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UFC Rankings, Oct 20, 2026

Historical snapshot, the official UFC rankings as they stood on Oct 20, 2026.

← Oct 6, 2026Oct 27, 2026 →Current rankings

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

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

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. 6Alexa GrassoMexico
  7. 7Manon FiorotFrance
  8. 8Tatiana SuarezUnited States▲1
  9. 9Erin BlanchfieldUnited States▼1
  10. 10Julianna PeñaUnited States
  11. 11Virna JandirobaBrazil
  12. 12Jasmine JasudaviciusCanadaNEW
  13. 13Rose NamajunasUnited States▼1
  14. 14Raquel PenningtonUnited States▼1
  15. 15Denise GomesBrazil▼1

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 KavanaghEngland
  7. 7Asu AlmabayevKazakhstan
  8. 8Brandon MorenoMexico
  9. 9Amir AlbaziIraq
  10. 10Ramazan TemirovUzbekistan
  11. 11Tim ElliottUnited States
  12. 12Steve ErcegAustralia
  13. 13SumudaerjiChina
  14. 14Tagir UlanbekovRussia
  15. 15Alex PerezUnited States

Bantamweight

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

Featherweight

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

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. 7Quillan SalkilldAustralia
  8. 8Mauricio RuffyBrazil
  9. 9Salahdine ParnasseFrance
  10. 10Mateusz GamrotPoland
  11. 11Rafael FizievKyrgyzstan
  12. 12Renato MoicanoBrazil
  13. 13Dan HookerNew Zealand
  14. 14Tom NolanAustralia
  15. 15Beneil Dariush

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. 10Mike MalottCanada▲3
  11. 11Yaroslav AmosovUkraine
  12. 12Uroš MedićSerbia
  13. 12Joaquin BuckleyUnited States▼2
  14. 14Daniel RodriguezUnited States
  15. 15Neil MagnyUnited 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. 6Joe PyferUnited States
  7. 7Gregory RodriguesBrazil
  8. 8Anthony HernandezMexico
  9. 9Israel AdesanyaNigeria
  10. 10Christian Leroy DuncanEngland
  11. 11Jared CannonierUnited States
  12. 12Abus MagomedovGermany
  13. 13Ikram AliskerovRussia
  14. 14Bo NickalUnited States
  15. 15Shara MagomedovRussia

Light Heavyweight

Carlos Ulberg
Champion
Carlos UlbergNew Zealand
  1. 1Magomed AnkalaevRussia
  2. 2Jiří ProcházkaCzechia
  3. 3Alex PereiraBrazil
  4. 4Khalil Rountree Jr.United States
  5. 5Navajo StirlingNew Zealand
  6. 6Paulo CostaBrazil
  7. 7Azamat MurzakanovRussia
  8. 8Dominick ReyesUnited States
  9. 9Jan BłachowiczPoland
  10. 10Bogdan GuskovUzbekistan
  11. 11Robert WhittakerAustralia
  12. 12Alonzo MenifieldUnited States
  13. 13Muhammad SaidovUnited Arab Emirates
  14. 14Reinier de RidderNetherlands
  15. 15Nikita KrylovUkraine

Heavyweight

Ciryl Gane
Champion
Ciryl GaneFrance
  1. 1Tom AspinallEngland
  2. 2Alexander VolkovRussia
  3. 3Sergei PavlovichRussia
  4. 4Josh HokitUnited States
  5. 5Curtis BlaydesUnited States
  6. 6Waldo Cortes AcostaDominican Republic
  7. 7Rizvan KunievRussia
  8. 8Vitor PetrinoBrazil
  9. 9Serghei SpivacMoldova
  10. 10Ante DelijaCroatia
  11. 11Valter WalkerBrazil
  12. 12Tyrell FortuneUnited States
  13. 12Derrick LewisUnited States▲1
  14. 14Aleksandar RakićSerbia
  15. 15Mario PintoPortugal

Women's Strawweight

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

Women's Flyweight

Natalia Silva
Champion
Natalia SilvaBrazil
  1. 1Valentina ShevchenkoKyrgyzstan
  2. 2Alexa GrassoMexico
  3. 3Manon FiorotFrance
  4. 4Jasmine JasudaviciusCanada▲2
  5. 5Erin BlanchfieldUnited States▼1
  6. 6Rose NamajunasUnited States▼1
  7. 7Maycee BarberUnited States▼1
  8. 8Wang CongChina
  9. 9Tracy CortezUnited States
  10. 10Miranda MaverickUnited States
  11. 11Karine SilvaBrazil
  12. 12Casey O'NeillAustralia
  13. 13Eduarda MouraBrazil
  14. 14Gabriella FernandesBrazil▲1
  15. 15Regina TarinMexico▼1

Women's Bantamweight

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