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 Rankings
1 Islam Makhachev
2 Jon Jones
3 Ilia Topuria
4 Merab Dvalishvili
5 Dricus Du Plessis
6 Magomed Ankalaev
7 Alexander Volkanovski + 2
8 Alex Pereira
9 Jack Della Maddalena NR
10 Alexandre Pantoja
11 Tom Aspinall
12 Max Holloway
13 Belal Muhammad -6
14 Sean O’Malley -1
15 Charles Oliveira -1
Bantamweight Rankings
Champion Merab Dvalishvili
1 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 +4
12 Kyler Phillips
13 Marcus McGhee
14 Montel Jackson
15 Vinicius Oliveira NR
Welterweight Rankings
Champion Jack Della Maddalena
1 Belal Muhammad -1
2 Sean Brady -1
3 Shavkat Rakhmonov -1
4 Leon Edwards -1
5 Kamaru Usman -1
6 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 Rankings
1 Valentina Shevchenko
2 Zhang Weili
3 Julianna Peña +1
4 Manon Fiorot +1
5 Alexa Grasso -2
6 Erin Blanchfield
7 Kayla Harrison
8 Natalia Silva +5
9 Virna Jandiroba -1
10 Raquel Pennington -1
11 Rose Namajunas -1
12 Tatiana Suarez -1
13 Yan Xiaonan -1
14 Maycee Barber +1
15 Amanda Lemos NR
Women’s Flyweight Rankings
Champion Valentina Shevchenko
1 Natalia Silva +4
2 Manon Fiorot
3 Alexa Grasso -2
4 Erin Blanchfield -1
5 Maycee Barber -1
6 Jasmine Jasudavicius +3
7 Rose Namajunas -1
8 Viviane Araújo
9 Jéssica Andrade -2
10 Tracy Cortez
11 Karine Silva
12 Miranda Maverick
13 Casey O’Neill
14 Ariane da Silva
15 JJ Aldrich
This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
