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@bom1e_ Jacoby indeed has the harder strength of schedule. Let them fight!

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Navajo Stirling! The Tapology UFC Rankings have been updated. View the new rankings (https://t.co/yoVnN45rq9), and read the next post for highlights.

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@sarm38167885 Maybe so. Rakic has dramatically harder strength of schedule. 73 vs 18 for Stirling. But 4 losses in a row is 4 losses in a row. Fighters drop in rank with that streak.

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Stirling moved to 5-0 in the UFC and up 9 spots to 15th overall in the Tapology UFC Light Heavyweight rankings after his win over Ion Cutelaba on Saturday. Cutelaba was Stirling's most experienced UFC opponent yet with 20 matches in the organization heading into the co-main event fight. Cutelaba dropped 2 spots to 20th after the defeat.

The main event saw Manel Kape overcome a difficult first couple of rounds to knock out Kyoji Horiguchi in the 3rd. Despite the win Kape remained at 4th in the Tapology flyweight rankings, just a tiny gap in points behind 3rd ranked Tatsuro Taira. Tapology looks at each fighter's most recent 6 UFC fights, and Taira's performances and strength of schedule are still rated a touch higher than Kape's.

Meanwhile, Horiguchi actually rose 2 spots from 9th to 7th with the loss. Competitive losses against highly-rated opponents can still boost a fighter's rating in the Tapology system, which was the case with Horiguchi against Kape. For Horiguchi's last 6 UFC bouts, the competitive loss to Kape replaced a 2015 win over Chico Camus. The Camus fight, while it had been included in Horiguchi's last 6, was effectively worth nothing in the Tapology scoring system due to it being so many years earlier. Old fights are progressively weighted down until reaching zero value if they are too far in the past.

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@bruddahboo Actually just curious what that means

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That's one we've looked at a lot. There are some fighters who, in our current rules, are arguably holding onto their points too long after being inactive. We are considering small modifications to our rules, which would handle Yair and some other inactive fighters a little bit differently. But for now we have not made any such modification.

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@menacemmahq @Stamkos96 An ad-free option will be available fairly soon.

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@ImComingUndumb @Stamkos96 You can also send the Ray ID that was seen on the OP's screenshot. However, that Ray ID is more than 24 hours old. It needs to be inside of 24 hours for us to evaluate why it think you are a bot.

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@ImComingUndumb @Stamkos96 Your choice but the offer remains.

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@Stamkos96 If you don't want help we don't have to help you. Or, DM us your IP address and we can look at it for you.

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@kno_1one If you DM us your IP address we can evaluate why you keep getting it. Most people should not get this repeatedly.

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Justin Gaethje! The Tapology UFC Rankings have been updated. View the new rankings (https://t.co/yoVnN45rq9), and read the next post for highlights.

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@ufchammer It's explained in the thread you are responding to.

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Justin Gaethje dethroned Ilia Topuria on Sunday and with it jumped to 1st overall in the Tapology UFC lightweight rankings, up from 5th before the fight. Over his last 6 fights Gaethje does not have the highest point total among all lightweights, but by definition the champion becomes 1st overall in the Tapology system, regardless of their strength of schedule or other performances.

Former champion Topuria drops from 1st to 3rd, behind Islam Makhachev who vacated the belt in 2025 but remains eligible for the lightweight rankings. Topuria, no longer having fought at featherweight in either of his last 2 fights, loses his featherweight eligibility and ranking. Similarly as soon as Makhachev competes again at welterweight he will lose his lightweight eligibility.

In other interesting developments Alex Pereira gets his initial ranking at heavyweight, coming in at 6th overall after his one-sided loss to Cyril Gane. Gane is ranked at 2nd with his title being classified as interim, and Tom Aspinall still being classified as the champion and remaining in 1st place.

Bo Nickal and Josh Hokit both leapfrogged their defeated opponents, with Hokit climbing to 9th at heavyweight and Nickal moving to 19th at middleweight. The UFC broadcast team indicated they expected Nickal would land in the top-15 in the UFC media rankings, but the Tapology system does not consider Nickal's strength of schedule to be difficult enough for that level of ranking.