MMA Heavyweight Division Rankings

Top 25 HEAVYWEIGHTS (over 205 pounds)

1. Junior Dos Santos (15-1, 9-0 UFC) *Next Fight: Cain Velasquez #2

2. Cain Velasquez (10-1, 8-1 UFC) *Next Fight: Junior Dos Santos #1

3. Alistair Overeem (36-11, 1-0 UFC) 

4. Fabricio Werdum (16-5-1 MMA, 4-2-1 UFC)

5. Daniel Cormier (10-0, 7-0 Strikeforce) 

6. Frank Mir (16-6, 14-6 UFC) 

7. Josh Barnett (31-6, 2-1 Strikeforce) 

8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (34-7-1, 5-3 UFC)

9. Shane Carwin (11-2, 4-2 UFC) *Next Fight: Roy Nelson #13

10. Antonio Silva (17-4, 1-1 UFC) 

11. Travis Browne (13-1-1, 4-1-1 UFC) 

12. Mark Hunt (8-7, 3-1 UFC) 

13. Roy Nelson (17-7, 4-3 UFC) *Next Fight: Shane Carwin #9

14. Stefan Struve (25-5, 9-3 UFC) 

15. Cheick Kongo (18-7-2, 11-5-1 UFC) 

16. Mike Russow (15-2, 4-1 UFC) 

17. Sergei Kharitonov (19-5, 1-1 Strikeforce) 

18. Andrei Arlovski (17-9, 2-0 Pro Elite) *Next Fight: Devin Cole #NR

19. Ben Rothwell (32-8, 2-2 UFC) 

20. Brendan Schaub (8-3, 4-3 UFC) *Next Fight: Lavar Johnson #NR

21. Stipe Miocic (9-1, 3-1 UFC) 

22. Matt Mitrione (5-1, 5-1 UFC) *Next Fight: Phillip De Fries #NR

23. Damian Grabowski (16-1, 2-1 BFC)

24. Vitaly Minakov (9-0, 2-0 Fight Nights) *Next Fight:Vladimir Starcencov #NR

25. Dave Herman (21-5, 1-3 UFC)

*Cole Konrad (9-0, 7-0 BFC) Removed for Retiring*

*Brock Lesnar (5-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) Removed for Retiring*

*The Legend Fedor Emelianenko (33-4 MMA) Removed for Retiring*