With arguably probably the most stacked lineup within the firm’s historical past, UFC 300 supplied all types of alternatives for motion within the USA TODAY Sports activities/MMA Junkie MMA rankings.
With regards to our rankings, Kayla Harrison all the time has been in a little bit of a rock and a tough place. Most of her fights have been at light-weight – and we don’t have girls’s light-weight rankings as a result of their fights are too few and much between. And just one featherweight combat in her profession wasn’t sufficient to make a big effect there. So she’s been caught on the ladies’s pound-for-pound listing simply to be represented.
However at UFC 300, Harrison (17-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) dropped all the best way to bantamweight for her promotional debut and completely wiped the ground with former champion Holly Holm (15-7 MMA, 8-7 UFC) for a second-round submission. In the end, Harrison can debut in our rankings in a extremely aggressive division, and he or she soared all the best way previous Holm to No. 6.
In the primary occasion in Las Vegas, Alex Pereira (10-2 MMA, 7-1 UFC) defended his gentle heavyweight title for the primary time with a surprising and dramatic first-round knockout of former champ Jamahal Hill (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC). The Brazilian can’t go any larger at 205 kilos, however he made a giant soar on the pound-for-pound listing. And that’s the place we’ll discover Max Holloway (26-7 MMA, 22-7 UFC), too, after his insane last-second (actually) KO of Justin Gaethje (25-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) of their “BMF” title five-rounder.
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