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UFC Rankings Update: Jack Hermansson Enters Top Five

We have a UFC rankings update to pass along. Following this past weekend’s (Sat. April 27, 2019) UFC Fort Lauderdale event in Sunrise, Florida, the rankings have shaken up a bit. Glover Teixeira rejoined the top 10 at light heavyweight after defeating Ion Cutelaba in impressive fashion. Cory Sandhagen jumped up to No. 8 at […]

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We have a UFC rankings update to pass along.

Following this past weekend’s (Sat. April 27, 2019) UFC Fort Lauderdale event in Sunrise, Florida, the rankings have shaken up a bit. Glover Teixeira rejoined the top 10 at light heavyweight after defeating Ion Cutelaba in impressive fashion. Cory Sandhagen jumped up to No. 8 at bantamweight following his win over John Lineker.

And in the main event, Jack Hermansson toppled Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza at middleweight. Hermansson jumped up to No. 5 with the victory. You can check out the full updated UFC fighter rankings here below:

POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Jon Jones
3 Khabib Nurmagomedov
4 Henry Cejudo
5 Max Holloway
6 Amanda Nunes 
7 Kamaru Usman
8 Dustin Poirier
9 Conor McGregor
10 Robert Whittaker
11 Stipe Miocic
12 Tony Ferguson
13 Tyron Woodley
14 Rose Namajunas
15 Cris Cyborg

FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Henry Cejudo
1 Jussier Formiga
2 Joseph Benavidez
3 Alexandre Pantoja
4 Deiveson Figueiredo
5 Wilson Reis
6 Tim Elliott 
7 Rogerio Bontorin 
8 Magomed Bibulatov 
9 Ryan Benoit 
10 Jordan Espinosa 
11 Kai Kara France 
12 Eric Shelton 
13 Alex Perez
14 Raulian Paiva 
15 Matt Schnell

BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: VACANT
1 Marlon Moraes
2 Raphael Assuncao 
3 Aljamain Sterling 
4 Pedro Munhoz 
5 Dominick Cruz 
6 Cody Garbrandt 
7 Jimmie Rivera 
8 Corey Sandhagen
9 Petr Yan 
10 John Lineker -2
11 Cody Stamann -1
12 Rob Font -1
13 John Dodson -1
14 Alejandro Perez -1
15 Thomas Almeida -1

FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Max Holloway
1 Jose Aldo
2 Brian Ortega
3 Frankie Edgar
4 Alexander Volkanovski
5 Renato Moicano
6 Zabit Magomedsharipov
7 Jeremy Stephens 
8 Josh Emmett 
9 Mirsad Bektic 
10 Cub Swanson 
11 Ricardo Lamas 
12 Yair Rodriguez 
13 Chan Sung Jung
14 Darren Elkins
15 Calvin Kattar

LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov
1 Dustin Poirier (Interim Champion)
2 Tony Ferguson
3 Conor McGregor
4 Al Iaquinta
5 Justin Gaethje 
6 Kevin Lee
7 Edson Barboza
8 Donald Cerrone
9 Anthony Pettis
10 Paul Felder
11 Gregor Gillespie
12 Alexander Hernandez
13 James Vick
14 Charles Oliveira
15 Islam Makhachev

WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Kamaru Usman
1 Tyron Woodley
2 Colby Covington
3 Rafael Dos Anjos
4 Jorge Masvidal
5 Ben Askren
6 Darren Till
7 Stephen Thompson
8 Anthony Pettis
9 Santiago Ponzinibbio
10 Robbie Lawler
11 Leon Edwards
12 Demian Maia
13 Neil Magny 
14 Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
15 Vincente Luque

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Robert Whittaker
1 Israel Adesanya (Interim Champion)
2 Yoel Romero
3 Luke Rockhold
4 Kelvin Gastelum +1
5 Jack Hermansson +5
6 Ronaldo Souza -2
7 Chris Weidman -1
8 Paulo Costa -1
9 Derek Brunson -1
10 Jared Cannonier -1
11 Brad Tavares
12 Antonio Carlos Junior
13 Elias Theodorou
14 Uriah Hall -1
15 Anderson Silva

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Jon Jones
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Thiago Santos 
4 Anthony Smith
5 Dominick Reyes
6 Jan Blachowicz
7 Volkan Oezdemir
8 Corey Anderson
9 Ilir Latifi
10 Glover Teixeira +1
11 Jimi Manuwa -1
12 Johnny Walker
13 Mauricio Rua
14 Misha Cirkunov
15 Nikita Krylov

HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Stipe Miocic
2 Francis Ngannou
3 Junior Dos Santos
4 Curtis Blaydes
5 Derrick Lewis
6 (T) Alexander Volkov
6 (T) Alistair Overeem
8 Cain Velasquez
9 Aleksei Oleinik
10 Shamil Abdurakhimov
11 (T) Justin Willis
11 (T) Tai Tuivasa
13 Marcin Tybura
14 Blagoy Ivanov
15 Augusto Sakai *NR

WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Rose Namajunas
1 Jessica Andrade
2 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
3 Tatiana Suarez
4 Nina Ansaroff 
5 Claudia Gadelha
6 Weili Zhang 
7 Michelle Waterson 
8 Tecia Torres
9 Carla Esparza
10 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
11 Cynthia Calvillo
12 Felice Herrig
13 Alexa Grasso
14 Randa Markos
15 Cortney Casey

WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Valentina Shevchenko
1 Jessica Eye
2 Katlyn Chookagian
3 Liz Carmouche
4 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
5 Roxanne Modafferi
6 Joanne Calderwood -1
7 Alexis Davis
8 (T) Lauren Murphy
8 (T) Jennifer Maia
10 Andrea Lee
11 Montana De La Rosa
12 Mara Romero Borella
13 Maycee Barber
14 Paige VanZant
15 Poliana Botelho

WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Germaine de Randamie
2 Holly Holm
3 Ketlen Vieira
4 Raquel Pennington
5 Cat Zingano
6 Aspen Ladd
7 Yana Kunitskaya
8 Marion Reneau
9 Sara McMann
10 Irene Aldana
11 Tonya Evinger 
12 Bethe Correia 
13 Lina Lansberg
14 Macy Chiasson 
15 Talita Bernardo

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UFC Ft. Lauderdale Prelims Average Just Over 700K Viewers On ESPN

The UFC Fort Lauderdale preliminary numbers are in. MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer reports that the ESPN prelims averaged just over 720,000 viewers. The first three fights on ESPN 2 averaged 288,000. The prelims brought in the lowest ratings for a live UFC event on ESPN up to this point. The show was ranked fifth on […]

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The UFC Fort Lauderdale preliminary numbers are in.

MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer reports that the ESPN prelims averaged just over 720,000 viewers. The first three fights on ESPN 2 averaged 288,000. The prelims brought in the lowest ratings for a live UFC event on ESPN up to this point. The show was ranked fifth on cable during the 7 to 9 P.M. time slot.

It was third in terms of sports broadcasts, trailing the Philadelphia 76ers vs. Toronto Raptors, which did 3,075,000 viewers, and the Boston Bruins vs. Columbus Blue Jackets game, which pulled in 2,852,000 viewers. The ESPN prelims consisted of four fights. The first being a lightweight bout between Gilbert Burns and Mike Davis.

Next, Carla Esparza met Virna Jandiroba in a women’s strawweight fight. Augusto Sakai bested former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski. And headlining the prelims was Takashi Sato finishing Ben Saunders in the second round at welterweight. The finish actually cost Saunders a lengthy medical suspension.

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UFC Fort Lauderdale Prelims Viewership Revealed

UFC Fort Lauderdale didn’t exactly hit a home run in terms of preliminary viewership, but the sky isn’t falling. On April 27, UFC Fort Lauderdale took place inside the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida. Headlining the ESPN+ card was a mid…

UFC Fort Lauderdale didn’t exactly hit a home run in terms of preliminary viewership, but the sky isn’t falling. On April 27, UFC Fort Lauderdale took place inside the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida. Headlining the ESPN+ card was a middleweight clash between Jack Hermansson and Jacare Souza. Hermansson won the bout via unanimous decision. […]

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Greg Hardy: I Beat An Experienced UFC Fighter

Greg Hardy picked up his first UFC victory last Saturday at UFC Fort Lauderdale with a Round 1 TKO of Dmitrii Smoliakov. But what has been perhaps the largest subject of conversation, isn’t Hardy’s dominant victory, but the lackluster performance of Sm…

Greg Hardy picked up his first UFC victory last Saturday at UFC Fort Lauderdale with a Round 1 TKO of Dmitrii Smoliakov. But what has been perhaps the largest subject of conversation, isn’t Hardy’s dominant victory, but the lackluster performance of Smoliakov, which even drew criticism from UFC President Dana White himself. Hardy’s take on […]

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Greg Hardy Proclaims UFC Heavyweight Elite ‘Are In His Sights’

Greg Hardy is out to prove himself inside the UFC Octagon. He got off to a great start picking up his first UFC victory over the weekend (Sat. April 27, 2019). Hardy finished Dmitrii Smoliakov in the first round via TKO. In his first UFC fight this past January, Hardy suffered a disqualification loss to […]

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Greg Hardy is out to prove himself inside the UFC Octagon.

He got off to a great start picking up his first UFC victory over the weekend (Sat. April 27, 2019). Hardy finished Dmitrii Smoliakov in the first round via TKO. In his first UFC fight this past January, Hardy suffered a disqualification loss to Allen Crowder.

Both of Hardy’s UFC fights have taken place in the co-main event. However, other fighters have been critical of Hardy’s opportunity, believing it’s solely off the back of his NFL experience. Many of the heavyweight elite – such as title contenders Stipe Miocic and Derrick Lewis – share those sentiments.

Speaking to TMZ recently, Hardy said he has all of the heavyweight elite, Miocic and Lewis included, in his sights (via MMA Mania):

“They’re not in my mind, they’re in my sights,” Hardy said. “They’re locked in. With all due time. I want to earn this, for one. So that these loudmouths that run their mouth talking about ‘Oh, Greg doesn’t deserve like blah, blah, blah.’ Yeah, I do. Because I earned it. I worked my way up to here.”

Fighters such as Derrick Lewis, who comes from a home in which he witnessed his mother being abused, want to fight Hardy due to the former NFL star’s history of domestic abuse.

Knowing the likes of Lewis would like to share the Octagon with him, Hardy says that will all come in due time, as he currently isn’t ready to face opponents of that caliber quite yet:

“I’m not ready,” Hardy said. “It’s like throwing a cub in there with some lions, man. It just doesn’t make sense. So when I go there, when I do fight these guys, hopefully, soon enough when I do elevate and graduate, it’s gonna be Goliath vs. Goliath. A war to be witnessed and loved and cherished forever and on through time.”

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UFC Fort Lauderdale Medical Suspensions: Ben Saunders Out 60 Days

The UFC Fort Lauderdale medical suspensions have come out. This past weekend (Sat. April 27, 2019) the show went down from the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida. In the main event, Jack Hermansson upset Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza with a unanimous decision. Both main eventers were issued 30-day sits. Also, Ben Saunders was issued the lengthiest […]

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The UFC Fort Lauderdale medical suspensions have come out.

This past weekend (Sat. April 27, 2019) the show went down from the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida. In the main event, Jack Hermansson upset Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza with a unanimous decision. Both main eventers were issued 30-day sits.

Also, Ben Saunders was issued the lengthiest of the suspensions with 60 days. He was finished by Takashi Sato in the second round. Check out the full UFC Fort Lauderdale medical suspensions here below:

  • Jack Hermansson: 30-Day Suspension
  • Jacare Souza: 30-Day Suspension
  • Dmitrii Smoliakov: 30-Day Suspension
  • Alex Oliveira: 30-Day Suspension
  • Mike Perry: 30-Day Suspension
  • Glover Teixeira: 30-Day Suspension
  • Ion Cutelaba: 45-Day Suspension
  • Roosevelt Roberts: 30-Day Suspension
  • Thomas Gifford: 30-Day Suspension
  • Ben Saunders: 60-Day Suspension
  • Takashi Sato: 30-Day Suspension
  • Augusto Sakai: 30-Day Suspension
  • Carla Esparza: 30-Day Suspension
  • Jason Gonzalez: 30-Day Suspension
  • Angela Hill: 30-Day Suspension
  • Jodie Esquibel: 45-Day Suspension
  • Court McGee: 30-Day Suspension

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