Fightful MMA Weekly Rankings (2/2/22): Ryan Bader Climbs Heavyweight Ranks Following Bellator 273

Welcome t🗹o 's weekly fighter rankings (as of 2/2/22).

This past weekend Bellator Heavyweight Champion Rya🌄n Bade😼r took a unanimous decision over Interim Champion Valentin Moldavsky during the main event of Bellator 273.

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Men’s Pound-For-Pound

1. Kamaru Usman (20-1) — UFC Welterweight Champion
2. Jon Jones (26-1) — UFC
3. Francis Ngannou (16-3) — UFC Heavyweight Champion
4. Alex Volkanovski (22-1) — UFC Featherweight Champion
5. Israel Adesanya (21-1) — UFC Middleweight Champion
6. Charles Oliveira (32-8) — UFC Lightweight Champion
7. Max Holloway (23-6) — UFC
8. Dustin Poirier (28-7) — UFC
9. Jan Blachowicz (28-9)
10. Stipe Miocic (20-4) — UFC
11. Robert Whittaker (23-5) — UFC
12. Deiveson Figueiredo (21-2-1) — UFC Flyweight Champion
13. Brandon Moreno (19-5) — UFC
14. Petr Yan (16-2) — Interim UFC Bantamweight Champion
15. Colby Covington (16-3) — UFC

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Women’s Pound-For-Pound

1. Valentina Shevchenko (22-3) — UFC Flyweight Champion
2. Julianna Peña (11-4) — UFC Bantamweight Champion
3. Amanda Nunes (21-5) — UFC Featherweight Champion
4. Cris Cyborg (24-2) — Bellator Featherweight Champion
5. Rose Namajunas (10-4) — UFC Strawweight Champion
6. Kayla Harrison (12-0) — PFL Lightweight Champion
7. Germaine De Randamie (10-4) — UFC
8. Weili Zhang (21-2) — UFC
9. Holly Holm (14-5) — UFC
10. Joanna Jedrzejczyk (16-4) — UFC
11. Juliana Velasquez (12-0) — Bellator Bantamweight Champion
12. Jessica Andrade (22-9) — UFC
13. Julia Budd (16-3) — PFL
14. Carla Esparza (18-6) — UFC
15. Marina Rodriguez (15-1) — UFC

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Heavyweight

1. Francis Ngannou (16-3) — UFC Champion
2. Ciryl Gane (10-1) — UFC
3. Stipe Miocic (20-4) — UFC
4. Derrick Lewis (26-8) — UFC
5. Curtis Blaydes (15-3) — UFC
6. Alexander Volkov (33-9) — UFC
7. Ryan Bader (29-7) — Bellator Champion — (+8)
8. Valentin Moldavsky (11-2) — (-1)
9. Tom Aspinall (11-2) - UFC
10. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (12-3) — UFC
11. Marcin Tybura (22-6) — UFC
12. Cheick Kongo (31-11) — Bellator
13. Augusto Sakai (15-3-1) — UFC
14. Fedor Emelianenko (40-6-1) — Bellator
15. Chris Daukaus (12-4) — UFC

Dropped Out: Fabricio Werdum (24-9) — PFL

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Light Heavyweight

1. Glover Teixeira (33-7) — UFC Champion
2. Jan Blachowicz (28-9)
3. Vadim Nemkov (13-2) — Bellator Champion
4. Jiri Prochazka (28-3-1) — UFC
5. Corey Anderson (16-5) — Bellator
6. Ryan Bader (28-7) — Bellator
7. Phil Davis (22-6) — Bellator
8. Aleksandar Rakic (14-2) — UFC
9. Thiago Santos (22-9) — UFC
10. Dominick Reyes (12-3) — UFC
11. Anthony Smith (35-16) — UFC
12. Anthony Johnson (23-6) — Bellator
13. Magomed Ankalaev (15-1) — UFC
14. Paul Craig (15-4-1) — UFC
15. Jamahal Hill (9-1) — UFC

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Middleweight

1. Israel Adesanya (21-1) — UFC Champion
2. Robert Whittaker (23-5) — UFC
3. Gegard Mousasi (48-7) — Bellator Champion
4. Jared Cannonier (14-5) — UFC
5. Derek Brunson (23-7) — UFC
6. Marvin Vettori (18-5-1) — UFC
7. Paulo Costa (13-2) — UFC
8. Sean Strickland (24-3) — UFC
9. Jack Hermansson (22-6) — UFC
10. Darren Till (18-4-1) — UFC
11. Kelvin Gastelum (16-8) — UFC
12. Uriah Hall (17-10) — UFC
13. Chris Curtis (28-8) — UFC
14. Brendan Allen (17-4) — UFC
15. Kevin Holland (21-7) — UFC

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Welterweight

1. Kamaru Usman (20-1) — UFC Champion
2. Colby Covington (16-3) — UFC
3. Gilbert Burns (20-4) — UFC
4. Leon Edwards (19-3) - UFC
5. Vicente Luque (21-7-1) — UFC
6. Belal Muhammad (20-3) — UFC
7. Stephen Thompson (16-6-1) — UFC
8. Yaroslav Amosov (26-0) — Bellator Champion
9. Jorge Masvidal (35-15) — UFC
10. Ray Cooper III (24-7-1) — PFL Champion
11. Sean Brady (15-0) — UFC
12. Michael Chiesa (18-6) — UFC
13. Douglas Lima (32-9) — Bellator
14. Khamzat Chimaev (10-0) — UFC
15. Neil Magny (25-9) — UFC

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Lightweight

1. Charles Oliveira (32-8) — UFC Champion
2. Dustin Poirier (28-7) — UFC
3. Justin Gaethje (23-3) — UFC
4. Beneil Dariush (21-4-1) — UFC
5. Islam Makhachev (20-1) — UFC
6. Conor McGregor (22-6) — UFC
7. Michael Chandler (22-7) — UFC
8. Rafael Dos Anjos (30-13) — UFC
9. Tony Ferguson (25-6) — UFC
10. Dan Hooker (21-10) — UFC
11. Gregor Gillespie (14-1) — UFC
12. Rafael Fiziev (11-1) — UFC
13. Mateusz Gamrot (20-1) — UFC
14. Brad Riddell (10-2) — UFC
15. Arman Tsarukyan (17-2) — UFC

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Featherweight

1. Alexander Volkanovski (23-1) — UFC Champion
2. Max Holloway (23-6) — UFC
3. AJ McKee (18-0) — Bellator Champion
4. Brian Ortega (15-2) — UFC
5. Patricio Pitbull (32-5) — Bellator
6. Giga Chikadze (14-2) — UFC
7. Calvin Kattar (22-5) — UFC
8. Yair Rodriguez (13-3) — UFC
9. Korean Zombie (17-6) — UFC
10. Arnold Allen (17-1) — UFC
11. Josh Emmett (16-2) — UFC
12. Movsar Evloev (14-0) — UFC
13. Movlid Khaybulaev (19-0-1) — PFL Champion
14. Dan Ige (15-4) — UFC
15. Edson Barboza (22-10) — UFC

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Bantamweight

1. Aljamain Sterling (20-3) — UFC Champion
2. Petr Yan (15-2) — UFC
3. TJ Dillashaw (17-4) — UFC
4. Cory Sandhagen (14-3) — UFC
5. Jose Aldo (30-7) — UFC
6. Rob Font (19-5) — UFC
7. Merab Dvalishviili (14-4) — UFC
8. Dominick Cruz (23-3) — UFC
9. Sergio Pettis (22-5) — Bellator Champion
10. Kyoji Horiguchi (29-4) — Bellator
11. Marlon Moraes (23-9-1) — UFC
12. Pedro Munhoz (19-6) — UFC
13. John Lineker (33-9) — ONE Champion
14. Marlon Vera (18-7-1) — UFC
15. Sean O’Malley (15-1) — UFC

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Flyweight

1. Deiveson Figueiredo (21-2-1) — UFC Champion
2. Brandon Moreno (19-5-2)
3. Adriano Moraes (19-3) — ONE Champion
4. Askar Askarov (13-0) — UFC
5. Demetrious Johnson (30-4-1) — ONE
6. Matheus Nicolau (17-2-1) — UFC
7. Alexandre Pantoja (24-5) — UFC
8. Alex Perez (24-6) — UFC
9. Brandon Royval (12-6) — UFC
10. Kai Kara-France (22-9) — UFC
11. Manel Kape (17-6) — UFC
12. Rogerio Bontorin (17-3) — UFC
13. David Dvorak (20-3) — UFC
14. Jose Torres (10-1-1) — Brave CF Champion
15. Matt Schnell (15-6) — UFC

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Women’s Featherweight

1. Amanda Nunes (21-5) — UFC Champion
2. Cris Cyborg (24-2) — Bellator Champion
3. Kayla Harrison (12-0) — PFL Champion
4. Norma Dumont (7-1) — UFC
5. Julia Budd (16-3) — PFL
6. Megan Anderson (11-5) — UFC
7. Pam Sorensen (9-3) — Invicta FC Champion
8. Larissa Pacheco (15-4) — PFL
9. Cat Zingano (12-4) — Bellator
10. Arlene Blancowe (14-8) — Bellator
11. Leslie Smith (12-9-1) — Bellator
12. Leah McCourt (4-1) — Bellator
13. Leah Letson (5-2) — UFC
14. Janay Harding (6-5) — Bellator
15. Sarah Kaufman (21-5) — PFL

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Women’s Bantamweight

1. Julianna Peña (11-4) — UFC Champion
2. Amanda Nunes (21-5)
3. Germaine De Randamie (10-4) — UFC
4. Holly Holm (14-5) — UFC
5. Irene Aldana (13-6) — UFC
6. Aspen Ladd (9-2) — UFC
7. Yana Kunitskaya (14-6) — UFC
8. Ketlen Vieira (12-2) — UFC
9. Raquel Pennington (12-8) — UFC
10. Macy Chiasson (7-1) — UFC
11. Meisha Tate (19-8) — UFC
12. Sara McMann (12-6) — UFC
13. Josiane Nunes (8-2) — UFC
14. Pannie Kianzad (15-6) — UFC
15. Karol Rosa (14-3) — UFC

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Women’s Flyweight

1. Valentina Shevchenko (22-3) — UFC Champion
2. Jessica Andrade (22-9) — UFC
3. Juliana Velasquez (12-0) — Bellator Champion
4. Katlyn Chookagian (16-4) — UFC
5. Liz Carmouche (16-7) — UFC
6. Lauren Murphy (14-6) — UFC
7. Jennifer Maia (19-7-1) — UFC
8. Andrea Lee (13-5) — UFC
9. Cynthia Calvillo (9-4-1) — UFC
10. Taila Santos (19-1) — UFC
11. Joanne Wood (15-7) — UFC
12. Ilima Lei-MacFarlane (11-1) — Bellator
13. Alexa Grasso (13-3) — UFC
14. Viviane Araujo (9-3) — UFC
15. Roxanne Modaferri (25-18) — UFC

Women’s Strawweight

1. Rose Namajunas (12-4) — UFC Champion
2. Weili Zhang (21-3) — UFC
3. Joanna Jedrzejczyk (16-4) — UFC
4. Carla Esparza (18-6) — UFC
5. Marina Rodriguez (15-1) — UFC
6. MacKenzie Dern (11-2) — UFC
7. Yan Xionan (13-2) — UFC
8. Tecia Torres (13-5) — UFC
9. Amanda Lemos (11-1-1) — UFC
10. Amanda Ribas (10-2) — UFC
11. Michelle Waterson (18-9) — UFC
12. Angela Hill (13-11) — UFC
13. Nina Nunes (10-7) — UFC
14. Virna Jandiroba (17-2) — UFC
15. Kanako Murata (12-2) — UFC

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