Top 10 MMA Rankings – April 2014

So, I realize that the rankings below are just a duplicate of what can already be found on my site. Yet, the reason I am creating this post is so I can keep an archive of our monthly rankings. I wish I had done this earlier, so I could jump over to a past year and see how things have changed. I am going to attempt and read through the archives of this site and compile monthly rankings for past years, but it’s obviously going to be a slow process.

Without further ado, here is our rankings for April of 2014. On the 1st day of each month, I will create a similar post. Thank you everyone for your support!

Flyweight

1. Demetrious Johnson
2. Joseph Benavidez
3. John Dodson
4. Ian McCall
5. Ali Bagautinov
6. Jussier Formiga
7. John Moraga
8. Brad Pickett
9. Zach Makovsky
10. John Lineker

Honorable Mentions: Justin Scoggins, Chris Cariaso, Tim Elliott, Darrell Montague, Scott Jorgensen

Bantamweight

1. Renan Barao
2. Urijah Faber
3. Michael McDonald
4. Raphael Assuncao
5. Eddie Wineland
6. T.J. Dillashaw
7. Bibiano Fernandes
8. Marlon Moraes
9. Eduardo Dantas
10. Takeya Mizugaki

Honorable Mentions: Joe Warren, Mike Easton, Marcos Galvao, Iuri Alcantara, Alex Caceres

Featherweight

1. Jose Aldo
2. Chad Mendes
3. Frankie Edgar
4. Ricardo Lamas
5. Cub Swanson
6. Pat Curran
7. Daniel Straus
8. Chan Sung Jung
9. Patricio Freire
10. Dustin Poirier

Honorable Mentions: Jeremy Stephens, Clay Guida, Dennis Siver, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Darren Elkins

Lightweight

1. Anthony Pettis
2. Benson Henderson
3. Gilbert Melendez
4. Eddie Alvarez
5. Michael Chandler
6. Josh Thomson
7. T.J. Grant
8. Nate Diaz
9. Rafael dos Anjos
10. Khabib Nurmagomedov

Honorable Mentions: Donald Cerrone, Gray Maynard, Myles Jury, Edson Barboza, Jim Miller

Welterweight

1. Johny Hendricks
2. Robbie Lawler
3. Tyron Woodley
4. Carlos Condit
5. Rory MacDonald
6. Hector Lombard
7. Jake Ellenberger
8. Jake Shields
9. Demian Maia
10. Dong Hyun Kim

Honorable Mentions: Matt Brown, Ben Askren, Martin Kampmann, Tarec Saffiedine, Nate Marquardt

Middlweight

1. Chris Weidman
2. Anderson Silva
3. Vitor Belfort
4. Lyoto Machida
5. Ronaldo Souza
6. Michael Bisping
7. Yushin Okami
8. Luke Rockhold
9. Mark Munoz
10. Tim Kennedy

Honorable Mentions: Gegard Mousasi, Francis Carmont, Mamed Khalidov, Costas Philippou, Tim Boetsch

Light Heavyweight

1. Jon Jones
2. Alexander Gustafsson
3. Rashad Evans
4. Phil Davis
5. Glover Teixeira
6. Daniel Cormier
7. Dan Henderson
8. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
9. Chael Sonnen
10. Mauricio Rua

Honorable Mentions: Ryan Bader, Quinton Jackson, Emanuel Newton, Anthony Johnson, Thiago Silva

Heavyweight

1. Cain Velasquez
2. Junior dos Santos
3. Travis Browne
4. Fabricio Werdum
5. Antonio Silva
6. Josh Barnett
7. Alistair Overeem
8. Mark Hunt
9. Stipe Miocic
10. Frank Mir

Honorable Mentions: Roy Nelson, Stefan Struve, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Vitaly Minakov, Cheick Kongo

Pound-4-Pound

1. Jon Jones
2. Jose Aldo
3. Cain Velasquez
4. Renan Barao
5. Demetrious Johnson
6. Chris Weidman
7. Anderson Silva
8. Johny Hendricks
9. Anthony Pettis
10. Vitor Belfort

Honorable Mentions: Alexander Gustafsson, Benson Henderson, Junior dos Santos, Lyoto Machida, Urijah Faber