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UFC Rankings — Jan 21, 2025

Historical snapshot — the official UFC rankings as they stood on Jan 21, 2025.

← Jan 14, 2025Feb 4, 2025 →Current rankings

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

  1. 1Islam MakhachevRussia
  2. 2Jon JonesUnited States
  3. 3Alex PereiraBrazil
  4. 4Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  5. 5Merab DvalishviliGeorgia▲2
  6. 6Belal MuhammadUnited States▼1
  7. 7Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa▼1
  8. 8Tom AspinallEngland
  9. 9Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  10. 10Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom
  11. 11Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  12. 12Max HollowayUnited States
  13. 13Sean O'MalleyUnited States
  14. 14Sean StricklandUnited States
  15. 15Charles OliveiraBrazil

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

  1. 1Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  2. 2Zhang WeiliChina
  3. 3Alexa GrassoMexico
  4. 4Julianna PenaUnited States
  5. 5Manon FiorotFrance
  6. 6Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  7. 7Kayla HarrisonUnited States
  8. 8Rose NamajunasUnited States
  9. 9Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  10. 10Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  11. 11Yan XiaonanChina
  12. 12Virna JandirobaBrazil
  13. 13Jessica AndradeBrazil
  14. 14Natalia SilvaBrazil
  15. 15Maycee BarberUnited States

Flyweight

Alexandre Pantoja
Champion
Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  1. 1Brandon RoyvalUnited States
  2. 2Brandon MorenoMexico
  3. 3Amir AlbaziIraq
  4. 4Kai Kara-FranceNew Zealand
  5. 5Tatsuro TairaJapan
  6. 6Manel KapeAngola
  7. 7Alex PerezUnited States
  8. 8Asu AlmabayevKazakhstan
  9. 9Steve ErcegAustralia
  10. 10Tim ElliottUnited States
  11. 11Tagir Ulanbekov
  12. 12Charles JohnsonUnited States
  13. 13Bruno Gustavo da SilvaBrazil
  14. 14Kai AsakuraJapan
  15. 15Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)

Bantamweight

Merab Dvalishvili
Champion
Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  1. 1Sean O'MalleyUnited States
  2. 2Petr YanRussia▲1
  3. 3Umar NurmagomedovRussia▼1
  4. 4Cory SandhagenUnited States
  5. 5Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  6. 6Marlon VeraEcuador
  7. 7Henry CejudoUnited States
  8. 8Song YadongChina
  9. 9Rob FontUnited States
  10. 10Mario BautistaUnited States
  11. 11Jose AldoBrazil
  12. 12Kyler PhillipsUnited States
  13. 13Aiemann ZahabiCanada
  14. 14Marcus McGheeUnited States
  15. 15Montel JacksonUnited States

Featherweight

Ilia Topuria
Champion
Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  1. 1Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  2. 2Max HollowayUnited States
  3. 3Diego LopesBrazil
  4. 4Movsar EvloevRussia
  5. 5Yair RodriguezMexico
  6. 6Brian OrtegaUnited States
  7. 7Arnold AllenEngland
  8. 8Josh EmmettUnited States
  9. 9Aljamain SterlingUnited States
  10. 10Calvin KattarUnited States
  11. 11Lerone MurphyUnited Kingdom
  12. 12Giga ChikadzeGeorgia
  13. 13Bryce MitchellUnited States
  14. 14Dan IgeUnited States
  15. 15Edson BarbozaBrazil

Lightweight

Islam Makhachev
Champion
Islam MakhachevRussia
  1. 1Arman TsarukyanArmenia
  2. 2Charles OliveiraBrazil
  3. 3Justin GaethjeUnited States
  4. 4Dustin PoirierUnited States
  5. 5Max HollowayUnited States
  6. 6Dan HookerNew Zealand
  7. 7Michael ChandlerUnited States
  8. 8Mateusz GamrotPoland
  9. 9Beneil Dariush
  10. 10Renato MoicanoBrazil
  11. 11Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  12. 12Paddy PimblettEngland▲1
  13. 13Jalin TurnerUnited States▲1
  14. 14Benoit Saint DenisFrance▼2
  15. 15Grant DawsonUnited StatesNEW

Welterweight

Belal Muhammad
Champion
Belal MuhammadUnited States
  1. 1Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom
  2. 2Shavkat RakhmonovKazakhstan
  3. 3Kamaru UsmanUnited States
  4. 4Jack Della MaddalenaAustralia
  5. 5Sean BradyUnited States
  6. 6Joaquin BuckleyUnited States
  7. 7Ian Machado GarryIreland
  8. 8Gilbert BurnsBrazil
  9. 9Colby CovingtonUnited States
  10. 10Geoff NealUnited States
  11. 11Stephen ThompsonUnited States
  12. 12Michael MoralesEcuador
  13. 13Carlos PratesBrazil
  14. 14Vicente LuqueBrazil
  15. 15Michael PageUnited Kingdom

Middleweight

Dricus Du Plessis
Champion
Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  1. 1Sean StricklandUnited States
  2. 2Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  3. 3Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  4. 4Robert WhittakerAustralia
  5. 5Nassourdine Imavov
  6. 6Caio BorralhoBrazil
  7. 7Marvin VettoriItaly
  8. 8Jared CannonierUnited States
  9. 9Brendan AllenUnited States
  10. 10Roman DolidzeGeorgia
  11. 11Paulo CostaBrazil
  12. 12Anthony HernandezMexico
  13. 13Jack HermanssonSweden
  14. 14Shara MagomedovRussia
  15. 15Michel PereiraBrazil

Light Heavyweight

Alex Pereira
Champion
Alex PereiraBrazil
  1. 1Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  2. 2Jiri ProchazkaCzechia
  3. 3Jan BlachowiczPoland▲1
  4. 4Jamahal HillUnited States▼1
  5. 5Aleksandar RakicSerbia
  6. 6Carlos UlbergNew Zealand
  7. 7Khalil Rountree Jr.United States
  8. 8Nikita KrylovUkraine
  9. 9Volkan OezdemirSwitzerland
  10. 10Johnny WalkerBrazil
  11. 11Dominick ReyesUnited States
  12. 12Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  13. 13Bogdan GuskovUzbekistan
  14. 14Anthony SmithUnited States
  15. 15Alonzo MenifieldUnited States

Heavyweight

Jon Jones
Champion
Jon JonesUnited States
  1. 1Tom AspinallEngland
  2. 2Ciryl GaneFrance
  3. 3Alexander VolkovRussia
  4. 4Sergei PavlovichRussia
  5. 5Curtis BlaydesUnited States
  6. 6Jailton AlmeidaBrazil
  7. 7Serghei SpivacMoldova
  8. 8Marcin TyburaPoland
  9. 9Jairzinho RozenstruikSuriname
  10. 10Derrick LewisUnited States
  11. 11Tai TuivasaAustralia
  12. 12Marcos Rogerio de LimaBrazil
  13. 13Waldo Cortes-AcostaDominican Republic
  14. 14Shamil GazievRussia
  15. 15Mick ParkinUnited Kingdom

Women's Strawweight

Zhang Weili
Champion
Zhang WeiliChina
  1. 1Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  2. 2Yan XiaonanChina
  3. 3Virna JandirobaBrazil
  4. 4Jessica AndradeBrazil
  5. 5Amanda LemosBrazil
  6. 6Mackenzie DernUnited States
  7. 7Iasmin LucindoBrazil
  8. 8Amanda RibasBrazil
  9. 9Marina RodriguezBrazil
  10. 10Tabatha RicciBrazil
  11. 11Loopy GodinezMexico
  12. 12Gillian RobertsonCanada
  13. 13Angela Hill
  14. 14Luana PinheiroBrazil
  15. 15Tecia PenningtonUnited States

Women's Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko
Champion
Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  1. 1Alexa GrassoMexico
  2. 2Manon FiorotFrance
  3. 3Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  4. 4Maycee BarberUnited States
  5. 5Natalia SilvaBrazil
  6. 6Rose NamajunasUnited States
  7. 7Jessica AndradeBrazil
  8. 8Katlyn CerminaraUnited States
  9. 9Viviane AraujoBrazil
  10. 10Amanda RibasBrazil
  11. 11Tracy CortezUnited States
  12. 12Jasmine Jasudavicius
  13. 13Karine SilvaBrazil
  14. 14Ariane da SilvaBrazil
  15. 15Miranda MaverickUnited States

Women's Bantamweight

Julianna Pena
Champion
Julianna PenaUnited States
  1. 1Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  2. 2Kayla HarrisonUnited States
  3. 3Ketlen VieiraBrazil
  4. 4Norma DumontBrazil
  5. 5Macy ChiassonUnited States▼1
  6. 6Irene AldanaMexico
  7. 7Mayra Bueno SilvaBrazil▼1
  8. 8Karol RosaBrazil▲1
  9. 9Yana SantosRussia▲1
  10. 10Miesha TateUnited States▲1
  11. 11Ailin PerezArgentina▲2
  12. 12Julia Avila
  13. 13Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal▲1
  14. 14Chelsea Chandler▲1
  15. 15Nora CornolleFranceNEW