Thiago Santos has cracked the top five in the light heavyweight division on the latest UFC rankings update.
As expected, after UFC on ESPN+3 there have been some significant changes in some of the divisions. While Santos made the biggest leap into the top five of the 205-pound division, others like Petr Yan moved into the No. 8 spot in the bantamweight.
Here are the latest rankings courtesy of UFC.com. Note: (+/- = movement in rankings, *NR = Not previously ranked).
Women’s Strawweight
Champion : Rose Namajunas
1 Jessica Andrade
2 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
3 Nina Ansaroff
3 Tatiana Suarez
5 Claudia Gadelha
6 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
7 Tecia Torres
8 Michelle Waterson
9 Carla Esparza
10 Cynthia Calvillo
11 Felice Herrig
12 Alexa Grasso
13 Cortney Casey
14 Randa Markos
15 Weili Zhang *NR
Women’s Flyweight – No Change
Women’s Bantamweight
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Germaine de Randamie
2 Holly Holm
3 Ketlen Vieira
4 Raquel Pennington
5 Cat Zingano
6 Marion Reneau
7 Aspen Ladd
8 Sara McMann
9 Yana Kunitskaya
10 Irene Aldana
11 Bethe Correia +1
12 Tonya Evinger -1
13 Lina Lansberg
14 Talita Bernardo +1
15 Mayra Bueno Silva *NR
Flyweight – No Change
Bantamweight
Champion: TJ Dillashaw
1 Marlon Moraes
2 Cody Garbrandt
3 Raphael Assuncao
4 Dominick Cruz
5 Aljamain Sterling
6 Jimmie Rivera
7 John Lineker
8 Petr Yan +6
9 Pedro Munhoz -1
10 Rob Font
11 John Dodson -2
12 Cody Stamann -1
13 Alejandro Perez -1
14 Thomas Almeida -1
15 Ricky Simon
Featherweight – No Change
Lightweight – No Change
Welterweight – No Change
Middleweight – No Change
Light Heavyweight
Champion: Jon Jones
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Anthony Smith
4 Thiago Santos +2
5 Jan Blachowicz -1
5 Volkan Oezdemir
7 Corey Anderson -1
8 Dominick Reyes
9 Ilir Latifi
10 Jimi Manuwa
11 Glover Teixeira
12 Ovince Saint Preux
13 Mauricio Rua
14 Misha Cirkunov
15 Johnny Walker
Heavyweight – No Change
Pound-For-Pound
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Jon Jones
3 Khabib Nurmagomedov
4 Max Holloway
5 Henry Cejudo
6 Tyron Woodley
7 Amanda Nunes
8 TJ Dillashaw +1
9 Conor McGregor +1
10 Stipe Miocic +1
11 Georges St-Pierre -3
12 Robert Whittaker
13 Tony Ferguson
14 Rose Namajunas
15 Cris Cyborg
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