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UFC Rankings — Mar 18, 2025

Historical snapshot — the official UFC rankings as they stood on Mar 18, 2025.

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

  1. 1Islam MakhachevRussia
  2. 2Jon JonesUnited States
  3. 3Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  4. 4Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  5. 5Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  6. 6Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  7. 7Belal MuhammadUnited States
  8. 8Alex PereiraBrazil
  9. 9Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  10. 10Tom AspinallEngland
  11. 11Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  12. 12Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom
  13. 13Max HollowayUnited States
  14. 14Sean O'MalleyUnited 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. 8Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  9. 9Rose NamajunasUnited States
  10. 10Yan XiaonanChina
  11. 11Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  12. 12Virna JandirobaBrazil
  13. 13Natalia SilvaBrazil
  14. 14Jessica AndradeBrazil
  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. 8Steve ErcegAustralia
  9. 9Asu AlmabayevKazakhstan
  10. 10Tim ElliottUnited States
  11. 11Tagir Ulanbekov
  12. 12Bruno Gustavo da SilvaBrazil
  13. 13Ramazan Temirov
  14. 14Charles JohnsonUnited States▲1
  15. 15Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)NEW

Bantamweight

Merab Dvalishvili
Champion
Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  1. 1Sean O'MalleyUnited States
  2. 2Petr YanRussia
  3. 3Umar NurmagomedovRussia
  4. 4Cory SandhagenUnited States
  5. 5Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  6. 6Song YadongChina
  7. 7Marlon VeraEcuador
  8. 8Rob FontUnited States
  9. 9Henry CejudoUnited States
  10. 10Mario BautistaUnited States
  11. 11Jose AldoBrazil
  12. 12Kyler PhillipsUnited States
  13. 13Marcus McGheeUnited States
  14. 14Aiemann ZahabiCanada
  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. 10Lerone MurphyUnited Kingdom
  11. 11Giga ChikadzeGeorgia
  12. 12Youssef Zalal
  13. 13Bryce MitchellUnited States
  14. 14Calvin KattarUnited States
  15. 15Dan IgeUnited States

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
  13. 13Benoit Saint DenisFrance
  14. 14Grant DawsonUnited States
  15. 15Ignacio BahamondesChile

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. 1Nassourdine Imavov
  2. 2Sean StricklandUnited States
  3. 3Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  4. 4Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  5. 5Robert WhittakerAustralia
  6. 6Caio BorralhoBrazil
  7. 7Jared CannonierUnited States
  8. 8Anthony HernandezMexico▲1
  9. 9Roman DolidzeGeorgia▲3
  10. 10Marvin VettoriItaly▼2
  11. 11Brendan AllenUnited States▼1
  12. 12Paulo CostaBrazil▼1
  13. 13Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  14. 14Michel PereiraBrazil
  15. 15Roman KopylovRussia

Light Heavyweight

Magomed Ankalaev
Champion
Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  1. 1Alex PereiraBrazil
  2. 2Jiri ProchazkaCzechia
  3. 3Jan BlachowiczPoland
  4. 4Jamahal HillUnited States
  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. 14Alonzo MenifieldUnited States
  15. 15Anthony SmithUnited 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. 9Derrick LewisUnited States
  10. 10Tai TuivasaAustralia
  11. 11Waldo Cortes-AcostaDominican Republic▲1
  12. 12Shamil GazievRussia▼1
  13. 13Mick ParkinUnited Kingdom
  14. 14Tallison TeixeiraBrazil
  15. 15Kennedy NzechukwuNigeria

Women's Strawweight

Zhang Weili
Champion
Zhang WeiliChina
  1. 1Yan XiaonanChina
  2. 2Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  3. 3Virna JandirobaBrazil
  4. 4Jessica AndradeBrazil
  5. 5Amanda LemosBrazil
  6. 6Mackenzie DernUnited States
  7. 7Amanda RibasBrazil
  8. 8Iasmin LucindoBrazil
  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. 8Viviane AraujoBrazil
  9. 9Jasmine Jasudavicius
  10. 10Tracy CortezUnited States
  11. 11Karine SilvaBrazil
  12. 12Miranda MaverickUnited States
  13. 13Ariane da SilvaBrazil
  14. 14Casey O'NeillAustralia
  15. 15Mayra Bueno SilvaBrazil

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
  6. 6Irene AldanaMexico
  7. 7Mayra Bueno SilvaBrazil
  8. 8Ailin PerezArgentina
  9. 9Karol RosaBrazil
  10. 10Yana SantosRussia
  11. 11Miesha TateUnited States
  12. 12Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal
  13. 13Nora CornolleFrance
  14. 14Chelsea Chandler
  15. 15Joselyne EdwardsPanama