Carlos Ulberg will not be denied.<\/p>\n
The owner of the longest active win streak at light heavyweight heading into UFC 327, Ulberg already deserved consideration for MMA Fighting\u2019s Pound-for-Pound rankings, and on Saturday he made sure he\u2019d have a P4P number next to his name as he scored an unreal comeback knockout of Jiri Prochazka. Ulberg snatched victory from the jaws of defeat after suffering a debilitating leg injury, one that might spoil his light heavyweight championship reign before it\u2019s even begun.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re focusing on the positive here. Ulberg, new champion at 205 pounds. Riding a 10-fight win streak. And his past three victories include former titleholders Prochazka and Jan Blachowicz, as well as two-time title challenger Dominick Reyes. Ulberg\u2019s run is as good any that we\u2019ve recently seen in what was once one of the UFC\u2019s marquee divisions and he\u2019s more than worthy of the No. 12 spot (tied with Jack Della Maddalena and Arman Tsarukyan) in our rankings regardless of what the near future holds for him.<\/p>\n
On a similar note, based on how long it took us to rate Ulberg, maybe we\u2019re making the same mistake with Movsar Evloev? The undefeated featherweight creeps further up our charts to No. 18, but after his UFC London win over fellow top contender Lerone Murphy, should Evloev already be much closer to the top 10?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s hope he gets that Alexander Volkanovski title fight so we can move on from the hypothetical.<\/p>\n
Check out the post-UFC 327 Pound-for-Pound Rankings and let us know your thoughts in the poll and comments below.<\/p>\n
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 19 Movsar Evloev def. Lerone Murphy, Carlos Ulberg def. No. 17 Jiri Prochazka<\/p>\n
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 2 Ilia Topuria vs. Justin Gaethje (UFC White House, June 14), No. 3 Alex Pereira vs. Ciryl Gane (UFC White House, June 14), No. 4 Khamzat Chimaev vs. Sean Strickland (UFC 328, May 9), No. 12 (tied) Jack Della Maddalena vs. Carlos Prates (UFC Perth, May 2), No. 16 Joshua Van vs. Tatsuro Taira (UFC 328, May 9)<\/p>\n
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Justin Gaethje (2), Usman Nurmagomedov (2), Jiri Prochazka (2), Belal Muhammad (1), Aljamain Sterling (1)<\/p>\n
Falling out of the rankings: No. 17 Jiri Prochazka<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S POUND-FOR-POUND<\/p>\n
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 11 Alexa Grasso def. Maycee Barber, No. 12 Tatiana Suarez def. Loopy Godinez, No. 13 Virna Jandiroba def. Tabatha Ricci<\/p>\n
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 20 Taila Santos vs. Yan Qihui (PFL Sioux Falls, May 2)<\/p>\n
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Jasmine Jasudavicius (3), Norma Dumont (2), Gillian Robertson (2)<\/p>\n
A refresher on the ground rules:<\/p>\n
Thoughts? Questions? Concerns? Make your voice heard in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Ulberg will not be denied. The owner of the longest active win streak at light heavyweight heading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,150009,1347,785,2843,5963,7613,3410,15804,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-606733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-invicta-fc","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-one-championship","15":"tag-pfl","16":"tag-pfl-news","17":"tag-rankings","18":"tag-rizin","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-ufc","21":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}