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UFC Splitting Up Men & Women’s Pound-For-Pound Rankings
It looks like the UFC will be splitting up their men and women’s pound-for-pound rankings moving forward.
According to UFC rankings panelist Bruno Massami, moving forward, men and women will have their own pound-for-pound rankings.
“Breaking: I have a good news to you. Finally, UFC was decided to separate the P4P Rankings. We will have Mens and Woman’s P4P Rankings now.”
Currently, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is listed as the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world – regardless of gender. It’s likely he’ll remain at the top of the men’s pound-for-pound list once they’re officially separated from the women. The top-ranked woman on the joint pound-for-pound rankings list is UFC women’s bantamweight and featherweight champion Amanda Nunes, who is ranked at No. 5.
She’ll likely be listed as the top women’s pound-for-pound fighter once the lists are separated. UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will likely be a very close No. 2 right behind her former foe. The two reigning champions will then likely be followed by UFC women’s strawweight champion Weili Zhang. Nunes comes off of a successful title defense against Germaine de Randamie at UFC 245 in December.
“The Lioness” swept de Randamie on the judges’ scorecards after five rounds of fighting. Nunes does not have a fight booked as of this writing. As for Shevchenko, she has a title defense coming up at the UFC 247 pay-per-view (PPV) event next month in Texas. Shevchenko puts her title up for grabs against Katlyn Chookagian in the night’s co-main event. As for Zhang, she will make her first-ever title defense against former division queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
The pair will co-headline UFC 248 on PPV from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 7. Men’s pound-for-pound king Jon Jones will put his light heavyweight throne up for grabs against Dominick Reyes in the UFC 247 main event on February 8.
What do you think about the UFC splitting up the men and women’s pound-for-pound rankings?
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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