Rankings Update: Arlovski debuts in top ten
This past weekend’s UFC Fight Night 51 in Brazil featured a few key match ups and heavyweight Andrei Alrovski was the bigger winner in the cage and in the rankings.
After each event, the UFC polls various members of the media to update its rankings in each weight division as well as the pound for pound rankings.
This past weekend’s UFC Fight Night 51 in Brasilia, Brazil featured a few key match ups and heavyweight Andrei Alrovski was the bigger winner in the cage and in the rankings.
Champion : Cain Velasquez
1 Fabricio Werdum
2 Junior Dos Santos
3 Travis Browne
4 Stipe Miocic +1
5 Josh Barnett +1
6 Mark Hunt +1
7 Andrei Arlovski +7
8 Roy Nelson
9 Bigfoot Silva -5
10 Ben Rothwell -1
11 Alistair Overeem -1
12 Gabriel Gonzaga
13 Frank Mir -2
14 Stefan Struve -1
15 Minotauro Nogueira
Arlovski was a three to one underdog against Antonio Silva who had been ranked fourth in the division, but no finds himself in ninth. Arlovski moved from fourteenth to seventh.