First official UFC rankings have been released.

HEAVYWEIGHT:

Champion: Cain Velasquez
1) Junior dos Santos
2) Fabricio Werdum
3) Daniel Cormier
4) Antonio Silva
5) Frank Mir
6) Alistair Overeem
7) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
8) Roy Nelson
9) Stefan Struve
10) Shane Carwin


LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT:

Champion: Jon Jones
1) Dan Henderson
2) Lyoto Machida
3) Alexander Gustafsson
4) Glover Teixeira
5) Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
6) Rashad Evans
7) Mauricio Rua
8) Phil Davis
9) Ryan Bader
10) Gegard Mousasi


MIDDLEWEIGHT:

Champion: Anderson Silva
1) Chris Weidman
2) Vitor Belfort
3) Michael Bisping
4) Yushin Okami
5) Mark Munoz
6) Costa Philippou
7) Luke Rockhold
8) Hector Lombard
9) Alan Belcher
10) Tim Boetsch


WELTERWEIGHT:

Champion: Georges St-Pierre
1) Johny Hendricks
2) Carlos Condit
3) Nick Diaz
4) Rory MacDonald
5) Demian Maia
6) Jake Ellenberger
7) Martin Kampmann
8) Josh Koscheck
9) Jon Fitch
10) Tarec Saffiedine


LIGHTWEIGHT:

Champion: Benson Henderson
1) Gilbert Melendez
2) Anthony Pettis
3) Gray Maynard
4) Nate Diaz
5) Jim Miller
6) Donald Cerrone
7) T.J. Grant
8) Rafael dos Anjos
9) Joe Lauzon
10) Khabib Nurmagomedov


FEATHERWEIGHT:

Champion: Jose Aldo
1) Chad Mendes
2) Ricardo Lamas
3) Chan Sung Jung
4) Frankie Edgar
5) Dennis Siver
6) Cub Swanson
7) Dustin Poirier
8) Nik Lentz
9) Erik Koch
10) Clay Guida


BANTAMWEIGHT:

Champion: Dominick Cruz
1) Renan Barao (Interim champion)
2) Michael McDonald
3) Urijah Faber
4) Eddie Wineland
5) Brad Pickett
6) Brian Bowles
7) Rafael Assuncao
8) Scott Jorgensen
9) Mike Easton
10) Ivan Menjivar


FLYWEIGHT:

Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1) Joseph Benavidez
2) John Dodson
3) Ian McCall
4) John Moraga
5) Jussier da Silva
6) Louis Gaudinot
7) Chris Cariaso
8) John Lineker
9) Darren Uyenoyama
10) Ulysses Gomez


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He has a terrific pedigree at a higher weight, looks comfortable at the current weight, and just gave the dominant champion a very competitive fight. It would be wrong to have him at the ass end of the top 10, or to treat him like he's a 0-1 fighter. He's proven to be able to compete at the top level - the guys below him, not so much. :good

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You can't rank him at LW if he's not a LW. And you can't have him appear in p4p lists, but not in divisional rankings. :conf

He'd be favoured to beat all of the guys guys below him, and he's achieved more than any of them. If he performed terribly in his first fight in the weightclass then there would be a problem, but he didn't. He performed as well as anybody has against Aldo. :good

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True he's not ranked, but that's purely because he's confirmed to have left one division and has yet to appear in another.

I wouldn't have given Sonnen the shot. But it seems he got it based on his willingness to fight Jones on basically no notice at all when nobody else would go near the fight, coupled with his ability to sell the fight. Without the Jones-Hendo ****around, I doubt Sonnen walks into a title shot. But he was the only man who was willing to step up and get his ass kicked on a week's notice so that the show could go on, and the UFC has a history of rewarding guys who are willing to go the extra mile for the company. :conf

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