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UFC Rankings Review: Khamzat Chimaev is Back? April 30, 2021 Editorial Commentary by Peter Parsons In this week’s UFC rankings, many fighters were taken out of the rankings due to inactivity, change in weight division or in the case of Tyron Woodley, not re-signing at the end of his contract.  We see a lot of fresh faces in the rankings this week and a familiar face at welterweight. Khamzat Chimaev re-enters the welterweight rankings at No. 15 For regular readers of this column, you may be getting tired of reading about why Khamzat Chimaev should not be ranked.  I did not think we would s...

Editorial Commentary by Peter Parsons Like two weeks ago, this week there was once again a lot of movement in the bottom half of the heavyweight rankings. Unlike two weeks ago, where the movement was a result of four heavyweight fights on the Lewis vs. Blaydes card, this week’s movement was a result of the UFC releasing long-time ranked heavyweights Alistair Overeem and Junior Dos Santos. With two heavyweights out of the UFC, we didn’t just see two heavyweights enter the rankings at 14 and 15. Instead we saw two fighters enter the heavyweight rankings at 13 and 15 with other fighters mov...

Editorial Commentary by Peter Parsons Yes, you read the first part of the headline right, Khamzat Chimaev moved up in this week’s welterweight rankings.  This is the only rankings change that I disagree with in this week’s column.  Typically, I write largely about the rankings changes that I disagree with.  Two out of the three changes that I highlight this week, I actually agree with, to a certain extent. Khamzat Chimaev moves up to No. 14 in the rankings? It was recently announced that Khamzat Chimaev is out of his fight in March with Leon Edwards because of COVID-19 related issues.Â...

Editorial Commentary by Peter Parsons There are times when it makes sense for Fighter A to be ranked ahead of Fighter B even though Fighter A lost to Fighter B. However, this rarely makes sense when the fight in question happened quite recently. When this week’s UFC rankings were released, two examples of this situation stood out to me. In both cases, the movement happened without any of the four fighters having had a recent fight. Kevin Lee ranked ahead of Al Iaquinta? In the UFC lightweight division, Al Iaquinta dropped two spots this week to No. 12, beneath the No. 11 ranked Kevin Lee, a...