Ultimate Fighting Championship rankings

The Ultimate Fighting Championship rankings, which were introduced in February 2013, are generated by a voting panel made up of media members. The media members are asked to vote for who they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are in active status in the UFC. A fighter can appear in more than one weight division at a time. The champion and interim champion are considered to be in the top positions of their respective divisions and therefore are not eligible for voting by weight class. However, the champions can be voted on for the pound-for-pound rankings.[1]

Overview

• Last update (current ranking): August 17, 2020
• Previous update (prior ranking): August 3, 2020

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Men's pound-for-pound

Rank	Fighter	Record	M	Weight class	Status	Next fight
1	Jon Jones	26–1		Light heavyweight	Light Heavyweight Champion
2	Khabib Nurmagomedov	28–0		Welterweight (2009–2011) Lightweight (2008–2010; 2012–present)	Lightweight Champion	Justin Gaethje (UFC 254 - October 24, 2020)
3	Stipe Miocic	20–3		Heavyweight	Heavyweight Champion
4	Israel Adesanya	19–0		Middleweight	Middleweight Champion	Paulo Costa (UFC 253 - September 26, 2020)
5	Kamaru Usman	17–1		Welterweight	Welterweight Champion
6	Alexander Volkanovski	22–1	1	Welterweight (2012–2013) Lightweight (2014; 2016) Featherweight (2014–present)	Featherweight Champion
7	Daniel Cormier	22–3	1	Heavyweight (2009–2014; 2018–present) Light heavyweight (2014–2018)	Former Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Champion
8	Justin Gaethje	22–2	2	Lightweight	Interim Lightweight Champion	Khabib Nurmagomedov (UFC 254 - October 24, 2020)
9	Dustin Poirier	26–6		Lightweight	Former Interim Lightweight Champion
10	Max Holloway	21–6	2	Lightweight (2010–2011; 2019) Featherweight (2012–present)	Former Featherweight Champion
11	Conor McGregor	22–4		Welterweight (2016; 2020) Lightweight (2008–2012, 2016–present) Featherweight (2008–2015)	Former Featherweight and Lightweight Champion
12	Petr Yan	16–1		Bantamweight	Bantamweight Champion
13	Deiveson Figueiredo	19–1		Flyweight	Flyweight Champion	Cody Garbrandt (UFC 255 - November 21, 2020)
14	Robert Whittaker	21–5		Welterweight (2009–2014) Middleweight (2014–present)	Former Middleweight Champion	Jared Cannonier (UFC 254 - October 24, 2020)
15	Tony Ferguson	25–4		Welterweight (2008–2011) Lightweight (2011–present)	Former Interim Lightweight Champion

Women's pound-for-pound

Rank	Fighter	Record	M	Weight class	Status	Next fight
1	Amanda Nunes	20–4		Bantamweight (2011–present) Featherweight (2008–2011, 2018–present)	Women's Featherweight Champion Women's Bantamweight Champion
2	Zhang Weili	21–1		Strawweight	Women's Strawweight Champion
3	Valentina Shevchenko	19–3		Bantamweight (2003–2005, 2010–2017) Flyweight (2006, 2018–present)	Women's Flyweight Champion	Jennifer Maia (UFC 255 - November 21, 2020)
4	Rose Namajunas	9–4		Strawweight
5	Joanna Jędrzejczyk	16–4		Flyweight (2012–2014, 2018–present) Strawweight (2014–2018, 2019–present)
6	Jéssica Andrade	20–8		Bantamweight (2011–2015) Strawweight (2016–present)
7	Tatiana Suarez	8–0		Strawweight
8	Holly Holm	13–5		Featherweight (2017–2019) Bantamweight (2011–present)
9	Germaine de Randamie	9–4		Featherweight (2011–2012, 2017) Bantamweight (2008–2011, 2013–2016, 2018–present)		Julianna Peña (October 3, 2020)
10	Aspen Ladd	9–1		Bantamweight (2016–present) Flyweight (2015)
11	Katlyn Chookagian	13–3		Bantamweight (2016–2017) Flyweight (2014–2016, 2018–present) Strawweight (2014)
12	Cláudia Gadelha	18–4		Flyweight (2013) Strawweight (2010–present)		Yan Xiaonan (September 26, 2020)
13	Cynthia Calvillo	9–1–1		Flyweight (2012, 2020-present) Strawweight (2008–2019)
14	Julianna Peña	10–3		Bantamweight (2009–present) Flyweight (2013)		Germaine de Randamie (October 3, 2020)
15	Nina Ansaroff	10–6		Flyweight (2012) Strawweight (2008–present)

Heavyweight

Champion: Stipe Miocic (20–3)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Francis Ngannou	15–3	1
2	Curtis Blaydes	14–2	1
3	Daniel Cormier	22–3	2
4	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	11–1	2
5	Derrick Lewis	24–7
6	Alistair Overeem	46–18	1
7	Junior dos Santos	21–8	2
8	Alexander Volkov	31–8
9	Augusto Sakai	15–1–1
10	Walt Harris	13–8
11	Shamil Abdurakhimov	20–5
12	Aleksei Oleinik	59–13–1
13	Sergei Pavlovich	14–1	1
14	Ciryl Gane	6–0	1
15	Blagoy Ivanov	18–4 (1 NC)	NR

Light heavyweight

Champion: Vacant

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Dominick Reyes	12–1
2	Thiago Santos	21–7
3	Jan Błachowicz	26–8
4	Glover Teixeira	31–7
5	Anthony Smith	32–15
6	Jiří Procházka	27–3–1
7	Volkan Oezdemir	17–5
8	Aleksandar Rakić	12–2
9	Nikita Krylov	26–7
10	Misha Cirkunov	15–5
11	Johnny Walker	17–5
12	Ryan Spann	18–5
13	Maurício Rua	27–11–1
14	Magomed Ankalaev	14–1
15	Paul Craig	13–4–1

Middleweight

Champion: Israel Adesanya (19–0)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Robert Whittaker	21–5
2	Paulo Costa	13–0
3	Jared Cannonier	13–4
4	Jack Hermansson	21–5
5	Yoel Romero	13–5
6	Darren Till	18–3–1
7	Derek Brunson	21–7
8	Kelvin Gastelum	15–6 (1 NC)
9	Uriah Hall	15–9
10	Edmen Shahbazyan	11–1
11	Chris Weidman	15–5
12	Brad Tavares	17–6
13	Omari Akhmedov	20–5–1
14	Ian Heinisch	13–3
15	Marvin Vettori	15–4–1	1

Welterweight

Champion: Kamaru Usman (17–1)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Gilbert Burns	19–3
2	Colby Covington	15–2
3	Leon Edwards	18–3
4	Jorge Masvidal	35–14
5	Tyron Woodley	19–5–1
6	Stephen Thompson	15–4–1
7	Demian Maia	28–10
8	Michael Chiesa	17–4
9	Rafael dos Anjos	29–13
10	Vicente Luque	19–7–1
11	Geoff Neal	13–2
12	Nate Diaz	20–12
13	Robbie Lawler	28–14 (1 NC)
14	Neil Magny	23–7
15	Anthony Pettis	23–10

Lightweight

Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov (28–0)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	(IC) Justin Gaethje	22–2
2	Dustin Poirier	26–6
3	Tony Ferguson	25–4
4	Conor McGregor	22–4
5	Dan Hooker	20–9
6	Charles Oliveira	29–8 (1 NC)
7	Paul Felder	17–5
8	Carlos Diego Ferreira	17–2
9	Kevin Lee	18–7
10	Al Iaquinta	14–6–1
11	Beneil Dariush	18–4–1
12	Islam Makhachev	18–1
13	Gregor Gillespie	13–1
14	Donald Cerrone	36–15 (1 NC)
15	Drew Dober	23–9 (1 NC)

Featherweight

Champion: Alexander Volkanovski (22–1)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Max Holloway	21–6
2	Brian Ortega	14–1 (1 NC)
3	Zabit Magomedsharipov	18–1
4	Chan Sung Jung	16–5
5	Yair Rodríguez	13–2 (1 NC)
6	Calvin Kattar	22–4
7	Josh Emmett	15–2
8	Frankie Edgar	23–8–1
9	Jeremy Stephens	28–18 (1 NC)
10	Arnold Allen	16–1
11	Sodiq Yusuff	11–1
11	Dan Ige	14–3	1
13	Ryan Hall	8–1
14	Shane Burgos	13–2
15	José Aldo	28–7

Bantamweight

Champion: Petr Yan (16–1)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Marlon Moraes	23–6–1
2	Aljamain Sterling	18–3
3	Cody Garbrandt	12–3
4	Cory Sandhagen	12–2
5	Pedro Munhoz	18–4 (1 NC)
6	José Aldo	28–7
7	Jimmie Rivera	22–4
8	Raphael Assuncao	27–8
9	Rob Font	17–4	1
10	Dominick Cruz	22–3	1
11	Cody Stamann	18–2–1	1
12	Merab Dvalishvili	11–4	3
13	Song Yadong	16–4–1 (1 NC)
14	Marlon Vera	16-6	NR
15	John Dodson	22–11	3

Flyweight

Champion: Deiveson Figueiredo (19–1)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Joseph Benavidez	28–7
2	Brandon Moreno	17–5–1
3	Askar Askarov	12–0–1
4	Alex Perez	24–5
5	Alexandre Pantoja	22–5
6	Jussier Formiga	23–8
7	Kai Kara-France	21–8 (1 NC)
8	Rogério Bontorin	16–2 (1 NC)
9	Matt Schnell	14–5
10	Brandon Royval	11–4
11	Tim Elliott	16–11–1
12	Raulian Paiva	20–3
13	Jordan Espinosa	15–7 (1 NC)
14	David Dvořák	18–3
15	Amir Albazi	13–1

Women's featherweight

Champion: Amanda Nunes (20–4)
No rankings available for this division.

Women's bantamweight

Champion: Amanda Nunes [20–4]

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Germaine de Randamie	9–4
2	Holly Holm	13–5
3	Aspen Ladd	9–1
4	Julianna Peña	9–3
5	Raquel Pennington	11–8
6	Irene Aldana	12–5
7	Ketlen Vieira	10–1
8	Yana Kunitskaya	12–5 (1 NC)
9	Sara McMann	12–5
10	Marion Reneau	9–6–1
11	Lina Länsberg	10–5
12	Macy Chiasson	6–1
13	Pannie Kianzad	13–5
14	Julia Avila	8–1
15	Sijara Eubanks	5–4

Women's flyweight

Champion: Valentina Shevchenko (19–3)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Katlyn Chookagian	14–3
2	Cynthia Calvillo	9–1–1
3	Jennifer Maia	18–6–1
4	Lauren Murphy	13–4
5	Joanne Calderwood	14–5
6	(5) Jessica Eye	15–8 (1 NC)
7	Roxanne Modafferi	24–16
8	Viviane Araújo	8–2
9	Andrea Lee	11–4
10	Maycee Barber	8–1
11	Alexis Davis	19–10
12	Montana De La Rosa	11–5
13	Antonina Shevchenko	8–2
14	Ji Yeon Kim	9–2–2
15	Gillian Robertson	8–4

Women's strawweight

Champion: Zhang Weili (21–1)

Rank	Fighter	Record	M
1	Rose Namajunas	9–4
2	Jéssica Andrade	20–8
3	Tatiana Suarez	8–0
4	Joanna Jędrzejczyk	16–4
5	Nina Ansaroff	10–6
6	Cláudia Gadelha	18–4
7	Carla Esparza	16–6
8	Michelle Waterson	17–8
9	Marina Rodriguez	12–1–2
10	Yan Xiaonan	12–1 (1 NC)
11	Tecia Torres	11–5
12	Amanda Ribas	10–1
13	Angela Hill	12–8
14	Alexa Grasso	11–3
15	Virna Jandiroba	16-1	NR

See also

• List of undefeated mixed martial artists
• List of current UFC fighters
• List of UFC champions

References

1. UFC.com: Rankings

External links

• Official website