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UFC Rankings — May 17, 2021

Historical snapshot — the official UFC rankings as they stood on May 17, 2021.

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Men's Pound-for-PoundBest overall, all divisions

  1. 1Jon JonesUnited States
  2. 2Kamaru UsmanUnited States
  3. 3Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  4. 4Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  5. 5Francis NgannouCameroon
  6. 6Dustin PoirierUnited States
  7. 7Jan BlachowiczPoland▲1
  8. 8Stipe MiocicUnited States▼1
  9. 9Max HollowayUnited States
  10. 10Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  11. 11Charles OliveiraBrazilNEW
  12. 12Robert WhittakerAustralia▼1
  13. 13Petr YanRussia▼1
  14. 14Justin GaethjeUnited States▼2
  15. 15Aljamain SterlingUnited States▼1

Women's Pound-for-PoundBest overall, all divisions

  1. 1Amanda NunesBrazil
  2. 2Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  3. 3Rose NamajunasUnited States
  4. 4Zhang WeiliChina
  5. 5Joanna JedrzejczykPoland
  6. 6Jessica AndradeBrazil
  7. 7Germaine de RandamieNetherlands
  8. 8Holly HolmUnited States
  9. 9Aspen LaddUnited States
  10. 10Katlyn CerminaraUnited States
  11. 11Yan XiaonanChina
  12. 12Mackenzie DernUnited States
  13. 13Carla EsparzaUnited States
  14. 14Claudia GadelhaBrazil
  15. 15Nina NunesUnited States

Flyweight

Deiveson Figueiredo
Champion
Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  1. 1Brandon MorenoMexico
  2. 2Askar AskarovRussia
  3. 3Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  4. 4Alex PerezUnited States
  5. 5Joseph BenavidezUnited States
  6. 6Brandon RoyvalUnited States
  7. 7Kai Kara-FranceNew Zealand
  8. 8Rogerio BontorinBrazil▲1
  9. 9Matt SchnellUnited States▼1
  10. 10Tim ElliottUnited States
  11. 11David DvorakCzechia
  12. 12Raulian PaivaBrazil
  13. 13SumudaerjiChina
  14. 14Matheus NicolauBrazil
  15. 15Amir AlbaziIraq

Bantamweight

Aljamain Sterling
Champion
Aljamain SterlingUnited States
  1. 1Petr YanRussia
  2. 2Cory SandhagenUnited States
  3. 3Rob FontUnited States
  4. 4Cody GarbrandtUnited States
  5. 5Jose AldoBrazil
  6. 6Marlon MoraesBrazil
  7. 7Frankie EdgarUnited States
  8. 8Pedro MunhozBrazil
  9. 9Dominick CruzUnited States
  10. 10Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  11. 11Raphael AssuncaoBrazil
  12. 12Jimmie RiveraUnited States
  13. 13Cody StamannUnited States
  14. 14Kyler PhillipsUnited States
  15. 15Marlon VeraEcuador

Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski
Champion
Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  1. 1Max HollowayUnited States
  2. 2Brian OrtegaUnited States
  3. 3Yair RodriguezMexico
  4. 4Chan Sung JungSouth Korea
  5. 5Calvin KattarUnited States
  6. 6Josh EmmettUnited States
  7. 7Arnold AllenEngland
  8. 8Dan IgeUnited States
  9. 9Edson BarbozaBrazil▲4
  10. 10Giga ChikadzeGeorgia
  11. 11Sodiq YusuffNigeria
  12. 12Bryce MitchellUnited States
  13. 13Shane BurgosUnited States▼4
  14. 14Movsar EvloevRussia
  15. 15Hakeem DawoduCanada

Lightweight

Charles Oliveira
Champion
Charles OliveiraBrazil▲3
  1. 1Dustin PoirierUnited States
  2. 2Justin GaethjeUnited States
  3. 3Beneil Dariush▲6
  4. 4Michael ChandlerUnited States
  5. 5Conor McGregorIreland▲1
  6. 6Tony FergusonUnited States▼1
  7. 7Rafael Dos AnjosBrazil
  8. 8Dan HookerNew Zealand
  9. 9Paul FelderUnited States▲1
  10. 10Islam MakhachevRussia
  11. 11Gregor Gillespie▲1
  12. 12Kevin LeeUnited States▲1
  13. 13Diego FerreiraBrazil▲1
  14. 14Drew DoberUnited States▲1
  15. 15Thiago MoisesBrazilNEW

Welterweight

Kamaru Usman
Champion
Kamaru UsmanUnited States
  1. 1Colby CovingtonUnited States
  2. 2Gilbert BurnsBrazil
  3. 3Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom
  4. 4Stephen ThompsonUnited States
  5. 5Vicente LuqueBrazil
  6. 6Michael ChiesaUnited States
  7. 7Jorge MasvidalUnited States
  8. 8Neil MagnyUnited States
  9. 9Demian MaiaBrazil
  10. 10Geoff NealUnited States
  11. 11Li JingliangChina
  12. 12Belal MuhammadUnited States
  13. 13Sean BradyUnited States
  14. 14Robbie LawlerUnited States
  15. 15Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates

Middleweight

Israel Adesanya
Champion
Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  1. 1Robert WhittakerAustralia
  2. 2Paulo CostaBrazil
  3. 3Marvin VettoriItaly
  4. 4Jared CannonierUnited States
  5. 5Derek BrunsonUnited States
  6. 6Darren TillEngland
  7. 7Jack HermanssonSweden
  8. 8Uriah HallUnited States
  9. 9Kelvin GastelumUnited States
  10. 10Edmen ShahbazyanUnited States
  11. 11Sean StricklandUnited States▲1
  12. 12Chris WeidmanUnited States▼1
  13. 13Omari AkhmedovRussia▲1
  14. 14Kevin HollandUnited States▼1
  15. 15Brad TavaresUnited States

Light Heavyweight

Jan Blachowicz
Champion
Jan BlachowiczPoland
  1. 1Glover TeixeiraBrazil
  2. 2Jiri ProchazkaCzechia
  3. 3Aleksandar RakicSerbia
  4. 4Thiago SantosBrazil
  5. 5Dominick ReyesUnited States
  6. 6Anthony SmithUnited States
  7. 7Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  8. 8Volkan OezdemirSwitzerland
  9. 9Nikita KrylovUkraine
  10. 10Johnny WalkerBrazil
  11. 11Ryan SpannUnited States
  12. 12Misha CirkunovLatvia
  13. 13Jimmy Crute
  14. 14Paul CraigScotland
  15. 15Jamahal HillUnited States

Heavyweight

Francis Ngannou
Champion
Francis NgannouCameroon
  1. 1Stipe MiocicUnited States
  2. 2Derrick LewisUnited States
  3. 3Ciryl GaneFrance
  4. 4Curtis BlaydesUnited States
  5. 5Alexander VolkovRussia
  6. 6Jairzinho RozenstruikSuriname
  7. 7Shamil Abdurakhimov
  8. 8Walt HarrisUnited States
  9. 9Augusto SakaiBrazil
  10. 10Chris DaukausUnited States
  11. 11Marcin TyburaPoland
  12. 11Blagoy IvanovBulgaria
  13. 13Tom AspinallEngland
  14. 14Sergei PavlovichRussia
  15. 15Aleksei OleinikRussia

Women's Strawweight

Rose Namajunas
Champion
Rose NamajunasUnited States
  1. 1Zhang WeiliChina
  2. 2Joanna JedrzejczykPoland
  3. 3Yan XiaonanChina
  4. 4Carla EsparzaUnited States
  5. 5Mackenzie DernUnited States
  6. 6Marina RodriguezBrazil
  7. 7Nina NunesUnited States
  8. 8Claudia GadelhaBrazil
  9. 9Michelle Waterson-GomezUnited States
  10. 10Tecia PenningtonUnited States
  11. 11Amanda RibasBrazil
  12. 12Angela Hill
  13. 13Virna JandirobaBrazil
  14. 14Amanda LemosBrazil
  15. 15Felice HerrigUnited States

Women's Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko
Champion
Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  1. 1Jessica AndradeBrazil
  2. 2Katlyn CerminaraUnited States
  3. 3Lauren MurphyUnited States
  4. 4Jennifer MaiaBrazil
  5. 5Cynthia CalvilloUnited States
  6. 6Joanne WoodScotland
  7. 7Jessica EyeUnited States▲1
  8. 8Viviane AraujoBrazil▼1
  9. 9Roxanne ModafferiUnited States
  10. 10Alexa GrassoMexico
  11. 11Andrea LeeUnited States
  12. 12Taila SantosBrazil▲1
  13. 13Miranda MaverickUnited States▲2
  14. 14Maycee BarberUnited States
  15. 15Antonina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan▼3

Women's Bantamweight

Amanda Nunes
Champion
Amanda NunesBrazil
  1. 1Germaine de RandamieNetherlands
  2. 2Holly HolmUnited States
  3. 3Aspen LaddUnited States
  4. 4Irene AldanaMexico
  5. 5Yana SantosRussia
  6. 6Julianna PenaUnited States
  7. 7Ketlen VieiraBrazil
  8. 8Sara McMannUnited States
  9. 9Macy ChiassonUnited States
  10. 10Lina LansbergSweden
  11. 11Pannie KianzadSweden
  12. 12Marion ReneauUnited States
  13. 13Sijara EubanksUnited States
  14. 14Karol RosaBrazil
  15. 15Julia Avila

Women's Featherweight

Amanda Nunes
Champion
Amanda NunesBrazil