{"id":267565,"date":"2018-01-09T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267565"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:55:22","slug":"video-clip-shows-crazy-changes-ufc-welterweight-top-10-experienced-2017-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-clip-shows-crazy-changes-ufc-welterweight-top-10-experienced-2017-1\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | This clip shows the crazy changes the UFC welterweight top-10 has experienced in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbloodyelbowblog%2Fvideos%2F10155073651401881%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n2017 was a crazy year for MMA. We witnessed perhaps the greatest submission ever, courtesy of flyweight champ Demetrious &#8220;Mighty Mouse&#8221; Johnson. We were dazzled by some truly ridiculous knockouts, many of which happened to be dealt with knees. We enjoyed some thrilling, back-and-forth fights. We watched the meteoric rises of fighters like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/max-holloway\/report-max-holloway-set-to-defend-featherweight-title-at-ufc-222-in-march\/\">Max Holloway<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannou-hunt-mmas-first-homegrown-heavyweight-superstar-1\/\">Francis Ngannou<\/a> and Volkan Oezdemir. No matter how you swing it, 2017 was a wild one for our sport.<\/p>\n<p>The crazy nature of the year 2017 is perfectly exemplified in the video at the top of this post (via Reddit user mikehutch) which shows the procession of insane shakeups and adjustments the UFC welterweight division experienced over the course of the year. Contenders rose and fell. Long-time staples of the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/khabib-nurmagomedov\/ufc-rankings-update-khabib-nurmagomedov-enters-pound-pound-list\/\">top-10<\/a> like Carlos Condit and Dong Hyun Kim made their inevitable exits from the rankings, while a handful of talented young fighters like Colby Covington, Darren Till and Kamaru Usman shoehorned themselves into the division&#8217;s uppermost echelon&#8230; Relive it all by watching the video above.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think the year 2018 holds for the UFC welterweight division?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 1\/9\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 was a crazy year for MMA. We witnessed perhaps the greatest submission ever, courtesy of flyweight champ Demetrious &#8220;Mighty Mouse&#8221; Johnson. 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