Welterweight

Rankings as of October 1, 2011

Rank	Prev. Rank	Fighter	Record	Promotion
1	1	Georges St-Pierre	22-2	UFC
2	2	Jon Fitch	23-3-1, 1 NC	UFC
3	3	B.J. Penn	16-7-2	UFC
4	4	Nick Diaz	25-7, 1 NC	UFC
5	6	Josh Koscheck	16-5	UFC
6	8	Carlos Condit	27-5	UFC
7	10	Jake Ellenberger	26-5	UFC
8	5	Jake Shields	26-6-1	UFC
9	7	Martin Kampmann	17-5	UFC
10	9	Ben Askren	8-0	Bellator
11	11	Thiago Alves	18-8	UFC
12	12	Tyron Woodley	9-0	Strikeforce
13	13	Rick Story	13-4	UFC
14	14	Paul Daley	28-11-2	BAMMA
15	15	Jay Hieron	22-4	Bellator
16	16	Rory MacDonald	12-1	UFC
17	17	Diego Sanchez	23-4	UFC
18	18	Mike Pyle	21-8-1	UFC
19	19	John Hathaway	15-1	UFC
20	20	Anthony Johnson	9-3	UFC
21	21	Matt Hughes	45-9	UFC
22	22	Paulo Thiago	14-3	UFC
23	23	Dong Hyun Kim	14-1-1, 1 NC	UFC
24	24	Siyar Bahadurzada	20-4-1	UFC
25	25	Brian Ebersole	48-14-1, 1 NC	UFC

Welterweight Fight Results – October 2011

Fight Festival 31 (10/1/2011)

• Catchweight (178 lbs.): Kenny Robertson (NR) d. Lucio Linhares (NR)

Fight for Wrestling 4 (10/1/2011)

• Darren Crisp (NR) d. Cruz Gomez (NR)

UFC Live – Cruz vs. Johnson (10/1/2011)

• Anthony Johnson (No. 20 WW) d. Charlie Brenneman (NR)
• Josh Neer (NR) d. Keith Wisniewski (NR)

Pancrase Impressive Tour 10 (10/2/2011)

• Welterweight Title: (c) Takenori Sato (NR) d Eiji Ishikawa (NR)
• Yuki Kondo (NR) d. Yuta Nakamura (NR)
• Sojiro Orui (NR) d. Kenta Takagi (NR)

Apocalypse Fighting Championship (10/8/2011)

• Sergio Junior (NR) d. Edigar Dayon (NR)

Bellator 53 (10/8/2011)

• Welterweight Tournament Semifinals: Ben Saunders (NR) d. Luis Santos (NR)
• Welterweight Tournament Semifinals: Douglas Lima (NR) d. Chris Lozano (NR)
• Catchweight (175 lbs.): A.J. Matthews (NR) d. Rudy Bears (NR)
• David Rickels (NR) d. Levi Avera (NR)

CFA 3 (10/9/2011)

• John Howard (NR) d. Dennis Olson (NR)

M-1 Challenge 27 (10/14/2011)

• Daniel Madrid (NR) d. Tom Gallicchio (NR)
• Yasubey Enomoto (NR) d. Joshua Thorpe (NR)

Capital City Cage Wars 7 (10/15/2011)

• Brian Foster (NR) d. LaVerne Clark (NR)

Colosseum Combat 18 (10/15/2011)

• Anthony Lapsley (NR) d. Daniel Head (NR)

W1 MMA – Reloaded (10/15/2011)

• Chuck O’Neil (NR) d. Marcus Davis (NR)
• John Manley (NR) d. Sabah Homasi (NR)
• Nathan Coy (NR) d. Patrick Mikesz (NR)

Ringside MMA 12 (10/21/2011)

• Paul Daley (No. 14 WW) d. Luigi Fioravanti (NR)
• Alex Garcia (NR) d. Matt MacGrath (NR)

XFC 14 (10/21/2011)

• Nicolae Cury (NR) d. Elijah Harshbarger (NR)

Wreck MMA – Unfinished Business (10/28/2011)

• Nathan Gunn (NR) d. Nabil Khatib (NR)

Bellator 56 (10/29/2011)

• Welterweight Title: (c) Ben Askren (No. 10 WW) d. Jay Hieron (No. 15 WW)

DEEP Cage Impact – Second Round (10/29/2011)

• Ryo Chonan (NR) d. Naoki Samukawa (NR)
• Yuya Shirai (NR) d. Yoshitomo Watanabe (NR)

UFC 137 (10/29/2011)

• Nick Diaz (No. 4 WW) d. B.J. Penn (No. 3 WW)