1. Geje Eustaquio: Pulled a big upset, defeating Adriano Moraes to unify the OneFC flyweight championships.
2. Josh Taylor: Pulled off the biggest win of his career, defeating Viktor Postol to earn a title shot, but it may have come at a scary price.
3. Roberto Ramirez: On Thursday, pulled off the biggest boxing upset in some time, knocking out former lightweight champion Dejan Zlaticanan in Queens.
4. Claressa Shields: Got off the canvas to rebound and take a wide decision win over junior middleweight kingpin Hanna Gabriel.
5. Christina Hammer: Got her wish to face Claressa Shields for all the middleweight marbles after disposing of Tori Nelson on Friday’s ShoBox card.
6. Leon Edwards: After a fantastic bout with Cowboy Cerrone, Edwards prevailed by a razor-thin 48-47 x3 decision. That’s six wins in a row and a title fight isn’t far off.
7. Beatriz Mesquita: As expected, Queen Bia ran roughshod over the Eddie Bravo Invitational field, coming out the victor in the 16-woman field. But credit to Bianca Basilio for taking her to overtime.
8. DJ Jackson: Won the 8-main BOA Super 8 tournament, including a win over the red-hot Craig Jones in the final.
9. Jingnan Xiong: Defended her OneFC strawweight gold with a UD over Argentina’s Laura Balin.
10. Will Brooks: After a rough go in the UFC, Brooks is back to being a big fish in a small pond, and UD’d Luiz Firmino in the main event of PFL’s second card.
11. Brian Foster/Sean O’Connell/Brandon Halsey/Islam Mamedov/Vinny Magalhaes/Rakim Cleveland/Maxim Grishin/Robert Watley/Nathan Schulte/Dan Spohn: Also picked up wins and points in PFL’s second event.
12. Tayfun Ozcan: Moahamed Khamal’s corner tossed in the towel in the third round, sealing the victory for Ozcan in the main event of Enfusion Live 69.
13. Brendan Allen: Battled fellow former LFA middleweight title contender Larry Crowe, and proceeded to knock him out with a left hook to seemingly earn another crack.
14. Kayla Harrison: The two-time Judo gold-medalist made her MMA debut and armbarred Brittney Elkin at PFL 2.
15. Miguel Berchelt: Yuck. Congrats on defending your title by defeating someone who had no business fighting for it and ducking your mandatory.
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