Adesanya gets the next shot and is ranked #2. Strickland is #1 and should be champ in a lot of people’s minds. Whittaker, Cannonier and Vettori hold the #3-#5 spots.
We know Chimaev vs Whittaker is in June with the title fight in August.
Vettori pulled out of last night’s fight with injury but nobody seems to know what is next for Cannonier and Strickland.
Allen is #6 and has a 7 fight win streak now as of last night.
Costa, Imavov, Hermansson, Dolidze and Chimaev round out the top ten in the rankings.
I’m really enjoying watching Bo Nickal, Roman Kopylov, Brunno Ferreira, Rodolfo Vieira, Ruziboev, Aliskerov, Borralho, Hernandez, Curtis, Rodrigues, Muniz, Pereira all trying to climb the ranks and break into the top ten here. These are those MW’s outside the top 10 you want to keep an eye on.
If UFC did cards by weight classes, the MW cards would be the best cards of 2024.
How is this possible? He’s 9-5-1 in the ufc and, more importantly, 13 of those 15 fights have gone to decision. Dude is overrated. Idunno why. He’d whoop my ass, he’s an elite fighter, but he’s not top 5 in the fucking world.
I agree its a not a great ranking. UFC lets guys sit in the rankings while losing and being pretty inactive.
Vettori has held that 5 spot since going 3-3 since the start of 2021.
Allen has gone 9-1 since the start of 2021.
Just because you are getting bigger names… a 3-3 fighter should not get to hold a spot over a guy like Allen who is 300% more active and not losing as much as you.
You should not have to beat a guy to get his spot in the rankings if he is inactive and losing and you are active and winning.
Activity and winning need to be rewarded more losing and inactive fighters don’t need to hog spots they earned years ago.
Tony was like that, he was still kept in the top 10 when he had like a five or six fight losing streak still.
Hell, they kept Conor in the LW rankings when he had not had a fight in years.
Rankings have some validity but they are also political and marketing.
Yeah, you must be right, thats all people say about Adesanya, Strickland, Chimaev, Whittaker, Nickal, Vieira, Aliskerov, Muniz, Hernandez, Allen… they just suck.
Adesanya KOed Alex Pereira and Muniz submitted Jacare and wrecked his arm but Pereira and Jacare kinda sucked too.
Remember how many times Anderson, Hendo and Bisping lost, man those MW’s sucked too.
