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Men's Pound-for-Pound

Men's Pound-for-Pound — the ranked list, 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.
1
Islam Makhachev
UFC 18-1 · Pro 29-1
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64
Strike
69
Fight IQ
Last beat Ian Machado Garry — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 15 Aug 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Aug W
2
Alexander Volkanovski
UFC 15-3 · Pro 28-4
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92
Strike
64
Fight IQ
Last beat Diego Lopes — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 31 Jan 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–031 Jan W
3
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
4
Petr Yan
UFC 12-4 · Pro 20-5
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90
Strike
73
Fight IQ
Last beat Merab Dvalishvili — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Dec 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
5
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
6
Joshua Van
UFC 11-1 · Pro 18-2
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96
Strike
67
Fight IQ
Last beat Alexandre Pantoja — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 19 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–119 Sep W9 May L
7
Sean Strickland
UFC 18-7 · Pro 31-7
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67
Strike
65
Fight IQ
Last beat Khamzat Chimaev — Decision (split), R5 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–29 May L21 Feb L
8
Tom Aspinall
UFC 8-1 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 15-3
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96
Strike
72
Fight IQ
Last Draw/NC vs Ciryl Gane — Could not continue, R1 · 25 Oct 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
9
Merab Dvalishvili
UFC 14-3 · Pro 21-5
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64
Strike
71
Fight IQ
Last lost to Petr Yan — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 6 Dec 2025Move unchangedno graded pick yet
10
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
11
Ciryl Gane
UFC 11-2 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 14-2
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90
Strike
70
Fight IQ
Last beat Alex Pereira — KO/TKO, R2 · 14 Jun 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–015 Jun W
12
Khamzat Chimaev
UFC 9-1 · Pro 15-1
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81
Strike
79
Fight IQ
Last lost to Sean Strickland — Decision (split), R5 · 9 May 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 0–19 May L
13
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
14
Alexandre Pantoja
UFC 14-5 · Pro 30-7
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80
Strike
62
Fight IQ
Last lost to Joshua Van — Decision (unanimous), R5 · 19 Sep 2026Move unchangedour calls in 2026: 1–019 Sep W
15
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

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 Men's Pound-for-Pound table the UFC has published since the rankings began — 348 of them, 27 January 2020 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 348 of 348
2020 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 · 348 published tables, 27 January 2020 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 men's pound-for-pound fighter the UFC has ever put in this table, drawn through the tables themselves — 46 of them across 348 published weeks. The chart opens on the last 3 years; Full history pulls it back to 27 January 2020.

Hover or tab a line to pick a fighter out of it. Move the slider above and a marker follows it across the chart.

Men's Pound-for-Pound ranking positions on every published table from 10 October 2023 to 6 October 2026. One line per fighter.No table on record, 17 December 2024 to 14 January 2025123456789101112131415202420252026Aljamain SterlingBelal MuhammadCharles OliveiraDricus Du PlessisIsrael AdesanyaJack Della MaddalenaJamahal HillJiří ProcházkaJon JonesKamaru UsmanLeon EdwardsMagomed AnkalaevMax HollowaySean O'MalleyShavkat RakhmonovAlex PereiraAlex PereiraAlexander VolkanovskiAlexander VolkanovskiAlexandre PantojaAlexandre PantojaArman TsarukyanArman TsarukyanCarlos UlbergCarlos UlbergCiryl GaneCiryl GaneIlia TopuriaIlia TopuriaIslam MakhachevIslam MakhachevJoshua VanJoshua VanJustin GaethjeJustin GaethjeKhamzat ChimaevKhamzat ChimaevMerab DvalishviliMerab DvalishviliPetr YanPetr YanSean StricklandSean StricklandTom AspinallTom AspinallNo 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 2025123456789101112131415202120222023202420252026Aljamain SterlingBelal MuhammadBrandon MorenoCharles OliveiraConor McGregorDaniel CormierDeiveson FigueiredoDominick ReyesDricus Du PlessisDustin PoirierFrancis NgannouGlover TeixeiraHenry CejudoIsrael AdesanyaJack Della MaddalenaJamahal HillJan BłachowiczJiří ProcházkaJon JonesJorge MasvidalKamaru UsmanKhabib NurmagomedovLeon EdwardsMagomed AnkalaevMax HollowayRobert WhittakerSean O'MalleyShavkat RakhmonovStipe MiocicTony FergusonTyron WoodleyAlex PereiraAlex PereiraAlexander VolkanovskiAlexander VolkanovskiAlexandre PantojaAlexandre PantojaArman TsarukyanArman TsarukyanCarlos UlbergCarlos UlbergCiryl GaneCiryl GaneIlia TopuriaIlia TopuriaIslam MakhachevIslam MakhachevJoshua VanJoshua VanJustin GaethjeJustin GaethjeKhamzat ChimaevKhamzat ChimaevMerab DvalishviliMerab DvalishviliPetr YanPetr YanSean StricklandSean StricklandTom AspinallTom Aspinall

Official UFC.com official rankings · 348 published tables, 27 January 2020 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. 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.

2020202120222023202420252026

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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