Jacaré (photo) already occupies eighth place in the UFC middleweight rankings. Photo: Esther Lin/Strikeforce
Last Monday (8), the Ultimate organization updated its official ranking of fighters. Few changes occurred – only ten athletes changed positions – and curiously none of them involved names that played in last Saturday's event (6), UFC Sweden 2. One of the highlights of the update was the Brazilian Ronaldo Jacare, who even without debuting for the organization, gained another position and is now eighth among the middleweights.
Jacaré will have his first fight for the biggest MMA organization on the planet on May 18th, against Cypriot Costa Phillipou, in the co-main fight of the UFC at Combate 2. Jacaré has already been world jiu-jitsu champion several times and He is a former middleweight champion of the now-defunct Strikeforce.
Other Brazilians who underwent changes in their positioning were Mauritius Shogun e Rodrigo Minotauro. Shogun, who is preparing for the rematch against Rogério Minotouro, fell to seventh place among light heavyweights. Brother of the Curitiba native's opponent, Rodrigo Minotauro, also lost a position. The TUF 2 trainer now ranks eighth among heavyweights.
Other highlights of the list update were the positions achieved by Luke Rockhold – which is already fifth among the middleweights – and alistair overeem – which benefited from the fall in Frank mir among the heavy ones. Former light heavyweight champion Rashad evans he also moved up one place and returned to sixth place in the light heavyweight division.
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