{"id":19564,"date":"2026-03-03T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2026\/03\/03\/brandon-moreno-and-marlon-vera-continue-to-decline-in-the-recent-ufc-rankings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:57:00","slug":"brandon-moreno-and-marlon-vera-continue-to-decline-in-the-recent-ufc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2026\/03\/03\/brandon-moreno-and-marlon-vera-continue-to-decline-in-the-recent-ufc-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Moreno and Marlon Vera continue to decline in the recent UFC rankings."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It wasn’t that long ago that Brandon Moreno was the flyweight champion of the world. Likewise, Marlon Vera is only two years removed from the pay-per-view (PPV) headliner and 135-pound title fight against Sean O’Malley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Moreno (23-10-2) has lost four of his last six fights, while Vera (23-12-1) has lost five in a row, including last weekend at UFC Mexico in Mexico City. \u201cThe Assassin Baby\u201d lost to Lone\u2019er Kavanagh and \u201cChito\u201d lost to David Martinez.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As expected, this performance cost both combatants valuable real estate in the latest UFC rankings update.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here’s how rankings will be compiled, at least until AI takes over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The rankings are created by a voting panel made up of media members. Media members were asked to vote on who the best fighter in the UFC was by weight class and pound-for-pound. Fighters can only vote if they are active in the UFC. Fighters may appear in more than one weight class at a time. Champions and interim champions cannot be voted on by weight class as they are considered to be at the top of their division. However, champions can vote on pound-for-pound rankings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Take a look at the latest rankings field from UFC.com. Note: (+\/- = change in ranking, T = tie, *NR = no previous ranking).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Islam Makhachev
2. Ilya Topuria
3. Khamzat Chimaev
4. Alexander Volkanovski
5. Alex Ferreira
6. Petr Jan
7. Merab Dvalishvili
8. Tom Aspinall
9. Alexandre Pantoja
10. Max Holloway
11. Joshua Van
12. Dricus du Plessis
13. Magomed Ankalaev
14. Jack della Madalena
15. Arman Tsarukyan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Alexandre Pantoja
2. Manel Cafe
3. Taira Tatsuro
4. Brandon Roybal
5. Kyoji Horiguchi
6. Lone’er Kavanagh *NR
7. (T) Brandon Moreno -1
7. (T) Amir Albazi
9. Asu Almabaev -1
10. Alex Perez
11. Tim Elliott -2
12. Steve Erceg -1
13. Tagir Ulanbekov -1
14. Charles Johnson -1
15. Bruno Silva -1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Merab Dvalishvili
2. Umar Nurmagomedov
3. Sean O\u2019Malley
4. Corey Sandhagen
5. Songya-dong
6. Ayman Zahavi
7. Daveson Figueiredo
8. Mario Batista
9. David Martinez +1
10. Marlon Vera -1
11. Payton Talbot
12. Vinicius Oliveira
13. Rob Font
14. Kyler Phillips
15. Montel Jackson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Champion: Alexander Volkanovski<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Movsar Evloev
2. Diego Lopez
3. Leron Murphy
4. Yair Rodriguez
5. Aljamain Sterling
6. Jean Silva
7. Arnold Allen
8. Yousef Jalal
9. Steve Garcia
10. Brian Ortega
11. Josh Emmett
12. Melquisael Costa +1
13. Patricio Pitbull -1
14. Kevin Vallejos
15. David Onama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Justin Gaethje (interim champion)
2. Arman Charukyan
3. Charles Oliveira
4. Max Holloway
5. Benoit Saint-Denis
6. Paddy Pimblett
7. Mateus Gamrot
8. Dan Hooker
9. Mauricio Lupi
10. Renato Moicano
11. Raphael P.S.E.F.
12. Beneil Dariush
13. Michael Chandler
14. Manuel Torres
15. Fee Jiam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Champion: Islam Makhachev<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Jack della Madalena
2. Ian Machado Gary
3. Michael Morales
4. Belal Muhammad
5. Carlos Prates
6. Sean Brady
7. Kamaru Usman
8. Leon Edwards
9. Joaquin Buckley
10. Gabriel Bonfim
11. Gilbert Burns
12. Uros Medic
13. Colby Covington
14. Michael Page
15. Daniel Rodriguez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Champion: Khamzat Chimaev<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Dricus du Plessis
2. Nasordin Imabov
3. Sean Strickland
4. Brendan Allen
5. Israel Adesanya
6. Anthony Hern\u00e1ndez
7. Kaio Boralyu
8. Rainier de Ryder
9. Robert Whitaker
10. Jared Cannonier
11. Roman Dolije
12. Paulo Costa
13. Gregory Rodriguez
14. Joe Piper
15. Bruno Ferreira<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Magomed Ankalaev
2. Jiri Prochazka
3. Carlos Ullberg
4. Khalil Roundtree
5. Jan Blachowicz
6. Azamat Murzakhanov
7. Jamahal Hill
8. Volkan \u00d6zdemir
9. Bogdan Guskov
10. Dominic Reyes
11. Aleksandar Rakic
12. Johnnie Walker
13. Nikita Krylov
14. Dustin Jacoby
15. Zhang Mingyang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Cyril is gone
2. Alexander Volkov
3. Sergei Pavlovich
4. Curtis Blaze
5. Waldo Cortes Acosta
6. Sergey Spivak
7. Rizvan Kuniev
8. Marcin Tybura
9. Derek Lewis -1
10. Ante Delilla
11. Talison Teixeira
12. Shamil Gajiev
13. Mick Paquin
14. Walter Walker
15. Vitor Petrino<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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pound for pound for women<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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1. Valentina Shevchenko
2. Kayla Harrison
3. Zhang Weili
4. Natalia Silva
5. Mackenzie Dunn
6. Manon Fioro
7. Erin Blanchfield
8. Juliana Pena
9. Alexa Grasso
10. Birna Jandirova
11. Raquel Pennington
12. Tatiana Suarez
13. Rose Namajunas
14. Yan Xiaonan
15. Macy Barber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Zhang Weili
2. Tatiana Suarez
3. Birna Jandirova
4. Yan Xiaonan
5. Amanda Lemos
6. Lupe Godinez
7. Tabitha Rich
8. Gillian Robertson
9. Jessica Andrade
10. Amanda Rivas
11. Fatima Klein
12. Dennis Gomes
13. Alexia Tanara
14. Angela Hill
15. Mizuki Inoue<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Champion: Valentina Shevchenko<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. (T) Manon Fioro
1. (T) Natalia Silva
3. Alexa Grasso
4. Erin Blanchfield
5. Macy\u2019s Barber
6. Jasmine Jasudavicius
7. Rose Namajunas
8. Tracy Cortez
9. Karin Silva
10. Miranda Maverick
11. Wang Kong
12. Casey O’Neill
13. Eduarda Moura
14. Gabriela Fernandez
15. JJ Aldrich<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Juliana Pena
2. Raquel Pennington
3. Norma Dumont
4. Ketlen Vieira
5. Jana Santos
6. Irene Aldana
7. Eileen Perez
8. Macy Chiasson
9. Carol Rosa
10. Jacqueline Cavalcanti
11. Jocelyn Edwards
12. Myra Bueno Silva
13. Nora Connoll
14. Miesha Tate
15. Luana Santos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can expect these rankings to change by this time next week, especially in the lightweight division, following the UFC 327: "Holloway vs. Oliveira 2” event on Paramount+ from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, March 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Click here for more information on the upcoming fight card.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t that long ago that Brandon Moreno was the flyweight champion of the world. Likewise, Marlon Vera is only two years removed from the pay-per-view (PPV) headliner and 135-pound title fight against Sean O’Malley. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. Moreno (23-10-2) has lost four of his last six fights, while Vera (23-12-1) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[47442,47443,47444,47445,47446],"tags":[47437,47438,47439,47440,47441],"class_list":["post-19564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-ufc-mma-news","category-ufc-news","category-ufc-on-paramount","category-ufc-rankings","category-ufc-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-rankings","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}