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Jan Blachowicz’s emphatic win at Rio Rancho has sent him up the light heavyweight rankings list.
Jan Blachowicz is definitely back. He never really left, when it came to being a challenger in the light heavyweight division. One year ago, he was getting knocked out by Thiago Santos. A KO win over Luke Rockhold and a close decision victory over Jacare Souza, both former middleweights, got him back into the swing of things. But what would happen when he faced a legit 205er again?
Well, he knocked Corey Anderson out in just over three minutes in the UFC Rio Rancho headliner. And he’s back in the top five.
Here’s a look at all the rankings changes this week, which honestly isn’t a whole lot.
Men’s P4P – No changes.
Heavyweight – No changes.
Light Heavyweight – Blachowicz is up two spots to four. Daniel Cormier is down one to five, and Anderson is down one to six.
Middleweight – No changes.
Welterweight – No changes.
Lightweight – No changes.
Featherweight – Sodiq Yusuff and Arnold Allen flip-flopped the 14 and 15 spots again.
Bantamweight – John Dodson is up one to 12 after stopping Nathaniel Wood in Rio Rancho. Song Yadong is down one to 13. Raoni Barcelos enters the rankings at 15.
Flyweight – Raulian Pavia is up one to 13 after stopping Mark De La Rosa in the curtain jerker. De La Rosa is down one to 14.
Women’s P4P – Tatiana Suarez is up one into a tie for seven with Holly Holm. Julianna Pena is down one to 13. Nina Ansaroff is up one to 14. Claudia Gadelha is barely holding on, down one to 15.
Women’s Bantamweight – No changes.
Women’s Flyweight – Montana De La Rosa’s win moved up her one spot to 11, dropping Antonina Shevchenko to 12. Mara Romero Borella, who lost to Montana, is down two to 15. That allowed Ji Yeon Kim and Poliana Botelho to move up one each to 13 and 14. Molly McCann enters the rankings in a tie for 15.
Women’s Straweight – No changes.