New Rankings! Ponzi Lands At No. 7, Magny Booted From Top 10
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is now a couple of days removed from its UFC Fight Night 140 mixed martial arts (MMA) event on FOX Sports 1, which means it’s time for the promotion’s “official” rankings to be updated to reflect the biggest winners (and losers) coming out of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
As expected, streaking 170-pound striker, Santiago Ponzinibbio, jumped several spots after laying out Neil Magny in the welterweight main event (watch the replay here). In the co-headliner, former featherweight title contender, Ricardo Lamas, turned away the venerable Darren Elkins to inch his way back toward the Top 10 (video here).
Here’s how the rankings work, courtesy of UFC.com:
Rankings were generated by a voting panel made up of media members. The media members were asked to vote for who they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight-class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are in active status in the UFC. A fighter can appear in more than one weight division at a time. The champion and interim champion are considered to be in the top positions of their respective divisions and therefore are not eligible for voting by weight-class. However, the champions can be voted on for the pound-for-pound rankings.
Take a look at what the latest rankings field looks like courtesy of UFC.com. Note: (+/- = movement in rankings, *NR = Not previously ranked).
POUND-FOR-POUND
1 Daniel Cormier
2 Khabib Nurmagomedov
3 Jon Jones
4 TJ Dillashaw
5 Max Holloway
6 Georges St-Pierre
7 Tyron Woodley
8 Conor McGregor
9 Stipe Miocic
10 Henry Cejudo
11 Cris Cyborg
12 Robert Whittaker
13 Tony Ferguson
14 Amanda Nunes
15 Rose Namajunas
FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Henry Cejudo
1 Jussier Formiga
2 Sergio Pettis
3 Joseph Benavidez
4 Ray Borg
5 Deiveson Figueiredo
6 John Moraga
7 Dustin Ortiz +1
8 Wilson Reis -1
9 Alexandre Pantoja
10 Ben Nguyen +1
11 Tim Elliott +2
12 Alex Perez +2
13 Magomed Bibulatov *NR
14 Ulka Sasaki +1
15 Ryan Benoit *NR
BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: TJ Dillashaw
1 Cody Garbrandt
2 Dominick Cruz
3 Raphael Assuncao
4 Marlon Moraes
5 Jimmie Rivera
6 John Lineker
7 Aljamain Sterling
8 John Dodson
9 Pedro Munhoz
10 Cody Stamann
11 Rob Font
12 Alejandro Perez
13 Thomas Almeida
14 Bryan Caraway *NR
15 Douglas Silva De Andrade -1
FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Max Holloway
1 Brian Ortega
2 Jose Aldo
3 Frankie Edgar
4 Renato Moicano
5 Chad Mendes
6 Jeremy Stephens
7 Cub Swanson
8 Mirsad Bektic
9 Josh Emmett
10 Alexander Volkanovski
11 Ricardo Lamas +2
12 Yair Rodriguez -1
13 Chan Sung Jung -1
14 Zabit Magomedsharipov +1
15 Darren Elkins -1
LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Khabib Numragomedov
1 Tony Ferguson
2 Conor McGregor
3 Dustin Poirier
4 Kevin Lee
5 Edson Barboza
6 Justin Gaethje
7 Anthony Pettis
8 Al Iaquinta
9 Nate Diaz
10 Michael Chiesa
11 James Vick
12 Alexander Hernandez
13 Francisco Trinaldo
14 Dan Hooker
15 Paul Felder
WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Tyron Woodley
1 Colby Covington
2 Darren Till
3 Rafael Dos Anjos
4 Stephen Thompson
5 Kamaru Usman +1
6 Robbie Lawler -1
7 Santiago Ponzinibbio +3
8 Demian Maia -1
9 Jorge Masvidal
10 Leon Edwards +1
11 Neil Magny -3
12 Donald Cerrone
13 Alex Oliveira
14 Gunnar Nelson
15 Elizeu Dos Santos
MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Robert Whittaker
1 Yoel Romero
2 Luke Rockhold
3 Ronaldo Souza
4 Kelvin Gastelum
5 Chris Weidman
6 Israel Adesanya
7 Paulo Costa
8 Derek Brunson
9 Jared Cannonier
10 Brad Tavares
11 David Branch
12 Antonio Carlos Junior
13 Uriah Hall
14 Elias Theodorou
15 Thiago Santos
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Jon Jones
2 Alexander Gustafsson
3 Anthony Smith
4 Jan Blachowicz
5 Ilir Latifi
6 Volkan Oezdemir
7 Jimi Manuwa
8 Dominick Reyes
9 Corey Anderson
10 Ovince Saint Preux
11 Glover Teixeira
12 Misha Cirkunov
13 Mauricio Rua
14 Tyson Pedro
15 Nikita Krylov
HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Daniel Cormier
1 Stipe Miocic
2 Derrick Lewis
3 Curtis Blaydes
4 Francis Ngannou
5 Alexander Volkov
6 Alistair Overeem
7 Junior Dos Santos
8 Aleksei Oleinik
9 Marcin Tybura
10 Mark Hunt
11 Tai Tuivasa
12 Shamil Abdurakhimov
13 Andrei Arlovski
14 Stefan Struve
15 Justin Willis
WOMEN'S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Rose Namajunas
1 Joanna Jedrzejczyk
2 Jessica Andrade
3 Claudia Gadelha
4 Tatiana Suarez
5 Karolina Kowalkiewicz
6 Tecia Torres
7 Michelle Waterson
8 Carla Esparza
9 Felice Herrig
10 Cortney Casey
11 Nina Ansaroff
12 Alexa Grasso
13 Cynthia Calvillo *NR
14 Randa Markos -1
15 Mackenzie Dern
WOMEN'S FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Vacant
1 Valentina Shevchenko
2 Nicco Montano
3 Katlyn Chookagian
4 Sijara Eubanks
5 Alexis Davis
6 Liz Carmouche
7 Roxanne Modafferi
7 Lauren Murphy
9 Jessica Eye
10 Jessica-Rose Clark
11 Ashlee Evans-Smith
12 Joanne Calderwood
13 Mara Romero Borella
14 Jennifer Maia
15 Andrea Lee
WOMEN'S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Amanda Nunes
1 Holly Holm
2 Germaine De Randamie
3 Ketlen Vieira
4 Julianna Peña
5 Raquel Pennington
6 Cat Zingano
7 Marion Reneau
8 Aspen Ladd
9 Sara McMann
10 Yana Kunitskaya
11 Irene Aldana
12 Bethe Correia
13 Tonya Evinger
14 Lucie Pudilova
15 Lina Lansberg
There you have it.
You can expect these standings to change -- particularly in the heavyweight division -- in roughly one week, as the promotion is set to uncork the UFC Fight Night 141: “Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2” Fight Pass event on Sat., Nov. 24, 2018 inside Cadillac Arena in Beijing, China (more on that fight card here).
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