{"id":751870,"date":"2026-06-21T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:23:18","slug":"white-a-lot-of-people-are-going-to-complain-about-new-ufc-ranking-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751870\/","title":{"rendered":"White: \u2018A lot of people are going to complain\u2019 about new UFC ranking system"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new UFC rankings system is coming on Monday, June 22nd 2026, whether the world is ready for them or not.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the word from UFC CEO Dana White, who shared a bit of information about the incoming system designed to fix the shortcomings of the current ranking system, which has been lacking for years now.<\/p>\n

What do we know so far? The new system will be \u201can objective, data-driven approach, rather than based on opinion or popularity\u201d that is \u201cdesigned to reward performance.\u201d During Saturday\u2019s UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Horiguchi event, the schedule for these rankings was upgraded from \u2018Coming soon\u2019<\/a> to debuting on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, they work,\u201d he said with a laugh. \u201cBut, yeah, they come out Monday. We\u2019ll have all the details and everything you need to know about them will hit on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n

White had previously hyped up the new ranking system by saying \u201cA.I. is coming!\u201c<\/a> Considering A.I. still has some issues counting how many R\u2019s are in \u2018strawberry,\u2019 that had some worried. Fortunately, White isn\u2019t going the fully autonomous route and still plans on having some humans in the loop.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna have both, I\u2019m still gonna do human, nonhuman, however you wanna look at it, rankings,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think that neither will be perfect, but it\u2019ll get us closer. And the rankings that are gonna come out on Monday, I think, make a lot more sense. You know, I think you\u2019re gonna have a lot of people who are gonna complain and argue and go, \u2018Oh, this isn\u2019t fair. That\u2019s not right.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

That makes it sound like we could see a big overhaul of the entire ranking system, one that doesn\u2019t just move around the fighters from Saturday\u2019s fights but completely resets the board based on the new system. Inactive fighters could be bounced way down or out of the rankings. Unranked athletes smashing heads on the prelim could become top 15 ranked overnight.<\/p>\n

A big shakeup like this will surely bring controversy, but White asked for the same patience with the new system as he\u2019s asking with his Zuffa Boxing project.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see how it plays out over the first year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new UFC rankings system is coming on Monday, June 22nd 2026, whether the world is ready for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,50095,702],"class_list":["post-751870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-rankings","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}