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UFC Rankings — Jul 21, 2026

← Jul 14, 2026

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

  1. 1Islam MakhachevRussia
  2. 2Alexander VolkanovskiAustralia
  3. 3Petr YanRussia
  4. 4Justin GaethjeUnited States
  5. 5Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  6. 6Tom AspinallEngland
  7. 7Sean StricklandUnited States
  8. 8Merab DvalishviliGeorgia
  9. 9Alex PereiraBrazil
  10. 10Ciryl GaneFrance
  11. 11Joshua VanMyanmar (Burma)
  12. 12Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  13. 13Alexandre PantojaBrazil
  14. 14Arman TsarukyanArmenia
  15. 15Charles OliveiraBrazil

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 PeñaUnited States
  10. 10Tatiana SuarezUnited States
  11. 11Virna JandirobaBrazil
  12. 12Yan XiaonanChina
  13. 13Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  14. 14Rose NamajunasUnited States
  15. 15Maycee BarberUnited States

Flyweight

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

Bantamweight

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

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 SilvaBrazil
  7. 7Arnold AllenEngland
  8. 8Youssef ZalalMorocco
  9. 9Kevin VallejosArgentina
  10. 10Steve GarciaUnited States
  11. 11Brian OrtegaUnited States
  12. 12Aaron PicoUnited States
  13. 13Melquizael CostaBrazil
  14. 14David OnamaUganda
  15. 15Patricio PitbullBrazil

Lightweight

Justin Gaethje
Champion
Justin GaethjeUnited States
  1. 1Ilia TopuriaGeorgia
  2. 2Arman TsarukyanArmenia
  3. 3Charles OliveiraBrazil
  4. 4Max HollowayUnited States
  5. 5Paddy PimblettEngland
  6. 6Benoît Saint DenisFrance
  7. 7Mauricio RuffyBrazil
  8. 8Mateusz GamrotPoland
  9. 9Dan HookerNew Zealand
  10. 10Renato MoicanoBrazil
  11. 11Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  12. 12Quillan SalkilldAustralia
  13. 13Tom NolanAustralia
  14. 14Beneil Dariush
  15. 15Manuel TorresMexico

Welterweight

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

Middleweight

Sean Strickland
Champion
Sean StricklandUnited States
  1. 1Khamzat ChimaevUnited Arab Emirates
  2. 2Dricus Du PlessisSouth Africa
  3. 3Nassourdine ImavovFrance
  4. 4Brendan AllenUnited States
  5. 5Caio BorralhoBrazil
  6. 6Anthony HernandezMexico
  7. 7Joe PyferUnited States
  8. 8Israel AdesanyaNigeria▲1
  9. 9Reinier de RidderNetherlands▼1
  10. 10Christian Leroy DuncanEngland▲2
  11. 11Gregory RodriguesBrazil
  12. 12Jared CannonierUnited States▼2
  13. 13Ikram AliskerovRussia
  14. 14Bo NickalUnited States
  15. 15Roman DolidzeGeorgia

Light Heavyweight

Carlos Ulberg
Champion
Carlos UlbergNew Zealand
  1. 1Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  2. 2Jiří ProcházkaCzechia
  3. 3Alex PereiraBrazil
  4. 4Jan BłachowiczPoland
  5. 5Khalil Rountree Jr.United States
  6. 6Paulo CostaBrazil
  7. 7Jamahal HillUnited States
  8. 8Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  9. 9Bogdan GuskovUzbekistan
  10. 10Dominick ReyesUnited States▲1
  11. 11Robert WhittakerAustralia▲1
  12. 12Johnny WalkerBrazil▲1
  13. 13Aleksandar RakićSerbia▲1
  14. 14Alonzo MenifieldUnited StatesNEW
  15. 15Navajo StirlingNew ZealandNEW

Heavyweight

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

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. 6Fatima KlineUnited States▲5
  7. 7Loopy GodinezMexico▼1
  8. 8Amanda LemosBrazil▼1
  9. 9Jéssica AndradeBrazil
  10. 10Tabatha RicciBrazil▼2
  11. 11Amanda RibasBrazil▼1
  12. 12Alexia ThainaraBrazil
  13. 13Denise GomesBrazil
  14. 14Angela HillUnited States
  15. 15MizukiJapan

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
  6. 6Maycee BarberUnited States
  7. 7Jasmine JasudaviciusCanada
  8. 8Wang CongChina
  9. 9Tracy CortezUnited States
  10. 10Miranda MaverickUnited States
  11. 11Karine SilvaBrazil
  12. 12Casey O'NeillAustralia
  13. 13Eduarda MouraBrazil
  14. 14JJ AldrichUnited States
  15. 15Gabriella FernandesBrazil

Women's Bantamweight

Kayla Harrison
Champion
Kayla HarrisonUnited States
  1. 1Julianna PeñaUnited States
  2. 2Raquel PenningtonUnited States
  3. 3Joselyne EdwardsPanama
  4. 4Norma DumontBrazil
  5. 5Ailin PerezArgentina
  6. 6Yana SantosRussia
  7. 7Luana SantosBrazil▲2
  8. 8Macy ChiassonUnited States
  9. 9Jacqueline CavalcantiPortugal▲1
  10. 10Karol RosaBrazil▲1
  11. 11Bia MesquitaBrazil▲1
  12. 12Michelle MontagueNew Zealand▲2
  13. 13Nora CornolleFrance
  14. 14Miesha TateUnited States▲1
  15. 15Melissa CrodenCanadaNEW