UFC Rankings 2023

UFC Rankings 2023: Ultimate Fighting Championship rankings, which were introduced in February 2013, are generated by a voting panel made up of media members.

 

UFC Men’s Pound-for-Pound Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record	Win Streak	M	Weight class	Status
1	Jon Jones	27–1 (1 NC)	5	Steady	Heavyweight	Heavyweight Champion
2	Alexander Volkanovski	26–2	1	Steady	Featherweight	Featherweight Champion
3	Islam Makhachev	24–1	12	Steady	Lightweight	Lightweight Champion
4	Leon Edwards	21–3 (1 NC)	3	Steady	Welterweight	Welterweight Champion
5	Israel Adesanya	24–3	0	Steady	Middleweight	#1 in middleweight rankings
6	Charles Oliveira	34–9 (1 NC)	1	Steady	Lightweight	#1 in lightweight rankings
7	Kamaru Usman	20–3	0	Steady	Welterweight	#1 in welterweight rankings
8	Sean O’Malley	17–1 (1 NC)	2	Steady	Bantamweight	Bantamweight Champion
9	Alexandre Pantoja	26–5	4	Steady	Flyweight	Flyweight Champion
10	Aljamain Sterling	23–4	0	Steady	Bantamweight	#1 in bantamweight rankings
11	Max Holloway	25–7	2	Steady	Featherweight	#1 in featherweight rankings
12	Alex Pereira	8–2	1	Steady	Light heavyweight	#3 in light heavyweight rankings
13	Jiří Procházka	29–3–1	13	Steady	Light heavyweight	#1 in light heavyweight rankings
14	Justin Gaethje	25–4	2	Steady	Lightweight	#2 in lightweight rankings
15	Jamahal Hill	12–1 (1 NC)	4	Steady	Light heavyweight

 

UFC Women’s Pound-for-Pound Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record	Win Streak	M	Weight class	Status
1	Alexa Grasso	16–3	5	Steady	Flyweight	Flyweight Champion
2	Zhang Weili	24–3	3	Decrease −1	Strawweight	Strawweight Champion
3	Valentina Shevchenko	23–4	0	Steady	Flyweight	#1 in flyweight rankings
4	Julianna Peña	11–5	0	Increase +1	Bantamweight	#1 in bantamweight rankings
5	Erin Blanchfield	12–1	9	Increase +1	Flyweight	#2 in flyweight rankings
6	Manon Fiorot	11–1	11	Increase +4	Flyweight	#3 in flyweight rankings
7	Carla Esparza	19–7	0	Steady	Strawweight	#1 in strawweight rankings
8	Rose Namajunas	11–6	0	Decrease −4	Flyweight / Strawweight	#2 in strawweight rankings
9	Yan Xiaonan	17–3 (1 NC)	2	Steady	Strawweight	#3 in strawweight rankings
10	Tatiana Suarez	10–0	10	Decrease −2	Strawweight	#4 in strawweight rankings
11	Taila Santos	19–3	0	Steady	Flyweight	#4 in flyweight rankings
12	Jéssica Andrade	24–12	0	Steady	Flyweight / Strawweight	#6 in flyweight rankings / #6 in strawweight rankings
13	Raquel Pennington	15–8	5	Steady	Bantamweight	#2 in bantamweight rankings
14	Amanda Lemos	13–3–1	0	Steady	Strawweight	#5 in strawweight rankings
15	Mayra Bueno Silva	11–2–1	4	Steady	Bantamweight	#3 in bantamweight rankings

 

UFC Flyweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Alexandre Pantoja	26–5
1	Brandon Moreno	21–7–2
2	Deiveson Figueiredo	21–3–1
3	Amir Albazi	17–1
4	Brandon Royval	15–6
5	Kai Kara-France	24–11 (1 NC)
6	Matheus Nicolau	19–3–1
7	Alex Perez	24–7
8	Matt Schnell	16–7 (1 NC)
9	Tim Elliott	19–12–1
10	Manel Kape	18–6
11	Muhammad Mokaev	10–0 (1 NC)
12	Su Mudaerji	14–5
13	Tagir Ulanbekov	14–2
14	Stephen Erceg	10–1
15	Cody Durden	16–4–1

 

UFC Women’s Flyweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Alexa Grasso	16–3
1	Valentina Shevchenko	23–4
2	Erin Blanchfield	12–1
3	Manon Fiorot	11–1
4	Taila Santos	19–3
5	Katlyn Chookagian	18–5
6	Jéssica Andrade	24–12
7	Lauren Murphy	16–6
8	Maycee Barber	13–2
9	Jennifer Maia	21–9–1
10	Viviane Araújo	11–5
11	Amanda Ribas	12–4
12	Casey O’Neill	9–1
13	Natália Silva	16–5–1
14	Tracy Cortez	10–1
15	Karine Silva	17–4

 

UFC Bantamweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Sean O’Malley	17–1 (1NC)
1	Aljamain Sterling	23–4
2	Merab Dvalishvili	16–4
3	Henry Cejudo	16–3
4	Cory Sandhagen	17–4
5	Petr Yan	16–5
6	Marlon Vera	21–8–1
7	Rob Font	20–7
8	Song Yadong	20–6–1 (1 NC)
9	Dominick Cruz	24–4
10	Pedro Munhoz	20–8 (2 NC)
11	Umar Nurmagomedov	16–0
12	Ricky Simón	20–4
13	Jonathan Martinez	18–4
14	Adrian Yanez	16–4
15	Chris Gutiérrez	19–5–2

 

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Vacant
1	Julianna Peña	11–5
2	Raquel Pennington	15–8
3	Mayra Bueno Silva	11–2–1
4	Ketlen Vieira	14–3
5 (T)	Irene Aldana	14–7
5 (T)	Holly Holm	15–7
7	Pannie Kianzad	16–7
8	Yana Santos	14–8 (1 NC)
9 (T)	Karol Rosa	17–5
9 (T)	Macy Chiasson	8–3
11	Norma Dumont	10–2
12	Miesha Tate	19–9
13	Julia Avila	9–2
14	Josiane Nunes	10–1
15	Chelsea Chandler	5–2

 

UFC Featherweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Alexander Volkanovski	26–2
1	Max Holloway	25–7
2	Yair Rodríguez	15–4 (1 NC)
3	Brian Ortega	15–3 (1 NC)
4	Arnold Allen	19–2
5	Ilia Topuria	14–0
6	Josh Emmett	18–4
7	Calvin Kattar	23–7
8	Giga Chikadze	15–3
9	Movsar Evloev	17–0
10	Bryce Mitchell	15–1
11	Sodiq Yusuff	13–2
12	Dan Ige	17–6
13	Edson Barboza	23–11
14	Alex Caceres	21–14 (1 NC)
15	Lerone Murphy	13–0–1

 

UFC Lightweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Islam Makhachev	24–1
1	Charles Oliveira	34–9 (1 NC)
2	Justin Gaethje	25–4
3	Dustin Poirier	29–8 (1 NC)
4	Beneil Dariush	22–5–1
5	Michael Chandler	23–8
6	Rafael Fiziev	12–2
7	Mateusz Gamrot	22–2 ( 1 NC)
8	Arman Tsarukyan	20–3
9	Dan Hooker	23–12
10	Grant Dawson	20-1-1
11	Rafael Dos Anjos	32-15
12	Jalin Turner	13–7
13	Renato Moicano	17–5–1
14	Matt Frevola	11–3–1
15	Carlos Diego Ferreira	18–5

 

UFC Middleweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Sean Strickland	28–5
1	Israel Adesanya	24–3
2	Dricus du Plessis	20–2
3	Robert Whittaker	24–7
4	Jared Cannonier	17–6
5	Marvin Vettori	19–7–1
6	Paulo Costa	14–2
7 (T)	Derek Brunson	23–9
7 (T)	Roman Dolidze	12–2
9	Jack Hermansson	23–8
10	Brendan Allen	22–5
11	Kelvin Gastelum	17–8 (1 NC)
12	Nassourdine Imavov	12–4 (1 NC)
13	Paul Craig	17–6–1
14	Chris Curtis	30–10 (1 NC)
15	André Muniz	23–6

 

UFC Light Heavyweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Vacant
1	Jiří Procházka	29–3–1
2	Magomed Ankalaev	18–1–1
3	Alex Pereira	8–2
4	Jan Błachowicz	29–10–1
5	Aleksandar Rakić	14–3
6 (T)	Nikita Krylov	30–9
6 (T)	Johnny Walker	21–7
8	Anthony Smith	36–18
9	Volkan Oezdemir	18–7
10	Ryan Spann	21–8
11	Khalil Rountree Jr.	12–5 (1 NC)
12	Azamat Murzakanov	13–0
13	Dominick Reyes	12–4
14	Alonzo Menifield	14–3–1
15	Dustin Jacoby	19–7–1

 

UFC Heavyweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Jon Jones	27–1 (1 NC)
1 (T)	Ciryl Gane	12–2
1 (T)	Sergei Pavlovich	18–1
3	Stipe Miocic	20–4
4	Tom Aspinall	13–3
5	Curtis Blaydes	17–4 (1 NC)
6	Tai Tuivasa	14–6
7	Alexander Volkov	37–10
8	Sergey Spivak	16–4
9	Jailton Almeida	19–2
10	Derrick Lewis	27–11 (1 NC)
11	Marcin Tybura	24–8
12	Jairzinho Rozenstruik	13–5
13	Alexander Romanov	17–2
14	Marcos Rogério de Lima	21–9–1
15	Rodrigo Nascimento	10–1 (1 NC)

 

UFC Women’s Strawweight Rankings 2023

Rank	Fighter	Record
C	Zhang Weili	24–3
1	Carla Esparza	19–7
2	Rose Namajunas	11–5
3	Yan Xiaonan	17–3 (1 NC)
4	Tatiana Suarez	10–0
5	Amanda Lemos	13–3–1
6	Jéssica Andrade	24–12
7	Virna Jandiroba	19–3
8	Mackenzie Dern	13–3
9	Marina Rodriguez	16–3–2
10	Tecia Torres	13–6
11	Amanda Ribas	12–4
12	Luana Pinheiro	11–1
13	Michelle Waterson-Gomez	18–11
14	Tabatha Ricci	9–1
15	Angela Hill	15–13