UFC Rankings: Ilia Topuria, Max Holloway Put on Alert as Undefeated Lerone Murphy Breaks Through 145 Lbs Ladder; Angela Hill Also Handed Big Update

UFC Vegas 92 created fairly an uproar as Lerone Murphy maintained his successful streak and defeated Edson Barboza by means of a unanimous choice. Surely, the undefeated blended martial artist’s final efficiency made positive he received his entry into the highest 15 names of Ilia Topuria’s division. 

The final UFC Struggle Evening additionally helped the ladies’s strawweight division face a change. Zhang Weili’s division additionally received a brand new identify inducted into the highest 15 listing. Let’s take a dive into the adjustments within the UFC rankings, lets?

The Featherweight division witnesses a brand new addition

Following the occasions of UFC Vegas 92, the featherweight division was shaken up. Fighters like Topuria, Max Holloway, and Alexander Volkanovski, have been undoubtedly placed on alert after the occasions of UFC Vegas 92, with a brand new entry into the listing. After claiming victory over Barboza by way of a unanimous choice, Murphy received inducted into the highest 15 listing. ‘The Miracle’ now rests at quantity 11, changing Bryce Mitchell, who dropped all the way down to the twelfth spot. ‘The Iceman’ efficiently maintained his undefeated streak. Coming from a troubled previous with two near-death experiences, Murphy has, actually, impressed the complete world of blended martial arts.

The Brazilian blended martial artist, after dropping the combat in opposition to Murphy, dropped down three locations and landed at rank 15. Moreover, Calvin Kattar, regardless of dropping his final bout in opposition to Aljamain Sterling, at UFC 300, discovered himself a step increased at quantity 9. 

However that’s not all. One fighter beforehand on the listing has made an exit. Sodiq Yusuff has departed from the UFC featherweight rankings, following his defeat by the hands of Diego Lopes by way of a first-round KO/TKO, at UFC 300. 

Modifications within the UFC girls’s strawweight rankings

Angela Hill despatched shockwaves by means of the world as she snatched Luana Pinheiro’s head in a guillotine choke, within the second spherical of their combat at UFC Vegas 92. Surely, this transfer ensured her stance within the UFC girls’s strawweight rankings. She moved 3 steps forward and landed at rank 9. In the meantime, Pinheiro’s defeat dropped her 3 locations and positioned her at quantity 12. 

Moreover, Iasmin Lucindo’s final victory over Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC 301 propelled her one step forward to thirteenth rank, as she exchanged her place with Michelle Waterson-Gomez, who now stands at quantity 14. However the listing additionally has a brand new entry. Gillian Robertson has claimed the fifteenth place proper after getting into the UFC girls’s strawweight division’s prime 15 listing.

What are your ideas on the adjustments within the UFC rankings for males’s featherweight division and ladies’s strawweight division? Do you assume the adjustments are justified? Tell us within the feedback down under.