{"id":82094,"date":"2025-11-19T05:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/makhachev-ufc-champion-headlines-welterweight-uprising-mma-rankings\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:48:23","slug":"makhachev-ufc-champion-headlines-welterweight-uprising-mma-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/makhachev-ufc-champion-headlines-welterweight-uprising-mma-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhachev, UFC Champion, Headlines Welterweight Uprising: MMA Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"Attention, mixed martial arts fanatics! Alofoke Deportes brings you the latest updates in the UFC world. The rankings have undergone significant changes after the recent fights, and here we tell you everything.\n\n<h2>Makhachev Rises, Topuria Leads<\/h2>\n\nIslam Makhachev has made a colossal leap in the ESPN rankings. After his victory over Jack Della Maddalena, Makhachev is crowned welterweight champion, rising directly to the first place in the division.\n\nMakhachev&#8217;s rise is part of the restructuring brought about by UFC 322. Michael Morales and Carlos Prates&#8217; impressive knockout victories boosted their position in the top 10.\n\nIn lightweight, Makhachev&#8217;s move to 170 pounds allowed other fighters to climb the ranks. Ilia Topuria, now UFC champion, leads the division. Furthermore, with Beneil Dariush&#8217;s KO loss, Beno\u00eet Saint Denis and Renato Moicano enter the ranking.\n\nRegarding the women&#8217;s rankings, Zhang Weili, after losing to Valentina Shevchenko in her attempt for the flyweight title, has not defined in which division she will compete. For now, she remains in the strawweight ranking, in first place.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updated Rankings<\/h2>\n\n\nHere are the updated rankings for the different weight categories:\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Heavyweight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tom Aspinall<\/li><li>Ciryl Gane<\/li><li>Curtis Blaydes<\/li><li>Alexander Volkov<\/li><li>Sergei Pavlovich<\/li><li>Jailton Almeida<\/li><li>Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/li><li>Renan Ferreira<\/li><li>Serghei Spivac<\/li><li>Derrick Lewis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Light Heavyweight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alex Pereira<\/li><li>Magomed Ankalaev<\/li><li>Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka<\/li><li>Carlos Ulberg<\/li><li>Khalil Rountree Jr.<\/li><li>Azamat Murzakanov<\/li><li>Dominick Reyes<\/li><li>Aleksandar Raki\u0107<\/li><li>Jamahal Hill<\/li><li>Corey Anderson<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Middleweight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Khamzat Chimaev<\/li><li>Dricus du Plessis<\/li><li>Nassourdine Imavov<\/li><li>Sean Strickland<\/li><li>Israel Adesanya<\/li><li>Anthony Hernandez<\/li><li>Caio Borralho<\/li><li>Brendan Allen<\/li><li>Reinier de Ridder<\/li><li>Robert Whittaker<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welterweight<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li>Islam Makhachev<\/li><li>Jack Della Maddalena<\/li><li>Belal Muhammad<\/li><li>Shavkat Rakhmonov<\/li><li>Ian Machado Garry<\/li><li>Michael Morales<\/li><li>Kamaru Usman<\/li><li>Sean Brady<\/li><li>Carlos Prates<\/li><li>Joaquin Buckley<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lightweight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ilia Topuria<\/li><li>Charles Oliveira<\/li><li>Max Holloway<\/li><li>Justin Gaethje<\/li><li>Usman Nurmagomedov<\/li><li>Paddy Pimblett<\/li><li>Mateusz Gamrot<\/li><li>Rafael Fiziev<\/li><li>Beno\u00eet Saint Denis<\/li><li>Renato Moicano<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peso Pluma<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alexander Volkanovski<\/li><li>Movsar Evloev<\/li><li>Diego Lopes<\/li><li>Yair Rodriguez<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention, mixed martial arts fanatics! Alofoke Deportes brings you the latest updates in the UFC world. The rankings have undergone significant changes after the recent fights, and here we tell you everything. Makhachev Rises, Topuria Leads Islam Makhachev has made a colossal leap in the ESPN rankings. After his victory over Jack Della Maddalena, Makhachev [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1584,1971,228,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-82094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-islam-makhachev","9":"tag-rankings","10":"tag-ufc","11":"tag-welterweight"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82094","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=82094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}