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UFC Rankings, May 20, 2025

Historical snapshot, the official UFC rankings as they stood on May 20, 2025.

← May 13, 2025Jun 3, 2025 →Current rankings

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. 7Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  8. 8Alex PereiraBrazil
  9. 9Jack Della MaddalenaAustralia
  10. 10Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  11. 11Tom AspinallEngland
  12. 12Max HollowayUnited States
  13. 13Belal MuhammadUnited States
  14. 14Sean O'MalleyUnited States
  15. 15Charles OliveiraBrazil

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

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

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. 10Tagir UlanbekovRussia
  11. 11Tim ElliottUnited States
  12. 12Bruno Gustavo da SilvaBrazil
  13. 13Ramazan TemirovUzbekistan
  14. 14Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)
  15. 15Kai AsakuraJapan

Bantamweight

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

Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski
Champion
Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  1. 1Max HollowayUnited States
  2. 2Diego LopesBrazil
  3. 3Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  4. 4Yair RodriguezMexico
  5. 4Movsar EvloevRussia
  6. 6Arnold AllenEngland
  7. 7Brian OrtegaUnited States
  8. 8Lerone MurphyUnited Kingdom
  9. 9Aljamain SterlingUnited States
  10. 10Josh EmmettUnited States
  11. 11Jean SilvaBrazil
  12. 12Youssef ZalalMorocco
  13. 13David OnamaUganda
  14. 14Dan IgeUnited States
  15. 15Calvin KattarUnited States

Lightweight

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

Welterweight

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

Middleweight

Dricus Du Plessis
Champion
Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  1. 1Nassourdine ImavovFrance
  2. 2Sean StricklandUnited States
  3. 3Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  4. 4Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  5. 5Robert WhittakerAustralia
  6. 6Caio BorralhoBrazil
  7. 7Jared CannonierUnited States
  8. 8Roman DolidzeGeorgia
  9. 9Anthony HernandezMexico
  10. 10Marvin VettoriItaly
  11. 11Brendan AllenUnited States
  12. 12Paulo CostaBrazil
  13. 13Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  14. 14Roman KopylovRussia
  15. 15Abus MagomedovGermany

Light Heavyweight

Magomed Ankalaev
Champion
Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  1. 1Alex PereiraBrazil
  2. 2Jiri ProchazkaCzechia
  3. 3Carlos UlbergNew Zealand
  4. 4Jamahal HillUnited States
  5. 5Jan BlachowiczPoland
  6. 6Aleksandar RakicSerbia
  7. 7Khalil Rountree Jr.United States
  8. 8Dominick ReyesUnited States
  9. 9Volkan OezdemirSwitzerland
  10. 10Nikita KrylovUkraine
  11. 11Johnny WalkerBrazil
  12. 12Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  13. 13Zhang MingyangChina
  14. 14Bogdan GuskovUzbekistan
  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. 9Derrick LewisUnited States
  10. 10Tai TuivasaAustralia
  11. 11Waldo Cortes-AcostaDominican Republic
  12. 12Shamil GazievRussia
  13. 13Mick ParkinUnited Kingdom
  14. 14Tallison TeixeiraBrazil
  15. 15Martin BudaySlovakia

Women's Strawweight

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

Women's Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko
Champion
Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  1. 1Natalia SilvaBrazil
  2. 2Manon FiorotFrance
  3. 3Alexa GrassoMexico
  4. 4Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  5. 5Maycee BarberUnited States
  6. 6Jasmine JasudaviciusCanada
  7. 7Rose NamajunasUnited States
  8. 8Viviane AraujoBrazil
  9. 9Jessica AndradeBrazil
  10. 10Tracy CortezUnited States
  11. 11Miranda MaverickUnited States▲1
  12. 11Karine SilvaBrazil
  13. 13Ariane da SilvaBrazil▲1
  14. 14Casey O'NeillAustralia▼1
  15. 15JJ AldrichUnited 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
  6. 6Irene AldanaMexico
  7. 7Ailin PerezArgentina
  8. 8Mayra Bueno SilvaBrazil
  9. 9Yana SantosRussia
  10. 10Karol RosaBrazil
  11. 11Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal
  12. 12Nora CornolleFrance
  13. 13Miesha TateUnited States
  14. 14Joselyne EdwardsPanama
  15. 15Chelsea ChandlerUnited States