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UFC Rankings Update: TJ Dillashaw removed from rankings

The UFC has updated their rankings after UFC Nashville. Although the card has some notable ranked fighters fighting, the biggest move is that former UFC bantamweight champion, TJ Dillashaw is removed from the rankings after he was suspended for a year for ‘adverse findings’ in a pre-fight drug test.

Meanwhile, Anthony Pettis moved into the top-10 of the welterweight rankings after his stunning KO of Stephen Thompson.

Here are the latest UFC rankings:

Note:
+/- = movement in rankings
*NR = Not previously ranked

POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Jon Jones
3 Khabib Nurmagomedov
4 Max Holloway
5 Henry Cejudo
6 Amanda Nunes
7 Kamaru Usman +1
8 Conor McGregor +1
9 Robert Whittaker +2
10 Stipe Miocic
11 Tony Ferguson +1
12  Tyron Woodley +1
13 Rose Namajunas +1
14 Cris Cyborg +1
15 Valentina Shevchenko *NR

FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Henry Cejudo
1 Jussier Formiga
2 Joseph Benavidez
3 Ray Borg
4 Deiveson Figueiredo
5 Wilson Reis
6 Alexandre Pantoja
7 Alex Perez
8 Tim Elliott
9 Rogerio Bontorin
10 Magomed Bibulatov +1
11 Ryan Benoit +2
12 Jordan Espinosa +3
13 Eric Shelton -1
14 Kai Kara-France
15 Casey Kenney *NR

BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion:
1 Marlon Moraes
2 Raphael Assuncao
3 Aljamain Sterling
4 Pedro Munhoz
5 Dominick Cruz
6 Cody Garbrandt
7 Jimmie Rivera
8 John Lineker
9 Petr Yan
10 Cody Stamann
11 Rob Font
12 John Dodson
13 Alejandro Perez
14 Thomas Almeida
15 Ricky Simon

FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Max Holloway
1 Jose Aldo
2 Brian Ortega
3 Frankie Edgar
4 Alexander Volkanovski
5 Renato Moicano
6 Zabit Magomedsharipov
7 Jeremy Stephens
8 Cub Swanson
9 Mirsad Bektic
10 Josh Emmett
11 Ricardo Lamas
12 Yair Rodriguez
13 Chan Sung Jung
14 Darren Elkins
15 Calvin Kattar

LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov
1 Tony Ferguson
2 Conor McGregor
3 Dustin Poirier
4 Al Iaquinta
5 Kevin Lee
6 Edson Barboza
7 Donald Cerrone +2
8 Justin Gaethje -1
9 Paul Felder +1
10 Gregor Gillespie +1
11 Alexander Hernandez +1
12 Charles Oliveria +3
13 James Vick +1
14 Nate Diaz -1
15 Francisco Trinaldo *NR

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Kamaru Usman
1 Tyron Woodley
2 Colby Covington
3 Rafael Dos Anjos +1
4 Jorge Masvidal +1
5 Ben Askren +1
6 Darren Till +1
7 Stephen Thompson -4
8 Anthony Pettis *NR
9 Santiago Ponzinibbio -1
10 Robbie Lawler -1
11 Leon Edwards -1
12 Demian Maia -1
13 Neil Magny -1
14 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos -1
15 Gunnar Nelson -1
15 Vicente Luque

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Robert Whittaker
1 Yoel Romero
2 Luke Rockhold
3 Jacare Souza
4 Kelvin Gastelum
5 Israel Adesanya
6 Chris Weidman
7 Paulo Costa
8 Derek Brunson
9 Jared Cannonier
10 Brad Tavares
11 David Branch
12 Antonio Carlos Junior
13 Uriah Hall
14 Elias Theodorou
15 Anderson Silva

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Jon Jones
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Thiago Santos
4 Anthony Smith
5 Dominick Reyes
6 Jan Blachowicz
7 Volkan Oezdemir
8 Corey Anderson
9 Ilir Latifi
10 Jimi Manuwa
11 Glover Teixeira
12 Ovince Saint Preux
13 Johnny Walker
14 Shogun Rua
15 Misha Cirkunov

HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Stipe Miocic
2 Francis Ngannou
3 Junior dos Santos
4 Curtis Blaydes
5 Derrick Lewis
6 Alexander Volkov
7 Alistair Overeem
8 Cain Velasquez
9 Aleksei Oleinik
10 Justin Willis
11 Marcin Tybura
12 Tai Tuivasa
13 Shamil Abdurakhimov
14 Blagoy Ivanov
15 Andrei Arlovski

WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Rose Namajunas
1 Jessica Andrade
2 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
3 Tatiana Suarez
3 Nina Ansaroff
5 Claudia Gadelha
6 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
7 Weili Zhang
8 Tecia Torres
9 Michelle Waterson
10 Carla Esparza
11 Cynthia Calvillo
12 Felice Herrig
13 Randa Markos +2
14 Cortney Casey -1
15 Alexa Grasso -1

WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Valentina Shevchenko
1 Jessica Eye
2 Sijara Eubanks
3 Katlyn Chookagian
4 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
5 Liz Carmouche +1
6 Joanne Calderwood +1
7 Alexis Davis -2
8 Roxanne Modafferi
9 Lauren Murphy
10 Jennifer Maia *NR
11 Jessica-Rose Clark -1
12 Andrea Lee -1
13 Montana De La Rosa -1
14 Mara Romero Borella -1
15 Antonina Shevchenko

WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Germaine de Randamie
2 Holly Holm
3 Ketlen Vieira
4 Raquel Pennington
5 Cat Zingano
6 Aspen Ladd
7 Yana Kunitskaya
8 Marion Reneau
9 Sara McMann
10 Irene Aldana
11 Tonya Evinger
12 Bethe Correia
13 Lina Lansberg
14 Macy Chiasson
15 Talita Bernardo

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Cole Shelton
Cole Shelton covers MMA for BJPenn.com, MMANews, and MyMMANews.com while also being the lead MMA odds writer for Sports Betting Dime