The latest UFC rankings update has gone live and it takes into account all the action from UFC 315 in Montreal, Canada over the past weekend.
The key shift in the rankings comes at welterweight after No. 5 ranked Jack Della Maddalena took out champion Belal Muhammad to become the new king at 170 pounds. As a result, everyone above Jack slid down one position: Muhammad is now ranked No. 1, followed by Sean Brady, Shavkat Rakhmonov, Leon Edwards, and Kamaru Usman at No. 5.
Della Maddalena also made his debut on the men’s pound-for-pound rankings at No. 9, while Muhammad tumbled six slots to No. 13. For some reason, Alexander Volkanovski also moved up two to No. 7.
The UFC women’s flyweight division saw a ton of changes as well. Natalia Silva moved up four spots to No. 1 at 125 pounds after beating Alexa Grasso, who dropped two spots to No. 3. Erin Blanchfield and Maycee Barber both dropped a spot each to make way for the new top contender. Canadian standout Jasmine Jasudavicius went from No. 9 to No. 6 at women’s flyweight following a dominant first round submission win over former champion Jessica Andrade. Manon Fiorot remained at No. 2 after losing to champ Valentina Shevchenko.
In the women’s pound-for-pound rankings, Alexa Grasso dropped two slots to No. 3, while Juliana Pena and Manon Fiorot moved up one rank each to No. 3 and No. 4 respectively. Natalia Silva jumped five slots to No. 8, pushing everyone below her down one.
At bantamweight, Aiemann Zahabi jumped from No. 15 to No. 11 after beating Jose Aldo in a close (controversial?) fight that saw him nearly finish a gassed “Scarface” in the third round.
Take a look at the changed rankings below:
Men’s Pound-For-Pound Rankings1 Islam Makhachev 2 Jon Jones 3 Ilia Topuria 4 Merab Dvalishvili 5 Dricus Du Plessis 6 Magomed Ankalaev 7 Alexander Volkanovski + 28 Alex Pereira 9 Jack Della Maddalena NR10 Alexandre Pantoja 11 Tom Aspinall 12 Max Holloway 13 Belal Muhammad -614 Sean O’Malley -115 Charles Oliveira -1
Bantamweight RankingsChampion Merab Dvalishvili1 Sean O’Malley 2 Petr Yan 3 Umar Nurmagomedov 4 Cory Sandhagen 5 Song Yadong 6 Deiveson Figueiredo 7 Marlon Vera 8 Rob Font 9 Henry Cejudo 10 Mario Bautista 11 Aiemann Zahabi +412 Kyler Phillips 13 Marcus McGhee 14 Montel Jackson 15 Vinicius Oliveira NR
Welterweight RankingsChampion Jack Della Maddalena1 Belal Muhammad -12 Sean Brady -13 Shavkat Rakhmonov -14 Leon Edwards -15 Kamaru Usman -16 Ian Machado Garry 7 Joaquin Buckley 8 Gilbert Burns 9 Colby Covington 10 Geoff Neal 11 Stephen Thompson 12 Michael Morales 13 Carlos Prates 14 Vicente Luque 15 Michael Page
Women’s Pound-For-Pound Rankings1 Valentina Shevchenko 2 Zhang Weili 3 Julianna Peña +14 Manon Fiorot +15 Alexa Grasso -26 Erin Blanchfield 7 Kayla Harrison 8 Natalia Silva +59 Virna Jandiroba -110 Raquel Pennington -111 Rose Namajunas -112 Tatiana Suarez -113 Yan Xiaonan -114 Maycee Barber +115 Amanda Lemos NR
Women’s Flyweight RankingsChampion Valentina Shevchenko1 Natalia Silva +42 Manon Fiorot 3 Alexa Grasso -24 Erin Blanchfield -15 Maycee Barber -16 Jasmine Jasudavicius +37 Rose Namajunas -18 Viviane Araújo 9 Jéssica Andrade -210 Tracy Cortez 11 Karine Silva 12 Miranda Maverick 13 Casey O’Neill 14 Ariane da Silva 15 JJ Aldrich
