{"id":24285,"date":"2020-05-22T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=24285"},"modified":"2020-05-22T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:00:53","slug":"barboza-slams-joke-ufc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=24285","title":{"rendered":"Barboza Slams \u2018Joke\u2019 UFC Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Photo by Cooper Neill\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Edson Barboza hasn&rsquo;t had a good week. After coming up short on the judges scorecards against Dan Ige at UFC on ESPN 8 in what was his Featherweight debut, his team filed an appeal to have the bout overturned feeling &ldquo;Junior&rdquo; should&rsquo;ve been the rightful victor.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Bloody Ige Splits Barboza!\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/5\/16\/21261088\/dan-ige-edson-barboza-fight-espn-ufc-jacksonville-mma\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/5\/18\/21262553\/denied-florida-commission-shuts-down-ufc-appeal-from-edson-barboza-mma\">that request was denied<\/a>, which stung even more after Barboza revealed that even UFC president Dana White told him he should&#8217;ve gotten the nod. That prompted the Brazilian bomber to ask UFC to cut him a check for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/5\/18\/21262919\/ufc-edson-barboza-wants-win-bonus-dana-white-beat-dan-ige-ufc-espn-8-jacksonville-mma\">&ldquo;win&rdquo; bonus<\/a> he would&rsquo;ve received had he gotten the decision. <\/p>\n<p>And unless a deposit was done in private, there has been no movement on that front.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Barboza &mdash; a longtime staple in the Top 15 rankings &mdash; was nowhere to be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/5\/20\/21264820\/latest-ufc-rankings-update-glover-teixeira-returns-top-5-edson-barboza-no-longer-ranked-mma\">most recent list<\/a>, as not only was he outed from the Top 15 at Lightweight, but failed to debut as one of the Featherweight elite despite his impressive performance.<\/p>\n<p>A move that obviously didn&rsquo;t sit well with the devastating striker. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you guys know who makes the UFC ranking? I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;s not the specialists. They don&rsquo;t listen to the fans or public. I didn&rsquo;t care about it, but now I&rsquo;m sure this ranking is just a joke,&rdquo; wrote Barboza on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdsonBarbozaJR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1263195783341506560&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmmajunkie.usatoday.com%2F2020%2F05%2Fedson-barboza-says-ufc-rankings-joke\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They took me off from the lightweight division ranking. Ige stepped up 4 positions and I am not even in the ranking in the featherweight division, in a fight that the whole word knows that I won. It doesn&rsquo;t make any sense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Barboza Wants Some Love ... And His &lsquo;Win&rsquo; Bonus \",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/5\/18\/21262919\/ufc-edson-barboza-wants-win-bonus-dana-white-beat-dan-ige-ufc-espn-8-jacksonville-mma\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The loss was Edson&rsquo;s third straight, with the other two coming in the 155-pound division. The fearsome brawler did say he was open to a quick turnaround, possibly in July, but would put himself through another weight cut down to 145 pounds if the promotion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/5\/18\/21262919\/ufc-edson-barboza-wants-win-bonus-dana-white-beat-dan-ige-ufc-espn-8-jacksonville-mma\">gave him the other half of his money.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so we wait.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Cooper Neill\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Edson Barboza hasn&rsquo;t had a good week. After coming up short on the judges scorecards against Dan Ige at UFC on ESPN 8 in what was his Featherweight debut, his team filed an appeal to have the bout overturned feeling &ldquo;Junior&rdquo; should&rsquo;ve been the rightful victor. 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