Rankings Show: Who will be the best welterweight of this generation?

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jack Della Maddalena is the new welterweight champion and is on his way to establishing an enduring legacy at 170 pounds. All he has to do now is get through the No. 1 Pound-for-Pound fighter in the world in Islam Makhachev and then a murderer’s row of contenders. Simple enough, right? Della Maddalena made a statement with a dramatic win over Belal Muhammad at UFC 315, but his run at the top could end before it begins as he’s set to face Islam Makhachev at some point in the second half of 2025. Should he get past Makhachev, Della Maddalena has a number of hungry challengers waiting in the wings, including Ian Machado Garry, Sean Brady, Joaquin Buckley, and undefeated fighters Shavkat Rakhmonov and Michael Morales. On this edition of the MMA Fighting Rankings Show, Alexander K. Lee, Mike Heck, and E. Casey Leydon review the most notable chart movement of the past two months and debate who will be remembered as the Georges St-Pierre of this stacked crop of welterweights. Plus, a look ahead to the most anticipated fights on the calendar. Follow Alexander K. Lee ⁠@AlexanderKLee⁠ Follow Mike Heck ⁠@MikeHeck⁠ 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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0:43.2	Welcome to another edition of MMA Fightings Divisional Rankings Show.
0:48.0	We can talk about prime rankings too, but it's the rankings show, guys.
0:50.6	This is May 2025.
0:52.3	It's been about a month since we did our last show it's about
0:55.2	two months since we actually did a full proper update of the rankings and I think it works out
1:00.8	better this way guys because we got plenty of movement we've got a new champion finally
1:04.6	technically two titles changed hands though of course the other belt talking with the featherweight
1:09.6	title is back with a former champion and was, you know, vacated.
1:14.1	Like it wasn't like a changed hands. But we did see one belt probably changed hands.
1:18.6	Jack Delamadalena shaking things up, shaking up the Welterweight rankings, shaking up the pound rankings, shaking up the pound rankings, beating Bilal Mohavah in a very competitive fight, but I would say fairly free of
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