Official UFC rankings updated following UFC on Fuel TV 7 event, now with more panelists

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) now features "official" rankings on its website, UFC.com, covering all eight weight classes plus a pound-for-pound list.

If you're wondering how the world's largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion (in conjunction with FightMetric) compiles its list, here's the criteria:

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 and a fighter can only appear in 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.

That voting panel now includes yours truly. You can check how my rankings stack up compared to the overall consensus by selecting "Brian Hemminger (MMAmania.com)" in the voting panelists tab at the top of the page.

Below are the updated UFC.com rankings

Pound-for-Pound

1 Anderson Silva

2 Jon Jones

3 Georges St-Pierre

4 Jose Aldo

5 Benson Henderson

6 Cain Velasquez

7 Dominick Cruz

8 Demetrious Johnson

9 Renan Barao

10 Dan Henderson



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 Darren Uyenoyama

9 John Lineker

10 Timothy Elliott



Bantamweight

Champion : Dominick Cruz

1 Renan Barao (Interim Champion) *NR

2 Urijah Faber

3 Michael McDonald

4 Eddie Wineland

5 Brad Pickett

6 Rafael Assuncao

7 Brian Bowles

8 Scott Jorgensen

9 Mike Easton

10 Ivan Menjivar

Featherweight

Champion : Jose Aldo

1 Chad Mendes

2 Ricardo Lamas

3 Chan Sung Jung

4 Frankie Edgar

5 Cub Swanson

6 Dennis Siver

7 Dustin Poirier

8 Erik Koch

9 Nik Lentz

10 Clay Guida



Lightweight

Champion : Benson Henderson

1 Gilbert Melendez

2 Anthony Pettis

3 Gray Maynard

4 Nate Diaz

5 Jim Miller

6 Donald Cerrone

7 TJ Grant

8 Rafael dos Anjos

9 Joe Lauzon

10 Khabib Nurmagomedov



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

Middleweight

Champion : Anderson Silva

1 Chris Weidman

2 Vitor Belfort

3 Michael Bisping

4 Yushin Okami

5 Constantinos Philippou

6 Mark Munoz

7 Luke Rockhold

8 Hector Lombard

9 Alan Belcher

10 Chael Sonnen



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



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

See anything else that stands out?

Let's get some feedback, Maniacs, then compare this list to the one recently compiled by the SB Nation rankings committee here. To compare these to last week's official UFC rankings, click here. Also, if you want to debate/complain about my personal rankings, I'll be on and off all day to discuss them.