A pair of events this past week saw some key movement in the USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie rankings. In a fight between a pair of unbeaten standouts, Juliana Velasquez unseated champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane to ascend to the women’s flyweight throne at Bellator 254. Naturally, that was enough to overtake Macfarlane – but was it enough to put her ahead of UFC champ Valentina Shevchenko?
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