UFC Rankings Report 2016

We're about a month into 2016, and we've already seen one new champion crowned and another one pushed to his absolute limit. If this is any indication of what we can expect this year, then I think it's going to be a great year of fights in the UFC. 

Based on what we've seen in 2015, here are my top 10 lists for each division:

Strawweight 
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1. Joanna Jedrzejczyk
2. Rose Namajunas
3. Tecia Torres
4. Michelle Waterson
5. Valerie Letourneau
6. Paige VanZant
7. Carla Esparza
8. Jessica Penne
9. Maryna Moroz
10. Karolina Kowalkiewicz

Women's Bantamweight
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1. Holly Holm
2. Ronda Rousey
3. Miesha Tate
4. Julianna Pena
5. Bethe Correia
6. Cat Zingano
7. Alexis Davis
8. Raquel Pennington
9. Amanda Nunes
10, Valentina Shevchenko

Flyweight
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1. Demetrious Johnson
2. Joseph Benavidez
3. Ali Bagautinov
4. Kyoji Horiguchi
5. John Dodson
6. John Moraga
7. Dustin Ortiz
8. Ben Nguyen
9. Ryan Benoit
10. Sergio Pettis

Men's Bantamweight
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1. Dominick Cruz
2. TJ Dillashaw
3. Renan Barao
4. Urijah Faber
5. Thomas Almeida
6. Michael McDonald
7. Aljamain Sterling
8. Takeya Mizugaki
9. Kyung Ho Kang
10. Michinori Tanaka
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Featherweight

1. Conor McGregor
2. Frankie Edgar
3. Jose Aldo
4. Max Holloway
5. Chad Mendes
6. Charles Oliveira 
7. Ricardo Lamas
8. Jeremy Stephens
9. Brian Ortega
10. Dustin Poirier

Lightweight

1. Rafael Dos Anjos
2. Eddie Alvarez
3. Khabib Nurmagomedov
4. Anthony Pettis
5. Tony Ferguson
6. Gilbert Melendez
7. Benson Henderson
8. Nate Diaz
9. Donald Cerrone
10. Beneil Dariush

Welterweight
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1. Robbie Lawler
2. Carlos Condit
3. Johny Hendricks
4. Tyron Woodley
5. Rory MacDonald 
6. Kelvin Gastelum
7. Demian Maia
8. Matt Brown
9. Albert Tumenov
10. Rick Story
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​Middleweight

1. Luke Rockhold
2. Yoel Romero (Despite the drug issue)
3. Ronaldo Souza
4. Chris Weidman
5. Anderson Silva
6. Vitor Belfort
7. Tim Kennedy
8. Lyoto Machida
9. Michael Bisping
10. Thales Leites

Light Heavyweight
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1. Daniel Cormier
2. Jon Jones
3. Alexander Gustafsson
4. Anthony Johnson
5. Ryan Bader
6. Phil Davis
7. Glover Teixeira
8. Ovince Saint Preux
9. Rashad Evans
10. Corey Anderson

Heavyweight

1. Fabricio Werdum
2. Cain Velasquez
3. Stipe Miocic
4. Alistair Overeem
5. Junior Dos Santos
6. Mark Hunt
7. Andrei Arlovski
8. Travis Browne
9. Jared Rosholt
10. Frank Mir

So there you have it.

​Until next time...