UFC Rankings Report: Does Volkanovski Surpass Usman On P4P?

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 276, and we’ve got the full report for you below! Men’s Pound for Pound: Alexander Volkanovski remains at #2 right behind Kamaru Usman (#1) despite Max Holloway and a growing number of people arguing tha…

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 276, and we’ve got the full report for you below! Men’s Pound for Pound: Alexander Volkanovski remains at #2 right behind Kamaru Usman (#1) despite Max Holloway and a growing number of people arguing that he’s the best P4P fighter in the world. This comes after Volkanovski…

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UFC Rankings Report: Nurmagomedov Arrives, Shavkat & Gamrot Surge

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC Vegas 57, and we’ve got the full report for you below! Men’s Pound for Pound: Robert Whittaker (#14) and Glover Teixeira (#15) have swapped places. Women’s Pound for Pound: No changes Strawweight: No changes Women’s Flyweight: Tracy Cortez appears in the rankings at #15, while Cynthia Calvillo…

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The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC Vegas 57, and we’ve got the full report for you below!

Men’s Pound for Pound: Robert Whittaker (#14) and Glover Teixeira (#15) have swapped places.

Women’s Pound for Pound: No changes

Strawweight: No changes

Women’s Flyweight: Tracy Cortez appears in the rankings at #15, while Cynthia Calvillo (T-10), Jessica Eye (T-10), Casey O’Neill (#12), Maycee Barber (#13), and Erin Blanchfield (#14) each move up one position. Additionally, Viviane Araujo (#6) and Manon Fiorot (#7) swapped positions.

Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes

Women’s Featherweight: N/A 

Flyweight: Alexandre Pantoja drops one position down to #4. Meanwhile, Jeff Molina appears in the rankings at #15 and Matt Schnell (#8), David Dvorak (#9), Tim Elliott (#10), Sumudaerji (#11), Amir Albazi (#12), Manel Kape (#13), and Tagir Ulanbekov (#14) each rise one position. 

Bantamweight: After improving his UFC record to 3-0 with a dominant victory over Nate Maness at UFC Vegas 57, Umar Nurmagomedov debuts in the rankings at #15. Also this week, Pedro Munhoz moves up to #9 ahead of this weekend’s bout against Sean O’Malley, causing Song Yadong to drop one spot to #10. Ricky Simon also dropped one spot to #12. 

Featherweight: Arnold Allen (#6) and Chan Sung Jung (#7) swap places. 

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Lightweight: After defeating Arman Tsarukyan in the UFC Vegas 57 main event, Mateusz Gamrot shoots up four spots to #8 while Tsarukyan remains unmoved at #11. Meanwhile, Conor McGregor drops four spots to #12. 

Welterweight: UFC Vegas 57’s co-main event winner, Shavkat Rakhmonov, experienced the biggest movement of all this week after defeating Neil Magny. Rakhmonov rose five spots and is now ranked #10 at welterweight while Magny dropped two spots down to #12. Additionally, Geoff Neal (#13), Li Jingliang (#14), and Michel Pereira (#15) each drop one position this week. 

Middleweight: No Changes

Light Heavyweight: No Changes

Heavyweight: No Changes

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UFC 275 Rankings Report: Procházka Shakes Up The P4P Rankings

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 275, and we’ve got the full report for you below! Men’s Pound for Pound: After defeating Glover Teixeira in one of the greatest fights in UFC history, new light heavyweight champion Ji?í Procházka has debuted in the pound-for-pound rankings at #11. Meanwhile, Teixeira’s loss dropped him seven…

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The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 275, and we’ve got the full report for you below!

Men’s Pound for Pound: After defeating Glover Teixeira in one of the greatest fights in UFC history, new light heavyweight champion Ji?í Procházka has debuted in the pound-for-pound rankings at #11. Meanwhile, Teixeira’s loss dropped him seven spots down to #15. Teixeira’s fall resulted in Aljamain Sterling (#8), Jon Jones (#9), and Deiveson Figueiredo (#10) rising one position each.

Women’s Pound for Pound: After taking one scorecard from the P4P Queen Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 275, Taila Santos debuts in the P4P rankings at #14.

Strawweight: No Changes

Women’s Flyweight: Taila Santos moves up two positions to #2, right behind Kaitlyn Chookagian (#1). Santos’ move up has resulted in Lauren Murphy (#3) and Jéssica Andrade (#4) dropping one position. Additionally, Cynthia Calvillo (#11) and Jessica Eye (#12) swap places, and Erin Blanchfield appears on the list at #15.

Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes

Women’s Featherweight: N/A 

Flyweight: No Changes

Bantamweight: No Changes

Featherweight: No Changes

Lightweight: Tony Ferguson has moved up one position to #8 in a tie with Conor McGregor.

Welterweight: No Changes

Middleweight: Paulo Costa has dropped two positions down to #6. 

Light Heavyweight: With Ji?í Procházka being crowned the new champion, Glover Teixeira is now the #1 contender, with Jan Blachowicz ranked #2. 

Heavyweight: No Changes

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UFC Rankings Report: Charles Oliveira Shakes Up P4P & Lightweight Rankings

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 274, and we’ve got the full report for you below! Men’s Pound for Pound: After defeating Justin Gaethje in the UFC 274 main event, Oliveira is getting all the respect of a champion despite being stripped due to missing championship weight. Oliveira moves up to #4, one…

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The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 274, and we’ve got the full report for you below!

Men’s Pound for Pound: After defeating Justin Gaethje in the UFC 274 main event, Oliveira is getting all the respect of a champion despite being stripped due to missing championship weight. Oliveira moves up to #4, one spot ahead of Francis Ngannou who now falls to #5.

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In other changes, Aljamain Sterling now ties Jon Jones at #9 while Robert Whittaker (#14) passes up former flyweight champion Brandon Moreno (#15).

Women’s Pound for Pound: After losing the strawweight title to Carla Esparza in underwhelming fashion, Namajunas drops to #4, being passed up by bantamweight champion Julianna Peña (#3). Esparza’s title win bumps her up two spots to #6, causing Jéssica Andrade (#7) and Holly Holm (#8) to fall one position. Also, Mackenzie Dern (#12) and Irene Aldana (#13) swap places in the rankings.

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Strawweight: With Carla Esparza back at the top of the strawweight throne, Rose Namajunas is now the #1 contender, with Zhang Weili dropping to #2. Yan Xiaonan now sits at #5. Additionally, Luana Pinheiro now appears in the rankings at #15. 

Women’s Flyweight: Following her 10th straight victory and extending her UFC record to 4-0 after defeating Melissa Gato at UFC 274, Tracy Cortez debuts in the rankings at #15. 

Women’s Bantamweight: Pannie Kianzad (#9) and Miesha Tate (#10) swap places.

Women’s Featherweight: N/A 

Flyweight: Alexandre Pantoja moves up to #3, and Brandon Royval’s UFC 274 victory over Matt Schnell gives him a boost up to #5. Alex Perez is now ranked #6.

Bantamweight: No Changes

Featherweight: No Changes

Lightweight: Lots of changes at lightweight this week following UFC 274. Now that there is no official champion following Oliveira’s weight miss ahead of his victory over Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler’s KO over Tony Ferguson, the top 15 now looks as follows:

  1. Charles Oliveira (-1)
  2. Dustin Poirier (-1)
  3. Justin Gaethje (-2)
  4. Islam Makhachev (-1)
  5. Michael Chandler
  6. Beneil Dariush (-2)
  7. Rafael dos Anjos (-1)
  8. Gregor Gillespie
  9. Conor McGregor
  10. Tony Ferguson (-3)
  11. Rafael Fiziev (-1)
  12. Arman Tsarukyan (-1)
  13. Dan Hooker
  14. Mateusz Gamrot (-2)
  15. Brad Riddell (-1)

Welterweight: No Changes

Middleweight: No Changes

Light Heavyweight: No Changes

Heavyweight: No Changes

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UFC Rankings Report: Tuivasa Surges & Adesanya Moves Up P4P

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 271, and we’ve got the full report for you below! Men’s Pound for Pound: After defeating Robert Whittaker via unanimous decision at UFC 271, Israel Adesanya moves ahead of Alexander Volkanovski to the #2 spot, sending Volkanovski down to #3. Additionally, Max Holloway (#6) moves ahead of…

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The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 271, and we’ve got the full report for you below!

Men’s Pound for Pound: After defeating Robert Whittaker via unanimous decision at UFC 271, Israel Adesanya moves ahead of Alexander Volkanovski to the #2 spot, sending Volkanovski down to #3. Additionally, Max Holloway (#6) moves ahead of Jon Jones (#7), and Glover Teixeira is no longer tied with Stipe Miocic at #10, with Miocic now ranked at #11. 

Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes

Strawweight: No Changes

Women’s Flyweight: “King” Casey O’Neill moves up to #12 after defeating Roxanne Modafferi at UFC 271. Additionally, Manon Fiorot (#13) and Maycee Barber (#14) swap positions this week, and Erin Blanchfield appears in the rankings down at #15.

Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes

Women’s Featherweight: N/A 

Flyweight: Sumudaerji (#12) and Tim Elliot (#13) swap places. 

Bantamweight: No Changes

Featherweight: No Changes

Lightweight: Gregor Gillespie moves up one spot to be tied with Conor McGregor at #9. 

Welterweight: No Changes

Middleweight: Following his big win over Derek Brunson at UFC 271, Jared Cannonier moves up one spot to #3, sending Marvin Vettori down to #4. Another change in the top 5 this week sees Sean Strickland move up one spot to #5 to be tied with Paulo Costa. Brunson remains at #4.

Light Heavyweight: No Changes

Heavyweight: Tai Tuivasa’s fifth consecutive KO shook up the heavyweight rankings. After knocking out Derrick Lewis at UFC 271, “Bam Bam” Tuivasa now finds himself ranked at #3, and Lewis drops two spots down to #5. This shakeup has caused the following fighters to drop in this week’s rankings: Alexander Volkov (#6), Jairzinho Rozenstruik (#7), Chris Daukaus (#8), Shamil Abdurakhimov (#10), and Tom Aspinall (#11).

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UFC Rankings Report: Does Ngannou Get P4P Respect After UFC 270?

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 270, and we’ve got the full report for you below!

Men’s Pound for Pound: One man shot up the pound-for-pound rankings after UFC 270, and that man is the newly crowned flyweight champion Deiveson Figu…

Francis Ngannou

The UFC rankings have been updated following UFC 270, and we’ve got the full report for you below!

Men’s Pound for Pound: One man shot up the pound-for-pound rankings after UFC 270, and that man is the newly crowned flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo, who went from unranked to #12 after defeating former champion Brandon Moreno via unanimous decision. As a result of the loss, Moreno falls three spots down to #13. 

Also moving down this week are Stipe Miocic (#10), Robert Whittaker (#14), and Jan Blachowicz (#15). Moving up we have Glover Teixeira (#11), and Petr Yan moved up two spots to #9. 

As for the big winner of the heavyweight championship unification bout, Francis Ngannou, he remains at #4 behind Israel Adesanya (#3), Alexander Volkanovski, and Kamaru Usman (#1), who was in Ngannou’s corner during the event. 

Women’s Pound for Pound: No Changes

Strawweight: No Changes

Women’s Flyweight: No Changes

Women’s Bantamweight: No Changes

Women’s Featherweight: N/A 

Flyweight: Brandon Moreno is now the #1 contender following his UFC 270 title loss to Deiveson Figueiredo.

Bantamweight: Pedro Munhoz (#9) and Marlon Moraes (#10) swap positions. 

Featherweight: No Changes

Lightweight: No Changes

Welterweight: No Changes

Middleweight: No Changes

Light Heavyweight: No Changes

Heavyweight: No Changes, as Ciryl Gane remains ranked #1 following his main event loss to Francis Ngannou at UFC 270.

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