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UFC Rankings, Aug 12, 2025

Historical snapshot, the official UFC rankings as they stood on Aug 12, 2025.

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

  1. 1Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  2. 2Islam MakhachevRussia
  3. 3Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  4. 4Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  5. 4Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  6. 6Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  7. 7Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  8. 8Jack Della MaddalenaAustralia
  9. 9Tom AspinallEngland
  10. 10Alex PereiraBrazil
  11. 11Max HollowayUnited States
  12. 12Belal MuhammadUnited States
  13. 13Arman TsarukyanArmenia
  14. 14Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  15. 15Charles OliveiraBrazil

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

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

Flyweight

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

Bantamweight

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

Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski
Champion
Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  1. 1Movsar EvloevRussia
  2. 2Diego LopesBrazil
  3. 3Yair RodriguezMexico
  4. 4Brian OrtegaUnited States
  5. 5Arnold AllenEngland
  6. 6Lerone MurphyUnited Kingdom
  7. 7Aljamain SterlingUnited States
  8. 8Josh EmmettUnited States
  9. 9Youssef ZalalMorocco
  10. 10Jean SilvaBrazil
  11. 11Patricio FreireBrazil
  12. 12Steve GarciaUnited States
  13. 13David OnamaUganda
  14. 14Dan IgeUnited States
  15. 15Giga ChikadzeGeorgia

Lightweight

Ilia Topuria
Champion
Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  1. 1Islam MakhachevRussia
  2. 2Arman TsarukyanArmenia
  3. 3Max HollowayUnited States
  4. 4Charles OliveiraBrazil
  5. 5Justin GaethjeUnited States
  6. 6Dan HookerNew Zealand
  7. 7Mateusz GamrotPoland
  8. 8Beneil Dariush
  9. 9Paddy PimblettEngland
  10. 10Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  11. 11Renato MoicanoBrazil
  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. 7Michael MoralesEcuador
  8. 8Joaquin BuckleyUnited States
  9. 9Colby CovingtonUnited States
  10. 10Gilbert BurnsBrazil
  11. 11Geoff NealUnited States
  12. 12Carlos PratesBrazil
  13. 13Daniel RodriguezUnited States
  14. 14Gabriel BonfimBrazil
  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. 5Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  6. 6Caio BorralhoBrazil
  7. 7Anthony HernandezMexico▲3
  8. 8Robert WhittakerAustralia▼1
  9. 9Jared CannonierUnited States▼1
  10. 10Brendan AllenUnited States▲1
  11. 11Roman DolidzeGeorgia▼2
  12. 12Paulo CostaBrazil
  13. 13Marvin VettoriItaly
  14. 14Abus MagomedovGermany
  15. 15Roman KopylovRussia

Light Heavyweight

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

Heavyweight

Tom Aspinall
Champion
Tom AspinallEngland
  1. 1Ciryl GaneFrance
  2. 2Alexander VolkovRussia
  3. 3Sergei PavlovichRussia
  4. 4Curtis BlaydesUnited States
  5. 5Jailton AlmeidaBrazil
  6. 6Waldo Cortes-AcostaDominican Republic
  7. 7Marcin TyburaPoland
  8. 8Serghei SpivacMoldova
  9. 9Derrick LewisUnited States
  10. 10Tai TuivasaAustralia
  11. 11Shamil GazievRussia
  12. 12Mick ParkinUnited Kingdom
  13. 13Tallison TeixeiraBrazil
  14. 14Valter WalkerBrazil
  15. 15Rizvan KunievRussia

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. 7Iasmin LucindoBrazil▲1
  8. 8Tabatha RicciBrazil▼1
  9. 9Gillian RobertsonCanada▼1
  10. 10Amanda RibasBrazil
  11. 11Loopy GodinezMexico
  12. 12Angela HillUnited States
  13. 13Tecia PenningtonUnited States
  14. 14Loma LookboonmeeThailand
  15. 15Denise GomesBrazil

Women's Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko
Champion
Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  1. 1Natalia SilvaBrazil
  2. 2Manon FiorotFrance
  3. 3Alexa GrassoMexico
  4. 4Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  5. 5Jasmine JasudaviciusCanada
  6. 6Maycee BarberUnited States
  7. 7Rose NamajunasUnited States
  8. 8Tracy CortezUnited States
  9. 9Jessica AndradeBrazil
  10. 10Miranda MaverickUnited States
  11. 11Karine SilvaBrazil
  12. 12Casey O'NeillAustralia
  13. 13Wang CongChina
  14. 14JJ AldrichUnited States
  15. 15Eduarda MouraBrazil

Women's Bantamweight

Kayla Harrison
Champion
Kayla HarrisonUnited States
  1. 1Julianna PenaUnited States
  2. 2Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  3. 3Ketlen VieiraBrazil
  4. 4Norma DumontBrazil
  5. 5Macy ChiassonUnited States
  6. 6Irene AldanaMexico
  7. 7Ailin PerezArgentina
  8. 8Mayra Bueno SilvaBrazil
  9. 9Karol RosaBrazil
  10. 10Yana SantosRussia
  11. 11Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal
  12. 12Nora CornolleFrance
  13. 13Miesha TateUnited States
  14. 14Joselyne EdwardsPanama
  15. 15Daria ZhelezniakovaRussia