The Ultimate Fighting Championship has dropped its inaugural all men’s and all women’s pound-for-pound rankings, following the UFC Fight Night 166 last Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Curtis Blaydes inched closer to the next heavyweight title shot after defeating Junior dos Santos in the main event of UFC Raleigh.
He now ranks third in the official heavyweight rankings behind Francis Ngannou and Daniel Cormier.
Meanwhile, the ‘Black Beast’ Derrick Lewis dropped one spot at #6.
In the men’s pound-for-pound list, Jon Jones, the current light heavyweight kingpin, remains on the top spot after winning three straight title fights since his return on December 2018.
The simultaneous two-weight champion, Amanda Nunes, emerges as the P4P queen as the UFC splits the rankings for both men’s and women’s category for the first time.
Check out the updated UFC rankings below:
Men’s Pound-For-Pound Rankings
1. Jon Jones
2. Khabib Nurmagomedov
3. Henry Cejudo
4. Stipe Miocic
5. Daniel Cormier
6. Israel Adesanya
7. Kamaru Usman
8. Alexander Volkonovski
9. Conor McGregor
10. Tony Ferguson
11. Max Holloway
12. Dustin Poirier
13. Tyron Woodley
14. Robert Whittaker
15. Jorge Masvidal
Women’s Pound-For-Pound Rankings
1. Amanda Nunes
2. Valentina Shevchenko
3. Zhang Weili
4. Jessica Andrade
5. Rose Namajunas
6. Joanna Jedrzejczyk
7. Holly Holm
8. Germaine De Randamie
9. Tatiana Suarez
10. Katlyn Chookagian
11. Aspen Ladd
12. Jessica Eye
13. Julianna Peña
14. Claudia Gadelha
15. Nina Ansaroff
Flyweight: Matt Schnell, Tim Elliott, and Jordan Espinosa moved down one place each while Alex Perez climbed to 9th place from 12th spot.
Bantamweight: Newcomer Jose Aldo takes the 7th place while Jimmie Rivera fell to #8.
Featherweight: Arnold Allen cracks the top 15, Calvin Kattar is at #10 while Aldo dropped to #11.
Lightweight: No changes
Welterweight: Conor McGregor is at #15, Demian Maia and Stephen Thompson places fifth and sixth respectively.
Middleweight: Omari Akmhedov climbs to 12th place.
Light Heavyweight: Alexander Gustafsson continues to dip as he is now at #8.
Heavyweight: Derrick Lewis falls to 6th place.
Women’s strawweight: No changes.
Women’s flyweight: Antonina Schevchenko replaces Polian Botleho at #11.
Women’s bantamweight: Sara McMann’s victory at UFC Raleigh sends her to #9.
Women’s featherweight: N/A
Check out the full updated UFC rankings here.
(Featured Image Source: Instagram/ Amanda Nunes and Jon Jones)