Where the Lightweight division stood when 2013 finished, taken from the 32 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Lightweight rankings are one click away.
The last Lightweight table the UFC published in 2013, dated 30 December 2013. The right-hand column is the change since 4 February 2013 — the table this page measures the year from.
| Rank | Fighter | On the year |
|---|---|---|
| ChampionC | Anthony Pettis | ↑2 |
| 1 | Benson Henderson | ↓1 |
| 2 | Gilbert Melendez | ↓1 |
| 3 | TJ Grant | ↑4 |
| 4 | Josh Thomson | NEW |
| 5 | Nate Diaz | ↓1 |
| 6 | Rafael Dos Anjos | ↑2 |
| 7 | Khabib Nurmagomedov | ↑3 |
| 8 | Donald Cerrone | ↓2 |
| 9 | Jim Miller | ↓4 |
| 10 | Gray Maynard | ↓7 |
| 11 | Edson Barboza | NEW |
| 12 | Bobby Green | NEW |
| 13 | Diego Sanchez | NEW |
| 14 | Michael Johnson | NEW |
| 15 | Rustam Khabilov | NEW |
A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.
2013 is the first year this division appears on the record, so there is no earlier table to measure from. Measured instead between its own first table (4 February 2013) and its last (30 December 2013).
Entering and leaving are counted across the whole published table, the champion line included, so a fighter who won the belt during the year is not double-counted as having left the numbered places. The number beside each name is where they sat on the table that names them. Movement inside the year that had reversed itself by December is not counted here — the division page’s week-by-week slider is where every table in between lives.
A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Lightweight tables in it. A year with three or four tables in it is the year a division opened or closed, and a “what changed this year” section built on three weeks in December would be titled as something it is not.
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