Israel Adesanya could have fallen quick in his bid to recapture the UFC middleweight title, however the remainder of Metropolis Kickboxing’s crew confirmed out at UFC 305.
Chief amongst them had been Adesanya’s teammates, light-weight Dan Hooker and flyweight Kai Kara-France, each of whom picked up the largest wins of their respective UFC careers on Saturday’s pay-per-view card. Hooker gained a grueling warfare of attrition towards Mateusz Gamrot to push his win streak to a few straight and vault into light-weight title competition, whereas Kara-France wanted lower than a spherical to knock out earlier title challenger Steve Erceg and reestablish his presence within the flyweight championship image.
As such, Hooker and Kara-France make up two of essentially the most impactful strikes within the MMA Combating international rankings because the mud settles from Perth. In our newest divisional replace, Hooker jumps up three spots into the No. 9 light-weight rating, whereas Kara-France advances to No. 6 within the flyweight ladder.
Whereas it will not be as instantly seen as these two, one different notable end result from UFC 305 centered across the occasion’s headliner, UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis. The South African titleholder should have some doubters within the MMA group due to his distinctive type, however you gained’t discover them amongst MMA Combating’s seven-person voting panel. Together with his fourth-round submission of Adesanya, “Stillknocks” captured all seven first-place votes from our staff at 185 kilos, lastly convincing the lone holdout on our panel of du Plessis’ superiority over undefeated Bellator champion Johnny Eblen.
Du Plessis now represents our staff’s first unanimous No. 1 middleweight on the planet since Adesanya’s second title reign resulted in surprising vogue by the hands of Sean Strickland.
Try our up to date rankings under from the divisions most affected by UFC 305.
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