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ONE’s Athlete Rankings simply skilled some main motion.
After a few breakout performances in ONE Championship’s final two occasions, three blended martial arts divisions have gone by way of some obvious modifications.
The least drastic change occurred within the flyweight blended martial arts division.
Within the weight class, former ONE Flyweight World Champion and #4-ranked contender Kairat “The Kazakh” Akhmetov leapfrogged the person in entrance of him – #3-ranked Danny “The King” Kingad.
Akhmetov dominated Kingad in the principle occasion of ONE: WINTER WARRIORS II this previous December. That moved him one spot up and pushed the Filipino sensation one spot down.
After the shakeup, that is what the flyweight rankings now appear like:
- #1: Demetrious Johnson
- #2: Yuya Wakamatsu
- #3: Kairat Akhmetov (+1)
- #4: Danny Kingad (-1)
- #5: Reece McLaren
The flyweight division might have seen solely these two athletes buying and selling locations, however the bantamweight division skilled virtually an entire makeover.
Within the heavier weight class, John “Fingers of Stone” Lineker remained the unquestioned #1 contender.
However after him, the remainder of the rankings have been shaken up like a snow globe.
Following their knockout performances at ONE: WINTER WARRIORS II, beforehand unranked athletes “Fairly Boy” Kwon Received Il and Stephen “The Sniper” Loman earned the #2 and #3 spots, respectively.
Kwon knocked out former titleholder and #2-ranked contender Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon with a physique shot to take his place. Loman, alternatively, defeated beforehand ranked #3-contender Yusup “Maestro” Saadulaev by way of first-round TKO to assert his slot within the rankings.
Fabricio “Surprise Boy” Andrade maintained the #4 spot by demolishing “The Underdog” Li Kai Wen on the ONE: WINTER WARRIORS II lead card.
Belingon fell to the #5 spot to spherical out the bantamweight division rankings. His transfer pushed Saadulaev and former #5-ranked contender Shoko Sato off the checklist.
That is what the bantamweight rankings appear like now:
- #1: John Lineker
- #2: Kwon Received Il (NR)
- #3: Stephen Loman (NR)
- #4: Fabricio Andrade
- #5: Kevin Belingon (-3)
Lastly, the light-weight blended martial arts division noticed a brand new entry.
This previous weekend, Khabib Nurmagomedov’s protege Saygid Izagakhmaev submitted former ONE World Title challenger James Nakashima by way of head and arm triangle within the second spherical.
That stellar show launched him into the light-weight rating’s #5 spot, which suggests earlier #5-ranked contender Timofey Nastyukhin tumbled off the checklist.
That is what the light-weight rankings now appear like:
- 1: Christian Lee
- 2: Dagi Arslanaliev
- 3: Shinya Aoki
- 4: Iuri Lapicus
- 5: Saygid Izagakhmaev (NR)
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