UFC Rankings Report: McGregor Up, Khabib And Ronda Rousey Down

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has offered an update on the official rankings for the promotion. This time around, it would appear that the rankings for the world's most famous mixed martial arts promotion has experienced some unexpected changes. It would appear that despite being inactive inside the octagon since 2016, UFC superstar Conor McGregor has actually gone up in the official pound-for-pound rankings. Beyond that, riding a title earning dominant victory from UFC 223, newly crowned UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has sunk in the official rankings. That being said, former women's UFC bantamweight champion turned WWE star Ronda Rousey has finally been filed off of the division ranks. Here is a look at how the UFC forms the official ranks, courtesy of UFC.com: "Rankings were generated by a voting panel made up of media members. The media members were asked to vote for who they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight-class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are in active status in the UFC. A fighter can appear in more than one weight division at a time. The champion and interim champion are considered to be in the top positions of their respective divisions and therefore are not eligible for voting by weight-class. However, the champions can be voted on for the pound-for-pound rankings." Check out the full rankings update down below, as provided by UFC.com: POUND-FOR-POUND 1 Demetrious Johnson 2 Georges St-Pierre 3 Stipe Miocic 3 Conor McGregor +1 5 Daniel Cormier 6 Max Holloway 7 TJ Dillashaw 8 Tyron Woodley 9 Khabib Nurmagomedov -1 10 Cris Cyborg 11 Tony Ferguson 12 Amanda Nunes 13 Robert Whittaker 14 Cody Garbrandt 15 Rose Namajunas FLYWEIGHT Champion: Demetrious Johnson 1 Joseph Benavidez 2 Henry Cejudo 3 Ray Borg 4 Jussier Formiga 5 Sergio Pettis 6 John Moraga 7 Brandon Moreno 8 Wilson Reis 9 Ben Nguyen 10 Dustin Ortiz 11 Matheus Nicolau 12 Alexandre Pantoja 13 Tim Elliott 14 Deiveson Figueiredo 15 Magomed Bibulatov BANTAMWEIGHT Champion: TJ Dillashaw 1 Cody Garbrandt 2 Dominick Cruz 3 Raphael Assuncao 4 Jimmie Rivera 5 Marlon Moraes 6 John Lineker 7 John Dodson 8 Aljamain Sterling 9 Bryan Caraway 10 Pedro Munhoz 11 Cody Stamann -1 12 Rob Font 13 Thomas Almeida 14 Brett Johns 15 Eddie Wineland FEATHERWEIGHT Champion: Max Holloway 1 Brian Ortega 2 Jose Aldo 3 Frankie Edgar 4 Jeremy Stephens +1 5 Cub Swanson -1 6 Josh Emmett 7 Ricardo Lamas 8 Chan Sung Jung 9 Renato Moicano 10 Darren Elkins 11 Yair Rodriguez 12 Mirsad Bektic 13 Zabit Magomedsharipov +1 14 Dooho Choi -1 15 Myles Jury LIGHTWEIGHT Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov 1 Conor McGregor 2 Tony Ferguson 3 Eddie Alvarez 4 Dustin Poirier 5 Kevin Lee +1 6 Edson Barboza -1 7 Justin Gaethje 8 Nate Diaz 9 Michael Chiesa 10 Al Iaquinta 11 James Vick 12 Anthony Pettis 13 Alexander Hernandez 14 Paul Felder 15 Olivier Aubin-Mercier WELTERWEIGHT Champion: Tyron Woodley 1 Stephen Thompson 2 Rafael Dos Anjos 3 Colby Covington 4 Robbie Lawler 5 Demian Maia 6 Jorge Masvidal 7 Kamaru Usman 8 Darren Till -1 9 Neil Magny 10 Santiago Ponzinibbio 11 Donald Cerrone 12 Gunnar Nelson 13 Alex Oliveira 14 Leon Edwards 15 Dong Hyun Kim MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion: Robert Whittaker 1 Yoel Romero 2 Jacare Souza 3 Luke Rockhold 4 Chris Weidman 5 Kelvin Gastelum 6 Michael Bisping 7 Derek Brunson 8 David Branch 9 Vitor Belfort 10 Brad Tavares 11 Uriah Hall -1 12 Lyoto Machida +1 13 Thiago Santos -1 13 Antonio Carlos Junior +2 15 Paulo Costa -1 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Daniel Cormier 1 Alexander Gustafsson 2 Volkan Oezdemir 3 Glover Teixeira 4 Ilir Latifi 5 Jan Blachowicz 6 Jimi Manuwa 7 Mauricio Rua 7 Ovince Saint Preux +1 9 Corey Anderson +1 10 Misha Cirkunov -1 11 Patrick Cummins 12 Tyson Pedro 13 Gadzhimurad Antigulov 14 Gian Villante 15 Jordan Johnson HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Stipe Miocic 1 Francis Ngannou 2 Alistair Overeem 3 Alexander Volkov 4 Curtis Blaydes 5 Fabricio Werdum 6 Derrick Lewis 6 Mark Hunt 8 Marcin Tybura 9 Andrei Arlovski 10 Aleksei Oleinik 11 Stefan Struve 12 Tai Tuivasa 13 Shamil Abdurakhimov 14 Junior Albini 15 Justin Willis *NR WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT Champion: Rose Namajunas 1 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 2 Jessica Andrade 3 Claudia Gadelha 4 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 5 Tecia Torres 6 Carla Esparza 7 Michelle Waterson 8 Felice Herrig 9 Alexa Grasso 10 Cortney Casey 11 Randa Markos 12 Tatiana Suarez 13 Joanne Calderwood 14 Nina Ansaroff 15 Angela Hill WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT Champion: Nicco Montano 1 Valentina Shevchenko 2 Sijara Eubanks 3 Lauren Murphy 4 Alexis Davis 5 Roxanne Modafferi 5 Katlyn Chookagian -3 7 Barb Honchak -1 8 Liz Carmouche -1 9 Jessica-Rose Clark 10 Jessica Eye 11 Ashlee Evans-Smith 12 Mara Romero Borella 13 Paige VanZant 14 Montana De La Rosa 15 Rachael Ostovich WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT Champion: Amanda Nunes 1 Holly Holm 2 Raquel Pennington 3 Julianna Pena 4 Ketlen Vieira 5 Germaine de Randamie 6 Cat Zingano 7 Marion Reneau 8 Sara McMann 9 Aspen Ladd +1 10 Bethe Correia +1 11 Irene Aldana +1 12 Lucie Pudilova +1 13 Sarah Moras +1 14 Lina Lansberg +1 15 Gina Mazany *NR For more MMA news click here.