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MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Is Alexander Volkanovski the best fighter in the world?

Alexander Volkanovski overtakes Islam Makhachev for the No. 1 spot in the latest MMA Fighting Pound-for-Pound rankings.

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: With Amanda Nunes gone, who is the best women’s fighter in the world?

Amanda Nunes has called it a career. Who claims the No. 1 spot now in the women’s Pound-for-Pound rankings?

Rankings Shakeup: Is Jailton Almeida a top-5 heavyweight after dominant UFC Charlotte win?

Jailton Almeida’s latest win has him on the cusp of greatness, but is he truly one of the heavyweight elite?

MMA Rankings: Did Yan Xiaonan punch her ticket to Zhang Weili championship clash?

Did Yan Xiaonan jump the line at strawweight? Is Belal Muhammad guaranteed a title shot? Did Henry Cejudo do enough to return to the top 5?

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Is Aljamain Sterling a top 5 fighter in the world?

Aljamain Sterling just keeps winning. Does he belong in the top 5 of the pound-for-pound rankings?

Rankings Show: AK vs. The World, plus Cejudo’s future, 3 most interesting final fights for Jon Jones

Chaos reigns as the gang tie up some UFC 288 loose ends, make sense of AK’s obscene disrespect for Aljamain Sterling in the P4P ranks, rank the three most interesting opponents for a Jon Jones retirement fight, and more.

Rankings Shakeup: Is Henry Cejudo a top 5 bantamweight again after narrow UFC 288 loss?

Aljamain Sterling remains king of the bantamweight class, but where does UFC 288’s result leave Henry Cejudo?

Rankings Show: Israel Adesanya’s next fight — debating the 5 best options; plus Jorge Masvidal’s top moments, more

With Israel Adesanya finally holding a win over Alex Pereira, what’s next for the UFC middleweight division?

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Israel Adesanya regains top 5 spot with championship redemption

Israel Adesanya finally beat Alex Pereira. How far does Adesanya’s revenge win send Pereira down the pound-for-pound rankings?

Rankings Shakeup: Israel Adesanya reclaims No. 1 middleweight spot, but how far should Alex Pereira fall?

Israel Adesanya is once against MMA’s middleweight king, but where should Alex Pereira rank following his UFC 287 loss?

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Kamaru Usman plummets after Leon Edwards trilogy loss

Former No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter Kamaru Usman falls out of the top 5 of the MMA Fighting Rankings this month.

Rankings Show: Leon Edwards’ place among the No One Believed All-Stars, plus MMA’s most overqualified bodyguard

Where does Leon Edwards rank among the greatest reversal-of-narratives UFC champions? The Rankings Show returns to make sense of the new-look welterweight division after UFC 286, and much more!

MMA Rankings: Who won the month of March — Jon Jones, Alexa Grasso, or Leon Edwards?

What was the biggest storyline of March’s major MMA events: The return of Jon Jones, Alexa Grasso ending the reign of Valentina Shevchenko, or Leon Edwards establishing himself as the welterweight king?

Rankings Show: Did Jon Jones do enough at UFC 285 to reclaim title of best fighter in the world?

Jon Jones is officially back — but what does his violent reintroduction at UFC 285 mean for the MMA landscape?

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Valentina Shevchenko loses No. 1 spot, Jon Jones makes triumphant return

UFC stars Jon Jones and Valentina Shevchenko are headed in different directions after the stunning results of UFC 285 this past Saturday. Is Jones No. 1 in the world again?

Rankings Shakeup: Jon Jones or Francis Ngannou — who is the No. 1 heavyweight in the world?

Jon Jones or Francis Ngannou — who is the No. 1 heavyweight in the world?

Rankings Shakeup: Erin Blanchfield claims No. 2 spot — is a UFC title shot next?

Erin Blanchfield storms up the charts with an impressive win over Jessica Andrade and the No. 1 spot is in her sights.

MMA Rankings: Would Bellator champ Johnny Eblen beat the UFC’s best?

MMA rankings for February 2023 from the award-winning team at MMA Fighting. Has Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen made a case to be No. 1? Plus, major moves from Yair Rodriguez, Serghei Spivac, and Jack Della Maddalena.

Rankings Show: Should Volkanovski still be P4P No. 1? Plus predicting 2023’s biggest risers and fallers

Has an injustice been inflicted upon the MMA world? With UFC 284 in the books, the Rankings Show returns to sort through the wreckage left behind by Alexander Volkanovski’s loss to Islam Makhachev.

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Islam Makhachev knocks off Alexander Volkanovski to take No. 1 spot

Islam Makhachev won a close fight against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 284. Is he now the best fighter in all of MMA?

Rankings Show: Should holding a UFC belt automatically make you the No. 1 fighter in the world?

Jamahal Hill is the new UFC champion — but is he really the No. 1 light heavyweight in the world?

MMA Rankings, January 2023: Can anyone stop the rise of Umar Nurmagomedov and Jailton Almeida?

MMA rankings for January 2023 from the award-winning team at MMA Fighting. Can anyone stop Umar Nurmagomedov and Jailton Almeida? Plus what to make of the twists and turns at light heavyweight and top-ranked fighters changing divisions.

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings: Jamahal Hill rockets into top 20 after UFC title win

Where did Jamahal Hill’s UFC 283 title win put him in the MMA pound-for-pound discussion?

Rankings Shakeup: Jamahal Hill is a UFC champion — does that make him MMA’s No. 1 light heavyweight?

Jamahal Hill claimed the vacant UFC light heavyweight championship at UFC 283 and is now in the discussion to be considered the division’s best.

Rankings Show: The second annual airing of grievances — beefs, betrayals, and an unexpected Tony Ferguson civil war

MMA Fighting’s rankings panel kicks of 2023 by retaking their seats around the roundtable and demanding answers for the worst calls and most puzzling decisions by their fellow rankers in 2022.

MMA Rankings, December 2022: Is Sergei Pavlovich destined to become UFC heavyweight champion?

MMA rankings for December 2022 from the award-winning team at MMA Fighting. Sergei Pavlovich emerging as a heavyweight threat, Ilia Topuria blazing into the top 10, stars on the cusp of a major breakthrough, and more.

Rankings Show: How low do you go for Paddy Pimblett? Plus LHW silliness, MMA’s worst division, futures, more

Paddy Pimblett isn’t a top-15 lightweight. That much is clear. But just how far down the ladder do you have to drop to find his place in the global lightweight ranks?

MMA Pound-for-Pound Rankings, December 2022: Year of new blood reshapes the top 10

A crazy and chaotic year has MMA’s pound-for-pound ranks looking vastly different than they did 12 months ago.

Rankings Shakeup: Should Magomed Ankalaev be the new No. 2 light heavyweight in the world?

What on earth are we supposed to do with the light heavyweight division after UFC 282?

Rankings Shakeup: Kayla Harrison knocked out of pound-for-pound top 10 after stunning Larissa Pacheco upset

Larissa Pacheco’s massive win puts her in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings for the first time and sends PFL star Kayla Harrison tumbling out of the top 10.

Rankings Show: Did Alex Pereira’s UFC title win destroy the pound-for-pound list? Plus Dominick Reyes and MMA’s cruelest reversals of fortune

Alex Pereira is the undisputed UFC middleweight champion and a top-10 Pound-for-Pound fighter after beating Israel Adesanya? But does that make sense? How can Pereira - with just eight MMA fights to his name - be higher ranked than Charles Oliveira, Jiri Prochazka, Max Holloway, Patricio Pitbull, and Demetrious Johnson?

MMA Rankings, November 2022: Is Zhang Weili destined for a dominant UFC title run this time?

MMA rankings for October-November 2022 from the award-winning team at MMA Fighting, Alex Pereira ending Israel Adesanya’s reign, Zhang Weili becoming a two-time UFC champion, Erin Blanchfield cracking the top 10, and more.

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