UFC Men's Pound-For-Pound Rankings | Post-UFC 307 Update - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

The UFC Men's Pound-For-Pound Rankings have been updated after UFC 307, and Peter Klein is here to break down the biggest movers! Islam Makhachev was #1 before, but with Alex Pereira winning again, does that change? Find out who’s climbing and who’s falling, including stars like Dricus Du Plessis, Tom Aspinall, and more. Stay up to date with all things UFC and Pound-for-Pound Rankings here!  Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands  Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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00:00UFC 307 saw Alex Pereira retain the UFC's Light Heavyweight Championship, battling sickness,

00:13illness, fatigue, injury, and Khalil Roundtree to pick up a 4th round knockout of Roundtree.

00:21Where does Pereira sit on the pound-for-pound rankings?

00:24Here we go.

00:26Coming in at number 10, it is Alex Volkanovsky.

00:28Yes, he has lost his title, but he was a pound-for-pound number 2 for a while, and the only guys he

00:34loses to are guys who are on this list.

00:37So I cannot still knock this dude off of this list right now.

00:42He comes in at number 10.

00:45At 9, it is Leon Edwards.

00:47Again, you get a couple wins over a guy who is in the top 3, you're gonna stay on the

00:51list.

00:52Even with a loss, and even with a frustrating loss, I can't put him all the way off of

00:56it yet.

00:57So he is at 9.

00:58At 8, Merab Davalishvili.

01:00A win over Sean O'Malley, and a championship gets you on the list.

01:04But given, again, the quality of the opposition that we are dealing with ahead of him, I just,

01:09there was no one...

01:108 does feel a little bit low.

01:13Maybe if it was a bit more...

01:14I mean, it was a dominant win over Sean O'Malley.

01:16But I do think if it was a bit more of a ba-boom win, you know?

01:21Then maybe he moves up, but I just, I couldn't put him ahead of the rest.

01:24At 7, it's Bilal Mohamed.

01:25It's been quite the run up to a championship point, and then a win over Leon Edwards, who

01:29again, has a resume that keeps him on this list even after a loss.

01:33I think you have to reward that, so he gets at 7.

01:35At 6, it's Jon Jones.

01:37Dana White would say that any pound-for-pound list that includes Jon Jones doesn't have

01:40a number 1 is stupid.

01:41So I guess this list is stupid.

01:43But inactivity for Jon Jones, you have to keep him on here because he's the heavyweight

01:47champion of the world, but it hasn't... hasn't happened in a while.

01:52And it's only happened once in a really long time.

01:55So, you can't put him any higher, I don't think, than 6 on this list.

01:58At 5, it is Tom Aspinall.

02:00A phenomenal run of knockouts has him in the top 5, and now potentially setting up a fantastic

02:08clash with him and Alex Pereira, as the two kind of teased that on social media.

02:13At 4, Ilya Taporia, uh, you know, Volkanovsky.

02:17The only guy who he loses to, or the only guy he's lost to is Islam Makachev, who we

02:21haven't talked about yet, and will.

02:23So that tells you how high this cat is on the pound-for-pound rankings.

02:27So Taporia, I think, puts himself in some rarefied air with a win over Volkanovsky and

02:34now has an opportunity to move even higher as he gets ready for Max Holloway.

02:39At 3, it is Drikus Du Plessis.

02:41A win over Israel Adesanya helps.

02:44Beating Sean Strickland, who beat him, also helps.

02:46And it has... look, it hasn't been overly convincing all the time.

02:51And there are very few things that he does that you would teach that way in any martial

02:56arts school ever.

02:57But the wins continue to pile up, and he continues to show the type of fighter that he is.

03:03So he comes in in the top 3.

03:05At 2, it's a win but I can't move him.

03:08Alex Pereira stays in the number 2 spot.

03:10A victory over Khalil Rowntree does not put you to number 1.

03:15Now, if the Instagram thing plays out and we get a fight with him and Aspinall next,

03:23I think the winner of that probably moves to number 1.

03:27You either have Pereira, who would now have wins over champions in 3 different weight

03:32classes, which I feel pretty confident in saying that's never happened before, so that

03:37would be unbelievable.

03:39Or you have Aspinall, who has knocked off a guy who is 2 in the rankings and has been

03:43dominant along the way.

03:44So that fight would be for the number 1 spot in the men's pound-for-pound rankings, a ranking

03:49currently held by Islam Makhachev.

03:52When you have 2 fights of the top 2 fighters in the pound-for-pound rankings and you win

03:56both of them, you hold onto the crown for a really long time.

04:00And that is what Islam Makhachev is doing, as he is the number 1 fighter in our UFC men's

04:06pound-for-pound rankings.

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