
4. Nicco Montano
5. Jennifer Maia down from last position 3
6. Liz Carmouche up from last position 8
7. Katelyn Chookagian up from last position 6
8. Roxanne Modaferi up from last position 1
9. Andrea Lee NR
10. Joanne Calderwood NR
11. Alexis Davis down from last position 1
12. Montana De La Rosa NR
13. Lauren Murphy down from last position 6
14. Mara Borella NR
15. Vanessa Porto down from last position 4

Women’s Strawweight

1. Jessica Andrade up from last position 2
2. Rose Namajunas down from last position 1
3. Joanna Jedrzejczyk down from last position 1
4. Tatiana Suarez  up from last position 3
5. Nina Ansaroff  up from last position 10
6. Claudia Gadelha down from last position 2
7. Michelle Waterson up from last position 4
8. Weili Zang NR
9. Cynthia Calvillo up from last position 1
10. Karolina Kowalkiewicz down from last position 5
11. Tecia Torres down from last position 5
12. Randa Markos
13. Felice Herrig down from last position 4
14. Cortney Casey
15. Alexa Grasso down from last position 2

Written by Brian Hemminger

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