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Official UFC rankings — the 2013 archive

Featherweight rankings, 2013

Where the Featherweight 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 Featherweight rankings are one click away.

The official UFC rankings, taken from ufc.com. 32 published tables in 2013, 4 February 2013 to 30 December 2013. 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 2013 finished

The last Featherweight 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.

The UFC’s published ranking table of 30 December 2013
RankFighterOn the year
ChampionCJosé Aldo—
1Chad Mendes—
2Ricardo Lamas—
3Frankie Edgar↑1
4Cub Swanson↑2
5Chan Sung Jung↓2
6Dustin Poirier↑1
7Dennis Siver↓2
8Nik Lentz—
9Clay Guida↑1
10Erik Koch↓1
11Darren ElkinsNEW
12Conor McGregorNEW
13Dennis BermudezNEW
14Diego BrandaoNEW
15Jeremy StephensNEW

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 2013

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).

The champion line

  • 4 February 2013 · the year opens with José Aldo 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.

Left the table

Nobody dropped off. Every fighter on the table of 4 February 2013 was still on the one of 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.

Featherweight rankings, year by year

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