Sean O’Malley was once a celeb even earlier than he stepped within the Octagon this year Saturday in Boston. And with an exhilarating TKO of Aljamain Sterling within the UFC 292 major match, O’Malley increased himself in a bright fresh method, turning into the boys’s bantamweight champion.
That accomplishment, and the big-punch way during which he authored it 51 seconds into Spherical 2, has earned “Suga Sean” a place within the ESPN males’s pound-for-pound scores.
O’Malley was once no longer the one fighter to position on a efficiency within the year few days that was once decent of a scores debut. On Friday in Brandnew York, Larissa Pacheco scored a 14-second knockout of Olena Kolesnyk in a PFL girls’s featherweight semifinal to travel inside one victory of turning into the primary two-division PFL champ. Pacheco received latter generation’s championship when the promotion’s pageant for girls was once held at light-weight.
Pacheco’s blink-and-you-missed-it TKO earned her a place in a ESPN girls’s pound-for-pound lead 10 headed through Zhang Weili. The UFC strawweight champ got into the weekend at Disagree. 1, and nearest her domination of Amanda Lemos at UFC 292, Zhang is now a unanimous selection for the lead spot.
For the ESPN divisional MMA scores, click on right here.
Be aware: Effects are stream; scores as of Aug. 22. To bring to be eligible for the scores, a fighter should have competed over the year three hundred and sixty five days or should have an nearest struggle booked. Combatants who’ve been dropped for laze may also be reinstated best nearest they compete.
Males’s pound-for-pound scores
1. Alexander Volkanovski 
UFC featherweight champion
File: 26-2
Endmost: W (TKO3) Yair Rodriguez, July 8, 2023
Later: TBD
2. Islam Makhachev
UFC light-weight champion
File: 24-1
Endmost: W (UD) Alexander Volkanovski, Feb. 11, 2023
Later: Oct. 21 vs. Charles Oliveira
3. Jon Jones
UFC heavyweight champion
File: 27-1, 1 NC
Endmost: W (Sub1) Ciryl Gane, March 4, 2023
Later: Nov. 11 vs. Stipe Miocic
4. Israel Adesanya
UFC middleweight champion
File: 24-2
Endmost: W (TKO2) Alex Pereira, April 8, 2023
Later: Sept. 9 vs. Sean Strickland
5. Leon Edwards
UFC welterweight champion
File: 21-3, 1 NC
Endmost: W (MD) Kamaru Usman, March 18, 2023
Later: TBD
6. Charles Oliveira
UFC light-weight
File: 34-9, 1 NC
Endmost: W (TKO1) Beneil Dariush, June 10, 2023
Later: Oct. 21 vs. Islam Makhachev
7. Kamaru Usman 
UFC welterweight
Earlier score: 8
File: 20-3
Endmost: L (MD) Leon Edwards, March 18, 2023
Later: TBD
8. Alexandre Pantoja
UFC flyweight champion
Earlier score: 9
File: 26-5
Endmost: W (SD) Brandon Moreno, July 8, 2023
Later: TBD
9. Sean O’Malley 
UFC bantamweight champion
Earlier score: Unranked
File: 17-1, 1 NC
Endmost: W (TKO2) Aljamain Sterling, Aug. 19, 2023
Later: TBD
10. Aljamain Sterling 
UFC bantamweight
Earlier score: 7
File: 22-4
Endmost: L (TKO2) Sean O’Malley, Aug. 19, 2023
Later: TBD
Alternative warring parties receiving votes: Justin Gaethje, Max Holloway, Demetrious Johnson, Brandon Moreno and Alex Pereira.
How our panel voted
Brett Okamoto: 1. Alexander Volkanovski; 2. Islam Makhachev; 3. Jon Jones; 4. Israel Adesanya; 5. Leon Edwards; 6. Charles Oliveira; 7. Kamaru Usman; 8. Alexandre Pantoja; 9. Max Holloway; 10. Brandon Moreno.
Marc Raimondi: 1. Jones; 2. Makhachev; 3. Volkanovski; 4. Adesanya; 5. Edwards; 6. Oliveira; 7. Sean O’Malley; 8. Pantoja; 9. Usman; 10. Moreno.
Megan Anderson: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Jones; 3. Makhachev; 4. Adesanya; 5. Edwards; 6. Oliveira; 7. Usman; 8. Justin Gaethje; 9. Aljamain Sterling; 10. O’Malley.
Carlos Contreras Legaspi: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Makhachev; 3. Jones; 4. Adesanya; 5. Edwards; 6. Oliveira; 7. Usman; 8. O’Malley; 9. Sterling; 10. Alex Pereira.
Eddie Maisonet III: 1. Volkanovski; 2. Makhachev; 3. Adesanya; 4. Jones; 5. Oliveira; 6. Edwards; 7. Usman; 8. Pantoja; 9. Demetrious Johnson; 10. Sterling.
Jeff Wagenheim: 1. Makhachev; 2. Volkanovski; 3. Jones; 4. Adesanya; 5. Edwards; 6. Oliveira; 7. Pantoja; 8. O’Malley; 9. Usman; 10. Sterling.
1. Zhang Weili
UFC strawweight champion
File: 24-3
Endmost: W (UD) Amanda Lemos, Aug. 19, 2023
Later: TBD
2. Valentina Shevchenko
UFC flyweight
File: 22-4
Endmost: L (Sub4) Alexa Grasso, March 4, 2023
Later: Sept. 16 vs. Alexa Grasso
3. Alexa Grasso
UFC flyweight champion
File: 16-3
Endmost: W (Sub4) Valentina Shevchenko, March 4, 2023
Later: Sept. 16 vs. Valentina Shevchenko
4. Erin Blanchfield
UFC flyweight
File: 11-1
Endmost: W (Sub2) Jessica Andrade, Feb. 18, 2023
Later: Aug. 26 vs Taila Santos
5. Carla Esparza
UFC strawweight
File: 19-7
Endmost: L (Sub2) Zhang Weili, Nov. 12, 2022
Later: TBD
6. Yan Xiaonan
UFC strawweight
File: 17-3
Endmost: W (KO1) Jessica Andrade, Would possibly 6, 2023
Later: TBD
7. Kayla Harrison
PFL light-weight
File: 15-1
Endmost: L (UD) Larissa Pacheco, Nov. 25, 2022
Later: TBD
8. Larissa Pacheco
PFL light-weight champion
Earlier score: Unranked
File: 22-4
Endmost: W (TKO1) Olena Kolesnyk, Aug. 18, 2023
Later: Nov. 24 vs. Marina Mokhnatkina
8. Tatiana Suarez
UFC strawweight
Earlier score: Unranked
File: 10-0
Endmost: W (Sub2) Jessica Andrade, Aug. 5, 2023
Later: TBD
10. Seika Izawa
Rizin tremendous atomweight champion
Earlier score: 8
File: 11-0
Endmost: W (Sub1) Claire Lopez, July 30, 2023
Later: TBD
Alternative warring parties receiving votes: Liz Carmouche, Amanda Lemos, Raquel Pennington, Jessica Andrade, Manon Fiorot, Taila Santos and Mayra Bueno Silva.
How our panel voted
Brett Okamoto: 1. Zhang Weili; 2. Valentina Shevchenko; 3. Alexa Grasso; 4. Erin Blanchfield; 5. Tatiana Suarez; 6. Kayla Harrison; 7. Carla Esparza; 8. Jessica Andrade; 9. Larissa Pacheco; 10. Yan Xiaonan.
Marc Raimondi: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Grasso; 4. Blanchfield; 5. Esparza; 6. Yan; 7. Izawa; 8. Suarez; 9. Liz Carmouche; 10. Pacheco.
Megan Anderson: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Grasso; 4. Esparza; 5. Blanchfield; 6. Yan; 7. Raquel Pennington; 8. Manon Fiorot; 9. Taila Santos; 10. Mayra Bueno Silva.
Carlos Contreras Legaspi: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Grasso; 4. Harrison; 5. Esparza; 6. Blanchfield; 7. Yan; 8. Pacheco; 9. Andrade; 10. Carmouche.
Eddie Maisonet III: 1. Zhang; 2. Grasso; 3. Shevchenko; 4. Blanchfield; 5. Pacheco; 6. Lemos; 7. Harrison; 8. Izawa; 9. Carmouche; 10. Yan.
Jeff Wagenheim: 1. Zhang; 2. Shevchenko; 3. Grasso; 4. Blanchfield; 5. Esparza; 6. Yan; 7. Carmouche; 8. Izawa; 9. Suarez; 10. Pacheco.
