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UFC Rankings — Dec 16, 2025

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

← Dec 9, 2025Jan 27, 2026 →Current rankings

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

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

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

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

Flyweight

Joshua Van
Champion
Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)
  1. 1Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  2. 2Manel KapeAngola▲4
  3. 3Tatsuro TairaJapan
  4. 4Brandon RoyvalUnited States▼2
  5. 5Brandon MorenoMexico▼1
  6. 6Amir AlbaziIraq▼1
  7. 7Asu AlmabayevKazakhstan
  8. 8Kyoji HoriguchiJapan
  9. 9Tim ElliottUnited States
  10. 10Steve ErcegAustralia
  11. 11Alex PerezUnited States
  12. 12Tagir Ulanbekov
  13. 13Charles JohnsonUnited States
  14. 14Bruno Gustavo da SilvaBrazil
  15. 15Lone'er KavanaghChina

Bantamweight

Petr Yan
Champion
Petr YanRussia
  1. 1Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  2. 2Umar NurmagomedovRussia
  3. 3Sean O'MalleyUnited States
  4. 4Cory SandhagenUnited States
  5. 5Song YadongChina
  6. 6Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  7. 7Aiemann ZahabiCanada
  8. 8Marlon VeraEcuador
  9. 9Mario BautistaUnited States
  10. 10David MartinezMexico
  11. 11Payton TalbottUnited States▲1
  12. 12Rob FontUnited States▼1
  13. 13Vinicius OliveiraBrazil▼1
  14. 14Kyler PhillipsUnited States
  15. 15Montel JacksonUnited StatesNEW

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 Zalal
  8. 8Steve GarciaUnited States
  9. 9Brian OrtegaUnited States
  10. 10Jean Silva▲1
  11. 11Josh EmmettUnited States▼1
  12. 12Patricio FreireBrazil
  13. 13Kevin VallejosArgentinaNEW
  14. 14Dan IgeUnited States▼1
  15. 15David OnamaUganda▼1

Lightweight

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

Welterweight

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

Middleweight

Khamzat Chimaev
Champion
Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  1. 1Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  2. 2Nassourdine Imavov
  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. 14Gregory RodriguesBrazil
  15. 15Joe Pyfer

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. 6Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  7. 7Jamahal HillUnited States
  8. 8Volkan OezdemirSwitzerland
  9. 9Dominick ReyesUnited States
  10. 10Bogdan GuskovUzbekistan
  11. 11Aleksandar RakicSerbia
  12. 12Johnny WalkerBrazil
  13. 13Nikita KrylovUkraine
  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. 5Waldo Cortes-AcostaDominican Republic
  6. 6Jailton AlmeidaBrazil
  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. 1Zhang WeiliChina
  2. 2Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  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 Kline
  13. 13Denise GomesBrazil
  14. 14Angela Hill
  15. 15Alexia Thainara

Women's Flyweight

Valentina Shevchenko
Champion
Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  1. 1Manon FiorotFrance
  2. 2Natalia SilvaBrazil
  3. 3Alexa GrassoMexico
  4. 3Erin BlanchfieldUnited States▲1
  5. 5Maycee BarberUnited States
  6. 6Rose NamajunasUnited States
  7. 7Jasmine Jasudavicius
  8. 8Tracy CortezUnited States
  9. 9Karine SilvaBrazil
  10. 9Miranda MaverickUnited States▲1
  11. 11Casey O'NeillAustralia
  12. 12Wang CongChina
  13. 13Eduarda Moura
  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 Santos