Merab Dvalishvili makes his debut on the UFC P4P Rankings  | UFC Mens Pound-For-Pound Rankings - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

Merab Dvalishvili won at Noche UFC and now he's in the Top 10 in the Men's UFC Pound-For-Pound rankings. Peter Klein unveils his list while breaking down why he has Merab where he has him.   Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast

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00:00Again, if you guys have any disagreement, or just think that the ranking's awesome,

00:14in the chat, let me know, and we can have some fun discussions off of that.

00:20But yes, pound for pound rankings.

00:22On the men's side, let's start at number 10.

00:25The first couple don't really change.

00:26Alex Volkanovski, no, he does not have a championship anymore, but the only losses

00:31he has are two guys who are in the top five, in the pound for pound.

00:35So you can kind of excuse a few of those, and I still think, talent-wise, he deserves

00:40to be there.

00:41At 9, it is Leon Edwards.

00:44Again, a tough loss.

00:45It's against someone who is a bit above him in the rankings, and he did have two wins

00:50over Kamaru Usman when I had Usman very high in the pound for pound.

00:54So I just, I have to include him in this list.

00:57Our first change comes at number 8, as Marab Davalashvili makes his way into the rankings,

01:02winning a UFC championship, beating someone who we had at 4 previously in the rankings,

01:08with Sean O'Malley.

01:09By the way, O'Malley, out of the rankings entirely.

01:12That was a pretty one-sided loss, and so I felt like I had to really drop him out, given

01:16the level of competition that there are, excuse me, in the pound for pound rankings.

01:21At 7, Bilal Muhammad, the welterweight champion, coming off of a win over Leon Edwards in his

01:28last bout.

01:29At 6, it's Jon Jones.

01:31If we are going all-time, obviously this might be a little bit different, but just due to

01:35inactivity, he has to go down a little bit on the list.

01:39At 5, it is Tom Aspinall.

01:42An unbelievable heavyweight run so far, and just with how aggressively he is knocking

01:47people out, and the fights that he has been able to put on, and the quality of fighters

01:51he has been able to beat, he absolutely is deserving of being in the top 10.

01:55If Sean O'Malley gets knocked out of the top 5, of the top 4, that means a new person

02:00has to go in, and it is Ilya Teporia.

02:03He's beat Volkanovski, that gets you up there.

02:05Now he has a very big fight with Max Holloway coming up, a very, very interesting bout,

02:10and one that I think sets him up to, like, almost a legacy-defining fight, so to speak,

02:16for him.

02:17So he comes in at number 4.

02:18At 3, it is Drikus Duplassie.

02:20Again, he beat Israel Adesanya when Izzy was at the top of these rankings.

02:25He beat Sean Strickland when Strickland made his way into these rankings.

02:28He has been able to control things as a fighter, and I have him at number 3.

02:35At 2, it is Pereira.

02:38Middleweight champ, former middleweight champ, now the champion at 205 pounds.

02:42I want him to go up to heavyweight and have some fights.

02:45If he does that, he rockets to number 1.

02:48But just an unbelievable talent, and someone whose star has been on the rise in this company

02:54for a really long time.

02:55So he comes in at 2, and at number 1, it is Islam Makachev.

02:59I know Dana White said that anyone who has him at number 1 is insane, well, call me insane

03:04then.

03:05Two wins over Volkanovski, who was at number 1 at the time, certainly has to have you there.

03:10He has been dominant in basically every performance that he has had, with the exception of one

03:14against Volk.

03:15I don't see how you don't, with the resume that he has, put him at number 1 in the pound

03:20for pound rankings.

Merab Dvalishvili makes his debut on the UFC P4P Rankings | UFC Mens Pound-For-Pound Rankings

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