90
Strike
ChampionC
—
UFC 11-2 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 14-2
70
Fight IQ
1
—
UFC 8-1 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 15-3
96
Strike
72
Fight IQ
2
—
UFC 14-5 · Pro 40-11
84
Strike
61
Fight IQ
Last beat Waldo Cortes Acosta — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–09 May W
3
—
UFC 9-3 · Pro 21-3
64
Strike
55
Fight IQ
4
—
UFC 4-0 · Pro 10-0
94
Strike
72
Fight IQ
Last beat Derrick Lewis — KO/TKO, R2 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–115 Jun W11 Apr L24 Jan W
5
—
UFC 15-6 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 20-6
73
Strike
67
Fight IQ
Last beat Waldo Cortes Acosta — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 12 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–212 Sep L11 Apr L
6
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UFC 10-4 · Pro 17-4
72
Strike
69
Fight IQ
Last lost to Curtis Blaydes — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 12 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–112 Sep L9 May W24 Jan W
7
—
UFC 2-1 · Pro 14-3-1
79
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last beat Tyrell Fortune — KO/TKO, R3 · 25 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–125 Jul W7 Feb L
8
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UFC 8-2 · Pro 15-2
66
Strike
67
Fight IQ
Last beat Serghei Spivac — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 22 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–022 Aug W14 Mar W
9
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UFC 9-7 · Pro 18-7
58
Strike
59
Fight IQ
Last lost to Vitor Petrino — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 22 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–122 Aug W21 Feb L
10
—
UFC 1-2 · Pro 26-8
54
Strike
49
Fight IQ
Last lost to Serghei Spivac — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 21 Feb 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–121 Feb L
11
—
UFC 5-1 · Pro 16-1
52
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last beat Thomas Petersen — Submission, R1 · 25 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–025 Jul W
12
—
UFC 1-1 · Pro 18-4
46
Strike
45
Fight IQ
Last lost to Rizvan Kuniev — KO/TKO, R3 · 25 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–125 Jul W28 Mar L
13
—
UFC 20-12 · Pro 29-14
52
Strike
36
Fight IQ
Last lost to Josh Hokit — KO/TKO, R2 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–015 Jun W24 Jan W
14AR
UFC 7-5 · Pro 15-6
74
Strike
57
Fight IQ
Last beat Marcin Tybura — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 1 Aug 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #15our calls in 2026: 1–01 Aug W
15
UFC 4-0 · Pro 13-0
85
Strike
75
Fight IQ
Last beat Ryan Spann — KO/TKO, R2 · 5 Sep 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #14our calls in 2026: 2–05 Sep W21 Mar W
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 Heavyweight table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 617 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.
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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 · 617 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 heavyweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 72 of them across 617 published weeks. The chart opens on the last 3 years; Full history pulls it back to 4 February 2013.
Official UFC.com official rankings · 617 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.
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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Heavyweight title lineage
8 fighters have held the heavyweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 9 reigns and 1 spell with the belt vacant. The longest is Jon Jones, 118 weeks on the published tables.
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| # | Champion | From | To | Weeks on the published tables | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cain Velasquez | before the record begins | 8 June 2015 | 96 | +2 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 2 | Fabricio Werdum | 15 June 2015 | 10 May 2016 | 31 | +2 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 3 | Stipe Miocic | 16 May 2016 | 26 June 2018 | 80 | +8 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 4 | Daniel Cormier | 11 July 2018 | 12 August 2019 | 46 | +5 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 5 | Stipe Miocic | 19 August 2019 | 23 March 2021 | 63 | +15 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 6 | Francis Ngannou | 29 March 2021 | 19 December 2022 | 73 | +3 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| — | No table on record | 26 December 2022 | 17 January 2023 | — | the archive holds no heavyweight table across these weeks |
| — | Title vacant | 17 January 2023 | 27 February 2023 | 6 | the tables record the belt as held by nobody |
| 7 | Jon Jones | 7 March 2023 | 22 June 2025 | 118 | +3 weeks the archive holds no table for |
| 8 | Tom Aspinall | 24 June 2025 | 8 September 2026 | 102 | |
| 9 | Ciryl Gane | 22 September 2026 | 6 October 2026 | 2 |
Official UFC.com official rankings · 617 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.