Hot 170-pounder Mike Malott placed in the Top 10 of the division. destroying Joaquin Buckley at the top of the UFC Edmonton fight card last weekend in Canada. It was “Proper’s” welterweight fifth straight win and second straight knockout, moving him up three spots to No. 8 in the updated rankings. Meta leaderboard.
Buckley, loser of three in a row, dropped four places to 12th.
Elsewhere in the rankings, Jasmine Jasudavicius (Women’s Flyweight) and Chelsea Chandler (Women’s Flyweight) improved their positions after that. wins at UFC Edmonton. Jasudavicius upset top seed Erin Blanchfield while Chandler submitted Melissa Croden in early card action.
Check out the updated UFC meta rankings below (click for an explanation of how they work). here).
1. Manel Cape
2. Alexandre Pantoja
3. Brandon Royval
4. Tatsuro Taira
5. Asu Almabayev
6. Lonely Kavanagh
7. Ramazan Temirov
8. Kyoji Horiguchi
9. Amir Albazi
10. Brandon Moreno
11. Sumudaerji
12. Mitch Raposo
13. Imanol Rodriguez
14. Rei Tsuruya
15. Charles Johnson
1. Merab Dvalishvili
2. Song Yadong
3. Sean O’Malley
4. Mario Bautista
5. Umar Nurmagomedov
6. Cory Sandhagen
7. David Martinez
8. Raul Rosas Jr.
9. Farid Basharat
10. Payton Talbott
11. Montel Jackson
12. Aiemann Zahabi
13. Bryce Mitchell
14. Marlon Vera
15. Raoni Barcelos
Champion: Alexander Volkanovsky
1. Movsar Evloev
2. Diego Lopes
3. Lerone Murphy
4. Aljamain Sterling
5. Jean Silva
6. Arnold Allen
7. Pat Sabatini
8. Pavel Andrusca
9. Youssef Zalal
10. Kevin Vallejo
11. Joanderson Brito
12. Melquizael Costa
13. Steve Garcia
14. Aaron Pico
15. Jamall Emmers
1. Ilia Topuria
2. Arman Tsarukyan
3. Charles Oliveira
4. Max Holloway
5. Paddy Pimblett
6. Quillan Salkilld
7. Benoit Saint-Denis
8. Renato Moicano
9. Mateusz Gamrot
10. Mauricio Ruffy
11. Tom Nolan
12. Rafael Fiziev
13. Tofig Musayev
14. Grant Dawson
15. Esteban Ribovics
Champion: Islam Makhachov
1. Carlos Prates
2. Ian Machado Garry
3. Michael Morales
4. Jack Della Maddalena
5. Sean Brady
6. Gabriel Bonfim
7. Belal Muhammad
8. Mike Malott +3
9. Uros Medic
10. Leon Edwards
11. Kamaru Usman +1
12. Joaquin Buckley -4
13. Yaroslav Amosov
14. Kevin Holland
15. Daniel Rodriguez
Champion: Sean Strickland
1. Khamzat Chimaev
2. Dricus Du Plessis
3. Nassourdine Imavov
4. Brendan Allen
5. Joe Pyfer
6. Caio Borralho
7. Gregory Rodrigues
8. Anthony Hernandez
9. Israel Adesanya
10. Ikram Aliskerov
11. Christian Leroy Duncan
12. Bo Nickal
13. Abus Magomedov
14. Roman Kopylov
15. Edmen Shahbazyan
1. Alex Pereira
2. Magomed Ankalaev
3. There is Prochazka
4. Paulo Costa
5. Khalil Rountree
6. Navajo Stirling
7. Dominick Reyes
8. Reinier de Ridder
9. Azamat Murzakanov
10. Alonzo Menifield
11. Bogdan Guskov
12. Robert Whittaker
13. Muhammad Saidov
14. Modest in Bukauska
15. Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev
1. Tom Aspinall
2. Sergey Pavlovich
3. Alex Pereira
4. Alexander Volkov
5. Rizvan Kuniev
6. Josh Hokit
7. Curtis Blaydes
8. Waldo Cortes Acosta
9. Vitor Petrino
10. Mario Pinto
11. Walter Walker
12. Johnny Walker
13. Brando Pericic
14. Sergey Spivac
15. Anthony Wint
1. Zhang Weili
2. Stack Jandiroba
3. Tatiana Suarez
4. Denise Gomes
5. Gillian Robertson
6. Fatima Klein
7. Alexia Thainara
8. Loopy Godinez +3
9. Piera Rodriguez -1
10. Yan Xiaonan -1
11. Mizuki Inoue -1
12. Tabatha Ricci
13. Talita Alencar +1
14. Amanda Lemos +1
15. Sam Hughes *NO
1. Valentina Shevchenko
2. Alexa Grasso
3. Jasmine Jasudavicius +3
4. Manon Fiorot
5. Erin Blanchfield -2
6. Zhang Wei’s -1
7. Rose in Namajuna
8. Wang Cong
9. Maycee Barber
10. Tracy Cortez
11. Casey O’Neill
12. Miranda Maverick
13. Regina Collection
14. Karine Silva
15. Carli Judice
1. Joselyne Edwards
2. Ailin Perez
3. Norma Dumont
4. Luana Santos
5. Julianna Pena
6. Now the saints
7. Jacqueline Cavalcanti
8. Michelle Montague
9. Chelsea Chandler +6
10. Karol Rosa
11. Bia Mesquita
12. Alice Pereira
13. Nora Cornell
14. Macy Chiasson
15. Melissa Croden -6
You can expect those rankings to change around this time next week, especially at featherweight, after the upcoming one UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev MMA tournament. in Paramount+which is scheduled for Saturday, October 24, 2026 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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