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Former champion Strickland put on a flawless performance Saturday and with it inched up a spot to 3rd overall at middleweight, pushing a fighter he previously defeated in Nassourdine Imavov back down to 4th. Anthony Hernandez drops to 6th behind Brendan Allen, a fighter he

Sean Strickland! The Tapology UFC Rankings have been updated. View the new rankings ( https://t.co/yoVnN45rq9), and read this thread for highlights.

So many people were so upset over the last couple of months that the Tapology rankings had Melky Costa ranked in the top 15 already (but not Dan Ige).

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In the main event Saturday Mario Bautista put on a masterful performance against Vinicius Oliveira. The win earned him a large number of points in the Tapology rankings and solidified his position at 7th overall. The points gap between Bautista and the 8th ranked Payton Talbott

Mario Bautista! The Tapology UFC Rankings have been updated. View the new rankings ( https://t.co/yoVnN45rq9), and read this thread for highlights.

An absolutely loaded MMA weekend kicks off with ACA 200 from Moscow. And Tapology has you covered with live results throughout the morning. https://t.co/P7S506C0Xp

Determining where to rank once-elite fighters who go on losing streaks against other elite fighters is difficult. We don't have good information on how he'd do against the next tier of guys down from that elite range. Our system works on a set of rules where you earn points.

Did this punch even land? This was a 13 second fight. Opponent turtled up after the knockdown.

Here's the previous match from the exact same fighter. This fight lasted 22 seconds. The opponent was announced and touted as "Solomon Demin" a 6-3 legit Russian fighter. The actual opponent in the ring was very much not Solomon Demin. It goes on and on with this Alash Pride

Many of the sketchiest or most problematic fights are buried on "dark" events. They'll run a full event in the evening with a packed house of fans in the venue. But earlier in the day is the "dark" event with nobody in attendance. That's often (but not exclusively) where the

We've gotten questions about why we have Alash Pride marked as an ineligible league for Tapology records. Seems odd because they run a lot of events and seems like a big deal in Kazakhstan. Well, they mix fake, illegitimate fights into their events. We don't know how deep the

After Saturday's event which saw Alex Volkanovski defend his featherweight belt against Diego Lopes, Lopes actually gained one spot in the rankings to 3rd overall, pulling just ahead of Max Holloway. In the Tapology rankings, fighters are eligible in whichever weight classes

Mauricio Ruffy! The Tapology UFC Rankings have been updated. View the new rankings ( https://t.co/yoVnN45rq9), and read this thread for highlights.

Stats time! Tai Tuivasa is riding a *5 FIGHT LOSING STREAK* heading into tonight's UFC matchup. How many fighters have still gotten another shot in the UFC with this many consecutive losses? How have they fared and what does it say about Bam Bam's chances tonight as a +250

We appreciate your dedication and enthusiasm in calling us out many times over the last week for not posting certain fight card updates. But we're not set up to handle every update in the way that you might want. There's often over 100 events every weekend. Week after week,

Heroic work by @mma_kings watching this Harry Moskowitz interview where Harry talks about this fight at the 29 minute mark, confirming it was TKO via elbow.

This is from UFC 17 in 1998, btw. Tapology page: https://t.co/V6oE2pVx0g Sherdog page: https://t.co/PDQ23oEFJA UFC stats page:

Interesting. Truth is we have never seen this fight and don't know what happened. Sherdog and some others list it as KO via elbow. UFC stats list it as unanimous decision (which for now we have updated it to match). But if anyone has direct knowledge about this fight we'd be