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

Light Heavyweight Division         

Champion: Jon Jones

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

Middleweight Division           

Champion: Israel Adesanya

  1. Robert Whittaker
  2. Paulo Costa                            
  3. Jared Cannonier                     
  4. Jack Hermansson
  5. Derek Brunson
  6. Yoel Romero
  7. Darren Till
  8. Kelvin Gastelum        
  9. Chris Weidman
  10. Uriah Hall
  11. Omari Akhmedov
  12. Edmen Shahbazyan
  13. Ian Heinisch
  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. Vincent Luque
  12. Geoff Neal     
  13. Neil Magny
  14. Belal Muhammad
  15. Robbie Lawler

Lightweight Division          

Champion: Khabib Nurmagomedov

Interim Champion: Justin Gaethje

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

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. Jeremy Stephens (9) +1
  9. Shane Burgos (10) +1
  10. Dan Ige (11) +1
  11. Arnold Allen (12) +1                 
  12. Edson Barboza (13) +1
  13. Ryan Hall (14) +1
  14. Sodiq Yusuff (15) +1
  15. Bryce Mitchell (UR) +1

(8) Frankie Edgar to Bantamweight Division

Bantamweight Division                       

Champion: Petr Yan

  1. Aljamain Sterling
  2. Marlon Moraes
  3. Cody Garbrandt
  4. Cory Sandhagen
  5. Frankie Edgar (8-FTW) +3
  6. Pedro Munhoz (5) -1
  7. Jose Aldo (6) -1
  8. Jimmie Rivera (7) -1     
  9. Raphael Assuncao (8) -1
  10. Dominick Cruz (9) -1
  11. Rob Font (10) -1
  12. Cody Stamann (11) -1   
  13. Song Yadong (12) -1
  14. Merab Dvalishvili (13) -1
  15. Marlon Vera (14) -1

(15) John Dodson to UR

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. Yana Kunitskaya
  8. Ketlen Vieira
  9. Sara McMann            
  10. Lina Lansberg
  11. Macy Chiasson
  12. Marion Reneau
  13. Pannie Kianzad
  14. Julia Avila
  15. Bethe Correia

Women’s Flyweight Division               

Champion: Valentina Shevchenko

  1. Katlyn Chookagian
  2. Jennifer Maia
  3. Cynthia Calvillo         
  4. Lauren Murphy          
  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. Carla Esparza
  7. Claudia Gadelha
  8. Michelle Waterson
  9. Yan Xiaonan
  10. Marina Rodriguez
  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. Stipe Miocic   
  4. Kamaru Usman
  5. Israel Adesanya
  6. Alexander Volkanovski
  7. Francis Ngannou
  8. Daniel Cormier
  9. Petr Yan                                 
  10. Deiveson Figueiredo
  11. Justin Gaethje
  12. Tony Ferguson
  13. Conor McGregor
  14. Robert Whittaker
  15. Colby Covington
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