Islam Makhachev has returned to the highest of the UFC’s pound-for-pound males’s rankings after beating Jack Della Maddalena to win the welterweight title.
Russia’s Makhachev dominated on his approach to a unanimous determination victory at UFC 322 in New York final week as he grew to become solely the eleventh two-division champion within the promotion’s historical past.
The 34-year-old has changed light-weight champion Ilia Topuria – the belt which Makhachev held earlier than vacating it in June – on the prime of the rankings.
Within the girls’s pound-for-pound rankings, Kyrgyzstan’s Valentina Shevchenko stays prime following her flyweight title defence towards China’s Zhang Weili.
Weili, who vacated her strawweight belt in October to problem Shevchenko, has fallen to 3rd behind bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison.
Within the welterweight rankings, Britain’s former champion Leon Edwards has dropped down 5 locations to ninth after being knocked out by Carlos Prates.
The defeat was Edwards’ third in a row and leaves the 34-year-old properly outdoors the highest title contenders within the division.
The most important riser was Ecuador’s Michael Morales, who stopped American Sean Brady within the first spherical to maneuver as much as third within the welterweight rankings.
Morales will probably be maintaining a tally of Eire’s Ian Machado Garry, who’s sixth, and second-ranked Belal Muhammad, who combat in Qatar on Saturday in a bout which might decide the subsequent title contender for Makhachev.
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