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Official UFC rankings — the 2014 archive

Middleweight rankings, 2014

Where the Middleweight division stood when 2014 finished, taken from the 46 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Middleweight rankings are one click away.

The official UFC rankings, taken from ufc.com. 46 published tables in 2014, 7 January 2014 to 22 December 2014. These are the UFC’s own tables, week by week — we did not invent them and we do not reorder them. Names link to our fighter pages where we hold one; a ranked fighter we have no page for is printed as plain text rather than dropped.

How 2014 finished

The last Middleweight table the UFC published in 2014, dated 22 December 2014. The right-hand column is the change since 30 December 2013 — the table this page measures the year from.

The UFC’s published ranking table of 22 December 2014
RankFighterOn the year
ChampionCChris Weidman—
1Anderson Silva—
2Ronaldo Souza↑1
3Lyoto Machida↑1
4Vitor Belfort↓2
5Luke Rockhold↑1
6Yoel RomeroNEW
7Tim Kennedy↑2
8Gegard MousasiNEW
9Michael Bisping↓4
10CB DollawayNEW
11Thales Leites↑4
12Costas Philippou↓2
13Tim Boetsch↓2
14Mark Munoz↓7
15Brad TavaresNEW

A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.

What changed in 2014

Measured between the last table of 2013 on the record (30 December 2013) and the last table of 2014 (22 December 2014).

The champion line

  • 30 December 2013 · the year opens with Chris Weidman in the champion line
  • No change: the same fighter held the champion line on every table the UFC published for this division in the year.

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.

Middleweight rankings, year by year

A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Middleweight 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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