New light heavyweight champion, Glover Teixeira appears at the top of the rankings and takes his place in the pound-for-pound division

G. Teixeira is the new UFC light heavyweight champion. Photo: Reproduction/Instagram

The good news keeps coming Glover Teixeira. After making history and winning the light heavyweight belt (up to 93kg) in UFC 267 Last Saturday (30), the Brazilian also entered the organization's weight-for-weight ranking. The weekly update was released by Ultimate on its official website.

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After overcoming Jan Blachowicz in the second round and take over the top of the division, Glover Teixeira was inserted by journalists responsible for the ranking among all the organization's athletes. He is now in 12th place on the list that has Kamaru Usman on the top.

Ward of Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam makhachev also moved up one position in the lightweight division (up to 70,3kg.). After victory over Dan Hooker, the Russian athlete took fourth place, behind only Charles of the Bronx, Dustin poirier e Justin gaethje.

The update also made Khamzat Shimaev entered the top 10 for the first time. The Swede, who put on a show by overcoming li jingliang on the main card, he had his first fight since recovering from complications from COVID-19 and now appears in 10th place.

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