Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently tied a ribbon around its UFC Fight Night 99 and UFC Fight Night 100 mixed martial arts (MMA) events, which both took place last Saturday (Nov. 19, 2016) in Belfast (UFC Fight Pass) and Brazil (FOX Sports 1), and there was a lot to talk about when all was said and done.
Full results and play-by-play for those fight cards here and here.
In the UFC Belfast main event, Uriah Hall was victimized by Gegard Mousasi en route to a technical knockout loss (video), one that sent him tumbling down the middleweight rankings. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira suffered a similar fate (see it) when light heavyweight contender Ryan Bader brutalized him at UFC Sao Paulo.
That’s not all.
Here’s what the latest rankings field looks like courtesy of UFC.com. Note: (+/- = movement in rankings, *NR = Not previously ranked).
POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Demetrious Johnson
2 Conor McGregor
3 Dominick Cruz
4 Daniel Cormier
5 Jose Aldo
6 Stipe Miocic
7 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
8 Tyron Woodley
9 Michael Bisping
10 Cris Cyborg
11 Robbie Lawler
12 Luke Rockhold
13 Amanda Nunes
14 Khabib Nurmagomedov +1
15 TJ Dillashaw -1
FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Demetrious Johnson
1 Joseph Benavidez
2 Henry Cejudo
3 Kyoji Horiguchi +1
4 Jussier Formiga -1
5 Wilson Reis +1
6 Ian McCall -1
7 Zach Makovsky
8 Ali Bagautinov
9 John Moraga
10 Dustin Ortiz
11 Louis Smolka +1
12 Brandon Moreno +1
13 Ray Borg +1
14 Sergio Pettis +1
15 Ben Nguyen *NR
BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Dominick Cruz
1 TJ Dillashaw
2 John Lineker
3 Raphael Assuncao
4 Jimmie Rivera
5 Cody Garbrandt +1
6 Bryan Caraway +1
7 Urijah Faber
8 Aljamain Sterling
9 Michael McDonald
10 John Dodson
11 Thomas Almeida
12 Johnny Eduardo +1
13 Eddie Wineland +1
14 Takeya Mizugaki
15 Pedro Munhoz *NR
FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Conor McGregor
1 Jose Aldo (Interim Champion)
2 Frankie Edgar
3 Max Holloway
4 Ricardo Lamas
5 Cub Swanson
6 Anthony Pettis
7 Jeremy Stephens
8 Charles Oliveira
9 Dennis Bermudez
10 Brian Ortega
11 Yair Rodriguez
12 Darren Elkins
13 Mirsad Bektic
14 Dooho Choi
15 Renan Barao
LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Conor McGregor
1 Khabib Nurmagomedov
2 Tony Ferguson
3 Eddie Alvarez
4 Rafael Dos Anjos
5 Nate Diaz
6 Edson Barboza
7 Michael Johnson
8 Michael Chiesa
9 Beneil Dariush
10 Donald Cerrone
11 Dustin Poirier
12 Gilbert Melendez
13 Francisco Trinaldo
14 Evan Dunham
15 Al Iaquinta
WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Tyron Woodley
1 Stephen Thompson
2 Robbie Lawler
3 Demian Maia
4 Carlos Condit
5 Donald Cerrone
6 Johny Hendricks
7 Lorenz Larkin
8 Kelvin Gastelum
8 Neil Magny +1
10 Dong Hyun Kim
11 Rick Story
12 Gunnar Nelson
13 Tarec Saffiedine
14 Matt Brown
15 Jake Ellenberger
MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Michael Bisping
1 Yoel Romero
2 Luke Rockhold
3 Jacare Souza
4 Chris Weidman
5 Gegard Mousasi
6 Anderson Silva
7 Robert Whittaker
8 Derek Brunson
9 Vitor Belfort
10 Tim Kennedy +2
11 Krzysztof Jotko +4
12 Thales Leites -1
13 Uriah Hall -3
14 Dan Henderson -1
15 Tim Boetsch -1
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Anthony Johnson
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Glover Teixeira
4 Ryan Bader
5 Jimi Manuwa
6 Ovince Saint Preux
7 Mauricio Rua
8 Nikita Krylov +2
9 Corey Anderson +2
10 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira -1
11 Ilir Latifi +1
12 Patrick Cummins +1
13 Misha Cirkunov +1
14 Rashad Evans -6
15 Gian Villante
HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Stipe Miocic
1 Fabricio Werdum
2 Cain Velasquez
3 Alistair Overeem
4 Junior Dos Santos
5 Ben Rothwell
6 Josh Barnett
7 Mark Hunt
8 Andrei Arlovski
9 Travis Browne
10 Derrick Lewis
11 Stefan Struve +1
12 Francis Ngannou +1
13 Alexander Volkov *NR
14 Daniel Omielanczuk
15 Shamil Abdurakhimov *NR
WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Joanna Jedrzejczyk
1 Claudia Gadelha
2 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
3 Carla Esparza
4 Rose Namajunas
5 Jessica Andrade
6 Tecia Torres
7 Joanne Calderwood
8 Paige VanZant
9 Valerie Letourneau
10 Maryna Moroz
11 Jessica Aguilar
12 Michelle Waterson
13 Jessica Penne
14 Alexa Grasso
15 Juliana Lima
WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Ronda Rousey
2 Valentina Shevchenko
3 Julianna Pena
4 Holly Holm
5 Raquel Pennington
6 Cat Zingano
7 Sara McMann
8 Liz Carmouche
9 Bethe Correia
10 Miesha Tate
11 Germaine de Randamie +1
12 Ashlee Evans-Smith -1
13 Marion Reneau +2
14 Jessica Eye -1
15 Katlyn Chookagian -1
There you have it.
You can expect these standings to change in just a few days as UFC Fight Night 101: “Whittaker vs. Brunson” goes down this Saturday night (Nov. 26, 2016) on FOX Sports 1 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For more on that upcoming fight card click here.
Until then, let us know what you think of the latest rankings movement in the comments section below.