UFC Rankings Shake-Up After UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang

UFC 332 took place on October 3 in Salt Lake City, setting a UFC record with 11 finishes on a single card. Seven of those came in the first round. By Tuesday, four divisions registered ranking changes, and seven fighters entered the top 15 for the first time.

The main event delivered the outcome the rankings needed. The women's flyweight title had been sitting vacant — and Natália Silva resolved that in five rounds, outworking Wang Cong to a unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 49-46). Silva held the number-one contender spot entering the fight and leaves it as champion. The ranking table reflects the outcome bluntly: Silva moves from rank one to champion, Valentina Shevchenko — who previously held the title before the vacancy — steps into the number-one contender slot, and Wang Cong absorbs the biggest drop of the week, falling two spots from sixth to eighth.

Biggest Movers

Fighter	Division	Old Rank	New Rank	Change
Muhammad Said	Light Heavyweight	15	13	+2
Wang Cong	Women's Flyweight	6	8	-2
Natália Silva	Women's Flyweight	1	Champion	+1
Valentina Shevchenko	Women's Flyweight	Champion	1	-1
Khalil Rountree Jr.	Light Heavyweight	6	5	+1
Navajo Stirling	Light Heavyweight	7	6	+1
Dominick Reyes	Light Heavyweight	8	7	+1
Amir Albazi	Flyweight	10	9	+1

Women's Flyweight: New Champion, Same Shevchenko Question

Natália Silva now holds the belt. The title picture was murky heading into UFC 332 — Valentina Shevchenko had held the strap before it came off, and her return to the number-one spot re-opens a familiar conversation. The two are now separated by the title, which is the clearest it has been in this division in months.

Wang Cong's performance did not make a case for staying in the top five. She ends up at eighth after dropping two slots, with Rose Namajunas and Jasmine Jasudavicius each climbing one spot into seventh and sixth respectively as the bracket shifts around her.

Light Heavyweight Gets Reshuffled

The light heavyweight division had the most activity of any weight class this week. Eight fighters moved, and two more entered the rankings for the first time.

The division-wide shift started when a vacancy opened in the upper tier. Every fighter from Khalil Rountree Jr. down moved up one position. Rountree now sits at fifth. Navajo Stirling is at sixth. Dominick Reyes, Reinier de Ridder, Azamat Murzakanov, Alonzo Menifield, Bogdan Guskov, and Robert Whittaker each climbed one rank.

Muhammad Said had the sharpest individual climb: up two spots, from 15 to 13. Said's move puts him inside the top 14 for the first time.

Two fighters entered the light heavyweight top 15 at UFC 332: Modestas Bukauskas at 14 and Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev at 15.

Champion Carlos Ulberg sits unchallenged at the top. Alex Pereira holds first, Magomed Ankalaev second, Jiří Procházka third, Paulo Costa fourth — the upper tier above the reshuffled zone was untouched.

Flyweight: Figueiredo Out, Rodriguez and Albazi Up

Payton Talbott's first-round TKO of Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 332 was one of the night's most decisive performances. Figueiredo, a former champion and long-time fixture in the rankings, drops out of the top 15 entirely after the loss.

Amir Albazi benefits, moving up one spot from 10 to 9. Brandon Moreno slips one to 10. Imanol Rodriguez, who finished Alden Coria by TKO on the prelims, enters the rankings at 13, nudging Rei Tsuruya and Charles Johnson each one step toward the cut-off line.

Seven New Fighters Enter Rankings

The record finish total at UFC 332 produced an unusual volume of ranking entries across five divisions:

• Johnny Walker (Heavyweight, #12) — KO of Mick Parkin, Round 1
• Imanol Rodriguez (Flyweight, #13) — TKO of Alden Coria
• Esteban Ribovics (Lightweight, #15) — TKO of King Green
• Roman Kopylov (Middleweight, #15) — TKO of Ateba Gautier
• Modestas Bukauskas (Light Heavyweight, #14)
• Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev (Light Heavyweight, #15)
• Anthony Wint (Heavyweight, #15) — TKO of Lucas Armand

The lightweight and middleweight divisions absorbed new entries at the bottom without displacing ranked fighters above the cut-off. Roberto Soldic's unanimous decision over Khaos Williams and Alexander Hernandez's second-round TKO of Rafael Dos Anjos both produced wins but did not shift any ranked fighters in this week's update.