TRENDING NBA Predictions World Series schedule Week 7 Waiver Wire 49ers are 6-0 Reese, Dream get even Story by Story by New rankings! Surging Mike Malott boots Joaquin Buckley from welterweight Top 10 following UFC Edmonton violence MONTREAL, QUEBEC - MAY 10: Mike Malott reacts after a knockout victory against Charles Radtke in a welterweight bout during the UFC 315 event at Bell Centre on May 10, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) Jesse Holland Tue, October 20, 2026 at 6:15 PM UTC · 4 min read About Our Ads Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Welcome to the Top 10.
Red-hot 170-pound slugger Mike Malott blasted his way into the division Top 10 by destroying Joaquin Buckley atop the UFC Edmonton fight card last weekend in Canada. It was the fifth straight win for the "Proper" welterweight and his second straight knockout, pushing him three spots to No. 8 in the updated Meta Rankings .
Buckley, loser of three straight, fell four spots to No. 12.
Elsewhere on the charts, Jasmine Jasudavicius (women's flyweight) and Chelsea Chandler (women's bantamweight) improved their respective positions following victories at UFC Edmonton . Jasudavicius upset top ranked Erin Blanchfield while Chandler submitted Melissa Croden in preliminary card action.
Check out the updated UFC Meta Rankings below (for an explanation on how they work click here ).
1. Manel Kape 2. Alexandre Pantoja 3. Brandon Royval 4. Tatsuro Taira 5. Asu Almabayev 6. Lone'er Kavanagh 7. Ramazan Temirov 8. Kyoji Horiguchi 9. Amir Albazi 10. Brandon Moreno 11. Sumudaerji 12. Mitch Raposo 13. Imanol Rodriguez 14. Rei Tsuruya 15. Charles Johnson
1. Merab Dvalishvili 2. Song Yadong 3. Sean O'Malley 4. Mario Bautista 5. Umar Nurmagomedov 6. Cory Sandhagen 7. David Martinez 8. Raul Rosas Jr. 9. Farid Basharat 10. Payton Talbott 11. Montel Jackson 12. Aiemann Zahabi 13. Bryce Mitchell 14. Marlon Vera 15. Raoni Barcelos
1. Movsar Evloev 2. Diego Lopes 3. Lerone Murphy 4. Aljamain Sterling 5. Jean Silva 6. Arnold Allen 7. Pat Sabatini 8. Pavel Andrusca 9. Youssef Zalal 10. Kevin Vallejos 11. Joanderson Brito 12. Melquizael Costa 13. Steve Garcia 14. Aaron Pico 15. Jamall Emmers
1. Ilia Topuria 2. Arman Tsarukyan 3. Charles Oliveira 4. Max Holloway 5. Paddy Pimblett 6. Quillan Salkilld 7. Benoit Saint Denis 8. Renato Moicano 9. Mateusz Gamrot 10. Mauricio Ruffy 11. Tom Nolan 12. Rafael Fiziev 13. Tofiq Musayev 14. Grant Dawson 15. Esteban Ribovics
1. Carlos Prates 2. Ian Machado Garry 3. Michael Morales 4. Jack Della Maddalena 5. Sean Brady 6. Gabriel Bonfim 7. Belal Muhammad 8. Mike Malott +3 9. Uros Medic 10. Leon Edwards 11. Kamaru Usman +1 12. Joaquin Buckley -4 13. Yaroslav Amosov 14. Kevin Holland 15. Daniel Rodriguez
1. Khamzat Chimaev 2. Dricus Du Plessis 3. Nassourdine Imavov 4. Brendan Allen 5. Joe Pyfer 6. Caio Borralho 7. Gregory Rodrigues 8. Anthony Hernandez 9. Israel Adesanya 10. Ikram Aliskerov 11. Christian Leroy Duncan 12. Bo Nickal 13. Abus Magomedov 14. Roman Kopylov 15. Edmen Shahbazyan
1. Alex Pereira 2. Magomed Ankalaev 3. Jiri Prochazka 4. Paulo Costa 5. Khalil Rountree 6. Navajo Stirling 7. Dominick Reyes 8. Reinier de Ridder 9. Azamat Murzakanov 10. Alonzo Menifield 11. Bogdan Guskov 12. Robert Whittaker 13. Muhammad Saidov 14. Modestas Bukauskas 15. Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev
1. Tom Aspinall 2. Sergei Pavlovich 3. Alex Pereira 4. Alexander Volkov 5. Rizvan Kuniev 6. Josh Hokit 7. Curtis Blaydes 8. Waldo Cortes Acosta 9. Vitor Petrino 10. Mario Pinto 11. Valter Walker 12. Johnny Walker 13. Brando Pericic 14. Serghei Spivac 15. Anthony Wint
1. Zhang Weili 2. Virna Jandiroba 3. Tatiana Suarez 4. Denise Gomes 5. Gillian Robertson 6. Fatima Klein 7. Alexia Thainara 8. Loopy Godinez +3 9. Piera Rodriguez -1 10. Yan Xiaonan -1 11. Mizuki Inoue -1 12. Tabatha Ricci 13. Talita Alencar +1 14. Amanda Lemos +1 15. Sam Hughes *NR
1. Valentina Shevchenko 2. Alexa Grasso 3. Jasmine Jasudavicius +3 4. Manon Fiorot 5. Erin Blanchfield -2 6. Zhang Weili -1 7. Rose Namajunas 8. Wang Cong 9. Maycee Barber 10. Tracy Cortez 11. Casey O'Neill 12. Miranda Maverick 13. Regina Tarin 14. Karine Silva 15. Carli Judice
1. Joselyne Edwards 2. Ailin Perez 3. Norma Dumont 4. Luana Santos 5. Julianna Pena 6. Yana Santos 7. Jacqueline Cavalcanti 8. Michelle Montague 9. Chelsea Chandler +6 10. Karol Rosa 11. Bia Mesquita 12. Alice Pereira 13. Nora Cornolle 14. Macy Chiasson 15. Melissa Croden -6
You can expect these rankings to change around this time next week, particularly in the featherweight division, following the upcoming UFC 333: "Volkanovski vs. Evloev" MMA event on Paramount+ , scheduled for Sat., Oct. 24, 2026 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
For much more on that upcoming fight card click here .
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