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Bantamweight

Bantamweight — champion and the ranked contenders, each with the record on file and our two headline derived scores. Tap any fighter for the full card: tale of the tape, strike-zone map and all six FightIQ Metrics.

Rankings as of 11 October 2026 — official UFC rankings, refreshed weekly from UFC.com. Pulled 11 Oct, 14:28 UTC. These are the UFC’s own rankings, taken from ufc.com/rankings — we did not invent them and we do not adjust them. The UFC updates the table weekly; ours refreshes when we re-pull the page, so a ranking here can lag theirs by a few days.Faces, records and scores are ours — see how the scores work.
ChampionC
Petr Yan
UFC 12-4 · Pro 20-5
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90
Strike
73
Fight IQ
Last beat Merab Dvalishvili — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Dec 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
1
Merab Dvalishvili
UFC 14-3 · Pro 21-5
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64
Strike
71
Fight IQ
Last lost to Petr Yan — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Dec 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
2
Sean O'Malley
UFC 12-3 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 20-3
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96
Strike
61
Fight IQ
Last beat Aiemann Zahabi — KO/TKO, R2 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–015 Jun W24 Jan W
3
Song Yadong
UFC 13-4 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 24-9-1
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67
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last beat Umar Nurmagomedov — KO/TKO, R2 · 29 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–129 Aug L30 May W24 Jan W
4
Umar Nurmagomedov
UFC 8-2 · Pro 20-2
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80
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last lost to Song Yadong — KO/TKO, R2 · 29 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–129 Aug L24 Jan W
5
Mario Bautista
UFC 12-3 · Pro 18-3
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87
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last beat Cory Sandhagen — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 11 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–211 Jul L7 Feb L
6
Cory Sandhagen
UFC 11-6 · Pro 18-7
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76
Strike
58
Fight IQ
Last lost to Mario Bautista — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 11 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–111 Jul L
7
Payton Talbott
UFC 6-1 · Pro 12-1
96
Strike
68
Fight IQ
Last beat Deiveson Figueiredo — KO/TKO, R1 · 3 Oct 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #12our calls in 2026: 1–03 Oct W
8
Aiemann Zahabi
UFC 8-3 · Pro 14-3
78
Strike
51
Fight IQ
Last lost to Sean O'Malley — KO/TKO, R2 · 14 Jun 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #7our calls in 2026: 1–015 Jun W
9
David Martinez
UFC 4-0 · Pro 15-1
70
Strike
68
Fight IQ
Last beat Dan Ige — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 12 Sep 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #8our calls in 2026: 2–012 Sep W28 Feb W
10
Raul Rosas Jr.
UFC 7-1 · Pro 13-1
42
Strike
56
Fight IQ
Last beat Raoni Barcelos — KO/TKO, R5 · 26 Sep 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #11our calls in 2026: 2–026 Sep W7 Mar W
11
Marlon Vera
UFC 16-11 · Pro 24-12-1
74
Strike
62
Fight IQ
Last beat Charles Jourdain — KO/TKO, R3 · 19 Sep 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #10our calls in 2026: 1–119 Sep L28 Feb W
12
Deiveson Figueiredo
UFC 14-8 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 25-8-1
64
Strike
50
Fight IQ
Last lost to Payton Talbott — KO/TKO, R1 · 3 Oct 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #9our calls in 2026: 3–03 Oct W30 May W24 Jan W
13
Farid Basharat
UFC 7-0 · Pro 16-0
↑1
86
Strike
75
Fight IQ
Last beat John Garza — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 11 Jul 2026Move ↑1 from #14our calls in 2026: 2–011 Jul W7 Feb W
14
Marcus McGhee
UFC 6-1 · Pro 12-2
76
Strike
51
Fight IQ
Last beat Anthony Romero — KO/TKO, R1 · 3 Oct 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #15our calls in 2026: 2–03 Oct W7 Jun W
15
Raoni Barcelos
UFC 11-5 · Pro 22-6
85
Strike
67
Fight IQ
Last lost to Raul Rosas Jr. — KO/TKO, R5 · 26 Sep 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #14our calls in 2026: 1–126 Sep W25 Apr L

Movement compares 22 September 2026 with 6 October 2026 — the two most recent weeks in our rankings archive. The table above is the newer live table of 11 October 2026, so a fighter who moved after 6 October 2026 carries no arrow: where the two disagree about where that fighter stands, we draw nothing rather than an arrow pointing at the wrong number.

These rows are the official table of 11 October 2026. Under each name: the fighter’s last UFC bout from the official statistical record; their movement between the two archive tables named above; and our own graded record on their 2026 fights, with a link to each call. We publish no forecast here — a fight that has not happened has no line on this page.

Every table since 2013

Slide back through every Bantamweight table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 618 of them, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026. Drag the handle, or click it and use the arrow keys to step a table at a time.

6 October 2026 table 618 of 618
2013 2026

The table at the top of this page is the live one of 11 October 2026. The newest stop below is 6 October 2026, the newest table in our rankings archive, so the two can differ by a place or two. Both are the UFC’s own tables; they are different weeks.

Official UFC.com official rankings · 618 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026

One stop on the slider is one published table, not one calendar week — the UFC has missed weeks, and every weight division has holes of a month or more in it. Where the table you have landed on sits the far side of one of those holes the panel says so, rather than sliding through weeks nobody published. Arrows compare the table on screen with the one published before it; a fighter who was not in that earlier table is marked NEW. Nothing here is interpolated: every row is a row the UFC published on the date shown.

Who climbed, who fell

Every bantamweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 73 of them across 618 published weeks. The chart opens on the last 3 years; Full history pulls it back to 4 February 2013.

Hover or tab a line to pick a fighter out of it. Move the slider above and a marker follows it across the chart.

Bantamweight ranking positions on every published table from 10 October 2023 to 6 October 2026. One line per fighter; the lane above number one is the champion.No table on record, 17 December 2024 to 14 January 2025CChampion123456789101112131415202420252026Adrian YanezAljamain SterlingChris GutierrezDominick CruzHenry CejudoJonathan MartinezJosé AldoKyler PhillipsMontel JacksonPedro MunhozRicky SimonRob FontSaid NurmagomedovVinicius OliveiraAiemann ZahabiAiemann ZahabiCory SandhagenCory SandhagenDavid MartinezDavid MartinezDeiveson FigueiredoDeiveson FigueiredoFarid BasharatFarid BasharatMarcus McGheeMarcus McGheeMario BautistaMario BautistaMarlon VeraMarlon VeraMerab DvalishviliMerab DvalishviliPayton TalbottPayton TalbottPetr YanPetr YanRaoni BarcelosRaoni BarcelosRaul Rosas Jr.Raul Rosas Jr.Sean O'MalleySean O'MalleySong YadongSong YadongUmar NurmagomedovUmar NurmagomedovNo table on record, 29 April 2013 to 21 May 2013No table on record, 21 March 2016 to 12 April 2016No table on record, 12 October 2016 to 7 November 2016No table on record, 7 August 2017 to 4 September 2017No table on record, 23 April 2018 to 16 May 2018No table on record, 6 August 2018 to 29 August 2018No table on record, 8 October 2018 to 31 October 2018No table on record, 18 November 2019 to 10 December 2019No table on record, 24 December 2019 to 20 January 2020No table on record, 16 March 2020 to 11 May 2020No table on record, 21 December 2020 to 18 January 2021No table on record, 20 December 2021 to 17 January 2022No table on record, 19 December 2022 to 17 January 2023No table on record, 17 December 2024 to 14 January 2025CChampion123456789101112131415201520172019202120232025Adrian YanezAlejandro PerezAlex CaceresAljamain SterlingBrad PickettBrett JohnsBrian BowlesBrian KelleherBryan CarawayCasey KenneyChris GutierrezCody GarbrandtCody StamannDominick CruzDouglas Silva de AndradeEddie WinelandErik PerezFrancisco RiveraFrancisco Rivera Jr.Frankie EdgarFrankie SaenzHenry CejudoIuri AlcantaraIvan MenjivarJack ShoreJimmie RiveraJoe SotoJohn DodsonJohn LinekerJohnny EduardoJonathan MartinezJosé AldoKyler PhillipsMarlon MoraesMasanori KaneharaMatthew LopezMichael McDonaldMike EastonMitch GagnonMontel JacksonPedro MunhozRani YahyaRaphael AssuncaoRaulian PaivaRenan BaraoRicky SimonRob FontSaid NurmagomedovScott JorgensenTJ DillashawTakeya MizugakiThomas AlmeidaTim ElliottUrijah FaberVinicius OliveiraWilson ReisYves JabouinAiemann ZahabiAiemann ZahabiCory SandhagenCory SandhagenDavid MartinezDavid MartinezDeiveson FigueiredoDeiveson FigueiredoFarid BasharatFarid BasharatMarcus McGheeMarcus McGheeMario BautistaMario BautistaMarlon VeraMarlon VeraMerab DvalishviliMerab DvalishviliPayton TalbottPayton TalbottPetr YanPetr YanRaoni BarcelosRaoni BarcelosRaul Rosas Jr.Raul Rosas Jr.Sean O'MalleySean O'MalleySong YadongSong YadongUmar NurmagomedovUmar Nurmagomedov

Official UFC.com official rankings · 618 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026

One step across is one published table, so the spacing is real time and the holes in it are real: where the UFC published nothing for a month or more, the line stops and starts again rather than being drawn through weeks nobody published. A line begins where a fighter enters the fifteen and ends where that fighter leaves it, and both ends carry a dot. The lane above number one is the champion, kept off the numbered ladder because a belt is not a rank; a week the title was vacant has nobody in that lane. Names down the right are the fifteen in the newest table on record — every other line gives its name when you hover it or reach it with the keyboard. Nothing here is interpolated: every corner is a rank the UFC published on the date under it.

The rankings, year by year

One page per year: the last table the UFC published in it, who entered the rankings across it, who left, and every change in the champion line. Server-rendered from the same archive the slider above plays through.

20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Years with fewer than 10 published tables have no page of their own — that is the year a division opened or closed, and there is not a year of rankings in it to summarise.

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Bantamweight title lineage

9 fighters have held the bantamweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 12 reigns and 2 spells with the belt vacant. The longest is Aljamain Sterling, 104 weeks on the published tables.

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#ChampionFromTo Weeks on the published tables
1Dominick Cruzbefore the record begins30 December 201332+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
2Renan Barao7 January 201412 May 201421
3TJ Dillashaw26 May 20144 January 201663
4Dominick Cruz19 January 201619 December 201635+5 weeks the archive holds no table for
5Cody Garbrandt2 January 201730 October 201730+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
6TJ Dillashaw8 November 201712 March 201952+7 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant20 March 20192 July 201914the tables record the belt as held by nobody
7Henry Cejudo8 July 201911 May 202031+12 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant19 May 202029 June 20206the tables record the belt as held by nobody
8Petr Yan14 July 20201 March 202129+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
9Aljamain Sterling8 March 202115 August 2023104+6 weeks the archive holds no table for
10Sean O'Malley22 August 202310 September 202445
11Merab Dvalishvili17 September 20244 December 202593+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
12Petr Yan9 December 20256 October 202663

Official UFC.com official rankings · 618 published tables, 4 February 2013 to 6 October 2026

Every row is read off the champion line of the published tables and nothing else, so weeks are weeks on the published tables — one table, one week. Where the archive holds no table for a month or more the weeks inside that hole are counted in neither column; the reign is not broken by it, because there was no table for anybody else to be in. This is the undisputed title. The source puts an interim champion inside the numbered list rather than on the champion line, so an interim reign is not a row here — that is how the tables are published and we have not rewritten them. A reign already running when the first table appeared in February 2013 is marked: the record cannot see when it started, so we do not print a date for it.