North Star Sports

The bracketed number to the right of the fighter indicates the fighters prior ranking in the North Star Sports Ranking System.

Heavyweight Division          

Champion: Stipe Miocic

1. Daniel Cormier
2. Francis Ngannou
3. Curtis Blaydes
4. Derrick Lewis
5. Junior dos Santos
6. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
7. Alistair Overeem
8. Alexander Volkov
9. Walt Harris
10. Alexei Oleinik
11. Augusto Sakai
12. Shamil Abdurakhimov
13. Blagoy Ivanov                  
14. Sergei Pavlovich
15. Cyril Gane

Light Heavyweight Division         

Champion: Jon Jones

1. Dominick Reyes
2. Thiago Santos
3. Jan Blachowicz
4. Glover Teixeira
5. Corey Anderson
6. Anthony Smith
7. Jiri Prochazka (NR) 9
8. Volkan Oezdemir (7) 1
9. Aleksandar Rakic
10. Nikita Krylov
11. Johnny Walker
12. Ryan Spann
13. Misha Cirkunov
14. Magomed Ankalaev
15. Jimmy Crute

Alexander Gustafsson (8) to NR

Middleweight Division           

Champion: Israel Adesanya

1. Robert Whittaker
2. Paulo Costa
3. Jared Cannonier
4. Darren Till
5. Yoel Romero
6. Jack Hermanson
7. Kelvin Gastelum
8. Derek Brunson
9. Edmen Shahbazyan
10. Uriah Hall
11. Omari Akhmedov
12. Ian Heinisch
13. Brad Tavares
14. Marvin Vettori
15. Brendan Allen                

Welterweight Division     

Champion: Kamaru Usman                           

1. Gilbert Burns
2. Colby Covington
3. Leon Edwards (4) 1
4. Jorge Masvidal (3) 1
5. Tyron Woodley
6. Stephen Thompson
7. Demian Maia
8. Michael Chiesa
9. Rafael dos Anjos
10. Nate Diaz
11. Geoff Neal
12. Neil Magny
13. Vincente Luque
14. Belal Muhammad
15. Robbie Lawler

Lightweight Division          

Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov

Interim Champion: Justin Gaethje

2. Dustin Poirier
3. Tony Ferguson
4. Conor McGregor        
5. Charles Oliveira
6. Dan Hooker
7. Paul Felder
8. Al Iaquinta
9. Kevin Lee
10. Diego Ferreira
11. Gregor Gillespie
12. Islam Makhachev
13. Drew Dober
14. Donald Cerrone
15. Beneil Dariush

Featherweight Division               

Champion: Alexander Volkanovski

1. Zabit Magomedsharipov (2) 1
2. Max Holloway (1) 1
3. Brian Ortega
4. Chan Sung Jung
5. Yair Rodriguez
6. Josh Emmett
7. Calvin Kattar
8. Frankie Edgar
9. Jeremy Stephens        
10. Dan Ige
11. Shane Burgos
12. Arnold Allen
13. Edson Barboza
14. Ryan Hall
15. Sodiq Yusuff

Bantamweight Division          

Champion: Petr Yan (3) 3

1. Aljamain Sterling
2. Marlon Moraes
3. Cody Garbrandt (4) 1
4. Cory Sandhagen (5) 1
5. Pedro Munhoz (8) 3
6. Jose Aldo
7. Raphael Assuncao
8. Jimmie Rivera (9) 1
9. Dominick Cruz (11) 2
10. Cody Stamann (12) 2
11. Rob Font (10) 1
12. Song Yadong (13) 1
13. John Dodson (14) 1
14. Sean O’Malley (NR) 2
15. Marlon Vera

Women’s Bantamweight Division          

Champion: Amanda Nunes

1. Germaine de Randamie
2. Holly Holm
3. Aspen Ladd
4. Julianna Pena
5. Raquel Pennington
6. Irene Aldana
7. Ketlen Vieira
8. Yana Kunitskaya       
9. Sara McMann            
10. Lina Lansberg
11. Macy Chiasson
12. Marion Reneau
13. Bethe Correia
14. Sijara Eubanks
15. Nicco Montano

Women’s Flyweight Division             

Champion: Valentina Shevchenko

1. Katlyn Chookagian
2. Cynthia Calvillo
3. Lauren Murphy
4. Jennifer Maia
5. Jessica Eye
6. Joanne Calderwood
7. Roxanne Modaferri
8. Viviane Araujo                      
9. Maycee Barber
10. Amanda Ribas (SW-11) 1
11. Andrea Lee (10) 1
12. Alexis Davis (11) 1
13. Gillian Robertson (12) 1
14. Molly McCann (13) 1
15. Cortney Casey (14) 1

Montana de la Rosa (15) to NR

Women’s Strawweight Division         

Champion: Weili Zhang

1. Rose Namajunas (2) 1
2. Jessica Andrade (1) 1
3. Tatiana Suarez
4. Joanna Jedrzejczyk
5. Nina Ansaroff
6. Claudia Gadelha
7. Carla Esparza
8. Michelle Waterson
9. Marina Rodriguez
10. Yan Xiaonan
11. Alexa Grasso (12) 1
12. Tecia Torres (13) 1
13. Angela Hill (14) 1
14. Mackenzie Dern (15) 1
15. Randa Markos (NR) 1

Amanda Ribas (11) to Flyweight