Following his upset win over Brad Tavares, Australian based middleweight Robert Whittaker has propelled himself into the top 15 UFC rankings.
The rankings, which were updated after the weekend’s fight, has the 24 year-old appearing at number 14 in the middleweight division.
Since moving to the middleweight division, Whittaker has won back-to-back fights. In his outing on Sunday, the Sydney based fighter needed only 44-seconds to get past Brad Tavares in the semi-main event of UFC Fight Night 65 in Adelaide.
The full UFC middleweight rankings currently are:
Champion: Chris Weidman
1 Luke Rockhold
2 Jacare Souza
3 Vitor Belfort
4 Anderson Silva
5 Lyoto Machida
6 Yoel Romero
7 Gegard Mousasi
8 Tim Kennedy
9 Michael Bisping
10 Thales Leites
11 CB Dolloway
12 Costas Philippou
13 Tim Boetsch
14 Robert Whittaker
15 Roan Carneiro
