Rankings Show: How High Does Paddy Pimblett Go After Spectacular Performance At UFC 314?

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Paddy Pimblett proved the doubters wrong again. UFC 314 was all about the featherweights, with Alexander Volkanovski beating Diego Lopes to claim a vacant title at the top of the card, and Yair Rodriguez, Jean Silva, and Dan Ige all picking up meaningful wins. But it’s Pimblett who arguably made the most headlines, defeating veteran contender Michael Chandler in dominant fashion and cementing himself as a top 10 fighter in the lightweight division. But just how high should he go? Pimblett’s standing led to a surprisingly heated debate among the MMA Fighting rankings panel of Alexander K. Lee, Mike Heck, Jed Meshew, and E. Casey Leydon and you can listen to it yourself in our latest episode of the Rankings Show. Did Pimblett beat a legitimate top 10 fighter or was he simply the beneficiary of facing the worst version of Chandler we’ve seen inside the octagon? Plus, we discuss the movers and shakers at 145 pounds, whether the Patricio Pitbull-UFC era came too late, and rank the most intriguing fights of the second quarter of the UFC schedule. Follow Alexander K. Lee @AlexanderKLee Follow Mike Heck @MikeHeck Follow Jed Meshew @JedKMeshew Follow E. Casey Leydon @ekc Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.5	Oh, hello everyone out there in MMA land, specifically Rankingslandia.
1:15.6	This is the town that we are visiting for the first time and actually only a couple of months.
1:19.6	We did a ranking show not too recently.
1:22.6	But, you know, it used to be sort of a monthly feature.
1:24.6	We do it after every paper view. But now it's like sometimes
1:28.6	there's not as much movement. You guys saw the first three, first couple of events of 2025.
1:33.8	Didn't get any new champions, didn't really see a lot of shakeups. But things are starting to
1:37.6	churn a little bit. We saw some fighters get some big wins this cycle. I'm your host, Alexander
1:42.4	Kay Lee, to talk about sort of latest updates in the
1:45.3	rankings, talk, make some debate over, you know, where some fighters should be positioned
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