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Lightweight

Lightweight — 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
Justin Gaethje
UFC 11-5 · Pro 28-5
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93
Strike
44
Fight IQ
Last beat Ilia Topuria — KO/TKO, R4 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–215 Jun L24 Jan L
1
Ilia Topuria
UFC 9-1 · Pro 17-1
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83
Strike
66
Fight IQ
Last lost to Justin Gaethje — KO/TKO, R4 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–115 Jun L
2
Arman Tsarukyan
UFC 11-2 · Pro 24-3
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73
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last beat Mauricio Ruffy — KO/TKO, R1 · 19 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–019 Sep W
3
Charles Oliveira
UFC 25-11 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 37-11
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74
Strike
56
Fight IQ
Last beat Max Holloway — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 7 Mar 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–17 Mar L
4
Max Holloway
UFC 24-9 · Pro 28-9
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85
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last beat Conor McGregor — KO/TKO, R1 · 11 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–111 Jul W7 Mar L
5
Paddy Pimblett
UFC 8-1 · Pro 24-4
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88
Strike
56
Fight IQ
Last beat Benoit Saint Denis — Submission, R1 · 11 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–211 Jul L24 Jan L
6BD
Benoît Saint Denis
UFC 9-4 · Pro 17-4
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92
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last lost to Paddy Pimblett — Submission, R1 · 11 Jul 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–111 Jul L31 Jan W
7
Quillan Salkilld
UFC 6-0 · Pro 13-1
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88
Strike
71
Fight IQ
Last beat Mateusz Gamrot — Submission, R1 · 8 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 3–08 Aug W2 May W31 Jan W
8
Mauricio Ruffy
UFC 5-2 · Pro 14-3
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82
Strike
58
Fight IQ
Last lost to Arman Tsarukyan — KO/TKO, R1 · 19 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–119 Sep W15 Jun W31 Jan L
9
Salahdine Parnasse
UFC 1-0 · Pro 24-2
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90
Strike
59
Fight IQ
Last beat Dan Hooker — KO/TKO, R1 · 5 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–05 Sep W
10
Mateusz Gamrot
UFC 9-5 · Pro 26-5
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70
Strike
68
Fight IQ
Last lost to Quillan Salkilld — Submission, R1 · 8 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–08 Aug W11 Apr W
11
Rafael Fiziev
UFC 8-5 · Pro 14-5
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84
Strike
53
Fight IQ
Last beat Manuel Torres — KO/TKO, R2 · 27 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–227 Jun L31 Jan L
12
Renato Moicano
UFC 13-7 · Pro 21-7-1
↓1
76
Strike
54
Fight IQ
Last beat Chris Duncan — Submission, R2 · 4 Apr 2026Move ↓1 from #11our calls in 2026: 0–14 Apr L
13
Dan Hooker
UFC 14-11 · Pro 24-15
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79
Strike
52
Fight IQ
Last lost to Salahdine Parnasse — KO/TKO, R1 · 5 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 2–05 Sep W31 Jan W
14
Tom Nolan
UFC 5-1 · Pro 11-1
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74
Strike
43
Fight IQ
Last beat Fares Ziam — Decision (unanimous), R3 · 6 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–17 Jun L
15
Beneil Dariush
UFC 17-8 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 23-8-1
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72
Strike
53
Fight IQ
Last lost to Quillan Salkilld — KO/TKO, R1 · 2 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–02 May 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 Lightweight 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 lightweight fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 68 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.

Lightweight 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415202420252026Drew DoberDustin PoirierFarès ZiamGrant DawsonIgnacio BahamondesIslam MakhachevJalin TurnerJoel ÁlvarezKing GreenManuel TorresMatt FrevolaMichael ChandlerRafael Dos AnjosArman TsarukyanArman TsarukyanBeneil DariushBeneil DariushBenoît Saint DenisBenoît Saint DenisCharles OliveiraCharles OliveiraDan HookerDan HookerIlia TopuriaIlia TopuriaJustin GaethjeJustin GaethjeMateusz GamrotMateusz GamrotMauricio RuffyMauricio RuffyMax HollowayMax HollowayPaddy PimblettPaddy PimblettQuillan SalkilldQuillan SalkilldRafael FizievRafael FizievRenato MoicanoRenato MoicanoSalahdine ParnasseSalahdine ParnasseTom NolanTom NolanNo 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 2025CChampion123456789101112131415201520172019202120232025Al IaquintaAlexander HernandezAnthony PettisBenson HendersonBrad RiddellConor McGregorDamir IsmagulovDiego FerreiraDiego SanchezDonald CerroneDrew DoberDustin PoirierEddie AlvarezEdson BarbozaEvan DunhamFarès ZiamFrancisco TrinaldoGilbert MelendezGrant DawsonGray MaynardGregor GillespieIgnacio BahamondesIslam MakhachevJalin TurnerJames VickJim MillerJoe LauzonJoel ÁlvarezJorge MasvidalJosh ThomsonKevin LeeKhabib NurmagomedovKing GreenMairbek TaisumovManuel TorresMatt FrevolaMichael ChandlerMichael ChiesaMichael JohnsonMyles JuryNate DiazOlivier Aubin-MercierPat HealyPaul FelderRafael Dos AnjosRashid MagomedovRoss PearsonRustam KhabilovTJ GrantThiago MoisesTony FergusonWill BrooksArman TsarukyanArman TsarukyanBeneil DariushBeneil DariushBenoît Saint DenisBenoît Saint DenisCharles OliveiraCharles OliveiraDan HookerDan HookerIlia TopuriaIlia TopuriaJustin GaethjeJustin GaethjeMateusz GamrotMateusz GamrotMauricio RuffyMauricio RuffyMax HollowayMax HollowayPaddy PimblettPaddy PimblettQuillan SalkilldQuillan SalkilldRafael FizievRafael FizievRenato MoicanoRenato MoicanoSalahdine ParnasseSalahdine ParnasseTom NolanTom Nolan

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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Lightweight title lineage

10 fighters have held the lightweight title on the published tables since 4 February 2013, across 10 reigns and 2 spells with the belt vacant. The longest is Islam Makhachev, 133 weeks on the published tables.

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#ChampionFromTo Weeks on the published tables
1Benson Hendersonbefore the record begins30 August 201319+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
2Anthony Pettis2 September 20132 March 201566
3Rafael Dos Anjos16 March 201520 June 201646+2 weeks the archive holds no table for
4Eddie Alvarez11 July 20167 November 201614+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
5Conor McGregor16 November 201621 March 201853+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
6Khabib Nurmagomedov11 April 201815 March 2021117+22 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant23 March 202110 May 20217the tables record the belt as held by nobody
7Charles Oliveira17 May 20212 May 202240+3 weeks the archive holds no table for
—Title vacant9 May 202217 October 202219the tables record the belt as held by nobody
8Islam Makhachev24 October 202224 June 2025133+6 weeks the archive holds no table for
9Ilia Topuria1 July 202513 June 202688
10Justin Gaethje17 June 20266 October 202616

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.