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UFC Rankings, Nov 18, 2025

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

← Nov 11, 2025Nov 25, 2025 →Current rankings

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

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

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

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

Flyweight

Alexandre Pantoja
Champion
Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  1. 1Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)
  2. 2Brandon MorenoMexico
  3. 3Brandon RoyvalUnited States
  4. 4Amir AlbaziIraq
  5. 5Tatsuro TairaJapan
  6. 6Manel KapeAngola▲1
  7. 7Alex PerezUnited States▲1
  8. 8Asu AlmabayevKazakhstan▲1
  9. 9Tim ElliottUnited States▲1
  10. 10Steve ErcegAustralia▲1
  11. 11Tagir UlanbekovRussia▲1
  12. 12Charles JohnsonUnited States▲1
  13. 13Bruno Gustavo da SilvaBrazil▲1
  14. 14Joseph MoralesUnited States▲1
  15. 15Rafael EstevamBrazilNEW

Bantamweight

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

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. 7Youssef ZalalMorocco
  8. 8Steve GarciaUnited States
  9. 9Brian OrtegaUnited States
  10. 10Josh EmmettUnited States
  11. 11Jean SilvaBrazil
  12. 12Patricio FreireBrazil
  13. 13Dan IgeUnited States
  14. 14David OnamaUganda
  15. 15Giga ChikadzeGeorgia

Lightweight

Ilia Topuria
Champion
Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  1. 1Arman TsarukyanArmenia▲1
  2. 2Charles OliveiraBrazil▲1
  3. 3Max HollowayUnited States▲1
  4. 4Justin GaethjeUnited States▲1
  5. 5Paddy PimblettEngland▲1
  6. 6Dan HookerNew Zealand▲1
  7. 7Mateusz GamrotPoland▲1
  8. 8Benoit Saint DenisFrance▲5
  9. 9Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan▲1
  10. 10Renato MoicanoBrazil▲1
  11. 11Michael ChandlerUnited States▲1
  12. 12Beneil Dariush▼3
  13. 13Grant DawsonUnited States▲1
  14. 14Mauricio RuffyBrazil▲1
  15. 15Ignacio BahamondesChileNEW

Welterweight

Islam Makhachev
Champion
Islam MakhachevRussiaNEW
  1. 1Jack Della MaddalenaAustralia▼1
  2. 2Belal MuhammadUnited States▼1
  3. 3Michael MoralesEcuador▲5
  4. 4Shavkat RakhmonovKazakhstan▼1
  5. 5Carlos PratesBrazil▲4
  6. 6Ian Machado GarryIreland
  7. 7Sean BradyUnited States▼5
  8. 8Kamaru UsmanUnited States▼3
  9. 9Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom▼5
  10. 10Joaquin BuckleyUnited States▼3
  11. 11Gabriel BonfimBrazil▼1
  12. 12Gilbert BurnsBrazil
  13. 13Colby CovingtonUnited States▼2
  14. 14Geoff NealUnited States▼1
  15. 15Daniel RodriguezUnited States▼1

Middleweight

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

Light Heavyweight

Alex Pereira
Champion
Alex PereiraBrazil
  1. 1Jiri ProchazkaCzechia
  2. 1Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  3. 3Carlos UlbergNew Zealand
  4. 4Khalil Rountree Jr.United States
  5. 5Jan BlachowiczPoland
  6. 6Jamahal HillUnited States
  7. 7Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  8. 8Dominick ReyesUnited States
  9. 9Volkan OezdemirSwitzerland
  10. 10Aleksandar RakicSerbia
  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. 9Ante DelijaCroatia
  10. 10Marcin TyburaPoland
  11. 11Shamil GazievRussia
  12. 12Tai TuivasaAustralia
  13. 13Mick ParkinUnited Kingdom
  14. 14Valter WalkerBrazil
  15. 15Tallison TeixeiraBrazil

Women's Strawweight

Mackenzie Dern
Champion
Mackenzie DernUnited States
  1. 1Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  2. 2Zhang WeiliChina▼1
  3. 3Virna JandirobaBrazil
  4. 4Yan XiaonanChina
  5. 5Amanda LemosBrazil
  6. 6Loopy GodinezMexico
  7. 7Iasmin LucindoBrazil
  8. 8Tabatha RicciBrazil
  9. 9Jessica AndradeBrazil
  10. 10Gillian RobertsonCanada
  11. 11Amanda RibasBrazil
  12. 12Fatima KlineUnited StatesNEW
  13. 13Denise GomesBrazil
  14. 14Angela HillUnited States▼2
  15. 15Alexia ThainaraBrazil▼1

Women's Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko
Champion
Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  1. 1Manon FiorotFrance
  2. 2Natalia SilvaBrazil
  3. 3Alexa GrassoMexico
  4. 4Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  5. 5Maycee BarberUnited States
  6. 6Rose NamajunasUnited States
  7. 7Jasmine JasudaviciusCanada
  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. 15Gabriella FernandesBrazil

Women's Bantamweight

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