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Alexei Oleinik’s big submission win at UFC Moscow has him movin’ on up in the heavyweight rankings.

UFC 229 will feature 14 ranked fighters competing on the card. UFC Moscow had five (at the time), and four of them were at heavyweight. So I think you can understand why there wasn’t a ton of movement in the rankings coming out of the first show on Russian soul.

At HW though, Alexei Oleinik made his case to get into the title mix with a submission win over Mark Hunt. And Nikita Krylov is back and ranked again at 205, so there’s that too.

Anyway, here’s a look at the few changes this week:

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