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

Light Heavyweight Division         

Champion: Vacant

1. Dominick Reyes
2. Thiago Santos
3. Jan Blachowicz
4. Glover Teixeira
5. Aleksandar Rakic
6. Jiri Prochazka                         
7. Volkan Oezdemir       
8. Anthony Smith
9. Nikita Krylov
10. Johnny Walker                       
11. Misha Cirkunov (12) +1
12. Ryan Spann (11) -1
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. Colby Covington (2) +1
2. Gilbert Burns (1) -1
3. Leon Edwards
4. Jorge Masvidal
5. Stephen Thompson (6) +1
6. Demian Maia (7) +1
7. Tyron Woodley (5) -2
8. Michael Chiesa                      
9. Rafael dos Anjos                    
10. Nate Diaz                   
11. Vincent Luque           
12. Neil Magny
13. Geoff Neal
14. Belal Muhammad      
15. Muslim Salikhov

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. Beneil Dariush
14. Drew Dober
15. Leonardo Santos (NR) +1

(15) Donald Cerrone to UR

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. Sijara Eubanks
15. Julia Avila

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                          
12. Gillian Robertson
13. Andrea Lee
14. Talia Santos
15. Alexis Davis

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. Michelle Waterson
8. Claudia Gadelha
9. Yan Xiaonan
10. Marina Rodriguez
11. Tecia Torres               
12. Mackenzie Dern (13) +1
13. Angela Hill (12) -1
14. Virna Jandiroba (15) +1
15. Livia Renata Souza (NR) +1

(14) Randa Markos to (UR)

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. Petr Yan (9) +1                                  
9. Deiveson Figueiredo (10) +1
10. Justin Gaethje (11) +1
11. Tony Ferguson (12) +1
12. Colby Covington (15) +3
13. Conor McGregor
14. Robert Whittaker
15. Dustin Poirier (NR) +1

(8) Daniel Cormier to Retirement