Michael McDonald had a chance to shake up the UFC bantamweight rankings in the UFC on Fuel TV 7 main event, but he wasn’t quite ready for an opponent like Renan Barao, who successfully defended his interim title with a fourth-round submission finish.
One fighter who did improve his standing with a strong performance on Saturday was Cub Swanson. The Greg Jackson-trained featherweight defeated Dustin Poirier in an entertaining fight to move one step closer to his first shot at the UFC’s 145-pound championship.
With another UFC event in the books, official rankings have been released for each of the organization’s weight divisions. Here are those divisional rankings as published through UFC.com on Feb. 18.