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
8. Volkan Oezdemir
9. Aleksandar Rakic
10. Nikita Krylov
11. Johnny Walker
12. Ryan Spann
13. Misha Cirkunov
14. Magomed Ankalaev
15. Jimmy Crute

Middleweight Division           

Champion: Israel Adesanya

1. Robert Whittaker
2. Paulo Costa
3. Jared Cannonier
4. Jack Hermansson (6) +2
5. Darren Till (4) -1
6. Yoel Romero (5) -1
7. Derek Brunson (8) +1               
8. Kelvin Gastelum (7) -1
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. Jorge Masvidal
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. Max Holloway
3. Brian Ortega
4. Chan Sung Jung
5. Calvin Kattar
6. Yair Rodriguez
7. Josh Emmett
8. Frankie Edgar
9. Jeremy Stephens        
10. Shane Burgos
11. Dan Ige
12. Arnold Allen              
13. Edson Barboza
14. Ryan Hall
15. Sodiq Yusuff

Bantamweight Division          

Champion: Petr Yan

1. Aljamain Sterling
2. Marlon Moraes
3. Cody Garbrandt
4. Cory Sandhagen
5. Pedro Munhoz
6. Jose Aldo
7. Jimmie Rivera
8. Raphael Assuncao
9. Dominick Cruz                      
10. Rob Font
11. Cody Stamann
12. Song Yadong
13. John Dodson
14. Sean O’Malley
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
11. Andrea Lee
12. Alexis Davis
13. Gillian Robertson
14. Talia Santos
15. Molly McCann

Women’s Strawweight Division         

Champion: Weili Zhang

1. Rose Namajunas
2. Jessica Andrade
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. Tecia Torres
13. Angela Hill
14. Mackenzie Dern
15. Randa Markos

Pound-for-Pound Rankings

1. Jon Jones
2. Khabib Nurmagomedov
3. Kamaru Usman
4. Stipe Miocic
5. Israel Adesanya
6. Daniel Cormier
7. Alexander Volkanovski         
8. Francis Ngannou
9. Petr Yan                                 
10. Deiveson Figueiredo
11. Justin Gaethje
12. Tony Ferguson
13. Conor McGregor
14. Robert Whittaker
15. Colby Covington