{"id":339343,"date":"2020-01-27T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=339343"},"modified":"2020-01-27T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:56:30","slug":"ufc-to-split-up-pound-for-pound-rankings-create-new-mens-and-womens-p4p-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-to-split-up-pound-for-pound-rankings-create-new-mens-and-womens-p4p-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC to split up pound-for-pound rankings, create new men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s P4P rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC has decided to split up the pound-for-pound rankings as men and women fighters will now be ranked in their own categories.<\/p>\n<p>Even since the UFC instituted the pound-for-pound rankings a few years ago, they have allowed panelists to combine both men and women in the rankings. That&#8217;s led to some controversy, and many fans and media have felt for quite some time that there should be separate rankings for male and female fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there will be.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Massami, one of the UFC&#8217;s ranking panelists, confirmed on his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brmassami\/status\/1221768184941821952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> the promotion will introduce the new women&#8217;s P4P list when the new rankings come out this week. That means that any women currently on the P4P list will be removed, and that list will become a men&#8217;s list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: I have a good news to you.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, UFC was decided to separate the P4P Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>We will have Mens and Woman&#39;s P4P Rankings now.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruno Massami (\u0411\u0440\u0443\u043d\u043e \u041c\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u043c\u0438) (@BrMassami) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrMassami\/status\/1221768184941821952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Breaking: I have a good news to you. Finally, UFC was decided to separate the P4P Rankings. We will have Mens and Woman&#8217;s P4P Rankings now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is the No. 1 ranked P4P fighter in the UFC. That, of course, won&#8217;t change when the new list is introduced this week. 13 of the top 15 fighters in the current P4P ranks are men, so they won&#8217;t leave the list, though they will all move up one or two spots with two women exiting the list.<\/p>\n<p>UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes is currently the No. 5 ranked P4P fighter, and presumably she will be No. 1 ranked on the new women&#8217;s list. UFC women&#8217;s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko is ranked No. 12, so she will likely slot in as the No. 2 ranked P4P female fighter. UFC women&#8217;s strawweight champion Weili Zhang will also likely be placed highly on the list.<\/p>\n<p>This news is great news for both men and women fighters as it gives both more of an opportunity to jump into the top-15 P4P rankings and gain <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-rankings-update-conor-mcgregor-nearly-off-pound-for-pound-list\/\">some more recognition for their in-cage exploits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you like the UFC splitting up the pound-for-pound rankings?<\/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\/27\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC has decided to split up the pound-for-pound rankings as men and women fighters will now be ranked in their own categories. Even since the UFC instituted the pound-for-pound rankings a few years ago, they have allowed panelists to combine both men and women in the rankings. 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