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: Francis Ngannou
Interim Champion: Cyril Gane

  1. Stipe Miocic
  2. Derrick Lewis
  3. Curtis Blaydes
  4. Alexander Volkov              
  5. Chris Daukaus
  6. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
  7. Marcin Tybura
  8. Tom Aspinall
  9. Tai Tuivasa (14) +4
  10. Sergey Spivak (10) -1
  11. Walt Harris (11) -1
  12. Augusto Sakai (12) -1
  13. Alexei Oleinik (13) -1
  14. Alexandr Romanov

Light Heavyweight Division

Champion: Glover Teixeira

  1. Jan Blachowicz
  2. Jiří Procházka
  3. Aleksandar Rakić
  4. Thiago Santos
  5. Magomed Ankalaev
  6. Dominick Reyes
  7. Anthony Smith
  8. Volkan Oezdemir
  9. Nikita Krylov
  10. Johnny Walker
  11. Ryan Spann
  12. Paul Craig
  13. Misha Cirkunov
  14. Jahamal Hill
  15. Jimmy Crute

Middleweight Division      

Champion: Israel Adesanya

  1. Robert Whittaker
  2. Jared Cannonier
  3. Derek Brunson
  4. Marvin Vettori
  5. Paulo Costa
  6. Jack Hermansson
  7. Sean Strickland
  8. Uriah Hall
  9. Darren Till
  10. Kelvin Gastelum
  11. Brad Tavares
  12. Nassourdine Imavov
  13. Brendan Allen
  14. Edmen Shahbazyan
  15. Andre Muniz (NR) +1

Krzysztof Jotko (15) to NR

Welterweight Division       

Champion: Kamaru Usman                           

  1. Colby Covington                
  2. Gilbert Burns
  3. Leon Edwards
  4. Stephen Thompson          
  5. Vincente Luque
  6. Jorge Masvidal
  7. Sean Brady
  8. Michael Chiesa
  9. Belal Muhammad
  10. Neil Magny                         
  11. Geoff Neal (12) +1
  12. Khamzat Chimaev (11) -1
  13. Muslim Salikhov
  14. Li Jingliang
  15. Daniel Rodriguez

Lightweight Division

Champion: Charles Oliveira

  1. Dustin Poirier
  2. Justin Gaethje
  3. Beneil Dariush
  4. Islam Makhachev
  5. Michael Chandler
  6. Dan Hooker
  7. Rafael dos Anjos
  8. Tony Ferguson
  9. Conor McGregor
  10. Gregor Gillespie
  11. Rafael Fiziev
  12. Diego Ferreira                    
  13. Arman Tsarukyan
  14. Brad Riddell
  15. Joel Alvarez

Featherweight Division     

Champion: Alexander Volkanovski

  1. Max Holloway
  2. Brian Ortega
  3. Chan Sung Jung
  4. Josh Emmett (6) +2
  5. Yair Rodriguez (4) -1
  6. Calvin Kattar (5) -1
  7. Giga Chikadze
  8. Arnold Allen
  9. Dan Ige
  10. Edson Barboza
  11. Movsar Evloev
  12. Bryce Mitchell
  13. Shane Burgos
  14. Sodiq Yusuff
  15. Ilia Topuria

Bantamweight Division

Champion: Aljamain Sterling
Interim Champion: Petr Yan

  1. T.J. Dillashaw
  2. Jose Aldo
  3. Cory Sandhagen
  4. Rob Font
  5. Merab Dvalishvili
  6. Dominick Cruz (11) +4
  7. Marlon Vera
  8. Pedro Munhoz
  9. Marlon Moraes
  10. Frankie Edgar (12) +1
  11. Sean O’Malley (NR) +4
  12. Song Yadong (14) +1
  13. Cody Stamann (13) -1
  14. Adrian Yanez

Cody Garbrandt (7) to FLY

Flyweight Division            

Champion: Brandon Moreno

  1. Deiveson Figueiredo
  2. Askar Askarov
  3. Alexandre Pantoja
  4. Kai Kara-France (5) +1
  5. Alex Perez (4) -1
  6. Brandon Royval
  7. Rogerio Bontorin
  8. Matt Schnell
  9. Matheus Nicolau
  10. Manel Kape
  11. David Dvorak                     
  12. Cody Garbrandt (7-BW) +5
  13. Tim Elliott (12) -1
  14. Su Mudaerji (13) -1
  15. Amir Albazi (14) -1

Bruno Silva (15) to NR

Women’s Bantamweight Division      

Champion: Julianna Pena (3) +3

  1. Amanda Nunes (C) -1
  2. Germaine de Randamie (1) -1
  3. Holly Holm (2) -1
  4. Irene Aldana
  5. Raquel Pennington
  6. Aspen Ladd
  7. Yana Kunitskaya               
  8. Ketlen Vieira
  9. Lina Länsberg                    
  10. Sara McMann
  11. Macy Chiasson
  12. Pannie Kianzad
  13. Karol Rosa
  14. Julia Avila
  15. Jessica Rose-Clark

Women’s Flyweight Division 

Champion: Valentina Shevchenko

  1. Jéssica Andrade
  2. Katlyn Chookagian
  3. Lauren Murphy
  4. Jennifer Maia
  5. Talia Santos
  6. Andrea Lee         
  7. Viviane Araujo
  8. Joanne Wood
  9. Cynthia Calvillo
  10. Jessica Eye
  11. Alexa Grasso
  12. Roxanne Modafferi
  13. Maycee Barber
  14. Erin Blanchfield (15) +2
  15. Casey O’Neill                     

Miranda Maverick (14) to NR

Women’s Strawweight Division

Champion: Rose Namajunas

  1. Weili Zhang
  2. Carla Esparza
  3. Marina Rodriguez
  4. Tatiana Suarez
  5. Joanna Jedrzejczyk
  6. Yan Xiaonan
  7. Claudia Gadelha
  8. Mackenzie Dern
  9. Amanda Ribas
  10. Michelle Waterson
  11. Nina Nunes
  12. Tecia Torres
  13. Amanda Lemos
  14. Angela Hill
  15. Virna Jandiroba

Pound-for-Pound Rankings

  1. Kamaru Usman
  2. Jon Jones
  3. Alexander Volkanovski
  4. Francis Ngannou
  5. Israel Adesanya
  6. Charles Oliveira (7) +1    
  7. Glover Teixeira (8) +1
  8. Dustin Poirier (6) -2
  9. Jan Blachowicz
  10. Stipe Miocic
  11. Brandon Moreno
  12. Petr Yan               
  13. Robert Whittaker
  14. Cyril Gane                           
  15. Aljamain Sterling
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