Who is the UFC heavyweight champion?
Ciryl Gane. He has been in the champion slot in every UFC ranking published since 22 September 2026 — 2 weeks.
Champion sinceAs of 22 September 2026The first UFC ranking that carried this name in the champion slot. No title fight on the official record starts this reign, so no earlier date is claimed.
Title defencesNone yet
Next boutJosh HokitTitle fight14 November 2026 · Gane vs Hokit Who is the UFC light heavyweight champion?
Carlos Ulberg. He has held the belt since 11 April 2026 — 25 weeks.
Champion since11 April 2026 — beat Jiri Prochazka by KO/TKO in round 1, 3:45 First ranked14 April 2026The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defencesNone yet
Who is the UFC middleweight champion?
Sean Strickland. He has held the belt since 9 May 2026 — 21 weeks.
Champion since9 May 2026 — beat Khamzat Chimaev by split decision First ranked12 May 2026The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defencesNone yet
Who is the UFC welterweight champion?
Islam Makhachev. He has held the belt since 15 November 2025 — 46 weeks.
Champion since15 November 2025 — beat Jack Della Maddalena by unanimous decision First ranked18 November 2025The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defences1
Last defencebeat Ian Machado Garry by unanimous decision15 August 2026 Who is the UFC lightweight champion?
Justin Gaethje. He has held the belt since 14 June 2026 — 16 weeks.
Champion since14 June 2026 — beat Ilia Topuria by KO/TKO in round 4, 5:00 First ranked17 June 2026The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defencesNone yet
Who is the UFC featherweight champion?
Alexander Volkanovski. He has held the belt since 12 April 2025 — 77 weeks.
Champion since12 April 2025 — beat Diego Lopes by unanimous decision First ranked15 April 2025The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defences1
Next boutMovsar EvloevTitle fight24 October 2026 · Volkanovski vs Evloev Who is the UFC bantamweight champion?
Petr Yan. He has held the belt since 6 December 2025 — 43 weeks.
Champion since6 December 2025 — beat Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision First ranked9 December 2025The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defencesNone yet
Who is the UFC flyweight champion?
Joshua Van. He has held the belt since 6 December 2025 — 43 weeks.
Champion since6 December 2025 — beat Alexandre Pantoja by KO/TKO in round 1, 0:26 First ranked9 December 2025The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defences2
Who is the UFC women's bantamweight champion?
Kayla Harrison. She has held the belt since 7 June 2025 — 69 weeks.
Champion since7 June 2025 — beat Julianna Pena by submission in round 2, 4:55 First ranked10 June 2025The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defencesNone yet
Next boutAmanda NunesTitle fight14 November 2026 · Gane vs Hokit Who is the UFC women's flyweight champion?
Natalia Silva. She has held the belt since 3 October 2026 — 3 days.
First ranked6 October 2026The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defencesNone yet
Who is the UFC women's strawweight champion?
Mackenzie Dern. She has held the belt since 25 October 2025 — 49 weeks.
First ranked28 October 2025The first weekly UFC table to carry the new champion.
Title defences1
Last defencebeat Gillian Robertson by unanimous decision15 August 2026 Women's FeatherweightNo longer ranked
Who is the UFC women's featherweight champion?
Nobody — the UFC stopped publishing a women's featherweight ranking after 15 August 2023, and Amanda Nunes was the last champion it listed.
Last ranking15 August 2023The most recent UFC table published for this division.
How this page is worked out
Two sources, and nothing else. Who holds a belt comes from the UFC’s own weekly rankings table — the fighter in the champion slot — and every fight named here comes from the official statistical record. There is no prediction, no rating and no market price anywhere on this page.
“Champion since” is the fight, not the table. The rankings are published weekly, so the first table that shows a new champion is always days after the night they won the belt. Where the record contains a title fight that this fighter won just before that table, the page uses the DATE OF THE FIGHT and names it. Where it does not — a champion promoted from an interim belt, for instance — the page says “as of” the first table and invents no earlier date. 10 of the 11 reigns on this page are dated from the fight.
Reigns are not broken by Christmas. The UFC stops publishing over the new year, so a reign that spans one appears in the raw history as two. Where the same fighter is champion on both sides of a publication gap, that is one reign here, because the belt did not change hands.
A draw and a no contest look the same on the record. The result column carries one value for both, so a bout it marks that way is described as “a draw or no contest” rather than resolved into one of them.
Women’s featherweight. The UFC has published no women’s featherweight ranking since 15 August 2023, and no women’s featherweight title fight is on the record after that. The division is on this page, marked as no longer ranked, because quietly dropping a belt is its own claim.