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UFC Rankings — May 12, 2026

Historical snapshot — the official UFC rankings as they stood on May 12, 2026.

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

  1. 1Islam MakhachevRussia
  2. 2Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  3. 3Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia▲1
  4. 4Alex PereiraBrazil▲1
  5. 5Petr YanRussia▲1
  6. 6Tom AspinallEngland▲1
  7. 7Merab DvalishviliGeorgia▲1
  8. 7Sean StricklandUnited StatesNEW
  9. 9Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)▲1
  10. 10Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates▼7
  11. 11Alexandre PantojaBrazil▼2
  12. 12Charles OliveiraBrazil▼1
  13. 13Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa▼1
  14. 14Carlos UlbergNew Zealand
  15. 15Arman TsarukyanArmenia▼2

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

  1. 1Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  2. 2Kayla HarrisonUnited States
  3. 3Zhang WeiliChina
  4. 4Natalia SilvaBrazil
  5. 5Manon FiorotFrance
  6. 6Mackenzie DernUnited States
  7. 7Alexa GrassoMexico
  8. 8Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  9. 9Julianna PenaUnited States
  10. 10Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  11. 11Virna JandirobaBrazil
  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
  9. 9Brandon MorenoMexico
  10. 10Steve ErcegAustralia
  11. 11Alex PerezUnited States
  12. 12Tim ElliottUnited States
  13. 13Tagir Ulanbekov▲1
  14. 14Charles JohnsonUnited States▼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. 14Raoni BarcelosBrazil
  15. 15Farid BasharatAfghanistan

Featherweight

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

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. 7Mateusz GamrotPoland
  8. 8Dan HookerNew Zealand
  9. 9Renato MoicanoBrazil
  10. 10Mauricio RuffyBrazil
  11. 11Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  12. 12Quillan SalkilldAustralia
  13. 13Michael ChandlerUnited States
  14. 14Fares ZiamFrance▲1
  15. 15Beneil Dariush▼1

Welterweight

Islam Makhachev
Champion
Islam MakhachevRussia
  1. 1Ian Machado GarryIreland
  2. 2Carlos PratesBrazil
  3. 3Michael MoralesEcuador
  4. 4Jack Della MaddalenaAustralia
  5. 5Belal MuhammadUnited States
  6. 6Sean BradyUnited States
  7. 7Leon EdwardsUnited Kingdom
  8. 8Kamaru UsmanUnited States
  9. 9Joaquin BuckleyUnited States
  10. 10Yaroslav AmosovUkraine▲4
  11. 11Gabriel BonfimBrazil▼1
  12. 12Mike MalottCanada▼1
  13. 13Michael PageUnited Kingdom▼1
  14. 14Uros MedicSerbia▼2
  15. 15Daniel RodriguezUnited States▼1

Middleweight

Sean Strickland
Champion
Sean StricklandUnited States▲3
  1. 1Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates▼1
  2. 2Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa▼1
  3. 3Nassourdine Imavov▼1
  4. 4Caio BorralhoBrazil▲1
  5. 4Brendan AllenUnited States
  6. 6Anthony HernandezMexico▲1
  7. 6Joe Pyfer
  8. 8Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  9. 9Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  10. 10Robert WhittakerAustralia
  11. 11Jared CannonierUnited States
  12. 12Gregory RodriguesBrazil
  13. 13Christian Leroy Duncan
  14. 14Paulo CostaBrazil
  15. 15Roman DolidzeGeorgia

Light Heavyweight

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

Heavyweight

Tom Aspinall
Champion
Tom AspinallEngland
  1. 1Ciryl GaneFrance
  2. 2Alexander VolkovRussia
  3. 3Sergei PavlovichRussia
  4. 4Waldo Cortes-AcostaDominican Republic
  5. 5Josh HokitUnited States
  6. 6Serghei SpivacMoldova
  7. 7Curtis BlaydesUnited States
  8. 8Rizvan KunievRussia
  9. 9Derrick LewisUnited States
  10. 10Tyrell FortuneUnited States▲1
  11. 11Ante DelijaCroatia▼1
  12. 12Marcin TyburaPoland
  13. 13Valter WalkerBrazil
  14. 14Brando PericicAustralia▲1
  15. 15Tallison TeixeiraBrazil▼1

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
  6. 6Loopy GodinezMexico
  7. 7Amanda LemosBrazil
  8. 8Tabatha RicciBrazil
  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. 3Alexa GrassoMexico
  4. 4Erin BlanchfieldUnited States
  5. 5Rose NamajunasUnited States▲1
  6. 6Jasmine Jasudavicius▲1
  7. 6Maycee BarberUnited States▼1
  8. 8Tracy CortezUnited States
  9. 9Miranda MaverickUnited States
  10. 10Karine SilvaBrazil
  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. 3Joselyne EdwardsPanama
  4. 4Norma DumontBrazil
  5. 5Ketlen VieiraBrazil
  6. 6Ailin PerezArgentina
  7. 7Yana SantosRussia
  8. 7Irene AldanaMexico
  9. 9Macy ChiassonUnited States
  10. 10Karol RosaBrazil
  11. 11Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal
  12. 12Michelle MontagueNew Zealand▲1
  13. 13Nora CornolleFrance▼1
  14. 14Luana Santos
  15. 15Bia MesquitaBrazil