Post-UFC Ultimate Fight Night 14 ranking update

I almost forgot to do this one. Not sure how that could be, given that all three fights previewed here resulted in shifts in the rankings, but here I am, three days after the event, just catching up. Anyway, I was wrong about two things, one I said, and one I only implied: first, Mike Russow beat Jon Madsen, contrary to be totally uninformed pre-fight speculation; second, Anthony Johnson really was bluffing when he claimed not to be interested in taking Dan Hardy down, which just goes to show that Johnson is smarter than most of us thought. I was right about Phil Davis beating Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, though if I could choose one fight to have been wrong about, that would have been it.

Anyway, on to the rankings:

HEAVYWEIGHT (265 lbs. limit) TOP 15

# Name Pro MMA Record P3Y Record at HW Notes
1 Cain Velasquez 8-0 9-0 UFC heavyweight champion
2 Brock Lesnar 5-2 4-1
3 Fabricio Werdum 14-4-1 4-1
4 Antonio Silva 15-2 7-1
5 Shane Carwin 12-1 5-1
6 Fedor Emelianenko 31-3 3-2
7 Frank Mir 14-5 3-2
8 Alistair Overeem 34-11 8-0 Strikeforce heavyweight champion (1 defense).
9 Junior Dos Santos 12-1 7-0
10 Brett Rogers 11-2 5-2
11 Brendan Schaub 8-1 8-1
12 Cheick Kongo 15-6-2 4-3-1
13 Ben Rothwell 31-7 9-2
14 Mike Russow 13-1 5-0 Moved to #14 following a win over then-#14 Jon Madsen at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 14 on 3/26/11.
15 Josh Barnett 29-5 6-0

LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT (205 lbs.) TOP 15

# Name Pro MMA Record P3Y Record at LHW Notes
1 Jon Jones 13-1 13-1 (1 DQ) UFC light-heavyweight champion
2 Rashad Evans 15-1-1 4-1-1
3 Mauricio Rua 19-4 3-2 (one loss avenged)
4 Quinton Jackson 31-8 3-2
5 Lyoto Machida 16-1 4-1
6 Ryan Bader 12-1 6-1
7 Forrest Griffin 18-6 3-2
8 Phil Davis 9-0 9-0 Moved to #8 following a win over then-#8 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 14 on 3/26/11.
9 Dan Henderson 27-8 3-0
10 Thiago Silva 15-2 3-2
11 Rich Franklin 28-6 2-2
12 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira 18-4 6-1
13 Rafael Cavalcante 10-3 6-2
14 Muhammed Lawal 7-0 7-0
15 Gegard Mousasi 29-3-1 4-1

WELTERWEIGHT (168-170 lbs.) TOP 15

# Name Pro MMA Record P3Y Record at WW Notes
1 Georges St-Pierre 21-2 6-0 UFC welterweight champion (5 defenses)
2 Jon Fitch 23-3-1 6-1-1
3 B.J. Penn 16-7-2 1-1-1
4 Thiago Alves 17-7 4-2
5 Jake Shields 26-4-1 4-0
6 Martin Kampmann 17-3 4-1
7 Josh Koscheck 15-5 6-3
8 Carlos Condit 26-5 5-1
9 Diego Sanchez 22-4 3-1
10 Matt Hughes 45-7 3-1
11 Paulo Thiago 13-3 7-3
12 Anthony Johnson 9-3 5-2 (one loss avenged) Moved to #12 following a win over then-#12 Dan Hardy at UFC Ultimate Fight Night 14 on 3/26/11.
13 Brian Ebersole 47-14-1 2-0
14 Paul Daley 27-9-2 9-3
15 Mike Pierce 12-3 9-2
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