Strange UFC rankings; Despite losing, Omari Akhmedov moves up in the rankings

Strange UFC rankings; Despite losing, Omari Akhmedov moves up in the rankings

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UFC has recently updated its rankings but this time the rankings are a little strange. After the event of 8th August, the rankings were not updated till UFC 252. The rankings were updated after UFC 252 but the the rankings seemed to be before of UFC 252.

These new rankings didn’t reflect the UFC 252. Maybe we can expect the new rankings in coming days.
At UFC’s Vegas 6, Derrick Lewis knocked out Aleksei Oleinik but this wasn’t reflected in the rankings. Further, Chris Weidman beat Omari Akhmedov but he somehow jumped way up into the rankings.

Here are the highlights from the rankings.

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Men’s P4P – No changes.

Heavyweight – Aelksei Oleinik and Walt Harris move one spot up as Shamil Abdurakhimov falls two spots to 12.

Light Heavyweight –  The new rankings are still reflecting the departure of Corey Anderson, and are the same as last week’s with everyone moving up one and Paul Craig entering the rankings at 15.

Middleweight -Despite losing, Omari Akhmedov moves up and enters at 11. Ian Heinisch has dropped two spots to 13 and Antonio Carlos Junior has dropped one to 15.

Welterweight – No changes.

Lightweight -Al Iaquinta and Kevin Lee have  flip-flopped the nine and ten spots. Islam Makhachev has moved up three spots to 11. Gregor Gillespie, Donald Cerrone, and Beneil Dariush have all fell one spot each to 12 through 14 respectively.

Featherweight – No changes.

Bantamweight – No changes.

Flyweight – Tim Elliot has moved up one spot to 11 while Raulian Paiva has dropped to 12.

Women’s P4P – No changes.

Women’s Bantamweight – No changes.

Women’s Flyweight – No changes.

Women’s Strawweight – No changes.

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