MMA Nation August 2012 Consensus Rankings: Welterweight
#1 Carlos Condit will attempt to take the UFC Welterweight Championship from former long-time #1 Georges St. Pierre.
#1 Carlos Condit will attempt to take the UFC Welterweight Championship from former long-time #1 Georges St. Pierre.
Wait. Where's Georges St. Pierre? It has been over 450 days since GSP last competed and he's now ineligible to be ranked thanks to that inactivity.
Martin Kampmann's destruction of #8 Jake Ellenberger has moved him into a tie for #2 in the division.
Thanks to inactivity, #2 Georges St. Pierre has finally slipped from the top spot in the rankings.
With #1 Georges St. Pierre sidelined, the next big fight in the division is between #5 Johny Hendricks and #6 Josh Koscheck.
With #1 welterweight Georges St. Pierre out with injury, interim UFC champion and #2 welterweight Carlos Condit is the top active welterweight in the world.
Interim Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit moves into the #2 slot with his win over #3 Nick Diaz.
Johny Hendricks set the welterweight division on its head with his first round KO of long time #2 Jon Fitch.