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UFC Rankings — Mar 17, 2026

Historical snapshot — the official UFC rankings as they stood on Mar 17, 2026.

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

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

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. 11Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  12. 12Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  13. 13Yan XiaonanChina
  14. 14Rose NamajunasUnited States
  15. 15Maycee BarberUnited States

Flyweight

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

Bantamweight

Petr Yan
Champion
Petr YanRussia
  1. 1Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  2. 2Umar NurmagomedovRussia
  3. 2Sean O'MalleyUnited States
  4. 4Cory SandhagenUnited States
  5. 5Song YadongChina
  6. 6Aiemann ZahabiCanada
  7. 7Deiveson FigueiredoBrazil
  8. 8Mario BautistaUnited States
  9. 9David MartinezMexico
  10. 10Marlon VeraEcuador
  11. 11Payton TalbottUnited States
  12. 12Vinicius OliveiraBrazil
  13. 13Raul Rosas Jr.Mexico
  14. 14Montel JacksonUnited States
  15. 15Farid BasharatAfghanistan

Featherweight

Alexander Volkanovski
Champion
Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  1. 1Movsar EvloevRussia
  2. 2Diego LopesBrazil
  3. 3Lerone MurphyUnited Kingdom
  4. 4Yair RodriguezMexico
  5. 5Aljamain SterlingUnited States
  6. 6Jean Silva
  7. 7Youssef Zalal
  8. 8Arnold AllenEngland
  9. 9Steve GarciaUnited States
  10. 10Kevin VallejosArgentina▲4
  11. 11Brian OrtegaUnited States▼1
  12. 12Melquizael CostaBrazil
  13. 13Patricio FreireBrazil
  14. 14David OnamaUganda▲1
  15. 15Josh EmmettUnited States▼4

Lightweight

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

Welterweight

Islam Makhachev
Champion
Islam MakhachevRussia
  1. 1Jack Della MaddalenaAustralia
  2. 2Ian Machado GarryIreland
  3. 3Michael MoralesEcuador
  4. 4Belal MuhammadUnited States
  5. 5Carlos PratesBrazil
  6. 6Sean BradyUnited States
  7. 7Kamaru UsmanUnited States
  8. 8Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom
  9. 9Joaquin BuckleyUnited States
  10. 10Gabriel BonfimBrazil
  11. 11Gilbert BurnsBrazil
  12. 12Uros MedicSerbia
  13. 13Michael PageUnited Kingdom
  14. 14Colby CovingtonUnited States
  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. 4Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  5. 5Caio BorralhoBrazil
  6. 6Brendan AllenUnited States
  7. 7Anthony HernandezMexico
  8. 8Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  9. 9Robert WhittakerAustralia
  10. 10Jared CannonierUnited States
  11. 11Roman DolidzeGeorgia
  12. 12Gregory RodriguesBrazil
  13. 13Paulo CostaBrazil
  14. 14Joe Pyfer
  15. 15Brunno Ferreira

Light Heavyweight

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

Heavyweight

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

Women's Strawweight

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

Women's Flyweight

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

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. 6Ailin PerezArgentina
  8. 8Karol RosaBrazil
  9. 9Macy ChiassonUnited States
  10. 10Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal
  11. 11Joselyne EdwardsPanama
  12. 12Mayra Bueno SilvaBrazil
  13. 13Nora CornolleFrance
  14. 14Luana Santos▲1
  15. 15Miesha TateUnited States▼1