{"id":33374,"date":"2025-09-11T05:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/imavov-rises-in-ufc-rankings-top-3-middleweight-after-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:28:30","slug":"imavov-rises-in-ufc-rankings-top-3-middleweight-after-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/imavov-rises-in-ufc-rankings-top-3-middleweight-after-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Imavov Rises in UFC Rankings: Top 3 Middleweight After Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"Nassourdine Imavov<\/strong> has solidified his position as a middleweight title contender following his recent victory in the UFC Fight Night main event in Paris. The unanimous decision win over Caio Borralho<\/strong>, which ended the Brazilian’s 17-fight undefeated streak, propels Imavov towards the top of the division.\n\nImavov, who had already proven his worth with a knockout over former champion Israel Adesanya<\/strong> in February and a victory over Jared Cannonier<\/strong> last year, now rises to number 3 in the Alofoke Deportes middleweight rankings.\n\nIn the heavyweight division, Marcin Tybura<\/strong> drops out of the top 10 after his defeat to UFC newcomer, Ante Delija<\/strong>. Serghei Spivac<\/strong> takes his place at number 10.\n\n\n

MMA Rankings<\/h2>\n\n\nThe following are the MMA rankings from Alofoke Deportes, updated as of September 9th. To be eligible, a fighter must have competed in the last 12 months or have a scheduled fight. Inactive fighters can only be reinstated after competing.\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nHEAVYWEIGHT (up to 265 pounds)<\/strong>\n\n\n
  • 1. Tom Aspinall<\/strong><\/li>
  • 2. Francis Ngannou<\/strong><\/li>
  • 3. Ciryl Gane<\/strong><\/li>
  • 4. Curtis Blaydes<\/strong><\/li>
  • 5. Alexander Volkov<\/strong><\/li>
  • 6. Sergei Pavlovich<\/strong><\/li>
  • 7. Jailton Almeida<\/strong><\/li>
  • 8. Renan Ferreira<\/strong><\/li>
  • 9. Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/strong><\/li>
  • 10. Serghei Spivac<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nLIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT (up to 205 pounds)<\/strong>\n\n\n
    • 1. Magomed Ankalaev<\/strong><\/li>
    • 2. Alex Pereira<\/strong><\/li>
    • 3. Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka<\/strong><\/li>
    • 4. Carlos Ulberg<\/strong><\/li>
    • 5. Khalil Rountree Jr.<\/strong><\/li>
    • 6. Aleksandar Raki\u0107<\/strong><\/li>
    • 7. Dominick Reyes<\/strong><\/li>
    • 8. Jamahal Hill<\/strong><\/li>
    • 9. Volkan Oezdemir<\/strong><\/li>
    • 10. Corey Anderson<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nMIDDLEWEIGHT (up to 185 pounds)<\/strong>\n\n\n
      • 1. Khamzat Chimaev<\/strong><\/li>
      • 2. Dricus du Plessis<\/strong><\/li>
      • 3. Nassourdine Imavov<\/strong><\/li>
      • 4. Sean Strickland<\/strong><\/li>
      • 5. Israel Adesanya<\/strong><\/li>
      • 6. Reinier de Ridder<\/strong><\/li>
      • 7. Anthony Hernandez<\/strong><\/li>
      • 8. Caio Borralho<\/strong><\/li>
      • 9. Robert Whittaker<\/strong><\/li>
      • 10. Brendan Allen<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nWELTERWEIGHT (up to 170 pounds)<\/strong>\n\n\n
        • 1. Jack Della Maddalena<\/strong><\/li>
        • 2. Belal Muhammad<\/strong><\/li>
        • 3. Shavkat Rakhmonov<\/strong><\/li>
        • 4. Sean Brady<\/strong><\/li>
        • 5. Leon Edwards<\/strong><\/li>
        • 6. Kamaru Usman<\/strong><\/li>
        • 7. Ian Machado Garry<\/strong><\/li>
        • 8. Michael Morales<\/strong><\/li>
        • 9. Joaquin Buckley<\/strong><\/li>
        • 10. Carlos Prates<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
          \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nLIGHTWEIGHT (up to 155 pounds)<\/strong>\n\n\n
          • 1. Islam Makhachev<\/strong><\/li>
          • 2. Ilia Topuria<\/strong><\/li>
          • 3. Charles Oliveira<\/strong><\/li>
          • 4. Max Holloway<\/strong><\/li>
          • 5. Justin Gaethje<\/strong><\/li>
          • 6. Paddy Pimblett<\/strong><\/li>
          • 7. Dan Hooker<\/strong><\/li>
          • 8. Usman Nurmagomedov<\/strong><\/li>
          • 9. Beneil Dariush<\/strong><\/li>
          • 10. Mateusz Gamrot<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
            \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nFEATHERWEIGHT (up to 145 pounds)<\/strong>\n\n\n
            • 1. Alexander Volkanovski<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Nassourdine Imavov has solidified his position as a middleweight title contender following his recent victory in the UFC Fight Night main event in Paris. The unanimous decision win over Caio Borralho, which ended the Brazilian’s 17-fight undefeated streak, propels Imavov towards the top of the division. Imavov, who had already proven his worth with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8404,8384,1971,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-33374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-caio-borralho","9":"tag-nassourdine-imavov","10":"tag-rankings","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}