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: Jan Blachowicz (3) +3

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

Middleweight Division           

Champion: Israel Adesanya

  1. Robert Whittaker
  2. Jared Cannonier (3) +1
  3. Paulo Costa (2) -1
  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. Gilbert Burns
  3. Leon Edwards
  4. Jorge Masvidal
  5. Stephen Thompson
  6. Demian Maia
  7. Tyron Woodley
  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

  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. Leonardo Santos

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. Ketlen Vieira (8) +1
  8. Yana Kunitskaya (7) -1
  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. Angela Hill
  14. Virna Jandiroba
  15. Livia Renata Souza

Pound-for-Pound Rankings

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

    (15) Dustin Poirier to NR
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