Rankings Update: Mark Hunt debuts in top five
This past weekend’s UFC Fight 52 in Japan only featured a few bouts meaningful to the division. Heavyweight Mark Hunt is now a top five heavyweight.
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 52 in Japan only featured a few bouts meaningful to the division. Heavyweight Mark Hunt is now a top five heavyweight.
Champion : Cain Velasquez
1 Fabricio Werdum
2 Junior Dos Santos
3 Travis Browne
4 Stipe Miocic
5 Mark Hunt +1
6 Josh Barnett -1
7 Andrei Arlovski
8 Bigfoot Silva +1
9 Roy Nelson -1
10 Ben Rothwell
11 Alistair Overeem
12 Gabriel Gonzaga
13 Frank Mir
14 Stefan Struve
15 Matt Mitrione *NR
Hunt had previously been ranked in sixth and now moved up one spot to fifth. He will likely be matched up with another top five heavyweight in a bout that could determine the new heavyweight title contender. Nelson moved down one spot to ninth for his loss.
