He beat #14 Ponzi and became #14 himself. Then he was booked to fight #9 Brady, who got injured, then was booked against #7 Wonderboy.
It was at this time, unfortunately, that Michel's win streak was interrupted when he lost against the scale.
As #14 at WW, he had to take an appropriate step back when moving up to MW. He was booked to fight ~#24 Marc-Andre and Petroski was a late fill in. Michal O was bordering the rankings too, early 20's at the worst. Some people have brought up that Muradov was the originally pitched opponent, but even he was still kind of a step back from Michal O, Marc-Andre, AND Petroski. I'm gonna assume he was offered and took a lower ranked guy because they were trying to just get him on the Brasil card.
But now he should be fighting someone who is either ranked or still guarantee a rank if he wins
Edit* frankly, you could easily put him above Curtis right now and I don't think that'd be a problem