Pound For Pound Rankings
The cornerstone event of the past weekend in MMA went down in France with UFC Fight Night 243 in Paris, which featured a significant lightweight fight in the main event.
Brazil’s Renato Moicano continued his run of success with a sixth consecutive victory at 155 pounds when he battered Benoit Saint Denis into a second-round doctor’s stoppage TKO at Accor Arena.
Moicano demanded a sizeable jump in the lightweight hierarchy after the fight, but he was met with zero movement in the official UFC rankings, which got him angry. He won’t get a leap quite as high as he wants in our latest update, but he did make upward progress nonetheless.
There was some other noteworthy results in Paris, including Nassourdine Imavov beating Brendan Allen in a key middleweight co-main event fight.
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Ranking Criteria
The rankings take into account a fighter’s wins/losses, quality of competition, finishing rate/dominance and frequency of fights.
Fighters are no longer eligible to be ranked after they’ve been inactive for 24 months, either due to injuries, drug/conduct suspensions, contract disputes or self-imposed hiatuses.
Fighters serving drug/conduct suspensions are eligible to be ranked, so long as they’re not inactive for more than 24 months.
To the best of our ability, fighters will be ranked in their primary weight class. Catchweight fights and bouts outside the fighter’s primary weight class can have a positive or negative impact on the ranking. However, non-titleholders can be ranked in only one weight class at a given time, and in most cases, they won’t be ranked in a new weight class until they’ve had their first fight at that weight.
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