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UFC Rankings, Sep 16, 2025

Historical snapshot, the official UFC rankings as they stood on Sep 16, 2025.

← Sep 9, 2025Sep 30, 2025 →Current rankings

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

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

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. 14Maycee BarberUnited States▲1
  15. 15Amanda LemosBrazil▼1

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. 10Tim ElliottUnited States
  11. 11Steve ErcegAustralia
  12. 12Tagir UlanbekovRussia
  13. 13Charles JohnsonUnited States
  14. 14Ramazan TemirovUzbekistan
  15. 15Bruno Gustavo da SilvaBrazil

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. 9Aiemann ZahabiCanada▲1
  10. 10Henry CejudoUnited States▲1
  11. 11David MartinezMexicoNEW
  12. 12Rob FontUnited States▼3
  13. 13Vinicius OliveiraBrazil▼1
  14. 14Marcus McGheeUnited States▼1
  15. 15Kyler PhillipsUnited States▼1

Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski
Champion
Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  1. 1Movsar EvloevRussia
  2. 2Diego LopesBrazil
  3. 3Yair RodriguezMexico
  4. 4Lerone MurphyUnited Kingdom
  5. 5Aljamain SterlingUnited States
  6. 6Arnold AllenEngland
  7. 7Brian OrtegaUnited 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. 7Paddy PimblettEngland
  8. 8Mateusz GamrotPoland
  9. 9Beneil Dariush
  10. 10Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  11. 11Renato MoicanoBrazil
  12. 12Michael ChandlerUnited States
  13. 13Benoit Saint DenisFrance
  14. 14Grant DawsonUnited States
  15. 15Mauricio RuffyBrazil

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. 9Carlos PratesBrazil
  10. 10Colby CovingtonUnited States
  11. 11Gilbert BurnsBrazil
  12. 12Geoff NealUnited States
  13. 13Daniel RodriguezUnited States
  14. 14Gabriel BonfimBrazil
  15. 15Kevin HollandUnited States

Middleweight

Khamzat Chimaev
Champion
Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  1. 1Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  2. 2Nassourdine ImavovFrance
  3. 3Sean StricklandUnited States
  4. 4Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  5. 5Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  6. 6Anthony HernandezMexico
  7. 7Robert WhittakerAustralia
  8. 8Caio BorralhoBrazil
  9. 9Michael PageUnited Kingdom
  10. 10Jared CannonierUnited States
  11. 11Roman DolidzeGeorgia
  12. 11Brendan AllenUnited States
  13. 13Paulo CostaBrazil
  14. 14Marvin VettoriItaly
  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. 7Dominick ReyesUnited States
  8. 8Aleksandar RakicSerbia
  9. 9Volkan OezdemirSwitzerland
  10. 10Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  11. 11Bogdan GuskovUzbekistan
  12. 12Johnny WalkerBrazil
  13. 13Nikita KrylovUkraine
  14. 14Alonzo MenifieldUnited States
  15. 15Zhang MingyangChina

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. 7Serghei SpivacMoldova
  8. 8Derrick LewisUnited States
  9. 9Marcin TyburaPoland▲1
  10. 9Ante DelijaCroatia
  11. 11Tai TuivasaAustralia
  12. 12Shamil GazievRussia
  13. 13Mick ParkinUnited Kingdom
  14. 14Tallison TeixeiraBrazil
  15. 15Valter WalkerBrazil

Women's Strawweight

Zhang Weili
Champion
Zhang WeiliChina
  1. 1Virna JandirobaBrazil
  2. 1Tatiana SuarezUnited States▲1
  3. 3Yan XiaonanChina
  4. 4Amanda LemosBrazil
  5. 5Mackenzie DernUnited States
  6. 6Loopy GodinezMexico
  7. 7Iasmin LucindoBrazil
  8. 8Tabatha RicciBrazil
  9. 9Jessica AndradeBrazil
  10. 10Gillian RobertsonCanada
  11. 11Amanda RibasBrazil
  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. 5Maycee BarberUnited States
  6. 6Jasmine JasudaviciusCanada
  7. 7Rose NamajunasUnited States
  8. 8Tracy CortezUnited States
  9. 9Karine SilvaBrazil
  10. 10Miranda MaverickUnited States
  11. 11Casey O'NeillAustralia
  12. 12Wang CongChina
  13. 13Eduarda MouraBrazil
  14. 14JJ AldrichUnited States
  15. 15Luana CarolinaBrazil

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