Salahdine Parnasse had one of the best UFC debuts possible, and now he’s been rewarded in the media rankings with a debut in the lightweight top 10.
Parnasse went from organizational outside to headlining the UFC’s Paris card this weekend, TKOing No. 12 ranked Dan Hooker in the first round (highlights here). That was enough for media panel voters to leapfrog him into the lightweight top ten. How will the ’mathematical’ Meta rankings see the value in his win over Hooker? We’ll have to wait until they’re updated sometime later this week.
Other notable changes to the Media Panel rankings: Rafael Fiziev moved up two spots to No. 10 in the lightweight rankings, while Dan Hooker slipped down three spots to No. 13. In the middleweight division, Abus Magomedov moved up 2 spots to No. 12, and Shara Magomedov is now listed at No. 15.
As noted earlier, Michael “Venom” Page was formally removed from the voting sheet for media members following the final fight of his UFC contract in Paris. He was previously ranked at No. 8. And although it was announced that Valentina Shevchenko has vacated her women’s flyweight belt, she’s still listed in the rankings as champion, which we assume will remain the case until Natalia Silva and Wang Cong fight for the belt in October.
Check out the updated UFC Media Rankings below.
1 Alexandre Pantoja
2 Manel Kape
3 Brandon Royval
4 Tatsuro Taira
5 Kyoji Horiguchi
6 Lone’er Kavanagh
7 Asu Almabayev
8 Brandon Moreno
9 Amir Albazi
10 Ramazan Temirov
11 Steve Erceg
12 Tim Elliott
13 Sumudaerji
14 Tagir Ulanbekov
15 Alex Perez
1 Merab Dvalishvili
2 Sean O’Malley
3 Song Yadong
4 Umar Nurmagomedov
5 Mario Bautista
6 Cory Sandhagen
7 Aiemann Zahabi
8 David Martinez
9 Deiveson Figueiredo
10 Marlon Vera
11 Payton Talbott
12 Raul Rosas Jr.
13 Raoni Barcelos
14 Farid Basharat
15 Marcus McGhee
Champion: Alexander Volkanovski
1 Movsar Evloev
2 Diego Lopes
3 Lerone Murphy
4 Aljamain Sterling
5 Yair Rodriguez
6 Jean Silva
7 Arnold Allen
8 Youssef Zalal
9 Kevin Vallejos
10 Steve Garcia
11 Brian Ortega
12 Aaron Pico
13 Melquizael Costa
14 David Onama
15 Patricio Pitbull
1 Ilia Topuria
2 Arman Tsarukyan
3 Charles Oliveira
4 Max Holloway
5 Paddy Pimblett
6 Benoît Saint Denis
7 Mauricio Ruffy
8 Quillan Salkilld
9 Salahdine Parnasse *NR
10 Rafael Fiziev +2
11 Renato Moicano
11 Mateusz Gamrot -2
13 Dan Hooker -3
14 Tom Nolan -1
15 Beneil Dariush -1
Champion: Islam Makhachev
1 Ian Machado Garry
2 Carlos Prates
3 Michael Morales
4 Jack Della Maddalena
5 Gabriel Bonfim
6 Sean Brady
7 Belal Muhammad
8 Leon Edwards
9 Kamaru Usman
10 Joaquin Buckley
11 Yaroslav Amosov
12 Uroš Medić
13 Mike Malott
14 Daniel Rodriguez
15 Neil Magny
Champion: Sean Strickland
1 Khamzat Chimaev
2 Dricus Du Plessis
3 Nassourdine Imavov
4 Brendan Allen
5 Caio Borralho
6 Joe Pyfer
7 Gregory Rodrigues
8 Anthony Hernandez
9 Israel Adesanya
10 Christian Leroy Duncan
11 Jared Cannonier
12 Abus Magomedov +2
13 Ikram Aliskerov -1
14 Bo Nickal -1
15 Shara Magomedov *NR
1 Magomed Ankalaev
2 Jiří Procházka
3 Alex Pereira
4 Khalil Rountree Jr.
5 Navajo Stirling
6 Paulo Costa
7 Jamahal Hill
8 Azamat Murzakanov
9 Jan Błachowicz
10 Dominick Reyes
11 Bogdan Guskov
12 Robert Whittaker
13 Johnny Walker
14 Alonzo Menifield
15 Nikita Krylov
1 Ciryl Gane
2 Alexander Volkov
3 Sergei Pavlovich
4 Josh Hokit
5 Waldo Cortes Acosta
6 Curtis Blaydes
7 Rizvan Kuniev
8 Vitor Petrino
9 Serghei Spivac
10 Ante Delija
11 Valter Walker
12 Tyrell Fortune +2
13 Derrick Lewis -1
14 Mario Pinto *NR
15 Aleksandar Rakić -2
1 Zhang Weili
2 Tatiana Suarez
3 Virna Jandiroba
4 Denise Gomes +3
5 Gillian Robertson -1
6 Yan Xiaonan -1
7 Fatima Kline -1
8 Loopy Godinez
9 Alexia Thainara
10 Jéssica Andrade
11 Tabatha Ricci
12 Amanda Lemos
13 Amanda Ribas
14 Angela Hill
15 Mizuki
Champion: Valentina Shevchenko
1 Natalia Silva
2 Manon Fiorot
3 Alexa Grasso
4 Erin Blanchfield
5 Rose Namajunas
6 Maycee Barber
7 Jasmine Jasudavicius
8 Wang Cong
9 Tracy Cortez
10 Miranda Maverick
11 Karine Silva
12 Casey O’Neill
13 Eduarda Moura
14 Gabriella Fernandes
15 JJ Aldrich
1 Julianna Peña
2 Raquel Pennington
3 Joselyne Edwards
4 Norma Dumont
5 Ailin Perez
6 Yana Santos
7 Luana Santos
8 Macy Chiasson
9 Jacqueline Cavalcanti
10 Karol Rosa
11 Bia Mesquita
12 Michelle Montague
13 Nora Cornolle
14 Miesha Tate
15 Melissa Croden
Expect more movement from the rankings when Noche UFC goes down next weekend from Glendale, Arizona featuring ranked featherweights, flyweights, and women’s flyweights.
