The bracketed number to the right of the fighter indicates the fighters prior ranking. These rankings are unofficial as North Star Sports is not affiliated with, sponsored, or endorsed by the UFC.

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

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

Middleweight Division           

Champion: Israel Adesanya

  1. Robert Whittaker
  2. Jared Cannonier
  3. Paulo Costa
  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. Max Holloway (2) +1
  2. Brian Ortega (3) +1
  3. Zabit Magomedsharipov (1) -2
  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. Cory Sandhagen
  3. Cody Garbrandt
  4. Marlon Moraes
  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

Flyweight Division                       

Champion: Deiveson Figueiredo  

  1. Joseph Benavidez
  2. Brandon Moreno                               
  3. Askar Askarov                                    
  4. Alex Perez                                            
  5. Alexandre Pantoja                            
  6. Jussier Formiga                                 
  7. Brandon Royval                                 
  8. Kai Kara-France
  9. Rogerio Bonterin                               
  10. David Dvorak
  11. Matt Schnell
  12. Raulian Paiva
  13. Tim Elliott
  14. Tyson Nam
  15. Jordan Espinosa

Women’s Featherweight Division                  

Champion: Amanda Nunes

  1. Megan Anderson
  2. Felicia Spencer
  3. Norma Dumont
  4. Zarah dos Santos

Women’s Bantamweight Division       

Champion: Amanda Nunes

  1. Germaine de Randamie
  2. Holly Holm
  3. Aspen Ladd
  4. Raquel Pennington          
  5. Julianna Pena
  6. Irene Aldana                                      
  7. Ketlen Vieira                                      
  8. Yana Kunitskaya                               
  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. Jessica Andrade (SW2) +1            
  2. Katlyn Chookagian (1) -1
  3. Jennifer Maia (2) -1
  4. Cynthia Calvillo (3) -1
  5. Lauren Murphy (4) -1
  6. Jessica Eye (5) -1
  7. Joanna Calderwood (6) -1
  8. Roxanne Modafferi (7) -1
  9. Viviana Araujo (8) -1
  10. Maycee Barber (9) -1
  11. Amanda Ribas (10) -1
  12. Gillian Robertson
  13. Alexa Grasso (11) -2
  14. Andrea Lee (13) -1
  15. Talia Santos (14) -1

(15) Alexis Davis to NR

Women’s Strawweight Division

Champion: Weili Zhang

  1. Rose Namajunas
  2. Tatiana Suarez (3) +1
  3. Joanna Jedrzejczyk (4) +1
  4. Nina Ansaroff (5) +1
  5. Carla Esparza (6) +1                        
  6. Michelle Waterson (7) +1
  7. Claudia Gadelha (8) +1
  8. Yan Xiaonan (9) +1
  9. Marina Rodriguez (10) +1
  10. Tecia Torres (11) +1
  11. Mackenzie Dern (12) +1
  12. Angela Hill (13) +1
  13. Virna Jandiroba (14) +1
  14. Livia Renata Souza (15) +1
  15. Randa Markos (UR) +1

(2) Jessica Andrade to the Flyweight Division

Pound-for-Pound Rankings

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