April wasn’t the busiest month of MMA action, but it did feature a few big fights.
Former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson made his debut in Bellator and suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of welterweight champion Andrey Koreshkov. Junior dos Santos returned to form against Ben Rothwell. The long-lost Khabib Nurmagomedov returned after a two-year absence and annihilated the overmatched Darrell Horcher. Edson Barboza announced his arrival as an elite lightweight with a victory over Anthony Pettis.
Most importantly, Jon Jones put his legal troubles behind him and scored a one-sided win over Ovince Saint Preux at UFC 197.
Bleacher Report MMA is here with a new batch of rankings to reflect the April action, analyze what happened last month and look ahead to each division’s biggest stories in May.