The UFC Meta Rankings have been up to date following the UFC Vegas 121 MMA occasion final weekend in Las Vegas and it is extra dangerous information for Raoni Barcelos. Not solely did the bantamweight veteran get hospitalized after a scary knockout loss to Raul Rosas Jr., the Brazilian additionally coughed up his High 10 rating to “El Niño Problema.”
That is not all.
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UFC Vegas 121 outcomes additionally noticed Ailin Perez climb two spots to No. 2 within the girls’s bantamweight rankings following her choice win over Norma Dumont. As well as, Montel Jackson’s end over bantamweight bruiser Ricky Simon (watch the highlights right here) helped “Quik” enhance his place within the High 15 at 135 kilos.
Try the up to date UFC Meta Rankings beneath (for an evidence on how they work click on right here).
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UFC META RANKINGS
FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Joshua Van
1. Manel Kape
2. Alexandre Pantoja
3. Brandon Royval
4. Tatsuro Taira
5. Asu Almabayev
6. Lone’er Kavanagh
7. Ramazan Temirov
8. Kyoji Horiguchi
9. Brandon Moreno
10. Amir Albazi
11. Sumudaerji
12. Mitch Raposo
13. Rei Tsuruya
14. Charles Johnson
15. Alessandro Costa
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BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Petr Yan
1. Merab Dvalishvili
2. Track Yadong
3. Sean O’Malley
4. Mario Bautista
5. Umar Nurmagomedov
6. Cory Sandhagen
7. David Martinez
8. Raul Rosas Jr. *NR
9. Farid Basharat
10. Marcus McGhee
11. Deiveson Figueiredo
12. Montel Jackson +3
13. Aiemann Zahabi
14. Marlon Vera -2
15. Bryce Mitchell -1
FEATHERWEIGHT
Champion: Alexander Volkanovski
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 Vallejos
11. Joanderson Brito
12. Melquizael Costa
13. Steve Garcia
14. Aaron Pico
15. Jamall Emmers
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LIGHTWEIGHT
Champion: Justin Gaethje
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. Tofiq Musayev
14. Grant Dawson
15. Jalin Turner
WELTERWEIGHT
Champion: Islam Makhachev
1. Carlos Prates
2. Ian Machado Garry
3. Michael Morales
4. Jack Della Maddalena
5. Sean Brady
6. Gabriel Bonfim
7. Belal Muhammad
8. Joaquin Buckley
9. Uros Medic
10. Leon Edwards
11. Mike Malott
12. Kamaru Usman
13. Yaroslav Amosov
14. Kevin Holland
15. Daniel Rodriguez
MIDDLEWEIGHT
Champion: Sean Strickland
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1. Khamzat Chimaev
2. Dricus Du Plessis
3. Nassourdine Imavov
4. Joe Pyfer
5. Brendan Allen
6. Caio Borralho
7. Gregory Rodrigues
8. Anthony Hernandez
9. Israel Adesanya
10. Christian Leroy Duncan
11. Ikram Aliskerov
12. Bo Nickal
13. Abus Magomedov
14. Edmen Shahbazyan
15. Shara Magomedov *NR
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Carlos Ulberg
1. Alex Pereira
2. Magomed Ankalaev
3. Jiri Prochazka
4. Paulo Costa
5. Jamahal Hill
6. Khalil Rountree
7. Navajo Stirling
8. Dominick Reyes
9. Reinier de Ridder
10. Azamat Murzakanov
11. Alonzo Menifield
12. Bogdan Guskov
13. Robert Whittaker
14. Johnny Walker
15. Muhammad Saidov
HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion: Ciryl Gane
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1. Tom Aspinall -1
2. Sergei Pavlovich +1
3. Alex Pereira +1
4. Alexander Volkov -2
5. Rizvan Kuniev
6. Josh Hokit
7. Curtis Blaydes
8. Waldo Cortes Acosta
9. Vitor Petrino
10. Mario Pinto
11. Valter Walker
12. Brando Pericic
13. Serghei Spivac
14. Shamil Gaziev +1
15. Aleksandar Rakić *NR
WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT
Champion: Mackenzie Dern
1. Zhang Weili
2. Virna Jandiroba
3. Tatiana Suarez
4. Denise Gomes
5. Gillian Robertson
6. Fatima Klein
7. Alexia Thainara
8. Piera Rodriguez
9. Yan Xiaonan
10. Mizuki Inoue
11. Crazy Godinez
12. Tabatha Ricci
13. Jaqueline Amorim
14. Talita Alencar
15. Amanda Lemos
WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT
Champion: Valentina Shevchenko
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1. Natalia Silva
2. Alexa Grasso
3. Erin Blanchfield
4. Manon Fiorot
5. Zhang Weili
6. Wang Cong
7. Jasmine Jasudavicius
8. Rose Namajunas
9. Maycee Barber
10. Tracy Cortez
11. Casey O’Neill
12. Miranda Maverick
13. Regina Tarin
14. Karine Silva
15. Carli Judice
WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT
Champion: Kayla Harrison
1. Joselyne Edwards
2. Ailin Perez +2
3. Norma Dumont -1
4. Luana Santos -1
5. Julianna Pena
6. Yana Santos
7. Jacqueline Cavalcanti
8. Michelle Montague
9. Melissa Croden
10. Karol Rosa
11. Bia Mesquita
12. Nora Cornolle
13. Macy Chiasson
14. Daria Zhelezniakova
15. Raquel Pennington
The official media rankings haven’t been up to date on the time of publishing and are anticipated to be phased out within the coming weeks.
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You possibly can count on these rankings to vary round this time subsequent week, notably within the girls’s flyweight division, following the upcoming UFC 332: “Silva vs. Wang” MMA occasion on Paramount+, scheduled for Sat., Oct. 3, 2026 at Delta Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.
For far more on that upcoming combat card click on right here.