Where the Heavyweight division stood when 2017 finished, taken from the 37 ranking tables the UFC published for it that year. This is the archive, not today’s table — the current Heavyweight rankings are one click away.
The last Heavyweight table the UFC published in 2017, dated 18 December 2017. The right-hand column is the change since 19 December 2016 — the table this page measures the year from.
| Rank | Fighter | On the year |
|---|---|---|
| ChampionC | Stipe Miocic | — |
| 1 | Francis Ngannou | ↑10 |
| 2 | Alistair Overeem | ↑1 |
| 3 | Fabricio Werdum | ↓2 |
| 4 | Cain Velasquez | ↓2 |
| 5 | Mark Hunt | ↑2 |
| 6 | Derrick Lewis | ↑3 |
| 7 | Alexander Volkov | ↑6 |
| 8 | Marcin Tybura | NEW |
| 9 | Curtis Blaydes | NEW |
| 10 | Stefan Struve | ↑1 |
| 11 | Aleksei Oleinik | NEW |
| 12 | Andrei Arlovski | ↓4 |
| 13 | Junior Albini | NEW |
| 14 | Travis Browne | ↓4 |
| 15 | Tim Johnson | — |
A ranking here is a ranking the UFC published on that date, not our order and not a re-run of it.
Measured between the last table of 2016 on the record (19 December 2016) and the last table of 2017 (18 December 2017).
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.
A year gets a page here only where the UFC published at least 10 Heavyweight 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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