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UFC Rankings — Aug 23, 2021

Historical snapshot — the official UFC rankings as they stood on Aug 23, 2021.

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

  1. 1Jon JonesUnited States
  2. 2Kamaru UsmanUnited States
  3. 3Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  4. 4Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  5. 5Francis NgannouCameroon
  6. 6Dustin PoirierUnited States
  7. 7Jan BlachowiczPoland
  8. 8Stipe MiocicUnited States
  9. 9Max HollowayUnited States
  10. 10Charles OliveiraBrazil
  11. 11Brandon MorenoMexico
  12. 12Robert WhittakerAustralia
  13. 13Petr YanRussia
  14. 14Ciryl GaneFrance
  15. 15Justin GaethjeUnited States

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. 9Carla EsparzaUnited States
  10. 10Aspen LaddUnited States
  11. 11Katlyn CerminaraUnited States
  12. 12Mackenzie DernUnited States
  13. 13Lauren MurphyUnited States
  14. 13Yan XiaonanChina
  15. 15Julianna PenaUnited States

Flyweight

Brandon Moreno
Champion
Brandon MorenoMexico
  1. 1Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  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
  9. 9Matt SchnellUnited States
  10. 10Tim ElliottUnited States
  11. 11David DvorakCzechia
  12. 12Matheus NicolauBrazil
  13. 13SumudaerjiChina
  14. 14Amir AlbaziIraq
  15. 15Tyson NamUnited States

Bantamweight

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

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. 6Arnold AllenEngland
  7. 7Josh EmmettUnited States
  8. 8Dan IgeUnited States
  9. 9Edson BarbozaBrazil
  10. 10Giga ChikadzeGeorgia
  11. 11Bryce MitchellUnited States
  12. 12Sodiq YusuffNigeria
  13. 13Movsar EvloevRussia
  14. 14Shane BurgosUnited States
  15. 15Ilia TopuriaGeorgia

Lightweight

Charles Oliveira
Champion
Charles OliveiraBrazil
  1. 1Dustin PoirierUnited States
  2. 2Justin GaethjeUnited States
  3. 3Beneil Dariush
  4. 4Michael ChandlerUnited States
  5. 5Islam MakhachevRussia
  6. 6Tony FergusonUnited States
  7. 7Rafael Dos AnjosBrazil
  8. 8Dan HookerNew Zealand
  9. 9Conor McGregorIreland
  10. 10Gregor Gillespie
  11. 11Kevin LeeUnited States
  12. 12Diego FerreiraBrazil
  13. 13Brad RiddellNew Zealand
  14. 14Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  15. 15Arman TsarukyanArmenia

Welterweight

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

Middleweight

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

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. 12Paul CraigScotland
  13. 13Misha CirkunovLatvia
  14. 14Jimmy Crute
  15. 15Jamahal HillUnited States

Heavyweight

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

Women's Strawweight

Rose Namajunas
Champion
Rose NamajunasUnited States
  1. 1Zhang WeiliChina
  2. 2Joanna JedrzejczykPoland
  3. 3Carla EsparzaUnited States
  4. 4Mackenzie DernUnited States
  5. 4Yan XiaonanChina
  6. 6Marina RodriguezBrazil
  7. 7Nina NunesUnited States
  8. 8Claudia GadelhaBrazil
  9. 9Tecia PenningtonUnited States
  10. 10Michelle Waterson-GomezUnited States
  11. 11Amanda RibasBrazil
  12. 12Virna JandirobaBrazil
  13. 13Amanda LemosBrazil
  14. 14Angela Hill
  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. 7Viviane AraujoBrazil
  8. 8Jessica EyeUnited States
  9. 9Roxanne ModafferiUnited States
  10. 10Alexa GrassoMexico
  11. 11Andrea LeeUnited States
  12. 12Taila SantosBrazil
  13. 13Maycee BarberUnited States
  14. 14Miranda MaverickUnited States
  15. 15Montana De La RosaUnited States

Women's Bantamweight

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

Women's Featherweight

Amanda Nunes
Champion
Amanda NunesBrazil