Rankings: Cerrone, Lombard move up

After this past weekend’s UFC 182 in Las Vegas, various members of the media completed another round of official rankings. The event featured a couple top ten ranked fighters and three main card fighters jumped up in their division rankings:

FLYWEIGHT

Champion : Demetrious Johnson

1 John Dodson 

2 Joseph Benavidez 

3 Ian McCall 

4 John Moraga 

5 Jussier Formiga 

6 John Lineker 

7 Ali Bagautinov 

8 Kyoji Horiguchi +3

9 Chris Cariaso -1

10 Zach Makovsky -1

11 Timothy Elliott -1

12 Dustin Ortiz 

13 Brad Pickett 

14 Wilson Reis +1

15 Chico Camus -1

LIGHTWEIGHT

Champion : Anthony Pettis

1 Rafael dos Anjos 

2 Khabib Nurmagomedov 

3 Donald Cerrone +1

4 Gilbert Melendez -1

5 Benson Henderson 

6 Edson Barboza 

7 Josh Thomson 

8 Myles Jury 

9 Bobby Green 

10 Eddie Alvarez 

11 Jim Miller 

12 Michael Johnson 

13 Jorge Masvidal 

14 Nate Diaz 

15 Rustam Khabilov 

WELTERWEIGHT

Champion : Robbie Lawler

1 Johny Hendricks 

2 Rory MacDonald 

3 Tyron Woodley 

4 Carlos Condit 

5 Hector Lombard +1

6 Matt Brown -1

7 Kelvin Gastelum 

8 Demian Maia 

9 Tarec Saffiedine 

10 Dong Hyun Kim 

11 Jake Ellenberger 

12 Rick Story 

13 Jordan Mein 

14 Gunnar Nelson 

15 Ryan LaFlare 

In the welterweight division, Hector Lombard moved up one spot to sixth after defeating unranked Josh Burkman. At lightweight, Donald Cerrone moved up one spot to third after defeating eighth ranked Myles Jury who remained in his spot.

The biggest winner of the night was Kyoji Horiguchi, who despite beating unranked Louis Gaudinot, moved up three spots to the eighth spot.