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Light Heavyweight

Light Heavyweight — 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
Carlos Ulberg
UFC 10-1 · Pro 15-1
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87
Strike
69
Fight IQ
Last beat Jiri Prochazka — KO/TKO, R1 · 11 Apr 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–111 Apr L
1
Magomed Ankalaev
UFC 13-2 (2 draws/NC) · Pro 22-2-1
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70
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last beat Bogdan Guskov — KO/TKO, R5 · 25 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–025 Jul W
2JP
Jiří Procházka
UFC 6-3 · Pro 32-6-1
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86
Strike
52
Fight IQ
Last lost to Carlos Ulberg — KO/TKO, R1 · 11 Apr 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–111 Apr L
3
Alex Pereira
UFC 10-3 · Pro 13-4
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90
Strike
59
Fight IQ
Last lost to Ciryl Gane — KO/TKO, R2 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Jun W
4
Khalil Rountree Jr.
UFC 10-7 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 15-7
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55
Strike
42
Fight IQ
Last lost to Jiri Prochazka — KO/TKO, R3 · 4 Oct 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
5
Navajo Stirling
UFC 6-0 · Pro 11-0
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87
Strike
74
Fight IQ
Last beat Jan Blachowicz — KO/TKO, R1 · 1 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 3–01 Aug W21 Jun W28 Mar W
6
Paulo Costa
UFC 8-4 · Pro 16-4
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92
Strike
55
Fight IQ
Last beat Azamat Murzakanov — KO/TKO, R3 · 11 Apr 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–111 Apr L
7
Azamat Murzakanov
UFC 6-1 · Pro 16-1
82
Strike
62
Fight IQ
Last lost to Paulo Costa — KO/TKO, R3 · 11 Apr 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #8our calls in 2026: 0–111 Apr L
8
Dominick Reyes
UFC 10-5 · Pro 16-5
81
Strike
41
Fight IQ
Last beat Johnny Walker — Decision (split), R3 · 11 Apr 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #10our calls in 2026: 1–011 Apr W
9JB
Jan Błachowicz
UFC 12-9 (2 draws/NC) · Pro 29-12-2
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68
Strike
56
Fight IQ
Last lost to Navajo Stirling — KO/TKO, R1 · 1 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–01 Aug W
10
Bogdan Guskov
UFC 4-2 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 18-4-1
76
Strike
46
Fight IQ
Last lost to Magomed Ankalaev — KO/TKO, R5 · 25 Jul 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #11our calls in 2026: 1–025 Jul W
11
Robert Whittaker
UFC 18-7 · Pro 28-9
64
Strike
53
Fight IQ
Last beat Nikita Krylov — KO/TKO, R3 · 11 Jul 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #12our calls in 2026: 1–011 Jul W
12
Alonzo Menifield
UFC 12-6 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 19-6-1
72
Strike
44
Fight IQ
Last beat Iwo Baraniewski — Decision (split), R3 · 19 Sep 2026Move not comparable — the archive has this fighter at #14our calls in 2026: 0–219 Sep L30 May L
13
Muhammad Saidov
UFC 1-0 · Pro 10-0
70
Strike
75
Fight IQ
Last beat Dustin Jacoby — KO/TKO, R2 · 25 Jul 2026Move not in the archive’s latest tableour calls in 2026: 0–125 Jul L
14
Reinier de Ridder
UFC 5-2 · Pro 22-4
73
Strike
49
Fight IQ
Last beat Roman Dolidze — KO/TKO, R1 · 22 Aug 2026Move not in the archive’s latest tableour calls in 2026: 2–022 Aug W7 Mar W
15
Nikita Krylov
UFC 12-10 · Pro 31-12
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80
Strike
60
Fight IQ
Last lost to Robert Whittaker — KO/TKO, R3 · 11 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–111 Jul W24 Jan 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 Light Heavyweight 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 light heavyweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 65 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.

Light Heavyweight 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415202420252026Aleksandar RakićAnthony SmithDustin JacobyRoman DolidzeRyan SpannVitor PetrinoVolkan OezdemirZhang MingyangAlex PereiraAlex PereiraAlonzo MenifieldAlonzo MenifieldAzamat MurzakanovAzamat MurzakanovBogdan GuskovBogdan GuskovCarlos UlbergCarlos UlbergDominick ReyesDominick ReyesJamahal HillJamahal HillJan BłachowiczJan BłachowiczJiří ProcházkaJiří ProcházkaJohnny WalkerJohnny WalkerKhalil Rountree Jr.Khalil Rountree Jr.Magomed AnkalaevMagomed AnkalaevNavajo StirlingNavajo StirlingNikita KrylovNikita KrylovPaulo CostaPaulo CostaRobert WhittakerRobert WhittakerNo 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415201520172019202120232025Aleksandar RakićAlexander GustafssonAnthony JohnsonAnthony SmithAntonio Rogerio NogueiraChael SonnenCorey AndersonDan HendersonDaniel CormierDustin JacobyFabio MaldonadoGadzhimurad AntigulovGegard MousasiGian VillanteGlover TeixeiraIlir LatifiIon CutelabaJames Te HunaJared CannonierJimi ManuwaJimmy CruteJon JonesJordan JohnsonKennedy NzechukwuLyoto MachidaMauricio RuaMisha CirkunovOvince Saint PreuxPatrick CumminsPaul CraigPhil DavisRafael FeijaoRampage JacksonRashad EvansRogerio NogueiraRoman DolidzeRonaldo SouzaRyan BaderRyan JimmoRyan SpannSam AlveyThiago SantosThiago SilvaTom LawlorTyson PedroVitor BelfortVitor PetrinoVolkan OezdemirZhang MingyangAlex PereiraAlex PereiraAlonzo MenifieldAlonzo MenifieldAzamat MurzakanovAzamat MurzakanovBogdan GuskovBogdan GuskovCarlos UlbergCarlos UlbergDominick ReyesDominick ReyesJamahal HillJamahal HillJan BłachowiczJan BłachowiczJiří ProcházkaJiří ProcházkaJohnny WalkerJohnny WalkerKhalil Rountree Jr.Khalil Rountree Jr.Magomed AnkalaevMagomed AnkalaevNavajo StirlingNavajo StirlingNikita KrylovNikita KrylovPaulo CostaPaulo CostaRobert WhittakerRobert Whittaker

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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Light Heavyweight title lineage

9 fighters have held the light heavyweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 13 reigns and 3 spells with the belt vacant. The longest is Jon Jones, 90 weeks on the published tables.

Swipe the table sideways for the full dates →

#ChampionFromTo Weeks on the published tables
1Jon Jonesbefore the record begins20 April 201590+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant27 April 201518 May 20153the tables record the belt as held by nobody
2Daniel Cormier25 May 201526 July 201779+5 weeks the archive holds no table for
3Jon Jones2 August 201713 September 20174+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
4Daniel Cormier20 September 201717 December 201849+7 weeks the archive holds no table for
5Jon Jones1 January 201917 August 202064+12 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant24 August 202021 September 20205the tables record the belt as held by nobody
6Jan Błachowicz28 September 202025 October 202147+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
7Glover Teixeira2 November 20216 June 202225+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
8Jiří Procházka13 June 202221 November 202220
—Title vacant6 December 202217 January 20234the tables record the belt as held by nobody
9Jamahal Hill24 January 20237 November 202337
10Alex Pereira14 November 20239 March 202558+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
11Magomed Ankalaev11 March 20252 October 202553
12Alex Pereira7 October 20259 April 202647
13Carlos Ulberg14 April 20266 October 202633

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.