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. Curtis Blaydes (3) +1
  3. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (4) +1
  4. Derrick Lewis (5) +1
  5. Alistair Overeem (6) +1
  6. Junior Dos Santos (7) +1
  7. Alexander Volkov (8) +1
  8. Walt Harris (9) +1
  9. Augusto Sakai (10) +1
  10. Alexei Oleinik (11) +1
  11. Shamil Abdurakhimov (12) +1          
  12. Blagoy Ivanov (13) +1
  13. Fabricio Werdum (14) +1
  14. Cyril Gane (15) +1
  15. Sergey Pavlovich (NR) +1

(2) Daniel Cormier retires

Light Heavyweight Division         

Champion: Jon Jones

  1. Dominick Reyes
  2. Thiago Santos
  3. Jan Blachowicz
  4. Glover Teixeira
  5. Aleksandar Rakic (8) +3
  6. Jiri Prochazka                         
  7. Volkan Oezdemir       
  8. Anthony Smith (5) -3
  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. Neil Magny (13) +1
  13. Geoff Neal (12) -1
  14. Belal Muhammad      
  15. Muslim Salikhov (NR) +1

(15) Robbie Lawler to UR

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. Shane Burgos
  10. Dan Ige
  11. Arnold Allen              
  12. Edson Barboza
  13. Ryan Hall
  14. Sodiq Yusuff
  15. Bryce Mitchell

Bantamweight Division                       

Champion: Petr Yan

  1. Aljamain Sterling
  2. Marlon Moraes
  3. Cody Garbrandt
  4. Cory Sandhagen
  5. Frankie Edgar
  6. Pedro Munhoz
  7. Jose Aldo
  8. Jimmie Rivera            
  9. Raphael Assuncao
  10. Dominick Cruz
  11. Rob Font
  12. Cody Stamann
  13. Song Yadong
  14. Merab Dvalishvili
  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. 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. Alexa Grasso (SW 11) +5                  
  12. Andrea Lee (11) -1
  13. Alexis Davis (12) -1
  14. Gillian Robertson (13) -1
  15. Talia Santos (14) -1

(15) Molly McCann to UR

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. Tecia Torres (12) +1
  12. Angela Hill (13) +1
  13. Mackenzie Dern (14) +1
  14. Randa Markos (15) +1
  15. Virna Jandiroba (NR) +1

(11) Alexa Grasso to the Flyweight Division

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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