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Official UFC rankings — the 2020 archive

Featherweight rankings, 2020

Where the Featherweight division stood when 2020 finished, taken from the 38 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Featherweight rankings are one click away.

The official UFC rankings, taken from ufc.com. 38 published tables in 2020, 20 January 2020 to 21 December 2020. These are the UFC’s own tables, week by week — we did not invent them and we do not reorder them. Names link to our fighter pages where we hold one; a ranked fighter we have no page for is printed as plain text rather than dropped.

How 2020 finished

The last Featherweight table the UFC published in 2020, dated 21 December 2020. The right-hand column is the change since 24 December 2019 — the table this page measures the year from.

The UFC’s published ranking table of 21 December 2020
RankFighterOn the year
ChampionCAlexander Volkanovski—
1Max Holloway—
2Brian Ortega—
3Zabit Magomedsharipov—
4Yair Rodriguez↑1
5Chan Sung Jung↓1
6Calvin Kattar↑5
7Josh Emmett↑3
8Jeremy Stephens—
9Arnold Allen↑6
10Sodiq YusuffNEW
11Dan IgeNEW
12Shane Burgos—
13Ryan Hall↑1
14Bryce MitchellNEW
15Edson BarbozaNEW

A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.

What changed in 2020

Measured between the last table of 2019 on the record (24 December 2019) and the last table of 2020 (21 December 2020).

The champion line

  • 24 December 2019 · the year opens with Alexander Volkanovski in the champion line
  • No change: the same fighter held the champion line on every table the UFC published for this division in the year.

Entering and leaving are counted across the whole published table, the champion line included, so a fighter who won the belt during the year is not double-counted as having left the numbered places. The number beside each name is where they sat on the table that names them. Movement inside the year that had reversed itself by December is not counted here — the division page’s week-by-week slider is where every table in between lives.

Featherweight rankings, year by year

A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Featherweight tables in it. A year with three or four tables in it is the year a division opened or closed, and a “what changed this year” section built on three weeks in December would be titled as something it is not.

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