It’s been a very, very long time since the official UFC rankings didn’t include the promotion’s most bankable star, Conor McGregor. Despite winning exactly one fight in the last six years, which was at welterweight, for whatever reason McGregor remained a fixture of the 155-pound (and sometimes the 170-pound) rankings.
That era is over.
In this week’s update, McGregor fell from his 14 spot at lightweight to not being ranked at all. It should...