Mackenzie Dern Removed From Rankings

UFC officials have made few changes in the rankings this week. Looks like the biggest jiu-jitsu sensation, Mackenzie Dern, is removed from the rankings! The recent weight issues have a deep background… and it is not good for Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert. Take a look at the current rankings. WOMEN’S STRAWWEIGHT Champion: Rose Namajunas 1 Joanna Jedrzejczyk 2 Jessica Andrade 3 Claudia Gadelha 4 Karolina Kowalkiewicz 5 Tecia Torres 6 Carla Esparza 7 Michelle Waterson 8 Felice Herrig 9 Tatiana Suarez +3 10 Cortney Casey 11 Alexa Grasso -2 12 Randa Markos -1 13 Nina Ansaroff +1 14 Joanne Calderwood -1 15 Angela Hill *NR Mackenzie Dern (7-0) earned a spectacular victory over Amanda Cooper at UFC 224 in the first round and was ranked #15. Maybe fans are outraged but Mackenzie is probably guilty for what is currently happening. After all, she had a lot more pounds than rules allow, right? Check out the rest of full update rankings from UFC. POUND-FOR-POUND 1 Demetrious Johnson 2 Georges St-Pierre 3 Stipe Miocic 3 Conor McGregor 5 Daniel Cormier 6 Max Holloway 7 TJ Dillashaw 8 Tyron Woodley 9 Khabib Nurmagomedov 10 Cris Cyborg 11 Tony Ferguson 12 Amanda Nunes 13 Robert Whittaker 14 Cody Garbrandt 15 Rose Namajunas FLYWEIGHT Champion: Demetrious Johnson 1 Joseph Benavidez 2 Henry Cejudo 3 Ray Borg 4 Jussier Formiga 5 Sergio Pettis 6 John Moraga 7 Wilson Reis +1 8 Alexandre Pantoja +4 9 Brandon Moreno -2 10 Dustin Ortiz 11 Ben Nguyen -2 12 Matheus Nicolau -1 13 Tim Elliott 14 Deiveson Figueiredo 15 Magomed Bibulatov BANTAMWEIGHT Champion: TJ Dillashaw 1 Cody Garbrandt 2 Dominick Cruz 3 Raphael Assuncao 4 Jimmie Rivera 5 Marlon Moraes 6 John Lineker 7 John Dodson 8 Aljamain Sterling 9 Bryan Caraway 10 Pedro Munhoz 11 Cody Stamann 12 Rob Font 13 Thomas Almeida 14 Brett Johns 15 Eddie Wineland FEATHERWEIGHT Champion: Max Holloway 1 Brian Ortega 2 Jose Aldo 3 Frankie Edgar 4 Jeremy Stephens 5 Cub Swanson 6 Josh Emmett 7 Ricardo Lamas 8 Chan Sung Jung 9 Renato Moicano 10 Darren Elkins 11 Mirsad Bektic 12 Zabit Magomedsharipov +1 13 Myles Jury +1 14 Dooho Choi +1 15 Calvin Kattar *NR LIGHTWEIGHT Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov 1 Conor McGregor 2 Tony Ferguson 3 Eddie Alvarez 4 Dustin Poirier 5 Kevin Lee 6 Edson Barboza 7 Justin Gaethje 8 Nate Diaz 9 Michael Chiesa 10 Al Iaquinta 11 James Vick 12 Anthony Pettis 13 Alexander Hernandez 14 Paul Felder 15 Olivier Aubin-Mercier WELTERWEIGHT Champion: Tyron Woodley 1 Stephen Thompson 2 Rafael Dos Anjos 3 Robbie Lawler +1 3 Colby Covington 5 Kamaru Usman +2 6 Demian Maia -1 7 Jorge Masvidal -1 8 Darren Till 9 Neil Magny 10 Santiago Ponzinibbio 11 Donald Cerrone 12 Gunnar Nelson 13 Alex Oliveira 14 Leon Edwards 15 Dong Hyun Kim MIDDLEWEIGHT Champion: Robert Whittaker 1 Yoel Romero 2 Luke Rockhold 3 Chris Weidman 4 Kelvin Gastelum 5 Jacare Souza 6 Michael Bisping 7 Derek Brunson 8 David Branch 9 Lyoto Machida 9 Brad Tavares +1 11 Uriah Hall 12 Thiago Santos 12 Antonio Carlos Junior 14 Paulo Costa 15 Elias Theodorou *NR LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Daniel Cormier 1 Alexander Gustafsson 2 Volkan Oezdemir 3 Glover Teixeira 4 Ilir Latifi 5 Jan Blachowicz 6 Jimi Manuwa 7 Ovince Saint Preux 7 Mauricio Rua 9 Corey Anderson 10 Misha Cirkunov 11 Patrick Cummins 12 Dominick Reyes *NR 13 Gadzhimurad Antigulov 14 Tyson Pedro -2 15 Gian Villante -1 HEAVYWEIGHT Champion: Stipe Miocic 1 Francis Ngannou 2 Alistair Overeem 3 Alexander Volkov 4 Curtis Blaydes 5 Derrick Lewis +1 6 Mark Hunt +1 7 Marcin Tybura +1 8 Andrei Arlovski +1 9 Aleksei Oleinik +1 10 Stefan Struve +1 11 Tai Tuivasa +1 12 Shamil Abdurakhimov +1 13 Justin Willis +1 14 Junior Dos Santos +1 15 Junior Albini *NR WOMEN’S FLYWEIGHT Champion: Nicco Montano 1 Valentina Shevchenko 2 Sijara Eubanks 3 Lauren Murphy 4 Alexis Davis 5 Katlyn Chookagian 6 Barb Honchak +1 7 Liz Carmouche +1 8 Roxanne Modafferi -2 9 Jessica-Rose Clark 10 Jessica Eye 11 Ashlee Evans-Smith 12 Andrea Lee *NR 13 Mara Romero Borella -1 14 Paige VanZant -1 15 Montana De La Rosa -1 WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT Champion: Amanda Nunes 1 Holly Holm 2 Ketlen Vieira 3 Julianna Pena 4 Raquel Pennington 5 Germaine de Randamie 6 Cat Zingano 7 Marion Reneau 8 Sara McMann 9 Aspen Ladd 10 Bethe Correia 11 Irene Aldana 12 Lucie Pudilova 13 Sarah Moras 14 Lina Lansberg 15 Gina Mazany Take a look how the rankings are determined via ufc.com. "Rankings were generated by a voting panel made up of media members. The media members were asked to vote for who they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight-class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are inactive status in the UFC. A fighter can appear in more than one weight division at a time. The champion and interim champion are considered to be in the top positions of their respective divisions and therefore are not eligible for voting by weight-class. However, the champions can be voted on for the pound-for-pound rankings." Mackenzie Dern signed her UFC contract at the beginning of this year as a 5-0 sensation which ruled Legacy/LFA and Invicta FC promotions. Despite she is undefeated, she had a hard time reaching the weight. She missed it in 3 out of 7 fights… quite disappointing, right? Do you think Mackenzie Dern has earned a spot in UFC Strawweight division rankings? Should she test her luck and go one division up?