MMA: Cédric Doumbé surpasses Baki in the lightweight rankings

After beating Jaleel Willis at Bellator Paris, Cédric Doumbé is back among the best. In a fight he easily won, he resisted Willis’s ground-and-pound attempts and won by KO in the first round. This surprising performance enabled him to overtake Baysangur “Baki” Chamsoudinov in the world lightweight rankings.

Although the Chechen-born fighter beat Doumbé at PFL Paris 2 last March, the former “Tiktoker” now surpasses him in the rankings.

According to the latest update from Fightmatrix, a reference site for rankings, Cedric is ranked 136th in the world in the minus 77kg category (he was 540th before the fight), five places ahead of Baki, who is 141st.

At national level, the Franco-Cameroonian ranks third among welterweights in France. He is outranked by Abdoul Abdouraguimov, ranked 50th in the world and first Frenchman, as well as Kevin Jousset, ranked 107th in the world and promising in the UFC with two unbeaten victories.

More, after his fight against Chamsoudinov, Cédric Doumbé expressed his feelings about the defeat. In an interview for RMC’s Bartoli Time program, he shared his unease at the injustice and media coverage that followed:

“It affects me psychologically. I’ve already experienced this kind of injustice, but at this stage of my career, with so much media coverage, it affected me a lot. I don’t like the taste of defeat, which isn’t really a defeat at all. Whoever will beat me fair and square hasn’t been born yet.”