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UFC rankings update: Aljamain Sterling forces Conor McGregor off pound-for-pound list
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s stacked UFC 259 card, and as expected, there have been some significant changes. The biggest chances to the UFC rankings concern the men’s pound-for-pound list. Most notably, Jan Blachowicz made a huge climb up that list after he defeated reigning middleweight champion Israel Adesanya in […]
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UFC rankings update: Derrick Lewis makes big climb
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Vegas 19 card, and as expected, there have been some big changes. Most notably, Derrick Lewis has surged into the No. 2 spot at heavyweight after he knocked out Curtis Blaydes in the card’s main event. Yana Kunitskaya has also climbed into the bantamweight […]
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UFC Rankings Update: Charles Oliveira and Kevin Holland make big jumps
Among the biggest winners from UFC 256, there arguably weren’t any bigger than Charles Oliveira and Kevin Holland. In the event’s co-main event, Brazil’s Oliveira impressed beyond comprehension with the biggest win of his career. Taking on former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson, Oliveira would completely shut down his adversary en route to a […]
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UFC rankings update: Marvin Vettori surges at middleweight
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Vegas 16 card, and as expected, there have been some big changes. Most notably, Italian middleweight contender Marvin Vettori has rocketed up eight spots, into the middleweight top-5, on the strength of his thrilling decision victory over Jack Hermansson in the main event. See […]
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UFC rankings update: Anthony Smith gains ground at light heavyweight
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s UFC Vegas 15 card, and there have been a handful of interesting changes. While the card lost its originally scheduled Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis fight at the last minute, it still featured one ranked fighter as top-15 light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith submitted Devin […]
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UFC rankings update: Champs climb p4p lists, Shogun exits
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC 255 card, and as expected, there have been some big changes. Most notably, men and women’s flyweight champions Deiveson Figueiredo and Valentina Shevchenko have both climbed up their respective pound-for-pound lists, while former UFC light heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua has exited his division’s […]
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UFC rankings update: Glover Teixeira, Yan Xiaonan make huge climbs
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Vegas 12 card, and as expected, there have been some significant changes. Most notably, ageless wonder Glover Teixeira has swiped the No. 1 spot in the light heavyweight rankings on the strength of his submission victory over Thiago Santos in the card’s main event. […]
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UFC rankings update: Uriah Hall cracks top-10
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s UFC Vegas 12 card, and as always, there have been some interesting changes. The most notable change concerns Uriah Hall, who has cracked the middleweight division’s top-10 after scoring a fourth-round TKO win over retiring legend Anderson Silva in the card’s main event. By moving […]
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UFC rankings update: Khabib Nurmagomedov steals top P4P spot
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of UFC 254, and as widely expected, Khabib Nurmagomedov has gotten what he wanted. After Nurmagomedov defeated Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC 254, and announced his retirement from MMA immediately immediately thereafter, he shared his hopes that he’d steal the top spot […]
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UFC rankings update: Holly Holm, Germaine de Randamie climb
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Fight Island 4 event, and as always, there are some interesting changes. Most notably, Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie both made climbs up the women’s pound-for-pound rankings after picking up big wins on the card. Holm defeated Irene Aldana by decision in the […]
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UFC rankings update: Israel Adesanya scales pound-for-pound list
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s UFC 253 card, and as expected, there are some significant changes. Most notably, UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has rocketed up the illustrious men’s pound-for-pound list, scooting past UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. His climb can be attributed to his UFC 253 victory over the […]
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UFC rankings update: Colby Covington climbs, Tyron Woodley plummets
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Vegas 11 card and, as expected, there have been some big changes—particularly at welterweight. Most notably, polarizing welterweight contender Colby Covington has usurped the No. 1 spot in the division, pushing Gilbert Burns down to No. 2, on the strength of his fifth-round TKO […]
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UFC rankings update: Daniel Cormier’s retirement causes pound-for-pound shuffle
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Vegas 9 card, and despite the lack of big names on the bill, there have been some interesting changes. On of the biggest changes to the UFC rankings stems from the UFC Vegas 9 main event, in which Alistair Overeem thumped Augusto Sakai en […]
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UFC rankings update: Aleksandar Rakic rises, Robbie Lawler plummets
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Vegas 8 card at the Apex facility, and as expected there’s been quite a bit of movement. Most notably, Aleksandar Rakic can now call himself a top-5 light heavyweight after beating up former title challenger Anthony Smith in the card’s main event. Elsewhere in […]
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UFC rankings update: Frankie Edgar rockets into bantamweight top-15
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s UFC Vegas 7 card, and as expected, there have been some interesting changes. Most notably, former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar is now a ranked bantamweight having defeated Pedro Munhoz with a controversial split decision in the card’s main event. Edgar, who has spent the […]
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UFC rankings update: Marlon Vera returns to Top 15, Daniel Cormier falls
The official UFC rankings have been updated after UFC 252, and as expected, there have been some interesting changes. Most notably, Ecuador’s Marlon Vera has returned to the bantamweight top 15 after scoring an upset win over Sean O’Malley—a first-round TKO—in the card’s co-main event. Daniel Cormier, who retired after a decision loss to heavyweight […]
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UFC rankings update: Derek Brunson, Jennifer Maia make climbs
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last weekend’s UFC on ESPN+ 31 card, and as always, there have been some significant changes. Most notably, long-time UFC middleweight contender Derek Brunson has taken a nice climb up his division’s rankings after springing the upset on the formerly unbeaten Edmen Shahbazyan in […]
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UFC rankings update: Jorge Masvidal falls, Petr Yan makes pound-for-pound entrance
The official UFC rankings have been update in the wake of Saturday’s UFC 251 card in Abu Dhabi, an as expected after such a huge card, there have been some key changes. Most notably, Jorge Masvidal, who came up short to UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman in the UFC 251 main event, took a one-spot […]
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UFC rankings update: Emmett stays put, Burgos plummets
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 11 card, and unfortunately, the new edition has generated even more controversy than normal. All over social media, fight fans have been sharing their gripes about the new rankings. The main concern is that Josh Emmett didn’t gain any […]
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UFC rankings update: Cynthia Calvillo, Marvin Vettori make huge climbs
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s under-the-radar UFC on ESPN 10 card, and as expected, there have been some big changes. Most notably, former UFC strawweight contender Cynthia Calvillo made a gargantuan climb up the flyweight rankings after defeating the division’s No. 1 contender, Jessica Eye, in the cards main event. […]
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UFC rankings update: Glover Teixeira climbs at light heavyweight
The official UFC rankings have been updated after the promotion’s recent events in Jacksonville, and there have been some interesting changes. Most notably, former light heavyweight title challenger Glover Teixeira made a climb up the light heavyweight list on the strength of his Wednesday night defeat of Anthony Smith. Edson Barboza, meanwhile, has been ejected […]
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UFC rankings update: Weili Zhang zips past Valentina Shevchenko on P4P list
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s UFC 248 card, and in a fairly surprising twist, not much has changed. That’s probably because UFC 248 featured precisely zero ranked fighters outside the main and co-main events. That being said, the updated UFC rankings do feature some interesting changes. Most notably, Weili Zhang […]
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UFC rankings update: Deiveson Figueiredo moves up at flyweight
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last weekend’s UFC Norfolk card, and there have been some interesting changes. Most notably, Deiveson Figueiredo has swiped the No. 1 spot at flyweight after stopping Joseph Benavidez in the main event. Had Figueiredo made weight for the fight, he could now call himself the UFC flyweight […]
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UFC rankings update: Jan Blachowicz passes Daniel Cormier
The official UFC rankings have been updated after last Saturday’s UFC Rio Rancho card, and as expected, there are some interesting changes. Most notably, Jan Blachowicz, who knocked out Corey Anderson in the card’s main event, has made a big climb up at light heavyweight, surpassing the former champ Daniel Cormier. Of course, Cormier hasn’t […]
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UFC rankings update: Jairzinho Rozenstruik rockets up at heavyweight
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last Saturday’s card in Washington, D.C., and as expected, Jairzinho Rozenstruik has rocketed up the heavyweight list after smashing Alistair Overeem in the card’s main event. Outside this huge climb from Rozenstruik, the biggest change to the new UFC rankings occurred in the flyweight […]
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UFC rankings update: ‘Cowboy’ climbs into lightweight top-5
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last weekend’s UFC Ottawa card, and as expected, Donald Cerrone has made a big climb on the strength of his rousing decision defeat of Al Iaquinta. The fan favorite, known affectionately as “Cowboy,” now holds the number four spot in the lightweight division. These […]
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UFC rankings update: Jack Hermansson, Corey Sandhagen make huge climbs
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of last weekend’s action-packed UFC Fort Lauderdale card, and as expected, there have been a handful of notable changes. Most notably of all, as expected, is the significant climb of Jack Hermansson, who thrashed Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza in the card’s main event. Glover Teixeira, who […]
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UFC rankings update: Nate Diaz exits, Alistair Overeem climbs
The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of Saturday’s UFC St. Petersburg card, and as expected there have been some notable changes. The biggest change, however, seems to be unrelated to the card, as long absent lightweight star Nate Diaz has finally been ejected from the UFC rankings. In terms of UFC […]